Matt Ocko

Co-Founder & Co-Managing Partner of Data Collective

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Matt Ocko Biography

Matt Ocko, co-Managing Partner and co-founder of Data Collective (@DCVC), and Managing Director of Archimedes Capital, has nearly three decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur, operating executive, and venture capitalist, both in the US and in China. Matt holds a BA in Physics from Yale University.

Matt has been a Partner of VantagePoint Venture Partners and General Partner of Softbank Technology Ventures (of which he was a founder). He was also a venture parter at Sevin Rosen.

Matt has led investments in and/or served on the Boards of the following: Zynga (seed, ZNGA), Facebook (early and large secondary), XenSource (acqd by Citrix), Cotendo (AKAM), OpenText (OTEX), DataMirror (DMCX), SupportSoft (SPRT), CriticalPath (CPTH), VxTreme (MSFT), Zip2 (HPQ), Verisign (VRSN), Alantro (TXN), UltraDNS (NSR), 3Ware (AMCC), Planet U (Transora), nDSP (PXLW), Sandcraft (NETL), and NuCore (MTEK).

Matt founded and was VP of R&D for Da Vinci Systems, a pioneering e-mail software vendor with over 1M users world-wide prior to its acquisition. He was also a founding Director of Oracle's Media Server Division, with a leadership role in the business and technical operations of the division.

He has helped found, fund, and/or personally invested in and advised a number of other Silicon Valley companies, including ones financed by such investors as Sequoia, Mike Maples, First Round, Mayfield, NEA, KPCB, Accel, a16z, CRV, Greylock, Ignition, and other great firms. These companies include AK (NSR), CouchBase, Platfora, Continuuity, Akimbi (VMW), Ayasdi, D-Wave Systems, Javelin (AVGO), and many others.

Matt has funded/advised multiple companies with teams and/or businesses anchored in China, and advised multiple executives, technologists, and government officials on venture capital and technology strategy. Matt’s 1996 lecture to the Central Committee Party School on “Venture Capital with a Chinese Face” has been widely distributed at all levels of government in China.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/16/2024.

Matt Ocko Videos

  • GIC Insights 2017: Matt Ocko On Investing In AI
    Matt Ocko has three decades of experience as a tech entrepreneur & VC, & is a Managing Partner at Data Collective (DCVC), a VC fund that ...
  • Matt Ocko: The Art of Funding Deep Technology
    MS&E 476: Entrepreneurship through the Lens of Venture Capital Matt Ocko is a cofounder and partner at Data Collective Venture Capital ...

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