Kapor Capital’s managing partner Ulili Onovakpuri said yesterday that she is leaving the firm.
Onovakpuri started as a principal at Kapor Capital more than a decade ago, and rose through the ranks to become managing partner, and eventually (with Brian Dixon) took over the reins from the firm’s co-founders Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein.
In her LinkedIn goodbye post, Onovakpuri said she had co-raised a $126 million fund and backed more than 70 companies during her time at Kapor. “I’ll truly miss it,” she wrote.
“This isn’t a goodbye to investing or to funding the founders building critical solutions. But it is a purposeful pause,” she wrote, noting that she didn’t have any plans just yet. She did say, however, that the venture world hasn’t seen the last of her.
“[M]y inbox has definitely seen the last of ‘just wanted to follow up on the deck I sent you,” she said. “At least for now.”
