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    Okapi Venture Capital

    Newport Beach, California, United StatesFounded 2005
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    Enterprise SoftwareSaaSAIBiotech & Life SciencesConsumerDefense & SpaceRobotics & AutomationManufacturingClimate & Energy

    Okapi Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Southern California, founded in 2005. It provides long-term capital and active support to seed and early-stage technology startups across information technology and life science sectors.

    Deal activity increased 100% year-over-year (2 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is seed (44% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $9.5M (across 32 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    26

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    MA

    Marc Averitt

    Co-Founder, MANAGING DIRECTOR

    JB

    Jeff Bocan

    MANAGING DIRECTOR

    JW

    John Waller

    MANAGING DIRECTOR, VENTURE PARTNER

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    34 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    KredosAI logoKredosAISeries A$7MJul 2026
    KredosAI logoKredosAISeries A—Jan 2026
    MagicDoor logoMagicDoorSeed$4.5MSep 2025
    Chargezoom logoChargezoomSeries A$11.5MDec 2024
    Goodhood logoGoodhoodSeed$2.6MJul 2023
    Trellis logoTrellisPre-Seed$15MJan 2023
    Paladin Cloud logoPaladin CloudSeed$3.3MJan 2022
    Chargezoom logoChargezoomSeed$2MSep 2021
    Specright logoSpecrightSeries B$30MJul 2021
    Daasity logoDaasitySeed$3.4MMar 2021
    Slingshot Aerospace logoSlingshot AerospaceSeries A$8MOct 2020
    Slingshot logoSlingshotSeries A$40MOct 2020
    TrackStreet logoTrackStreetSeed$5.1MJul 2020
    Whitefox logoWhitefoxUnknown$12MSep 2019
    Specright logoSpecrightSeries A$8.8MApr 2019
    WhiteFox logoWhiteFoxSeed—Dec 2017
    Whitefox logoWhitefoxSeed$2MDec 2017
    Slingshot Aerospace logoSlingshot AerospaceSeed$3.3MDec 2017
    Pegasus Solar logoPegasus SolarSeries A$10MJan 2017
    Welltok logoWelltokSeries E$33.7MOct 2016
    CConnectifierSeed$6MJun 2015
    Focal Therapeutics logoFocal TherapeuticsSeries C$3.8MAug 2014
    Welltok logoWelltokSeries C$22.1MFeb 2014
    Babylist logoBabylistSeed$620KJun 2013
    Orthalign logoOrthalignSeries A$5.2MJan 2010
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    Top Co-Investors

    Mucker Capital4 shared
    Early Light Ventures4 shared
    Motley Fool Ventures4 shared
    XYZ Venture Capital3 shared
    Scale Venture Partners3 shared
    Stout Street Capital3 shared
    InterWest Partners3 shared
    OCA Ventures3 shared
    Sageview Capital2 shared
    Techstars2 shared
    Emergence Capital2 shared
    New Enterprise Associates2 shared
    Bessemer Venture Partners2 shared
    VMG Catalyst2 shared
    Pritzker Group Venture Capital2 shared
    Fika Ventures2 shared
    STEADFAST Capital Ventures2 shared
    Palm Drive Capital2 shared
    Y Combinator2 shared
    BMW i Ventures2 shared

    Last updated: 7 October 2026