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Okapi Venture Capital

Founders Marc Averitt Sharon Stevenson

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Total investments 70
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 39
Rounds per year 3.89
Lead investments 10
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.44
Exits 8
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

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

Okapi Venture Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2005. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Laguna Beach.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Opposing the other organizations, this Okapi Venture Capital works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Welltok, Transaction Wireless, WiserCare. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Machine Learning. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Okapi Venture Capital, startups are often financed by InterWest Partners, Domain Associates, True Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Domain Associates, InterWest Partners, True Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by InterWest Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Domain Associates.

The fund was created by Marc Averitt, Sharon Stevenson. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Deepcast.fm

Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
Software
$250K06 Sep 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Occuspace

Commercial Real Estate
Facilities Support Services
Facility Management
Information Technology
Smart Building
Software
$3M24 Aug 2023 Westlake Village, California, United States

Trellis Research

Information Technology
Legal
Legal Tech
$15M22 Aug 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Multiplayer

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$3M07 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

FixMyCar

Automotive
Software
$2M12 Jul 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Chargezoom

Accounting
Billing
E-Commerce Platforms
FinTech
Internet
Mobile Payments
Payments
SaaS
Software
$4M06 Sep 2022 Irvine, California, United States

Paladin Cloud

$3M11 Jul 2022 New Jersey, Maryland, United States

dRISK

Autonomous Vehicles
Big Data
Software
Transportation
$2M26 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Network Perception

Analytics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Network Security
Security
$13M02 May 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States
News
Specright Raises $30M in Series B Funding

– Specright from Tustin develops Specification Management software to manage and share supply chain data across suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers.
– Series B $30m round was led by Sageview Capital with participation from VMG Catalyst, Pritzker Venture Capital Group, Okapi Venture Capital, Fika Ventures, and Mucker Capital.
– The new investment will be used to double the company’s headcount by early 2022 and expand operations globally.

Daasity Raises $3.4M in Seed Funding

– Daasity is a premiere analytics and data platform that empowers direct-to-consumer and omni-channel brands to understand and leverage their data.
– The company raised $3.4m in seed funding.
– The round was led by VMG Catalyst with participation from Centre Street Partners, Cove Fund, Exeter Capital, 1855 Capital, Mooring Ventures, Okapi Venture Capital, and Serra Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to expand the team, further develop the platform and product, and increase marketing efforts.

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Total investments 70
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 3.89
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.44
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.94

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Deepcast.fm

Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
Software
$250K06 Sep 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Occuspace

Commercial Real Estate
Facilities Support Services
Facility Management
Information Technology
Smart Building
Software
$3M24 Aug 2023 Westlake Village, California, United States

Trellis Research

Information Technology
Legal
Legal Tech
$15M22 Aug 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Multiplayer

Artificial Intelligence
Software
$3M07 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

FixMyCar

Automotive
Software
$2M12 Jul 2023 Detroit, Michigan, United States

Chargezoom

Accounting
Billing
E-Commerce Platforms
FinTech
Internet
Mobile Payments
Payments
SaaS
Software
$4M06 Sep 2022 Irvine, California, United States

Paladin Cloud

$3M11 Jul 2022 New Jersey, Maryland, United States

dRISK

Autonomous Vehicles
Big Data
Software
Transportation
$2M26 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Network Perception

Analytics
Information Technology
Infrastructure
Network Security
Security
$13M02 May 2022 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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