OCA Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Chicago, United States

Total investments

178

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

97

Rounds per year

7.12

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

23

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailFintechHealthcare
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
CanadaUnited States
Check size
1M — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
178
Lead investments
11
Exits
23
Rounds per year
7.12
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (62)
  • Software (48)
  • Analytics (32)
  • SaaS (31)
  • Information Technology (23)
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Investments by region
  • United States (176)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
27M
Group Appearance index
0.92
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.91
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Astarte Medical 07 May 2019 Analytics, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Predictive Analytics Early Stage Venture 5M United States, Pennsylvania
GrayMatter Robotics 20 Jun 2024 Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics Early Stage Venture 45M United States, California, Los Angeles

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