# Quest Venture Partners

> Quest Venture Partners is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Mobile. See 113 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 113
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Fund size: $5.3M
- Last fund: Oct 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quest-venture-partners/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/QuestVP
- Website: http://www.questvp.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/questvp/

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Quest Venture Partners. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Quest Venture Partners. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/quest-venture-partners?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $850k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $3M–$24M |
| Series B | $12M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 16% |
| Mobile | 12 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 11 | 10% |
| Analytics | 9 | 8% |
| Advertising | 9 | 8% |

132 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 43 | 38% |
| Series A | 29 | 26% |
| Series B | 11 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 63 | 56% |
| Singapore | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Ogawa | Founder and Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-ogawa |
| Maarten Hooft | Managing Partner & Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maarten-t-hooft |
| Marcus Ogawa | Managing Partner & Founder | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcus-ogawa |
| Ting Louie | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ting-louie |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Phase3D | Phase3D develops in-situ monitoring technology for additive manufacturing, providing real-time, layer-by-layer inspection of 3D printing processes. Their flagship product, Fringe, uses structured light to detect and quantify anomalies during printing, offering data in microns for quality assessment. Fringe is compatible with various industrial 3Dprinters and can be retrofitted to existing equipment. The system helps users identify issues early and take action to maintain part integrity. | $2M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Cassidy | Build AI Automations & Assistants Trained on Your Business. | $10M | Series A | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| Dataplor | Dataplor is a location intelligence platform provider that connects businesses with an on-demand mobile workforce. The platform offers real-time data verification, augmentation, and market research on local firms using machine learning and artificial intelligence models, allowing clients to alter their collecting requirements readily. | $20.5M | Series B | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| Bedrock Materials | Bedrock Materials pioneers affordable sodium-ion batteries with revolutionary materials and production techniques, changing energy storage for a more sustainable future. | $9M | Seed | May 16, 2024 |  |
| Dataplor | Dataplor is a location intelligence platform provider that connects businesses with an on-demand mobile workforce. The platform offers real-time data verification, augmentation, and market research on local firms using machine learning and artificial intelligence models, allowing clients to alter their collecting requirements readily. | $10.6M | Series A | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Champions Round | Champions Round is a sports entertainment company focused on building engaging fan experiences for the fantasy sports industry. Currently available for download on iOS. | $7M | Series A | Feb 27, 2023 |  |
| Simple HealthKit | The company offers high-quality, accessible, and affordable solutions for sexual wellness, respiratory health, chronic conditions, and more. | $8M | Series A | Feb 06, 2023 |  |
| ON | Our ChatOS platform empowers brands and connects fans in new and interesting ways to what they like, what they’re passionate about, and what they’re craving to discover. | $35M | Series B | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| ON | Our ChatOS platform empowers brands and connects fans in new and interesting ways to what they like, what they’re passionate about, and what they’re craving to discover. | $35M | Series B | Dec 06, 2022 |  |

10 of 113 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Quest Venture Partners invest in?

Quest Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Mobile and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 113 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 Quest Venture Partners's check size?

Quest Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $850k–$4.5M at Seed, $3M–$24M at Series A and $12M–$35M 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 Quest Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Quest Venture Partners?

Public channels for Quest Venture Partners include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Quest Venture Partners?

The team at Quest Venture Partners includes Andrew Ogawa (Founder and Managing Partner), Maarten Hooft (Managing Partner & Founder) and Marcus Ogawa (Managing Partner & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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