# Octane Capital Management

> Octane Capital Management is a VC fund backing Service Industry and Internet. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.octanecapital.com

Octane Capital Management is a venture capital firm focused on investments in later-stage private and newly public technology companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Service Industry | 3 | 23% |
| Internet | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Management Information Systems | 2 | 15% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 7 | 54% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |
| Series C | 2 | 15% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Emeric McDonald | Managing Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fizz | Fizz is a authorized platform created to transform community social structures, beginning with institutions. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 04, 2022 |  |
| Novera Optics | Novera Optics develops optical access solutions. Its PON optical solutions enable equipment vendors and service providers to address fiber-to-the-building, fiber-to-the-curb extensions, multi-dwelling and multi-tenant units, remote terminals, and the central office markets. The company offers Wavelength Division Multiplexed-Passive Optical Networks(WDM-PON), an access and transport platform, which provides an architecture for access networks that enables service providers to deliver voice, data, video, and wireless services. | $7.4M |  | Mar 06, 2006 |  |
| Rapt | Rapt, Inc. offers media monetization solutions, and technology and strategic advisory services to media companies. The company also provides advertising yield management solutions. Its software applications, such as price director, inventory manager, and business advisor delivers price optimization, inventory management, and yield analyticssolutions. The company's software also enables companies to price, predict, and provision their advertising assets. Its advisory services help companies to design and implement practice revenue management processes in their organization. | $9M | Series C | Jul 30, 2002 |  |
| Novera Optics | Novera Optics develops optical access solutions. Its PON optical solutions enable equipment vendors and service providers to address fiber-to-the-building, fiber-to-the-curb extensions, multi-dwelling and multi-tenant units, remote terminals, and the central office markets. The company offers Wavelength Division Multiplexed-Passive Optical Networks(WDM-PON), an access and transport platform, which provides an architecture for access networks that enables service providers to deliver voice, data, video, and wireless services. | $83M |  | Mar 27, 2001 |  |
| CenterPoint Broadband Technologies | Centerpoint Broadband Technologies, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, California, is a rapidly growing optical networking company dedicated to delivering high capacity optical and broadband wireless systems that offer scalability and significant cost reductions in today's networks, while aggressively driving service velocity.Centerpointprovides metro, regional and long haul optical carriers the solutions needed to compete in the data driven world. Fixed and mobile service providers and private enterprises are searching for forward-looking wireless solutions that allow rapid capacity growth, simple provisioning, and minimum capital outlays. | $130M |  | Oct 30, 2000 |  |
| Instill | As per the transaction announced on April 21, 2008, Instill Corporation was acquired by iTradeNetwork, Inc. Instill Corporation provides spend intelligence solutions for the foodservice industry. It offers supply chain information services, which automates the collection of transactional and process-oriented data from its customers tradingpartners. The company also provides a suite of hosted applications that helps its customers in managing various business processes, including trade spend management, food spend management, quality and regulatory compliance, promotion management, procurement, food safety, and vendor and product management. It offers its solutions to foodservice manufacturers, operators, and distributors. Instill Corporation was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. | $25.6M |  | Jun 28, 2000 |  |
| Opsware | Opsware, Inc. is a software company based in Sunnyvale, California which offers products for server and network device provisioning, configuration and management targeted toward enterprise customers. Opsware also has offices in New York City, Seattle, Washington and Cary, North Carolina.The company that was formerly known as Loudcloud wasfounded on September 9, 1999 (i.e., 9/9/99) as a managed services provider. After selling the operations side of the business to EDS in the summer of 2002, Loudcloud became Opsware and went to market as a technology company, offering the software that had been developed internally to support customer systems via automated server life-cycle management. In December 2003, Opsware acquired asset management systems provider Tangram Enterprise Solutions, and in December 2004 acquired network device configuration management vendor Rendition Networks. In July 2006 Opsware acquired CreekPath to fill out its Data Center Automation (DCA) product offering, by allowing provisioning of storage components as well. Lastly, in March 2007 Opsware acquired Seattle-based iConclude and their run-book automation software, which allowed Opsware to tightly integrate datacenter management duties end-to-end.In July 2007, HP announced that it had agreed to acquire Opsware for $1.6 billion in cash ($14.25 per share), 16x revenues. It is HP's third largest acquisition behind Compaq and Mercury. | $120M | Series B | Jun 27, 2000 |  |
| Market-Touch Corp | Market-Touch Corp., a provider of sales and marketing effectiveness systems. | $24.1M |  | Jun 21, 2000 |  |
| CoreExpress | CoreExpress is focused on the development of an internet data-exchange system for the multi-ISP extranet services. CoreExpress was acquired by Wiltel Communications in November 2001. CoreExpress was founded in 1999 and is based in Herndon, Virginia. | $573M |  | Jun 12, 2000 |  |
| Zaffire | Zaffire, Inc. is an innovative new optical networking company. Their mission is to fundamentally change the economic formula for metro and regional service providers. Using breakthrough technology designed with a commercial focus, They solve Their customers' most pressing optical transport problems and give them a compelling competitiveadvantage. With the support of the industry's leading investors, partners and management team, Zaffire is uniquely positioned to be a leader in the metro and regional optical networking marketplace. | $85M | Series C | Jun 07, 2000 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amerindo Investment Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amerindo-investment-advisors) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Integral Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/integral-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Morgan Stanley Dean Witter](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-stanley-dean-witter) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- OppenheimerFunds — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Octane Capital Management invest in?

Octane Capital Management invests primarily in Service Industry, Internet and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 13 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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### Who are the partners at Octane Capital Management?

The team at Octane Capital Management includes Emeric McDonald (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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