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351 W. Hubbard St., Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60654
Phone: 312-327-8400
Fax: 312-542-8952
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- Early
- Expansion
- Growth
- Seed
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Education & Training
Financial Services
Information Technology
Media & Digital Media
Software & Internet
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OCA Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology, financial services, for-profit education and technology-enabled services. OCA Ventures is backed by the entrepreneurs who founded and built O'Connor & Associates, the derivatives trading firm that was acquired by Swiss Bank (subsequently UBS). OCA Ventures historically has made direct venture investments as an arm of the O'Connor Partners Investment Office, a major Chicago investment firm. In 2001, OCA Ventures became an independent venture capital firm to build upon the successful direct early stage investment activity of the O'Connor Partners Investment Office. A typical initial investment for OCA Ventures is $1-4M with a target of $3-5M per company (50K-$200K for seed deals). OCA Ventures targets initial rounds of $6M or less. OCA is also opportunistic and will consider smaller and larger deals. The firm typically participates in a company's first round of institutional capital. This may range from seed stage (pre-product, pre-revenue) to expansion stage ($3-8M in revenue, near profitability). OCA Ventures has investments throughout the United States. OCA EDGE is OCA Ventures' seed investing program. OCA EDGE was created in response to the increase of attractive seed-stage investment opportunities and continued decline of the initial capital requirements for technology businesses. OCA EDGE aims to invest amounts of $50K - $200K in rounds of roughly $1.5M or less.
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Investment Firm Key
VC = Venture Capital
PE = Private Equity
A = Angel
I = Incubator
MB = Merchant Bank
VD = Venture Debt
FI = Family Investment Office
FOF = Fund of Funds
ED = Economic Development Office
TT = Technology Transfer Office
CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
SEC = Secondary Purchaser
HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
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| COMPANY STAGE | REVENUE |
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Seed Stage
(includes "pre-seed," or
concept stage) | No Revenue |
| Early Stage | Minimal
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Growth Stage
(also called Mid-stage) | $2M-$7M |
Expansion Stage
(also called Late-stage) | $7M and greater |
| Private Equity | |
| Lower Middle Market | $10M-$249M |
| Middle Market | $250M-$499M |
| Upper Middle Market | $500M-$1B |
| Large Cap | >$1B |
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