# John Occhipinti

> John Occhipinti is a Series A investor at Relay Ventures backing Mobile. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Relay Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/relay-ventures)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2019
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/occhipintijohn
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/johnoVC
- Website: https://x.com/johnoVC

John Occhipinti is a Series A investor at Relay Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Mobile and Apps. John is a Partner at Relay Ventures, an early stage venture fund exclusively focused on mobile software. John has over 20 years of experience in enterprise software technology, marketing, and sales. Previously he was Managing Director of Woodside Fund where he focused on ventures in cloud computing, online advertising technology and software.John presently sits on the boards of Appcelerator, PubNub, Rally, and advises Graffiti Labs.Prior to joining Woodside Fund, John was an early executive at Netscape Communications. Initially, John led a team that drove the company’s first significant revenues, helping launch Netscape through its initial public offering. Later, John ran Netscape’s Electronic Software Distribution and Strategic Channel groups. During his tenure at Netscape, John worked closely with hundreds of early stage entrepreneurs helping build web-based e-commerce and enterprise software applications. Prior to Netscape, John worked at Oracle Corporation, marketing and selling large-scale enterprise database technologies.John has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, Walter A. Haas School of Business, and a BA from the University of California Berkeley. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Trinity School. John is based in our Menlo Park, CA office.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 25% |
| Apps | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Analytics | 2 | 17% |
| Real Time | 2 | 17% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 2 | 17% |
| Series D | 2 | 17% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 25% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PubNub | PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy to use API that enables our customers to connect, scale, and manage realtime applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure gives you the abilityto easily connect and operate world-class realtime applications and IoT devices. PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco. Visit https://www.pubnub.com to start a free trial today. | $23M | Series D | Apr 09, 2019 |  |
| Mojio | Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS solution provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and counts some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Bosch, DeutscheTelekom, Microsoft, T-Mobile and Vivint.Mojio’s platform, apps and services deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With over 15 billion miles of driving data gathered from more than a million vehicles, Mojio’s big data analytics framework uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain. Learn more at moj.io. Force by Mojio is the ideal GPS fleet tracking solution for small businesses that rely on their vehicles to get the job done. Learn more at forcebymojio.com | $21.5M | Series B | Nov 30, 2017 |  |
| Mojio | Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS solution provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and counts some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Bosch, DeutscheTelekom, Microsoft, T-Mobile and Vivint.Mojio’s platform, apps and services deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With over 15 billion miles of driving data gathered from more than a million vehicles, Mojio’s big data analytics framework uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain. Learn more at moj.io. Force by Mojio is the ideal GPS fleet tracking solution for small businesses that rely on their vehicles to get the job done. Learn more at forcebymojio.com | $7M | Series A | Dec 12, 2016 |  |
| PubNub | PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy to use API that enables our customers to connect, scale, and manage realtime applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure gives you the abilityto easily connect and operate world-class realtime applications and IoT devices. PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco. Visit https://www.pubnub.com to start a free trial today. | $25M | Series C | Sep 21, 2015 |  |
| Appcelerator | Appcelerator provides a mobile enterprise platform to deliver native apps, mobilize data, and measure success with real-time analytics. Its mobile cloud platform enables cross-platform mobile application and HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) web development, from a single codebase. It helps companies solve for this new mobile reality: deliveringnative cross-platform apps at the speed of the web, mobilizing any data source, and driving success with real-time analytics all from an open, cloud-based platform. With the Axway Appcelerator Mobile solution, companies can eliminate point tools to scale mobile across the enterprise, drive innovation by unlocking backend data sources for new app capabilities and measure the overall usage and success of the entire mobile app portfolio.Appcelerator was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $5.7M | Series E | Aug 27, 2015 |  |
| Mojio | Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS solution provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and counts some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Bosch, DeutscheTelekom, Microsoft, T-Mobile and Vivint.Mojio’s platform, apps and services deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With over 15 billion miles of driving data gathered from more than a million vehicles, Mojio’s big data analytics framework uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain. Learn more at moj.io. Force by Mojio is the ideal GPS fleet tracking solution for small businesses that rely on their vehicles to get the job done. Learn more at forcebymojio.com | $8M | Series A | Mar 24, 2015 |  |
| Appcelerator | Appcelerator provides a mobile enterprise platform to deliver native apps, mobilize data, and measure success with real-time analytics. Its mobile cloud platform enables cross-platform mobile application and HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) web development, from a single codebase. It helps companies solve for this new mobile reality: deliveringnative cross-platform apps at the speed of the web, mobilizing any data source, and driving success with real-time analytics all from an open, cloud-based platform. With the Axway Appcelerator Mobile solution, companies can eliminate point tools to scale mobile across the enterprise, drive innovation by unlocking backend data sources for new app capabilities and measure the overall usage and success of the entire mobile app portfolio.Appcelerator was established in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $22M | Series D | Aug 25, 2014 |  |
| Rally | RallyPay and Rally.org use innovative payments and data technology to connect donors to causes and companies with their clients. It is an easy to use storytelling platform that's designed to empower technical and non-technical users to fundraise and build social awareness on a large scale. To date, Rally has enabled millions of individuals andorganizations to share, connect to, and broadcast their passions, provide solutions to problems, leverage social networks, and mobilize communities. Rally's users vary in size and scope and address a wide range of topics. The site has been used by everyone from political candidates for campaign fundraising to Jon Bon Jovi's non-profit foundation to help raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief. Others have created Rally campaigns to help cover the cost of medical expenses, pay for tuition, start companies, fund films and everything in-between. | $2.6M | Series A | Dec 06, 2013 |  |
| Mojio | Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS solution provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and counts some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Bosch, DeutscheTelekom, Microsoft, T-Mobile and Vivint.Mojio’s platform, apps and services deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With over 15 billion miles of driving data gathered from more than a million vehicles, Mojio’s big data analytics framework uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain. Learn more at moj.io. Force by Mojio is the ideal GPS fleet tracking solution for small businesses that rely on their vehicles to get the job done. Learn more at forcebymojio.com | $2.3M | Seed | Oct 16, 2013 |  |
| PubNub | PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy to use API that enables our customers to connect, scale, and manage realtime applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure gives you the abilityto easily connect and operate world-class realtime applications and IoT devices. PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco. Visit https://www.pubnub.com to start a free trial today. | $10.6M | Series B | Sep 17, 2013 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amazon Alexa Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon-alexa-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/t-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kensington Capital Partners Limited](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kensington-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rembrandt Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rembrant-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Scale Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Relay Ventures

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Relay Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in start-ups, seed, early-stage, mid venture, late venture, and growth capital investments.It seeks to invest in the mobile computing industry with a focus on applications and services including mobile commerce such as payments, advertising, retailing, and consumer banking; vertical andhorizontal enterprise applications; communications; social networking; location-based and location-aware applications and services such as navigation and mapping; media and entertainment; commercial services and supplies; wireless application service providers; wireless devices software; wireless networking equipment; and lifestyle and personal productivity applications for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms.Relay Ventures also focuses on investments in mobile-related software and services and mobile eco-system sectors. It seeks to invest in mobile technology with a focus on software for mobile devices and the connected Internet.John Albright and Kevin Talbot founded Relay Ventures on January 1, 2010. It has its headquarters in Toronto in Canada, with an additional office in San Francisco and Calgary.

5 contacts available at Relay Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Occhipinti | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-occhipinti |
| Alex Baker | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-baker-2 |
| Chevonae Walcott | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevonae-walcott |
| Irfhan Rawji | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irfhan-rawji |
| Jeannette Wiltse | Operating Partner & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeannette-wiltse |

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## FAQ

### What does John Occhipinti invest in?

John Occhipinti invests primarily in Mobile, Apps and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did John Occhipinti last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Occhipinti closed in Apr 2019. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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