Fundraising FoxOpus Capital
Venture capitalBurlingame · Pre-Seed–Series A · 10 people tracked
Also known as Opus · OPUS CAPITAL GROUP LLC · Opus Capital Group, Llc
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Investment thesis
Opus Capital focuses on early-stage funding of technology companies, drawing on more than 60 years of collective operating experience at market-leading firms such as AOL, Decru, EFI, Juniper Networks, Radius and UUNet. The firm partners with committed, high-integrity entrepreneurs who have a clear vision for how their technology can create new markets. It encourages founders to reach out directly to the general partner whose expertise and sector experience most closely aligns with their company.
Source: firm website, verified Oct 13, 2026.
Team · 10 people
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Judith Estrin is a technology entrepreneur and executive who currently serves as CEO of JLABS, LLC and previously led Packet Design, LLC. She was Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000 after Cisco acquired her company Precept Software, and earlier co-founded Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, and Precept Software. She authored "Closing the Innovation Gap" (2008) and holds a B.S. in math and computer science from UCLA and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford.
Phil Greer has decades of venture capital experience and was a founding partner of Weiss, Peck & Greer in 1971, where he provided ongoing leadership. He was an early investor in and director of Federal Express Corporation from 1974 to 2008. Before founding Weiss, Peck & Greer, he worked at White, Weld & Co. and A.G. Becker & Co. He holds an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Dan Avida is a General Partner at Opus Capital with an operating background in building and scaling technology companies. He co-founded storage security company Decru Inc. in 2001, serving as President and CEO until its 2005 acquisition by Network Appliance, and was previously a founding member of Electronics for Imaging (EFI), where he led the Fiery project and rose to Chairman and CEO. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Technion and served as an officer in the Israel Defense Force.
Gill Cogan is a General Partner at Opus Capital with over 25 years of venture capital experience in software, communications, and semiconductors. Before Opus, he was a founding partner and Managing Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and Managing General Partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners, and earlier ran the West Coast operations of Adler & Company and helped form an early independent Israeli venture fund. He previously served as CEO of Formtek Inc. and holds an MBA from UCLA.
Joseph Cutts brings 25 years of financial and operational leadership across multiple industries. From 1997 to 2007 he was an executive officer at Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ:EFII), holding roles including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, and previously spent 11 years in finance and accounting roles at Hills Bros. Coffee and Nestle Beverage Company. He holds a finance degree from The Pennsylvania State University and a Master's from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Serge Plotkin is a venture partner at Opus Capital, where he sources and evaluates investments and provides technical support to portfolio companies. He is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (since 1989) and co-founded the storage encryption company Decru in 2001 with Opus Capital's Dan Avida, serving as CTO and VP of engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT and BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University, and has published over a hundred technical papers and holds fourteen patents.
John Thompson is Chairman of the Board of TD Bank Financial Group and the retired Vice Chairman of the IBM Board of Directors. During a career at IBM from 1966 to 2004, he held roles including CEO of IBM Canada, Corporate Vice President of Marketing, and Group Executive over the company's worldwide software and server businesses. He holds a degree in Engineering Science and has completed executive programs at the University of Western Ontario and Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Business.
Regis McKenna founded Regis McKenna, Inc., a high tech marketing firm, more than 35 years ago; the firm worked with early-stage technology companies including America Online, Apple Computer, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, National Semiconductor, Silicon Graphics, and 3Com. Retired from active consulting since 2000, he now works as a seed investor in high tech ventures and has authored five books on technology marketing. He is a founding member of Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology & Society and a trustee of the university.
Sam Nunn is Co-Chairman and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an organization focused on reducing threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. He served as a United States Senator from Georgia for 24 years (1972-1996) and previously served in the Georgia House of Representatives, and is retired from the law firm King & Spalding. He is a professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech and chairman of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; he studied at Georgia Tech, Emory University, and Emory Law School.
Sanford R. Robertson helped establish the West Coast technology banking industry beginning in the late 1960s. He founded Robertson, Coleman, Siebel & Weisel (later Montgomery Securities) and in 1978 founded Robertson, Stephens & Company, a technology investment bank he chaired until its sale to BankAmerica in 1998. He is a principal with Francisco Partners, a technology buyout fund, and holds BBA and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan.
Founder mafia
4 people who came through Opus Capital went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 18 of 37 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×11SaaS ×10AI & Machine Learning ×8Cloud Computing ×4Data & Infrastructure ×4Fintech ×4Marketing Tech ×4Cybersecurity ×3
HQs:United States×16Brazil×1India×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 13 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×62 founders×24+ founders×5
Investments · 37 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2023 · 12021 · 12020 · 12019 · 12017 · 12016 · 22015 · 32014 · 22013 · 12011 · 12010 · 12009 · 116 dated
Coursera is an online learning platform offering courses, certificates, and career programs from universities and companies such as Google.
EdTechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkMarketplacesSaaSMountain View, US
Daphne Koller(Founder)inAndrew Ng(Co-founder)inRichard Levin(Chief Executive Officer)Andrew Y. Ng(Founder)in
BoardScott Sandell(Director)in
Board seatDan Avida· per SEC Form D · $62.6M raise · filed Sep 2015
Co-investors1802 VenturesAlign VenturesAllied Venture PartnersAlpha PartnersBVP InvestorsFelicis Ventures+16 more
Ciena is a NYSE-listed American optical networking systems, routing and automation software company based in Hanover, Maryland.
Gary B. Smith(Founder)inDavid M. Rothenstein(Founder)Dennis Barsema(Founder)Gaurav Garg(Founder)inJames E. Moylan(Founder)Jr.(Founder)
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCRV (Charles River Ventures)Kinetic Ventures, L.L.C.Kleiner PerkinsNorwest Venture PartnersRho Capital Partners+6 more
Develops a unique photo-voltaic power harvesting system that provides high performance in real-life scenarios.
Guy Sella(Founder)Shuki NirinYehoshua (Shuki) Nir(Chief Executive Officer / Director)Amir Fishelov(Founder)Lior Hadelsman(Founder)Meir Adest(Founder)
Co-investorsJerusalem Global VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersNorwest Venture PartnersPrelude VenturesVertex Ventures IsraelKreos Capital+1 more
Cloud4Wi provides a cloud platform that manages guest WiFi and location-based services across physical venues, serving global brands in retail, hospitality, transportation, and real estate.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Andrea Calcagno(Executive Officer, Director)inDavide Quadrini(Director)inScott Ackerman(Director)
BoardMassimiliano Magrini(Director)in
Board seatGill Cogan· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsUnited Ventures
Hybrid-cloud data management software and services for the enterprise market.
Campbell, US
John Taylor(Executive Officer, Director)inPatrick Harr(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAndrew Verhalen(Director)inPaul Madera(Director)inMark Santora(Director)
Board seatGill Cogan· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAquiline Technology GrowthChevron Technology VenturesKhosla VenturesMatrixMeritech Capital Partners
Prove offers a business onboarding and verification solution that reduces manual input by validating business entities, EIN/TIN, and documents while connecting an individual applicant to a business through mobile device and phone number authentication.
CybersecurityFintechSaaSNew York, US
Thomas FitzSimmons(Executive Officer)Rodger Desai(CEO)inEric Woodward(Director)
BoardStuart Ellman(Director)inMichael Brody(Director)Kevin Talbot(Director)
Board seatGill Cogan· per SEC Form D · $7.5M raise · filed Oct 2015
Co-investorsMassMutual VenturesOak HC/FTRealization Capital PartnersRelay VenturesRRE VenturesStack Capital+3 more
Sisense provides embedded analytics software that enables teams to integrate data visualization and insights into business applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Ariel Katz(Chief Executive Officer)inAmir Orad(Executive Officer, Director)inTodd Sloan(Executive Officer)inAdi Azaria(Founder)Aviad Harell(Founder)Elad Israeli(Founder)
Board seatDan Avida· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsBattery VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersInsight PartnersAUTHENTIC VENTURESClaltechFounders Circle Capital+10 more
Space-Time Insight builds geospatial visual analytics and industrial IoT software for utilities, energy, transportation and manufacturing.
San Mateo, US
Rob Schilling(Chief Executive Officer)
BoardJames Huff(Director)inBill Kingsley(Director)Jasvir Gill(Director)John Luongo(Director)
Board seatGill Cogan· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsClearSkyZouk CapitalEnerTech Capital
AlertEnterprise offers the Guardian AI Platform, which unifies physical access control, identity management, and AI-driven decisioning across an organization's doors, systems, and employees.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFremont, US
Jasvir Gill(Founder)in
Co-investorsKleiner Perkins
Provides mobile application intelligence solutions enabling enterprises to accelerate their mobile business.
Co-investorsAngelPadDell Technologies CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Scale Venture PartnersKleiner PerkinsShasta Ventures
Gainsight's product experience platform tracks how users interact with software products and provides analytics, in-app engagement, onboarding, and feedback surveys to help teams reduce churn and increase adoption.
Data & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsStorm Ventures
Marvell designs custom silicon and provides interconnect and network switch products for AI data center infrastructure, serving hyperscalers, enterprises, and telecom carriers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSemiconductorsSan Jose, US
Phil Delansay(Co-Founder; President & CEO (2004-2009), later SVP Business Development)Ramin Farjadrad(Co-Founder; Chief Architect (2005-2012), later VP Technology Development)inRamin Shirani(Senior Vice President, Engineering; Director)Linda Reddick(Senior Vice President, Finance (previously Chief Financial Officer, Sept. 2009-Jan. 2016))Phillippe Delansay(Executive Officer)Mark Voll(Chief Financial Officer)
Co-investorsAllegisCyber CapitalAugust CapitalCelesta CapitalCisco InvestmentsGLOBALFOUNDRIESICCP Venture Partners+11 more
Ark provides a customizable digital platform for venture capital and private equity firms to manage investor communications, performance reporting, and document sharing with their limited partners.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Bill Ward(Chief Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAcies InvestmentsAloft VCAlta PartnersAmity VenturesArtis VenturesAsymmetric Capital Partners+21 more
Blue Nile is an online retailer of diamonds, engagement rings, wedding bands, and fine jewelry featuring diamonds, pearls, and gemstones in precious metals.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceSeattle, US
Mark Vadon(Founder)
Co-investorsAugust CapitalBessemer Venture PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersLobby CapitalWindspeed VenturesACE & Company+1 more
Broadcom develops semiconductors and infrastructure software for enterprise and large-scale organizations, spanning networking and wireless connectivity, servers and storage, broadband, and industrial chips.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSemiconductors
Kumar Malavalli(Founder)inLloyd Carney(Founder)
Co-investorsNorwest Venture PartnersWestern Technology InvestmentLightspeed Venture Partners
Chiratae Ventures India Advisors is a venture and growth capital firm managing $1.3 billion across seven funds with a focus on deeptech investments in AI, climate, healthcare, robotics, and space, alongside India's digital economy leaders.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareFintechSector AgnosticIndia, IN
Sudhir Sethi(Founder, Chairman)in
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsBEENEXTPentathlon VenturesQualcomm Ventures
Devpost operates a platform that hosts software competitions (hackathons) for developers, serving customers including corporations, non-profits, government agencies, and universities.
Developer ToolsEdTechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Brandon Kessler(Founder)in
Co-investorsFantail Ventures
Check Point offers a prevention-first cloud security platform that protects applications, workloads, network, and APIs across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurity
Co-investorsIbex InvestorsJAL Ventures Ltd.ORR PartnersSoftBank Group
Leading provider of student academic planning and institutional resource optimization for higher education.
Co-investorsLearn Capital
Flexport provides an AI-driven platform for global supply chain management, offering logistics visibility, customs brokerage, and freight optimization for companies shipping goods internationally.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ryan Petersen(CEO)inRyan Peterson(Executive Officer, Director)Sanne Manders(Executive Officer)inChristopher Ferro(Executive Officer)Sudhanshu Priyadarshi(Executive Officer)inDavid C. Petersen(Founder)in
Co-investors137 Ventures1435 Capital3Spoke Capital8VCAcequia Capital (AceCap)Adit Ventures Management, Llc+71 more
Learning B2B personalization and targeting platform that helps marketers personalize onsite experiences based on prospect data.
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture PartnersGlilot Capital Partners
Jivox operates DaVinci Commerce, an AI platform that generates personalized ad creatives and orchestrates omnichannel campaigns across retail and commerce media networks, and builds brand-curated conversational shopping experiences inside LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSan Mateo, US
Diaz Nesamoney(Founder & CEO)inJaimie Villacarlos(Chief Growth and Partnerships Officer)inAnna Luo(Chief Marketing and Customer Innovation Officer)inLeo Yen(Chief Financial Officer)Claudia Rafello(Chief People Officer)inTaran Singh(Chief Technology Officer)in
Co-investorsRealization Capital Partners
Leverages desktop virtualization to bring improved manageability and security to enterprise desktop computing.
Lotame provides a data exchange marketplace and the Spherical data collaboration platform, which help marketers connect, enrich, activate, and target audience data across identity, curated marketplaces, and audience analytics.
AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing TechColumbia, US
Andy Monfried(CEO)inMichael Sullivan(Executive Officer)Jeremy Pinkham(Executive Officer)inAdam Lehman(Executive Officer)in
BoardSatya Patel(Director)Jason Green(Director)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesSavano Capital PartnersSozo VenturesEmergence Capital PartnersTrueBridge Capital Partners
Application and serverless security startup, acquired by VMware in 2019, that restricted what code could do at runtime.
Palo Alto, US
Mukul Gupta(Founder)Rohit Toshniwal(Founder)Shiv Agarwal(Founder)Craig McLuckie(Founder)Diane Greene(Founder)Edouard Bugnion(Founder)
Co-investors83NorthAccompliceAllegisCyber CapitalAndreessen HorowitzAristos VenturesAugust Capital+18 more
Phone-centric identity platform that helps companies mitigate fraud while accelerating revenue and reducing operational expenses.
Co-investorsApax DigitalBlue Venture FundsMassMutual VenturesSecond Alpha PartnersCapital One Ventures
Transfeera is a payment processing institution authorized by Brazil's Central Bank that provides payment and collection solutions for businesses via web platform and API.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Fernando Nunes(Founder)in
Co-investorsCuritiba AngelsHoney Island Capital4um InvestimentosBossanova Investimentos
WorkBoard provides a platform for aligning company strategy with team and individual goals through OKR management for enterprise organizations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSilicon Valley, US
Deidre Paknad(Founder)inDaryoush Paknad(Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzFloodgateM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Notable CapitalRock Creek CapitalSoftBank Vision Fund+3 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AdaptecAdMobiusArrayentOmneonProdeaSpiderCloud WirelessSprintTrapxWanova
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 10
3 IPOs · 7 acquisitions · showing 7CourseraNYSE: COURCienaNYSE: CIENSolaredgeNASDAQ: SEDGAptrinsicacq. by GainsightAquantiaacq. by Marvell TechnologyDome 9acq. by Check PointOmneonacq. by Harmonic Inc.
Portfolio news
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Coursera · en.wikipedia.org · Sep 22, 2026
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Fund performance · per public LP disclosures · 2
as of Sep 2025| Fund | Vintage | Committed | Net IRR | TVPI | DPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opus Capital Venture Partners VILPs: Oregon Public Employees Retirement System | 2011 | — | -10.1% | 0.64x | 0.64x |
| Opus Capital Venture Partners VLPs: Oregon Public Employees Retirement System | 2006 | — | -1.5% | 0.89x | 0.89x |
Source: public limited-partner disclosures (CalPERS, CalSTRS). Net IRR / TVPI / DPI as reported by the limited partner; a fund's early-year IRR is an interim estimate (J-curve).
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Opus Capital made?
- Opus Capital has 37 tracked investments, 10 of which have exited.
- What stage does Opus Capital invest at?
- Opus Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Opus Capital focus on?
- Opus Capital focuses on Cloud Computing, Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Hardware, SaaS, Sector Agnostic, Semiconductors.
- Where is Opus Capital located?
- Opus Capital is headquartered in Burlingame, US.
- Who does Opus Capital co-invest with?
- Opus Capital most often shares deals with Lightspeed Venture Partners, August Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, among 97 tracked co-investors.
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