O.D. Kobo
Partner @ Israel Investment Partners (IIP)
London, United Kingdom
O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries O.D. Kobo invests in
InternetVideoE-CommerceBroadcastingSocial Media
Stages O.D. Kobo invests in
SeedSeries ASeries BPre-SeedPost-IPO Equity
Countries O.D. Kobo invests in
ChinaIsraelNigeriaUnited StatesCayman Islands
Round sizes
Seed $250k–$2MSeries A $3M–$5MSeries B $12M–$32M
Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$2M
- Series A
- $3M–$5M
- Series B
- $12M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 6 (43%)
- Video 2 (14%)
- E-Commerce 2 (14%)
- Broadcasting 2 (14%)
- Social Media 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (43%)
- Series A 3 (21%)
- Series B 3 (21%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
- Post-IPO Equity 1 (7%)
Country
- China 6 (43%)
- Israel 1 (7%)
- Nigeria 1 (7%)
- United States 1 (7%)
- Cayman Islands 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Totally Bored
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Totally Bored is a trivia-style app designed to provide light-hearted amusement. | $250K / Seed / Aug 22, 2018 | |
GiveHope
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An easy way to raise money online for personal causes and life events, to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses. Voted the #1 Most Reliable Fundraising Website for personal and social causes by campaign organizers and donors across the United States. | $500K / Seed / Aug 16, 2018 | |
Kobo360
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Kobo360 is a tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners, and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering ruralfarmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. Kobo enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full. The Kobo mission is to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets. The company is also preparing to enter the agro-trading space by creating a marketplace that links farmers with buyers all over the world. The marketplace will effectively eliminate the high cost of middlemen for smallholder farmers and significantly improve profits.Ife Oyedele ll and Obi Ozor founded it in 2017 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Jun 29, 2018 | |
Block.one
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A pioneer in distributed ledger innovation, Block.one develops the EOSIO open-source software, which is widely regarded as the market leader for blockchain flexibility and scalability. Developers, entrepreneurs and companies around the world use EOSIO to create secure, transparent, and deterministic digital infrastructures. Block.one hasestablished locations in the United States and Asia Pacific, with more than 300 highly specialized engineers and other talented full-time employees from diverse disciplines. Block.one is committed to empowering society through tools and systems built on the fundamental philosophy of externally verifiable data integrity. | Seed / May 18, 2017 | |
ADDOO CAPITAL
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Addoo Capital is an automated cryptocurrency investment service, bringing the technology and management process along with professional trading and portfolio management to an emerging digital asset class. We trade over $22M per month on nearly all major exchanges globally, and provide significant scale in over the counter (OTC) trading withprivate buyers and sellers of crypto assets. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 05, 2017 | |
Music Messenger
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Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength. | $5M / Series A / Aug 01, 2014 | |
Pheed
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Pheed, a new place to express yourself Pheed launched its iOS App out of Los Angeles on November 12, 2012 and its Android App on August 30, 2013. Pheed enables users to create, inspire, and share text, photos, videos, music tracks, voice-notes, and live broadcast events.While it is free to join and use Pheed, users have the option to monetizetheir content if they wish to do so, either by applying a monthly subscription fee to their channel or setting up a pay-per-view live stream broadcast event. The user is able to select the pricing and earn directly.Original content uploaded to Pheed is owned and controlled by the user; Pheed retains no rights or ownership toward it. Users also have the option to copyright their pheeds.Pheed was labeled by Forbes as ‘the new Twitter,’ Mashable as ‘the next social craze,’ and Huffington Post ‘the next generation of social media.’ Fortune listed Pheed as ‘The #1 Social Network to Watch in 2013,’ and Business Insider ‘the social media company of the year.’On May 15, 2013 Pheed became the world’s first mobile app company to offer user to user live stream pay-per-view technology.In March of 2014, Pheed was sold to Mobli Media Group for $40 million.Pheed is based in Los Angeles, California. | $2M / Seed / Mar 11, 2012 | |
Viddy
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Viddy is a video creation and life sharing mobile application that makes it easy for consumers to transform raw mobile video into stylized clips with the tap of a finger and then share them with friends, family and the world. | Seed / Jan 01, 2011 | |
Sohu.com
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Sohu provides a network of community-based, web 2.0 products to millions of Chinese users on a daily basis. Sohu corporate services consist of online brand advertising on its matrix of websites as well as bid listing and home page on its in-house developed search directory and engine. This matrix of Chinese language web properties andproprietary search engines, consists of the mass portal and online media destination sohu.com, interactive search engine sogou.com, the games information portal 17173.com, the real estate website focus.cn, developer and operator of online games www.changyou.com/en/ and online video website tv.sohu.com.It also provides multiple news and information service on mobile platforms, including Sohu News app and mobile news portal WAP.Sohu.com.Sohu's online game subsidiary, Changyou.com has a diverse portfolio of online games that includes Tian Long Ba Bu, a massively multiplayer online games in China, and DDTank and Wartune (also known as Shen Qu), which are two popular web games in China.Sohu.com was established in November 1995 and went public in July 2000. | $25M / Post-IPO Equity / May 05, 2008 | |
VNET
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21Vianet is an internet data center services provider that offers hosting and related services, cloud services, and business VPN services. 21Vianet provides hosting and related services, managed network services, and cloud computing infrastructure services, improving the reliability, security, and speed of its customers' internet connectionsthrough its internet infrastructure.It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Beijing, China. | Series B / Feb 13, 2008 | |
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FAQ
What does O.D. Kobo invest in?
O.D. Kobo invests primarily in Internet, Video and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is O.D. Kobo's check size?
O.D. Kobo typically joins rounds of $250k–$2M at Seed, $3M–$5M at Series A and $12M–$32M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds O.D. Kobo participates in.
When did O.D. Kobo last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for O.D. Kobo closed in Aug 2018. Shizune tracks 14 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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