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Quest Venture Partners

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Quest Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California.

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QVP, Questvp

founded date

01.01.2008

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IPO status

Private

Description

Founded in 2007, Quest Venture Partners invests between $300k-$1.5MM in early stage companies, typically around $500k. They believe in entrepreneurialism and invest in early stage seed and A round companies with great ideas and even greater people behind them. Quest Venture Partners is usually the first institutional money in, investing between $25k-$1.5mm, with their sweet spot being around $300k.
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Maarten 't Hooft
Maarten 't Hooft

Maarten 't Hooft

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Quest Venture Partners
Quest Venture Partners

Maarten 't Hooft

Marcus Ogawa
Marcus Ogawa

Marcus Ogawa

Marcus Ogawa is responsible for finding new investment opportunities, closing investment rounds and working closely with the management teams of Quest Venture Partners portfolio companies. His investment expertise are in mobile, consumer internet and video. He was a Board Member working very closely with Qik, Inc for 1 year and 9 months until the company was sold to Skype. Prior to joining Quest Venture Partners, he worked with a number of startups and established companies ranging from Internet, distributed computing, real estate, and news media.He is an active member of angel communities and the early stage ecosystem. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Bentley University.

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Marcus Ogawa

Andrew Ogawa
Andrew Ogawa

Andrew Ogawa

Andrew Ogawa is a Managing Partner and founder of Quest Venture Partners since its inception in late 2007. Andrew is responsible for evaluating investment opportunities and closing seed and A rounds. Andrew’s expertise are in automotive transportation, procurement, corporate strategy and implementation of turnaround activities. Andrew has 11 years experience as an employee and Manager at Daimler AG, within the divisions of Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler and Global Procurement & Supply and has been responsible in various capacities for Corporate Strategy, Controlling and Procurement. Andrew was also part of Daimler AG’s selected management team sent to former alliance partner Mitsubishi Motors Corp. to implement corporate turnaround activities, especially within the International Sales & Marketing Office. He holds BAs in Economics and East Asian Studies from University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as a MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, American Graduate School of International Management. He currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors for Highlightcam and Tripping.

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Quest Venture Partners
Quest Venture Partners

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Andrew Ogawa

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Ting Louie

Ting Louie

General Partner

Maarten 't Hooft

Maarten 't Hooft

Managing Partner & Founder

Andrew Ogawa

Andrew Ogawa

Managing Partner & Founder

Marcus Ogawa

Marcus Ogawa

Managing Partner & Founder

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