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OCA Ventures

Founders Jim Dugan John Dugan Peter Ianello

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Total investments 176
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 97
Rounds per year 7.04
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.45
Exits 23
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Health Care
  • Software
  • Analytics
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
Summary

In 1999 was created OCA Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Chicago. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the OCA Ventures, startups are often financed by Pritzker Group Venture Capital, 500 Startups, Chicago Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Origin Ventures, HPA, 500 Startups. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Chicago Ventures, Woodside O'Brien.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Cleversafe, Alert Logic, Base. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Software.

The fund was created by Jim Dugan, John Dugan, Peter Ianello. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this OCA Ventures performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ocient

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Database
Software
$49M11 Mar 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pair Team

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
$9M19 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Atalan

Risk Management
Software
Wellness
$2M05 Oct 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

AMOpportunities

Education
Health Care
Higher Education
Training
$3M02 Aug 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

RecruitBot

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
Recruiting
$8M11 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Alnair Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$1M30 Jun 2023 -

Betty

Casino
Gaming
Media and Entertainment
$5M14 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

SpiderOak

Blockchain
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Open Source
$16M12 Jan 2023 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Array Behavioral Care

Health Care
$25M06 Jan 2023 Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States
News
Balto Raises $37.5M; Pushes to Close Execution Gap for Contact Centers

– Balto announced the completion of a $37.5m Series B funding round.
– The funding was led by Stripes and joined by RingCentral Ventures.
– Existing investors that participated include Sierra Ventures, TIA Ventures, OCA Ventures, Stage Venture Partners, SaaS Venture Capital, Sandalphon Capital, Cultivation Capital, and Atreides Management.
– The funding comes on the heels of Balto’s two latest product releases and as Balto’s Real-Time Platform surpasses 75 million guided calls and 160 million Real-Time Recommendations.

Genvid Holdings Raises $113M in Series C Funding

– Genvid is a NYC-based provider of interactive livestreaming technologies and services.
– Company announced $113m Series C funding.
– The round was co-led by existing investors Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management with participation from new investors Third Point Ventures, Cobalt Capital, LightShed Ventures, XN, and Lux Capital, existing investors Galaxy Interactive, Horizons Ventures, OCA Ventures (via OCA’s new growth equity fund), and Makers Fund and strategic partners Huya, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and Samsung Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to establish Genvid Entertainment LLC, a new publishing subsidiary dedicated to producing Massive Interactive Live Events.

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Total investments 176
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 7.04
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.45
Exits 23
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ocient

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Database
Software
$49M11 Mar 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pair Team

Health Care
Hospital
Medical
$9M19 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Atalan

Risk Management
Software
Wellness
$2M05 Oct 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

AMOpportunities

Education
Health Care
Higher Education
Training
$3M02 Aug 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States

RecruitBot

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
Machine Learning
Recruiting
$8M11 Jul 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Alnair Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$1M30 Jun 2023 -

Betty

Casino
Gaming
Media and Entertainment
$5M14 Feb 2023 New York, New York, United States

SpiderOak

Blockchain
Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Open Source
$16M12 Jan 2023 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Array Behavioral Care

Health Care
$25M06 Jan 2023 Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States
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