Investment Philosophy Okapi will focus on seed and early stage investments in exceptional information technology and life science opportunities in southern California. We believe that a tremendous opportunity has been created in the seed and early stages of venture capital investing by the migration of institutional venture funds towards greater fund sizes and larger investments in later stages of each company. We believe our skill sets are particularly suited to seed and early stage investments in life sciences, information technology, and their convergence. We believe we can focus such new companies’ progress and accelerate their achievement of definitive milestones as well as prepare them for follow-on investments in later stages by combining our technical / operational expertise and capital. Okapi believes that southern California, in particular, offers a wealth of such investment opportunities due to the large concentration of universities, the breadth and depth of such universities’ research and the southern California economy in general. Investment Criteria Okapi looks for emerging companies with differentiated techology (i.e., "defensible") targeting a large, addressable, and growing market with clear business and financial objectives and budgets based on early milestones/proof of concept that are value-adding and reduce risk. Our ideal companies will be able and willing to work closely with Okapi to develop and grow their businesses.