Quest Venture Partners

Managing Partners Andrew Ogawa and Marcus Ogawa, who co-founded the firm in late 2007, lead investment decisions. Andrew focuses on deal evaluation and closing seed and A rounds, drawing on his automotive-industry strategy background. Marcus leads new investment sourcing and portfolio-company support, with domain expertise in digital media, mobile, and video. Maarten 't Hooft, also a Managing Partner, adds technical depth from six years at Google's Android division.

Quest requires entrepreneurs to obtain a warm introduction from a mutual connection before the firm will consider an investment. The firm explicitly directs founders to use LinkedIn to find a shared contact. This introduction-only policy, stated on its own contact page, means deal flow is a direct function of the partners' professional networks across Silicon Valley, automotive manufacturing, and Japanese consumer electronics.

Quest invests directly into early-stage companies through equity rounds, typically as the first institutional capital. There is no indication in its public materials that the firm commits capital to other venture funds or participates in fund-of-funds structures. All listed portfolio companies appear to be direct holdings.

The firm focuses on seed and early-stage rounds, with initial check sizes between $100,000 and $1.5 million and a stated sweet spot of roughly $500,000. Quest describes itself as 'typically the first institutional money in' and targets companies that have not yet raised a formal Series A.

Quest does not maintain a public exclusions list. However, the portfolio is concentrated in enterprise software, mobile infrastructure, developer tools, AI/ML applications, and consumer platforms. There are no publicly disclosed investments in hard assets, biotech, medical devices, or heavy industrial manufacturing, suggesting these fall outside the firm's operating pattern.