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Matt Ocko

Managing Partner at DCVC

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Matt Ocko is the Co-founder and Co-Managing Partner at DCVC, where he has invested in companies like VMind AI and Halter. With a background in mobile devices and cloud computing, he has made significant contributions to the tech industry through his roles at Zoom, Uber, and Zynga as an investor and advisor. Ocko's career highlights include co-founding DCVC with Zack Bogue and making strategic investments in emerging technologies such as AI, robotics, and enterprise infrastructure, positioning himself as a key player in the venture capital space in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

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DCVC

  • Co-Managing Partner

    2010 - Current

    DCVC backs entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar problems to multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its costs. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less - now and for this century. For over twenty years, DCVC and its principals have backed brilliant entrepreneurs applying Deep Tech, from the earliest stage and beyond, to pragmatically and cost-effectively tackle previously unsolvable problems in nearly every industry, especially those that haven’t seen material technological progress in decades. Together, we have created tens of billions of dollars of value while also making the world a markedly better place.

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using deep tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.

dcvc.com
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Zoom

  • Angel Investor, advisor

    2012

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Uber

  • Investor

    2011

    Early investor in Uber

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.

uber.com
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AngelList

  • Investor

    2013

    Early investor in the AngelList hold

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.

Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.

angellist.com

D-Wave Systems

  • Investor and friend of the firm

    2007

    Functional large-scale quantum computer platform, solving problems for real customers today.

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Zynga

  • Seed Investor and Advisor

    2013

Zynga is a mobile game developer that creates and operates social games as live services played on the Internet.

Raised $2,318,550,786.00 from Kleiner Perkins, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley and Fidelity.

zynga.com
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Couchbase

  • Investor and advisor

    2010

Couchbase is a NoSQL cloud database for business-critical applications.

Raised $251,000,000.00 from Adams Street Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Glynn Capital Management, GPI Capital, Accel, Mayfield Fund and Sorenson Capital.

couchbase.com

Bullpen Capital

  • Special Limited Partner

    2010

  • Special Limited Partner

    2010

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Archimedes Capital

  • Managing Director

    1993

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Facebook

  • Investor

    2008 - 2013

    Significant investor through several partnerships in secondary interests.

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

staynalive.com

Education 

Investments 

VMind AI

Pre Seed

Total funding: $1M

Mesh

Series A

Total funding: $68M

Halter

Series A

Total funding: $100M

Mythic

Series A

Total funding: $95M

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