Okapi Venture Capital

Laguna Beach, United States
Venture Capital
Active
Total investments

71

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

40

Rounds per year

3.74

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.44

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecurityMedical

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Consumer/RetailB2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
United States, Southern California
Check size
750K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
71
Lead investments
10
Exits
8
Rounds per year
3.74
Follow on index
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Software (18)
  • Information Technology (18)
  • SaaS (16)
  • Health Care (15)
  • Medical (10)
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Investments by region
  • United States (69)
  • United Kingdom (2)
Peak activity year
2019

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
30M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
1.38
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
DepoDirect01 Nov 2021SoftwareSeed2MUnited States, California, Los Angeles
KredosAI04 Apr 2024Software, FinTechSeed1MUnited States, Washington, Bellevue
Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Founded in 2025 by Michael Stanway (CEO) and Joe Griffith (CTO), The Compression Company provides a data compression platform designed to optimize the storage and transmission of earth observation and geospatial data.Feb 13, 2026AI, Data Compression, Geospatial DataEarly stage3400000 USD
The Compression Company
UK and US-based SpaceTech startup The Compression Company is announcing a €2.8 million ($3.4 million) pre-Seed round to tackle limited satellite bandwidth with AI-driven compression that runs directly onboard satellites, reportedly reducing file sizes by over 95% and enabling each one to transmit far more data to Earth during each short ground-station pass.Feb 12, 2026AI, Data Compression, Earth Observation, Geospatial Data, SpaceTechEarly stage3400000 USD
reportedly reducing file sizes by over 95% and enabling each one to transmit far more data to Earth during each short ground-station pass.
VultronJul 15, 2025Agentic operating system, AI-native infrastructure, AI-powered proposal development, Federal growth, Generative AI, Public sector-22000000 USD San Francisco, California

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