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Kevin O'Connor

Partner, ScOp Venture Capital

Santa Barbara, California

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2021

    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.

  • Board Director

    2004

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

2001 - 2021

  • General Partner

    2001 - 2021

    Provided seed capital to technology companies in southern California.

  • Board Director

    2008 - 2020

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

  • 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.

1995 - 2005

  • CEO/Chairman/Founder

    1995 - 2005

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

1992 - 1995

  • VP Research

    1992 - 1995

    Researched and created new communication products.

  • 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.