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Kevin O'connor

Partner at ScOp Investor

Santa Barbara, California

Overview 

Kevin O'Connor is a Partner at ScOp Venture Capital in Santa Barbara, California, with a background as CEO/Chairman/Founder of DoubleClick and CEO of Graphiq. He has successfully invested in a variety of companies at different stages, including Healtharc, Customers.ai, and Campus Explorer, focusing on sectors like Direct-to-Consumer, AI, and SaaS in Los Angeles/Southern California. With a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Kevin O'Connor has demonstrated expertise in digital marketing, leadership, and entrepreneurship, leading to roles as a Board Director at Procore Technologies and Surfline Wavetrak, Inc., and as General Partner at O'Connor Ventures.

Work Experience 

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ScOp Venture Capital

  • Partner

    2021 - Current

    ScOp stands for Scalable Opportunities. You’ve created an opportunity by solving an important problem for your customers. Now, you want to scale your organization but you need capital and insightful advice. ScOp Venture Capital can help take your company to the next level - up and to the right.

Venture Capital firm specializing in SaaS and AI companies

scopvc.com
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Procore Technologies

  • Board Director

    2004

    Procore Technologies provides cloud-based construction software to clients worldwide.

Procore is a cloud-based management software that helps to simplify project execution and management tasks for construction sectors.

Raised $654,024,981.00 from 12 West Capital and Employee Stock Option Fund.

procore.com

O'Connor Ventures

  • General Partner

    2001 - 2021

    Provided seed capital to technology companies in southern California.

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Surfline Wavetrak, Inc.

  • Board Director

    2008 - 2020

    Surfline specializes in providing live and predicted ocean weather information for surfers, boaters, and others.

Surfline provides surf reporting, forecasts, and editorial content for consumers, businesses, and government agencies.

Raised $30,000,000.00 from TCG and ScOp Venture Capital.

surfline.com

Graphiq (acquired by Amazon)

  • CEO

    2009 - 2018

    Graphiq (formerly FindTheBest) is a data aggregation and visualization company that turns complicated data into contextually-rich presentations of the world's knowledge. For consumers, Graphiq operates a number of trusted vertical search engines, spanning tech gadgets (specout.com) and real estate (findthehome.com), to education (startclass.com) and government (insidegov.com). For publishers, the company offers several solutions for improving audience engagement with embeddable, contextually-rich visualizations. More information is available at www.graphiq.com.

DoubleClick

  • CEO/Chairman/Founder

    1995 - 2005

    Founder and CEO of DoubleClick which was the largest internet advertising network and technology provider.

DCA

  • VP Research

    1992 - 1995

    Researched and created new communication products.

Intercomputer Communications Corp

  • VP Research and Founder

    1983 - 1992

    ICC developed hardware and software to connect PCs to Burroughs and Sperry mainframe computers. Acquired by DCA in 1992.

Education 

Investments 

Healtharc

Series Unknown

Total funding: $5M

Customers.ai

Series A

Total funding: $5M

Lionize

Seed

Total funding: $7M

Aavenir

Series A

Total funding: $8M

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