Matt Ocko

Co-founder, Co-Managing Partner at DCVC (co-founder w/ @Zackbogue). Views expressed my own.

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 46 investments📅 31 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2013𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
46
Total investments
12
Early stage
7
Mid stage
1
Late stage
31y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
2013
AngelList builds the infrastructure where capital, creativity, and hard work come together to accelerate the rate of innovation. Our platform supports over $171B in assets on platform, over 25K funds and syndicates, and 72K active investors. AngelList is the de facto platform for investing in the next generation of great startups. AngelLists suite of products includes: 🚀 Venture Funds 🔭 Scout Funds ⚡ SPVs 🌐 http://meridian.angellist.com 🔑 http://USVC.com
Angel Investor, advisor
2012
Bring teams together, reimagine workspaces, engage new audiences, and delight your customers –– all on the Zoom AI-first work platform you know and love. 💙 Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out on a mission to make video communications frictionless and secure by building the world’s best video product for the enterprise, but we didn’t stop there. With products like AI Companion, Team Chat, Contact Center, Phone, Events, Rooms, Webinar, Contact Center and more, we bring innovation to a wide variety of customers, from the conference room to the classroom, from doctor’s offices to financial institutions to government agencies, from global brands to small businesses. We do what we do because of our core value of Care: care for our community, our customers, our company, our teammates, and ourselves. Our global employees help our customers meet happier, communicate better, and create meaningful connections the world over. Zoomies are problem-solvers and self-starters, working hard to get results and moving quickly to design solutions with our customers and users in mind. Here, youll find room to grow with opportunities to stretch your skills and advance your career in a collaborative, growth-focused environment. Learn more about careers at Zoom by visiting our careers site: https://careers.zoom.us/home
Investor
2012
You know LivingSocial as the marketplace to buy and share the best things to do in your city and beyond. And while we're bringing excitement and value to our merchants and consumers, we're also committed to creating a world-class environment for our employees. Our talented LivingSocialites bring an all-hands-on-deck approach to our work, taking pride in being collaborative, creative, and flexible. If you’re passionate about working as part of a team to drive value to businesses of all sizes, you may have just found your new home.
Investor and advisor
2011
Skai is the leading omnichannel advertising platform specializing in walled garden media. Backed by nearly two decades of innovation, we support marketers with insights they can use, data they can trust, and impact they can measure on the media that matters. Our marketing platform includes solutions for retail media, paid search, paid social, and app marketing. We work alongside the largest brands and publishers to solve the industry’s biggest challenges. Founded on our core values of innovation, integrity, passion, and humility, we are a global team of professionals passionate about doing good work and doing the right thing. Skai is the combined entity of former companies Kenshoo and Signals Analytics, each with a long history of first-to-market innovation. Skai uses the brand name Kenshoo Skai in Europe.
Investor
2011
HP Teradici is the creator of the PCoIP remote display protocol, which delivers digital workspaces from the data center or public cloud to end users with the highest levels of security, responsiveness, and fidelity. HP Anyware (formerly Teradici CAS), which won an Engineering Emmy from the Television Academy in 2020, powers the most secure remote solutions with unparalleled performance for even the most graphics-intensive applications. HP Teradici technology is trusted by leading media companies, design houses, financial firms and government agencies and is deployed to millions of users worldwide. For more information, visit: www.teradici.com or www.hp.com/anyware.
Investor and advisor
2011
A fast growing innovator of cloud-based acceleration technologies, Cotendo offers an integrated suite of Web and Mobile Acceleration Services from its global distributed point of presence (POPs). Cotendos single platform software was built from the ground-up and includes acceleration services for dynamic web applications, static and dynamic web content, SSL, Advanced DNS, Adaptive Image Compression, performance monitoring and automatic failover as well as real-time reports and analytics. Cotendo also offers a distributed cloud application environment called Cloudlet™ that allows decision-making (logic, data) at the edge, closest to the end users. Cotendos customer base includes Fortune 500 enterprises, Tier 1 telecommunications providers and the worlds largest social networks, eCommerce sites, and advertising networks. The companys management team is comprised of acknowledged innovators in intelligent content management, content delivery networks, and mobile performance and has been honored with awards including the Red Herring Top 100, AlwaysOn Global 250 Private Companies, the MIT TR Top 50 Most Innovative companies, and the Businessweek Top 50 tech start-ups. Founded in 2008, Cotendo is funded by Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Tenaya Capital. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with R&D based in Israel. For more information about Cotendo and its Web and Mobile Acceleration Services Suite, visit http://www.cotendo.com
Investor and friend of the firm
2011
Apprenda is empowering the world to build and run software, with a pragmatic approach and superior technology. Based on Kubernetes and the latest open source technologies, Apprenda creates and supports modern, enterprise-ready application platforms for both cloud native and traditional application workloads. With more than a decade of deep, enterprise customer insights, Apprenda provides compatible solution offerings for both individuals and IT departments, removing friction from the software delivery process and transforming IT into an engine of growth. As top contributors to the Kubernetes OSS project, and an official Kubernetes technology and services partner, Apprenda provides all of the training, open source tools, and services needed to unify your container management initiatives into a production Kubernetes solution backed by your team. With a world-class team of cloud architecture and distributed systems experts, Apprenda has raised $56 million in venture capital from Safeguard Scientifics, Ignition Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Primary Venture Partners.
Investor and friend of the firm
2011
Kaggle provides cutting-edge data science, faster and better than most people ever thought possible. We have a proven track-record of solving real-world problems across a diverse array of industries including pharmaceuticals, financial services, energy, information technology, and retail. Kaggle offers both public and private data science competitions and on-demand consulting by an elite global talent pool.
Investor
2011
We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now. The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.
Investor and advisor
Sep 2010
Tango is a social live-streaming app with over 400 million downloads worldwide. The home for creators around the world, Tango helps people unlock people’s creativity and push the live-streaming experience to the limit. With an all-in-one platform and digital economy, we are the premier destination for meeting new people, exploring live-streaming content, and discovering new creators & entertainment in real-time. Tango has global offices in Dubai, Kyiv, Limassol, Warsaw, and Tel Aviv.
Investor and friend of the firm
2010
BranchOut is the largest professional network on earth with more than 800 million profiles. By leveraging the social graph, BranchOut reveals users inside connections for jobs, recruiting and sales. BranchOut has raised $49 million in funding from Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Norwest Venture Partners and a dozen top angel investors in Silicon Valley.
Investor and advisor
2010
Couchbases operational data platform for AI is a scalable foundation for enterprise operational, analytical, mobile and AI workloads that replaces legacy infrastructure and data services. Please be advised that Couchbase will never ask for personal information or any financial commitment from a candidate as a pre-employment requirement. All legitimate Couchbase communication regarding our recruitment processes comes from email addresses ending with @couchbase.com or through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn. To avoid any potential fraudulent activity, we’re requesting that all Couchbase applicants apply through our official Careers page at https://www.couchbase.com/careers/
Investor and advisor
2010
FlashSoft is a Silicon Valley based startup delivering innovative Active Data Management software that leverages flash SSDs or flash PCIe cards to deliver extraordinary performance acceleration with no changes to existing infrastructure.
Investor
Apr 2008
Javelin Semiconductor, Inc. develops advanced wireless CMOS power amplifiers (PAs). The company's first product, the JAV5001, is the world's first monolithic CMOS PA for 3G Band I communications. Based on a unique, patented circuit architecture, the JAV5001 delivers highly linear output power while consuming very low battery current and producing the lowest noise in the industry. The JAV5001 integrates complete circuitry for power regulation, PA bias, input and output matching, and power control into an industry-standard 3x3 mm footprint. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Austin, Texas.
early stageSemiconductors
Investor
2008
Metas mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. Our technologies help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. To help create a safe and respectful online space, we encourage constructive conversations on this page. Please note the following: • Start with an open mind. Whether you agree or disagree, engage with empathy. • Comments violating our Community Standards will be removed or hidden. Please treat everybody with respect. • Keep it constructive. Use your interactions here to learn about and grow your understanding of others. • Our moderators are here to uphold these guidelines for the benefit of everyone, every day. • If you are seeking support for issues related to your Facebook account, please reference our Help Center (https://www.facebook.com/help) or Help Community (https://www.facebook.com/help/community). For a full listing of our jobs, visit https://www.metacareers.com
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2013
AngelList builds the infrastructure where capital, creativity, and hard work come together to accelerate the rate of innovation. Our platform supports over $171B in assets on platform, over 25K funds and syndicates, and 72K active investors. AngelList is the de facto platform for investing in the next generation of great startups. AngelLists suite of products includes: 🚀 Venture Funds 🔭 Scout Funds ⚡ SPVs 🌐 http://meridian.angellist.com 🔑 http://USVC.com
2012
Continuuity
Investor and friend of the firm
2012
Angel Investor, advisor
2012
Bring teams together, reimagine workspaces, engage new audiences, and delight your customers –– all on the Zoom AI-first work platform you know and love. 💙 Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out on a mission to make video communications frictionless and secure by building the world’s best video product for the enterprise, but we didn’t stop there. With products like AI Companion, Team Chat, Contact Center, Phone, Events, Rooms, Webinar, Contact Center and more, we bring innovation to a wide variety of customers, from the conference room to the classroom, from doctor’s offices to financial institutions to government agencies, from global brands to small businesses. We do what we do because of our core value of Care: care for our community, our customers, our company, our teammates, and ourselves. Our global employees help our customers meet happier, communicate better, and create meaningful connections the world over. Zoomies are problem-solvers and self-starters, working hard to get results and moving quickly to design solutions with our customers and users in mind. Here, youll find room to grow with opportunities to stretch your skills and advance your career in a collaborative, growth-focused environment. Learn more about careers at Zoom by visiting our careers site: https://careers.zoom.us/home
Investor
2012
You know LivingSocial as the marketplace to buy and share the best things to do in your city and beyond. And while we're bringing excitement and value to our merchants and consumers, we're also committed to creating a world-class environment for our employees. Our talented LivingSocialites bring an all-hands-on-deck approach to our work, taking pride in being collaborative, creative, and flexible. If you’re passionate about working as part of a team to drive value to businesses of all sizes, you may have just found your new home.
2011
Investor and advisor
2011
Skai is the leading omnichannel advertising platform specializing in walled garden media. Backed by nearly two decades of innovation, we support marketers with insights they can use, data they can trust, and impact they can measure on the media that matters. Our marketing platform includes solutions for retail media, paid search, paid social, and app marketing. We work alongside the largest brands and publishers to solve the industry’s biggest challenges. Founded on our core values of innovation, integrity, passion, and humility, we are a global team of professionals passionate about doing good work and doing the right thing. Skai is the combined entity of former companies Kenshoo and Signals Analytics, each with a long history of first-to-market innovation. Skai uses the brand name Kenshoo Skai in Europe.
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