Okapi Venture Capital
okapivc.com Direct investor
Okapi Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Newport Beach, California. It invests in technology startups, primarily in Southern California, with a focus on enterprise and consumer technology, as well as life sciences in earlier funds.
Okapi Venture Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Newport Beach, United States, founded in 2005. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in enterprise SaaS, AI, future of work and consumer technology. Its stated cheque size is $750K to $3M.
“We are a seed stage venture capital fund. As such, we make our initial investment into technology startups during their “seed phase” before they have established product-market-fit.”
— Okapi Venture Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Newport Beach, United States
- Invests in
- Southern California
- Sectors
- Enterprise SaaS, AI, Future of work, Consumer technology, Medical device, Medical diagnostics
- Cheque size
- $750K to $3M
- Founded
- 2005
Team, as Okapi Venture Capital publishes it
- Marc Averitt Co-Founder, Managing Director
- Jeff Bocan Managing Director
- John Waller Managing Director, Venture Partner
- Sharon Stevenson, DVM, PhD Co-Founder, Managing Director, Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on okapivc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 54 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Motley Fool Ventures 3 shared companies: chargezoom.com, kredosai.com, magicdoor.com
- Vitalizevc Management, LLC 2 shared companies: jurny.com, magicdoor.com
- 50T Funds 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Audeo Advisors LLC 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Axevil Capital, LLC 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Baseline Ventures 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Blanck Capital 1 shared company: figure.ai
- BOLD Capital Partners 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Bzh Capital Partners LLC 1 shared company: figure.ai
- Fin Capital 1 shared company: figure.ai
and 44 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Okapi Venture Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://okapivc.com/name, hq_country, hq_city
- https://okapivc.com/about-us/is_investor, layer, type, description, founded
- https://okapivc.com/about-us/approach/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://okapivc.com/about-us/team/people
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