# Marcus Ogawa

> Marcus Ogawa is a Series A investor at Fididel (San Francisco) backing Video and Mobile. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fididel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fididel)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mogawa
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/marcusogawa
- Website: https://x.com/marcusogawa

Marcus Ogawa is a Series A investor at Fididel 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video | 3 | 19% |
| Mobile | 3 | 19% |
| Messaging | 2 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 6% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 38% |
| Seed | 4 | 25% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Switchboard Software | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| HighlightCam | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| RETAILIGENCE | 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, 2010 |  |
| RETAILIGENCE | 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, 2010 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Grace Beauty Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grace-beauty-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Inventus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inventus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [K9 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k9-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Quest Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Trinity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trinity-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Fididel

VC Fund · San Jose, United States

Fididel brings haggling online, offering real time negotiations between buyers and sellers. The site offers a Fidideler University that teachers members how to negotiate, which they can do for other sellers on a commission.

2 contacts available at Fididel.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hal Wendell | Founder, CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hal-wendell |
| Marcus Ogawa | Member, Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcus-ogawa |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Marcus Ogawa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marcus Ogawa closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 16 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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