Marcus Ogawa
Managing Partner & Founder @ Quest Venture Partners
San Francisco, United States
Marcus Ogawa is a Series A investor at Quest Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Video and Mobile. Marcus Ogawa is responsible for finding new investment opportunities, closing investment rounds, and working closely with the management teams of Quest Venture Partners portfolio companies. His investment expertise is in mobile, consumer internet, and video. He was a Board Member working very closely with Qik, Inc for 1 year and 9 months until thecompany was sold to Skype.Prior to joining Quest Venture Partners, he worked with a number of startups and established companies ranging from Internet, distributed computing, real estate, and news media. He is an active member of angel communities and the early-stage ecosystem. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
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Industries Marcus Ogawa invests in
Stages Marcus Ogawa invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Video 3 (19%)
- Mobile 3 (19%)
- Messaging 2 (13%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (13%)
- SaaS 1 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (38%)
- Seed 4 (25%)
- Series C 2 (13%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Investments
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| Switchboard enables enterprises to be data-driven at scale. From the team that launched Google BigQuery, Switchboard’s data engineering automation platform turns disparate data into a single source of reliable, trustworthy information in real time. Market-leading companies such as Dotdash Meredith, Target, DISH, Orangetheory Fitness, The Atlantic,Financial Times, and Pearson get a strategic data asset for customer insights and revenue operations, while their technical teams retain control without the burden of day-to-day operations. | $7M / Series A / Jul 27, 2023 | ||
| Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers. | $1.5M / Seed / Nov 12, 2019 | ||
| Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers. | $2.6M / Seed / Sep 01, 2019 | ||
| Figure Eight is a Human-in-the-Loop machine learning platform to create customized large scale high-quality training data. The platform uses machine learning assisted annotation solutions to create high-quality training data needed by models to work in the real world. They supports a wide range of computer vision and natural language processinguse cases — video object tracking, autonomous vehicles, robotics, predictive maintenance, facial recognition, medical images, aerial and satellite imagery, consumer product detection, content categorization, intelligent chatbots, document transcription, voice assistant training, audio transcription, sentiment analysis, product categorization, and search relevance - and a broad range of industries - automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, retail and e-commerce, technology, agriculture, manufacturing, medical and healthcare, power and utilities, security and surveillance, transportation and travel, and government. Figure Eight platform operates at an unprecedented scale has generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in California, USA. | $12.5M / Series C / Sep 17, 2014 | ||
| Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers. | $6.3M / Series B / Mar 05, 2013 | ||
| Founded in 2009, HighlightCam is a YC-alum & 500Startups-funded company bent on taking over the world, one movie at a time. HighlightCam is revolutionizing how users create (and share) movies with a powerful mobile and desktop video-editing platform that takes your favorite videos/pictures & produces professional-quality movies.Now, your most important memories can be automatically transformed into meaningful video snapshots. HighlightCam is based out of Palo Alto, CA. | $3M / Series A / Nov 29, 2011 | ||
| Genwi is used by marketers to distribute information, gathered from multiple sources, to mobile devices in realtime. It provides an efficient way to curate, manage and optimize content, which results in vastly better channel to relay information to an organization’s customers, partners and employees. | $4M / Series A / Oct 11, 2011 | ||
| Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers. | $2.6M / Series A / Sep 01, 2011 | ||
| Qik is an online messenger that allows its users to exchange video messages between individuals or within a group.The first version of the Qik service was launched as a private alpha in January 2008 and then as public beta in August 2008. Since then the company has expanded its service to support millions of users in over 160 countries and on allthe major smart phones (over 140 models) including iPhone, Qik was founded by The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California with an office in Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia. In 2011, Qik, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup, was acquired by Skype Technologies. | $6.3M / Jan 06, 2011 | ||
| Figure Eight is a Human-in-the-Loop machine learning platform to create customized large scale high-quality training data. The platform uses machine learning assisted annotation solutions to create high-quality training data needed by models to work in the real world. They supports a wide range of computer vision and natural language processinguse cases — video object tracking, autonomous vehicles, robotics, predictive maintenance, facial recognition, medical images, aerial and satellite imagery, consumer product detection, content categorization, intelligent chatbots, document transcription, voice assistant training, audio transcription, sentiment analysis, product categorization, and search relevance - and a broad range of industries - automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, retail and e-commerce, technology, agriculture, manufacturing, medical and healthcare, power and utilities, security and surveillance, transportation and travel, and government. Figure Eight platform operates at an unprecedented scale has generated over 10 billion training data labels to power real-world AI applications. Figure Eight was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in California, USA. | $5M / Series A / Jan 20, 2010 | ||
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About Quest Venture Partners
Quest Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm located in Palo Alto CA. They invest between $300k-$1.5MM in early stage companies, with typical investments being around $500k.
Quest Venture Partners Contacts
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Andrew Ogawa
Founder and Managing Partner
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Maarten 't Hooft
Managing Partner & Founder
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Marcus Ogawa
Managing Partner & Founder
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Ting Louie
General Partner
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What does Marcus Ogawa invest in?
Marcus Ogawa invests primarily in Video, Mobile and Messaging startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 16 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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