# Quest Venture Partners: portfolio, investments and team

> Quest Venture Partners is a vc firm based in United States. 65 investments on record, latest Sept 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

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# Quest Venture Partners

Last cheque observed Sep 2025. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.

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Quiet New fund $5.3M, Apr 2023 VC firm Website unconfirmed

Pre-seed Seed Series A Recurring Collaboration Tools SaaS

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 65 on record

Since the last cheque **417** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$4.3M** Cheque size, as they say **$400K – $3.0M** Rounds led **2 of 65** Sole investor **7 rounds** Exits **6 from the portfolio** Mostly in **United States, 97%**

Pitch Quest Venture Partners

## Quest Venture Partners highlights

- 01 65 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Seed and Series A: 87% of its rounds
- 03 Sole investor in 7 rounds, median $700K
- 04 6 exits from the portfolio

## What they do

- **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** $400K – $3.0M as they say
- **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed Series A
- **Sectors:** Recurring Collaboration Tools SaaS
- **Based in:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Cold pitches:** Accepted

A website was listed for this organisation, but we could not confirm it belongs to the firm that wrote these cheques. Either the site never mentions them, or it turned out to be a different company sharing the name. We show neither it nor anything read from it. [Tell us the right one](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=quest-venture-partners).

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **65 appearances**

- **2025** 1 round
- **Sept** **[Cassidy](https://millionrounds.com/company/cassidy)** Series A · US · AlleyWatch **$10M** With 5 others
- **2019** 2 rounds
- **Jul** **[Dataplor](https://millionrounds.com/company/dataplor)** US · TechCrunch **$2.0M** *Led*
- **Jun** **[Car IQ](https://millionrounds.com/company/car-iq)** Series A · US · FinSMEs **$5.0M** *Led*
- **2018** 1 round
- **Oct** **[Flex Company](https://millionrounds.com/company/flex-company)** US · Prnewswire **$3.6M** With 3 others
- **2015** 6 rounds
- **Aug** **[MapJam](https://millionrounds.com/company/mapjam)** Seed · US **$950K** With 3 others
- **Aug** **[GameOn](https://millionrounds.com/company/gameon)** Seed · US **$1.5M** With 5 others
- **Aug** **[Amplitude](https://millionrounds.com/company/amplitude)** Series A · US **$9.0M** With 5 others
- **Feb** **[Coffee Meets Bagel](https://millionrounds.com/company/coffee-meets-bagel)** Series A · US **$7.8M** With 4 others
- **Feb** **[Bonafide](https://millionrounds.com/company/bonafide)** Seed · US **$850K** With 3 others
- **Jan** **[Sandstorm](https://millionrounds.com/company/sandstorm)** Seed · US **$1.3M** Sole investor
- **2014** 16 rounds
- **Dec** **[MindMeld](https://millionrounds.com/company/mindmeld)** Series A **$13M** With 12 others
- **Oct** **[Vastrm](https://millionrounds.com/company/vastrm)** Debt · US **$650K** Sole investor
- **Oct** **[MapJam](https://millionrounds.com/company/mapjam)** Seed · US **$450K** With 1 other
- **Oct** **[Bonafide](https://millionrounds.com/company/bonafide)** Seed · US **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **Oct** **[Fit3D](https://millionrounds.com/company/fit3d)** Seed · US **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **Sept** **[CrowdFlower](https://millionrounds.com/company/crowdflower)** Series C · US **$13M** With 3 others
- **Aug** **[AdStage](https://millionrounds.com/company/adstage)** Series A · US **$6.3M** With 7 others
- **Aug** **[Famo.us](https://millionrounds.com/company/famo-us)** Series B · US **$20M** With 4 others
- **Aug** **[Famo.us](https://millionrounds.com/company/famo-us)** Debt · US **$5.0M** With 4 others
- **Jul** **[PredictionIO](https://millionrounds.com/company/predictionio)** Seed **$2.5M** With 7 others
- **Jul** **[Amplitude](https://millionrounds.com/company/amplitude)** Seed · US **$2.0M** With 6 others
- **Jun** **[The Bouqs Company](https://millionrounds.com/company/the-bouqs-company)** Series A · US **$6.0M** With 9 others
- **May** **[Tripping.com](https://millionrounds.com/company/tripping-com)** Series A · US **Undisclosed** With 7 others
- **Feb** **[AdStage](https://millionrounds.com/company/adstage)** Seed · US **$1.0M** With 1 other
- **Feb** **[Vidcaster](https://millionrounds.com/company/vidcaster)** Series A · US **$1.3M** With 2 others
- **Jan** **[Visual.ly](https://millionrounds.com/company/visual-ly)** Series A · US **$8.1M** With 6 others
- **2013** 9 rounds
- **Sept** **[AngelList](https://millionrounds.com/company/angellist)** Series B · US · techcrunch.com **$24M** With 31 others
- **Aug** **[Vastrm](https://millionrounds.com/company/vastrm)** Seed · US · finsmes.com **$1.0M** With 7 others
- **Aug** **[PicCollage](https://millionrounds.com/company/piccollage)** Seed · pehub.com **$2.3M** With 4 others
- **Aug** **[Cardinal Blue Software](https://millionrounds.com/company/cardinal-blue-software)** Seed · US · pevc.dowjones.com **$2.3M** With 5 others
- **Jun** **[The Bouqs Company](https://millionrounds.com/company/the-bouqs-company)** Seed · US · finsmes.com **$1.1M** With 6 others
- **May** **[App.io](https://millionrounds.com/company/app-io)** Seed · AU · techcrunch.com **$1.1M** With 6 others
- **Mar** **[Retailigence](https://millionrounds.com/company/retailigence)** Series B · US · finsmes.com **$6.3M** With 3 others
- **Mar** **[AdStage](https://millionrounds.com/company/adstage)** Seed · US · techcrunch.com **$1.4M** With 12 others
- **Jan** **[Vidcaster](https://millionrounds.com/company/vidcaster)** Seed · US **$1.2M** With 1 other
- **2012** 5 rounds
- **Nov** **[isocket](https://millionrounds.com/company/isocket)** Series A · US · techcrunch.com **$8.0M** With 6 others
- **Oct** **[MindMeld](https://millionrounds.com/company/mindmeld)** Venture · US · techcrunch.com **$2.4M** With 6 others
- **Aug** **[Fara](https://millionrounds.com/company/fara)** Venture · US · sec.gov **$793K** With 3 others
- **Aug** **[Monogram](https://millionrounds.com/company/monogram)** Seed · US · techcrunch.com **$840K** With 1 other
- **Mar** **[DogVacay](https://millionrounds.com/company/dogvacay)** Series A · US · dogvacay.com **$1.0M** With 12 others

An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.

## The team

Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **5 named**

AS **Andrew Satoru Ogawa** Managing Member, Quest Venture Partners GP Fund II, LLC i Form ADV

M' **Maarten 't Hooft** Managing Director of the General Partner i Filing they signed

MT **Maarten T'Hooft** Managing Member, Quest Venture Partners GP Fund II, LLC i Form ADV

MT **Marcus Takeshi Ogawa** Managing Member, Quest Venture Partners GP Fund II, LLC i Form ADV

TL **Ting Louie** Managing Director i Filing they signed

We also hold **6** people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.

## What the register says

From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law

**$111M** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

**Exempt** reporting adviser venture or small private funds

- **Legal name:** Quest Venture Partners Management, LLC
- **SEC number:** CRD 189515

## What they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**8** of 29 we have independently watched raise

[Company Website →](https://millionrounds.com/company/neurable)[Company Website →](https://millionrounds.com/company/coffee-meets-bagel)[Company Website →](https://millionrounds.com/company/amplitude)[Company Website →](https://millionrounds.com/company/dataplor)[Company Website →](https://millionrounds.com/company/cassidy)[Company Website →](https://millionrounds.com/company/clari)[Company Website →](https://millionrounds.com/company/vital-signals)[Company Website →](https://millionrounds.com/company/smartly-io) Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website → Company Website →

Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.

## Exits from the portfolio

Companies it backed that were later bought or listed **6 in all**

**[500Friends](https://millionrounds.com/company/500friends)** Bought by [Merkle](https://millionrounds.com/fund/merkle) **Undisclosed** Nov 2014

**[isocket](https://millionrounds.com/company/isocket)** Bought by Rubicon Project **Undisclosed** Nov 2014

**[Snapjoy](https://millionrounds.com/company/snapjoy)** Bought by [Dropbox](https://millionrounds.com/fund/dropbox-ventures) **Undisclosed** Dec 2012

**[ViVu](https://millionrounds.com/company/vivu)** Bought by [Polycom](https://millionrounds.com/fund/polycom) **Undisclosed** Oct 2011

**[Qik](https://millionrounds.com/company/qik)** Bought by [Skype](https://millionrounds.com/fund/skype) **$150M** Jan 2011

**[Tapulous](https://millionrounds.com/company/tapulous)** Bought by [The Walt Disney Company](https://millionrounds.com/fund/the-walt-disney-company) **Undisclosed** Jul 2010

An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.

New fund on file

**$5.3M**

raised in Apr 2023

From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy.

## The cheque

Pre-seed Seed Series A

Median round joined **$4.3M** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **$700K**

Led 2 of 65 rounds **3%**

- **Said size:** $400K – $3.0M
- **Sole investor:** 7 rounds
- **Last cheque:** Sept 2025
- **Exits:** 6 from the portfolio

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Seed said *35*
- Series A said *18*
- Series B *3*
- Venture *3*
- Debt *2*
- Pre-seed said *-*

Cheques by month Led Joined

Nov 2023 Oct 2026

Often in the room with

- [500 Global](https://millionrounds.com/fund/500-startups) 12
- [DFJ](https://millionrounds.com/fund/dfj) 6
- [Freestyle Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/freestyle) 5
- [XG Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/xg-ventures) 5
- [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) 5
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bessemer-venture-partners) 4

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## Who they invest alongside

The investors most often in the same rounds as Quest Venture Partners. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.

[**500 Global** Angel **12** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/500-startups)[**DFJ** VC firm **6** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/dfj)[**Freestyle Capital** VC firm **5** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/freestyle)[**XG Ventures** VC firm **5** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/xg-ventures)[**Y Combinator** Accelerator **5** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator)[**Bessemer Venture Partners** VC firm **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bessemer-venture-partners)[**Digital Garage (TSE: 4819)** Corporate VC **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/digital-garage-tse-4819)[**Founders Fund** VC firm **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/founders-fund)[**Inventus Capital Partners** VC firm **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/inventus-capital-partners)[**Javelin Venture Partners** VC firm **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/javelin-venture-partners)[**Plug and Play** Accelerator **4** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/plug-and-play)[**Azure Capital Partners** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/azure-capital-partners)

## Recently backed

The latest companies Quest Venture Partners put money into.

[**Cassidy** $10M · Sept 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/cassidy)[**Dataplor** $2.0M · Jul 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/dataplor)[**Car IQ** $5.0M · Jun 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/car-iq)

## Quick answers about Quest Venture Partners

### What does Quest Venture Partners invest in?

Quest Venture Partners invests most often at Seed and Series A (87% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Recurring, Collaboration Tools and SaaS.

### How active is Quest Venture Partners?

65 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 2. The most recent was in Sept 2025.

### What has Quest Venture Partners invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Cassidy (Series A, Sept 2025), Dataplor (Undisclosed round, Jul 2019) and Car IQ (Series A, Jun 2019).

### How big are Quest Venture Partners's cheques?

The median round it joins is $4.3M. It says it writes cheques of $400K to $3.0M.

### Does Quest Venture Partners lead rounds?

Sometimes: it led 2 of its 65 investments on record (3%).

### Where does Quest Venture Partners invest?

Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (97%).

### Is Quest Venture Partners investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Sept 2025.

### Who does Quest Venture Partners invest alongside?

Most often 500 Global (12 rounds together), DFJ (6 rounds together) and Freestyle Capital (5 rounds together).

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