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Kevin McQuillan

General Partner with OCA Ventures and the Founding General Partner of Focus Opportunity Fund.

Palo Alto, California

Investor
VC
Angel

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $4,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Corporate Development
Growth Capital
Financial Modeling
Private Equity
Investments
Venture Financing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Start-ups
IPO
M&A experience
Strategic Partnerships
Entrepreneurship
Capital Raising
Deal Execution
Deal Sourcing
Start-up Ventures
Funding

Education

Investments

Livly

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $18M

Centrality Communications

Series D

Total Funding: $37M

Work Experience

OCA Ventures

2019

  • General Partner

    2019

  • Partner

    2019

Focus Opportunity Fund

2015

  • Founding general partner Focus opportunity Fun

    2016

  • Founder & General Partner

    2015

    Focus Opportunity Fund represents over thirty five years of experience and relationships. We invest in expansion-stage private technology companies that have been financed by one or more leading early-stage venture funds.

Benedict Canyon Equities

2019

  • Chairman, Advisory Board

    2019

SVEN (Silicon Valley Executive Network)

2019

  • Advisory Board Member

    2019

Focus Ventures

1996

  • Co-Founder & General Partner

    1996

    I focus on investments in the software, storage, internet and communication markets and have led my firm's investments in Active Software (WebMethods), Agile Software (Oracle), Alteon Websystems (Nortel), Centrality (SiRF), DATAllegro (Mircosoft), eDocs (Siebel), LogLogic (Tibco), Kace (Dell), Kazeon (EMC) and Orchestria (CA). I also led Focus Ventures investments in Aruba Networks (ARUN), Commerce One (CMRC), Com21 (CMTO), Copper Mountain (CMTN), Financial Engines (FNGN), Pixelworks (PXLW), Ruckus Wireless (RKUS), Vina (VINA) and Virtusa (VRTU), all of which became public companies. Current investments include Upwork and Reputation.com.

Fordham Foundry

2014 - 2017

  • Board Member. Entrepreneurship Advisory Board

    2014 - 2017

    The Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, a group of alumni and friends of Fordham with professional backgrounds in entrepreneurship and a true passion for the field, advise the University on its entrepreneurship curriculum and opportunities. Board members also get involved directly in helping students. www.fordhamfoundry.org

Western Michigan University, Investment Committee

2011 - 2017

  • Board Member

    2011 - 2017

    Responsible for managing the University endowment.

Comdisco Ventures

1994 - 1996

  • Managing Director

    1994 - 1996

    Prior to co-founding Focus Ventures, I was a Managing Director at Comdisco Ventures, where I was responsible for investments in companies including CommQuest (AT&T), Corsair Communicatrions (CAIR)(Lightbridge), Diamond Lane (Nokia), Extreme Networks (EXTR), GetThere.com (Sabre), Integrity Q/A (Pure Atria), Intraware (ITRA), Netro (NTRO)(SR Telecom), Power Integrations (POWI), SalesLogix (SLGX)(Sage), and Virata (VRTA)(Globespan).

Dominion Ventures

1986 - 1994

  • General Partner

    1986 - 1994

    I was a General Partner at Dominion Ventures where my information technology investments included Capstone (Spectris), Efficient Networks (EFNT)(Siemens), MMC Networks (MMCN)(AMCC), Red Brick Systems (Informix), Talarian (TALR)(Tibco), Tessera (TSRA), Tivoli Systems (TIVS)(IBM), Transwitch (TXCC) (Cadence), and Xylan (XYLN)(Alcatel). including Chips & Technologies (Intel) and Cirrus Logic (CRUS).

Equitec Financial Group

1984 - 1986

  • Director of Investments

    1984 - 1986

    I became involved in the investment industry as a Director of Investments for Equitec Financial Group and was responsible for several investments including Chips & Technologies (Intel) and Cirrus Logic (CRUS).