Kevin O'Leary
Founder & Chief Sommelier @ O'Leary Fine Wines
Boston, United States
Kevin O'Leary is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and television host.O'Leary started his own software company in his basement along with his 5 year partner Gary Babcock. His mother provided the seed investment of $10,000 which he used to start software publisher SoftKey. His partner Gary left just as numerous mergers andacquisitions allowed the company to become The Learning Company and O’Leary took control as president of the Boston based company. In 1999, the Learning Company was sold to Mattel for $3.7 billion USD.In 2003 he became co-investor and a director in Storage Now, a developer of climate controlled storage facilities. Through a series of development projects and acquisitions, Storage Now became Canada’s third largest owner/operator of storage services with facilities located in eleven cities serving such companies as Merck and Pfizer when it was acquired by the In Storage REIT in March 2007 for $110 million.In March 2007 O'Leary joined the advisory board of Genstar Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on investments in selected segments of life science and healthcare services, industrial technology, business services and software. Genstar Capital appointed O'Leary to its Strategic Advisory Board to seek new investment opportunities for its $1.2 billion fund. Kevin now has an office in West Palm Beach Florida.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
Last updated:
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Industries Kevin O'Leary invests in
Stages Kevin O'Leary invests in
Countries Kevin O'Leary invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $150k–$4M
- Angel
- $150k–$800k
- Series A
- $6M–$18M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 5 (19%)
- Software 4 (15%)
- E-Commerce 4 (15%)
- Retail 3 (12%)
- Health Care 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (27%)
- Angel 5 (19%)
- Series A 5 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (8%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 22 (85%)
- India 1 (4%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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9 Strap Technology
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9 STRAP Technology develops strap-based sports training products that keep both hands connected during swings in baseball, softball, golf, and pickleball. The company’s patented straps attach between the top and bottom hands to promote two-handed finishes, more consistent mechanics, and reduced strain on the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Its lineupincludes strap models for bats, golf clubs, and pickleball paddles, as well as integrated and compatible batting gloves and bat grips. 9 STRAP Technology sells directly through its ecommerce site and supports players from youth through professional levels. | $800K / Angel / Apr 09, 2026 | |
Never Have I Ever
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Never Have I Ever encourages artists by providing reusable, salon-quality nails that translate creativity into self-expression. I've never believed that beauty could be more than just what you wear. It might be anything that reflects your personality, emotions, and values. | $150K / Angel / Mar 20, 2026 | |
Screen Skinz
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Screen Skinz is a Florida-based manufacturing company that manufactures branded mobile screen protection for smartphones and other mobile devices. Screen Skinz products are licensed within NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA, Marvel, and Lucas Film. | $300K / Jan 20, 2026 | |
FarmQA
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FarmQA is a precision agriculture intelligence platform that connects data from the best soil, plant, machine, animal, and processing applications into a single, easy-to-use dashboard. Their solutions help large-scale growers measure, analyze, adjust, and ultimately manage the whole farm with greater predictability and control. | $4M / Seed / May 29, 2025 | |
Go To Green
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Go To Green is a patented directional evacuation system that helps people find their way to safety in high-stress situations. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 16, 2025 | |
FlyGuys
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Fly Guys is comprised of federally compliant drone pilots, digital media and marketing automation experts, and post production film and photograph editing specialists with a couple of programmers tossed in the mix.Their drones can survey across spectrums. They can create 3d maps, heat maps, track progress, inspect areas of interest, send machineswhere man dared not go, then take the imagery and data and present it intelligibly to their clients. Knowledge is power. Please reach us at https://flyguys.com/ | $13.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 28, 2025 | |
HerdDogg
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HerdDogg is a global herd health and data science platform. It is a two-part system that helps ranchers track health and proximity data from their herd. The company's device gathers the data captured by the ear tags and reports it directly to the rancher via an app or web database. | $6M / Series A / Mar 26, 2024 | |
Meat the Mushroom
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Meat the mushroom like snowflakes; no two mushroom slices are exactly the same. It's not surprising, since it's the only bacon alternative not made in a mold. | $150K / Seed / Jan 26, 2024 | |
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Meat the Mushroom
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Meat the mushroom like snowflakes; no two mushroom slices are exactly the same. It's not surprising, since it's the only bacon alternative not made in a mold. | $150K / Angel / Jan 26, 2024 | |
Tavolo
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Tavolo is an AI driven data analytics and automated marketing platform for restaurants, driving revenue for business owners | $1M / Seed / Oct 11, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About O'Leary Fine Wines
O'Leary Fine Wines is a Wine making private firm and producing top rated wines and other drinks too.
O'Leary Fine Wines Contacts
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Kevin O'Leary
Founder & Chief Sommelier
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What does Kevin O'Leary invest in?
Kevin O'Leary invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Kevin O'Leary's check size?
Kevin O'Leary typically joins rounds of $150k–$4M at Seed, $150k–$800k at Angel and $6M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kevin O'Leary participates in.
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When did Kevin O'Leary last invest?
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