beginQuote From that experience, I would rank OCA Ventures as one of the two best VCs nationally.


Chris Gladwin - Founder and CEO Cleversafe


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Our Portfolio

At OCA Ventures, our portfolio represents the soul of our organization and the foundation for our success.

SafeShepherd

SafeShepherd helps to remove personal information from the web.


www.safeshepherd.com OCA EDGE

Fitocracy

Fitocracy is the game you play to improve your fitness.  Play it to track your progress, compete against your friends, and get real results in your physical fitness.


www.fitocracy.com OCA EDGE

BodyShopBids

BodyShopBids is an online and mobile platform that customers can use to solicit custom auto repair estimates.


www.bodyshopbids.com OCA EDGE

Power2Switch

Power2Switch empowers both households and businesses by providing access to practical information and continuing education, enabling our clients to make smart, cost-effective, and sustainable decisions about energy usage.


www.power2switch.com OCA EDGE

BrightNest

BrightNest is the Mint.com for home maintenance.  They help homeowners manage their most valuable asset with customized tips and reminders.


www.brightnest.com OCA EDGE

Automated Insights

Automated Insights is a digital media company that automatically transforms data into compelling narrative content (stories), visual displays (charts, tables, graphs) and interactive applications. In essence, Automated Insights uses technology to automate knowledge and insight.


www.automatedinsights.com OCA EDGE

Javlin Ventures

Javlin Ventures is a private investment firm specializing in the accounts receivable management (ARM) industry.  Javlin is led by four principals with decades of operating experience equal to their investment expertise. Javlin makes equity investments in operating platforms that offer superior growth opportunities and, through its related entity Javlin Specialty Finance, provides debt financing to buyers of non-performing loans (NPLs).

 


javlinventures.com/index.shtml OCA EDGE

Pinpoint MD

Launched in 2009, Pinpoint MD is revolutionizing the way medical diagnostics are accessed, interpreted and used to improve life. The Chicago-based company develops leading-edge technologies to transform diagnostic test results from an intermittent delivery of bewildering data to a connected care platform to drive patient engagement and improve outcomes. The company provides the most extensive menu of credible lab testing solutions to consumers via online, content-rich websites, and has also developed innovative lab testing services for healthcare providers.


www.pinpointmd.com OCA EDGE

Excelerate Labs

Excelerate Labs is an intensive summer accelerator for startups driven by proven entrepreneurs and investors. Led by world class entrepreneurs Sam Yagan (OKCupid, Sparknotes) and Troy Henikoff (SurePayroll), the program is unique in attracting dozens of mentors from around the country to work with the teams in direct 1-on-1 meetings.

The program selects ten companies every spring to participate in the 13-week intensive summer program. Starting on June 1st, the ten companies build connections and their business during the program. The program culminates in an Investor Demo Day on August 31st, where the companies showcase their progress and plans to more than 200 angel and venture investors from around the country.

 


www.exceleratelabs.com/ OCA EDGE

Apparel Media Group

Apparel Media Group (AMG) delivers high engagement local programming to a nationwide audience.  AMG identifies consumers in the process of designing custom apparel for their team, league, organization or event and present them with the option to have AMG's brand included on their custom apparel as the marquee sponsor in exchange for a price reduction.  The sponsored custom apparel serves as the entry point for an interactive brand experience that can be leveraged to deliver a variety of programs.


www.apparelmedia.com OCA EDGE

Future Simple

Future Simple is building a SaaS software platform designed for small businesses to help them grow and thrive. The company's products are embraced by thousands of small businesses which and are frustrated with the lack of sensible business software designed for them and "just works". The company's most popular applications include Pipejump, a small business CRM, and QuoteBase, a simple tool for creating online estimates.


www.futuresimple.com OCA EDGE

FeeFighters

FeeFighters is a comparison shopping website for credit card processing. The unique auction process and comparison engine allows businesses to save 40% on average on their credit card processing. FeeFighters is quick and simple to use and all of the processors that bid on FeeFighters site are vetted and certified by FeeFighters to ensure quality and ethical behavior.


www.feefighters.com OCA EDGE

SumRidge Partners, LLC

SumRidge Partners LLC is a fixed income market maker in investment-grade corporates, municipal bonds, U.S. treasuries and government agency bonds.  SumRidge primary focus is in trade size less than 2 million dollars.  SumRidge offers a dynamic distribution platform for financial advisors, dealers, and institutional clients.  Our mission is to provide our clients with an extensive menu of product, superior execution and value-added marketing support.  SumRidge professionals have extensive experience covering financial advisors, institutions and regional dealers within the wealth management industry.


www.sumridge.com OCA EDGE

Red Foundry

Red Foundry is the most powerful, easiest and cost-effective way to build a high quality native applications for the iPhone or iPad.


www.redfoundry.com OCA EDGE

National Billing Partners

National Billing Partners’ comprehensive service offering for high-acuity specialties and facility based programs includes billing and accounts receivable management, coding audits and reviews, claims follow-up, denial management, insurance verification, compliance support and practice benchmarking. The company also offers a diverse range of advisory services, including managed care contracting and negotiation, credentialing support and practice management interventions. By outsourcing these functions to NBP, a healthcare provider can significantly increase practice revenue and upgrade their ability to collect and track information. Because a practice can also reduce administrative staffing and costs by outsourcing with NBP, their services do not represent a significant incremental expense.


www.mybillingpartner.com OCA EDGE

Campus Explorer

Campus Explorer is an online lead generation company in the education space. The company provides general information and user-generated content on over 7,000 post-secondary educational institutions to consumers of all ages.  The company also provides prospective student leads to over 7,000 post-secondary educational institutions.


www.CampusExplorer.com OCA EDGE

Retention Education Inc

Retention Education, Inc. is an education company committed to the development and distribution of educational solutions, specifically the Sed de Saber product line, that help Hispanic adults improve their work skills and their daily lives. Sed de Saber is currently teaching conversational English to roughly 55,000 Hispanic workers in the foodservice, hospitality, and construction industries, as well as 10,000 Hispanic parents of English language-learning children via our nation's school systems. According to the U.S. Census data, there are currently between 10 and 15 million limited English-proficient Hispanic adults living in the United States. The company was established in 2003 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.


www.seddesaber.com OCA EDGE

Brill Street

Brill Street + Company is Corporate America’s single point of access to high performing college students and recent graduates. Brill Street places smart, eager college and grad students into businesses to conduct meaningful temporary work assignments, helps companies identify and groom future hires on a flexible, try-before-you-hire basis, and places recent grads on a direct hire basis to fill entry level needs.


www.brillstreet.com OCA EDGE

Base-2 Capital

Base-2 Capital is an algorithmic electronic trading company located in Evanston, Illinois.


www.chicagotrading.com OCA EDGE

CohesiveFT

CohesiveFT enables customers to dynamically define and deploy servers for virtual environments and clouds. The company's flagship platform, Elastic Server®, is a web-based "factory" for creating, deploying and managing custom, multi-sourced assemblies comprised of horizontal, open source and third-party software components. Elastic Servers can be saved as templates, updated, augmented, or redeployed in minutes. In addition to the self-service platform, the company offers packaged solutions for custom cloud implementations.


www.cohesiveft.com OCA EDGE

Cleversafe

Cleversafe designs, develops, operates and markets a secure datastorage grid that will transform the way businesses and consumers store digital information.


www.cleversafe.com OCA EDGE

TradeKing

TradeKing is a nationally licensed online broker dealer offering simple, low flat fees ($4.95 per trade plus $.65 per option contract, with no hidden fees or account minimums. The TradeKing web-based platform features powerful online equity, options and fixed-income trading tools including real-time portfolio information, advanced order entry, customized charting and alerts, free research and integrated news, stock, option and mutual fund screeners, volatility charts, a pricing probability calculator, enhanced option chains and interactive educational information.

TradeKing also features innovative community networking capabilities to help connect like-minded traders for enhanced strategy development and information sharing.


www.tradeking.com OCA EDGE

Univa

Univa products optimize the use of shared, high-demand data center resources, changing the game by continuously and proactively improving workload flow to keep costs under control, deliver results faster, ensure workload right-put, and improve use of multi-core & large memory systems.


www.univa.com OCA EDGE

Alert Logic

Alert Logic provides on-demand intrusion protection, vulnerability management, and IT compliance automation solutions that enable its customers to detect and contain network threats, discover and correct vulnerabilities, and help ensure compliance with policies and regulations.


www.alertlogic.net OCA EDGE

Selero

Selero provides an equities trade execution system, a matching engine, an order routing network, Reg NMS compliant order routing, a FIX engine, integration solutions, and application on-demand capabilities to the securities industry. In addition, Selero makes agency brokerage services available to its customers through its affiliation with Nunami Services LLC, Member FINRA.


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Trego Dugan Jet Management

Trego-Dugan Jet Management is a boutique private Jet Management Companyproviding comprehensive management services to clients with luxury jets.


www.trego-dugan.com/jetManagement.html OCA EDGE

Ed Map

Ed Map provides support services to distance learning universities,e-learning training companies and publishers. These services includeprint and digital media and software applications.


www.edmap.biz OCA EDGE

Compliance Ethics and Learning Solutions (DBA Midi) designs

Midi, acquired by SAI Global (ASX: SAI) designs and develops high-end interactive multimedia content and software focused on corporate ethics and compliance training.


www.midicorp.com OCA EDGE

Shakti Systems

Shakti is a fabless semiconductor company focused on dynamic power management solutions for wireless devices.


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Home Preview Channel

Home Preview Channel, acquired by Next One Interactive, is a media company providing residential real estate listing information to consumers through a digital cable channel and other formats.


www.nxoi.com/index.htm OCA EDGE

Ikadega

Ikadega is a next-generation data storage and streaming solutions company that provides substantially increased throughput and greater scalability, while at the same time lowering costs, reducing system size and decreasing energy consumption.


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TechSkills

TechSkills, one of the nation’s largest private learning centers, operates over 30 learning centers nationwide offering IT, health services, general business skills, project management, business analysis, and business process management courses. Techskills also offers accredited degree-granting programs.


www.techskills.com OCA EDGE

Bedouin

Bedouin, acquired by Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: INPR) and subsequently by Borland (Nasdaq: BORL), builds and deploys software services such as team coordination, time-tracking, and customer relationship management.


www.borland.com OCA EDGE

WebMind Corporation

Webmind Corporation is pioneering a new breed of digital intelligence. Webmind, its groundbreaking artificial intelligence software architecture, transforms documents and databases into a dynamic mind-like network of associations that enable better understanding of the meaning of information.


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Net-Hopper

Net-Hopper, acquired by Spirent PLC (NYSE: SPM), offers a network testaccess system comprised of hardware and software for efficient networkmonitoring and maintenance capabilities.


www.spirent.com OCA EDGE

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