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Matt Ocko

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Matt has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive and venture capitalist, with over 20 patents granted or pending in areas as diverse as hardware systems and social games. He still reads C++ code but admits to occasional struggles with Erlang. Matt is a cofounder of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies.

During his venture capital tenure, he has invested in and/or helped grow a variety of companies including XenSource (CTRX), Zynga (ZNGA), Impermium, Verisign (VRSN), Facebook (FB), Virtuata (CSCO), Akimbi Systems (VMW), Cotendo (AKAM), Tango.me, MetaWeb (GOOG), FlashSoft (SNDK), DataMirror (IBM), UltraDNS (NSR), Kenshoo, Metamarkets, Fortinet (FTNT), SupportSoft (SPRT), Alantro (TXN), CouchBase, Spool (FB), BranchOut, On-Ramp Wireless, and many others.

Recent Milestones

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  Matt Ocko invested in Keen IO. (6/1/12)
  Posted 6/22/12 at 3:38pm via keen.io
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  Matt Ocko invested in Sold.. (6/1/12)
  Posted 4/11/13 at 7:14am
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  Matt Ocko invested in Exec. (5/25/12)
  Posted 5/25/12 at 5:44pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in Locu. (4/23/12)
  Posted 4/23/12 at 6:48am via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in Retrofit. (3/15/12)
  Posted 3/15/12 at 7:50pm via chicagotribune.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in Zeel. (1/9/12)
  Posted 1/8/12 at 4:38pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in Flotype. (1/5/12)
  Posted 1/6/12 at 3:44am via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in Iron.io. (12/7/11)
  Posted 12/5/11 at 4:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in MixRank. (11/18/11)
  Posted 11/18/11 at 5:02pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in Impermium. (11/17/11)
  Posted 11/17/11 at 6:19pm via freshnews.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in Locu. (9/7/11)
  Posted 9/7/11 at 7:58pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in famo.us. (9/1/11)
  Posted 8/10/12 at 3:01pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Ocko added a position as Angel Investor at Zoom Video Communications. (8/1/11)
  Posted 9/4/12 at 1:42pm
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  Matt Ocko invested in Impermium. (6/27/11)
  Posted 6/27/11 at 9:58am via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in CrowdMob. (1/1/11)
  Posted 2/9/12 at 5:18pm via gigaom.com
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  Matt Ocko invested in BranchOut. (9/17/10)
  Posted 9/17/10 at 2:24pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

Videos

Sources

1. Keen Blog (blog.keen.io) [edit]
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3. Exec, The Mobile App For Errands, Adds Messaging (Oh, And Sam Altman Led Their Round) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Data-Focused Locu Raises $4M Series A From General Catalyst, Lowercase, Lightbank & SV Angel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Fitness startup Retrofit raises $2.7M from Chicago investors (articles.chicagotribune.com) [edit]
6. techcrunch.com [edit]
7. Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce Put $1.4M In Real-Time Messaging Infrastructure Startup Flotype (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Cloud Application Services Company Iron.io Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round From Baseline (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Display Ad Data Intelligence Startup MixRank Raises $1.5M From Mark Cuban, 500 Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Impermium Secures $8 Million in Series-A Financing to Lead Fight Against Social Web Spam (freshnews.com) [edit]
11. Local Business Data Provider Locu Raises Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Famo.us Is A Gaming Engine For 3D Interfaces (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. techcrunch.com [edit]
14. CrowdMob builds a Tapjoy+Groupon for distributing local deals (gigaom.com) [edit]
15. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Citation Needed [add]