Kevin O'Connor's House

Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Graphiq, a research engine founded in Santa Barbara in 2009. It sold to Google for $50m.

Previously, O'Connor was a co-founder of DoubleClick, an internet advertisement-technology, and founder of O'Connor Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies, including COR, 9Star, Surfline, Travidia, Procore and CampusExplorer.

O'Conner worked for Cincinnati-based Intercomputer Communications Corporation (ICC), a microcomputer to mainframe inter-connectivity company. When ICC was acquired by Digital Communications Associates in 1992, O'Connor eventually became its Chief Technology Officer and a Vice President of Research and Development.

O'Connor quit DCA in 1995. That year, O'Connor met Chris Klaus who had just started Internet Security Systems (ISS). O'Connor was the initial investor and recruited Tom Noonan to become the CEO. ISS went public in 1999 and was sold to IBM Corp. for $1.4bb in 2006.

DoubleClick went public on Nasdaq in 1998. In 2005 the company was sold to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for approximately $1.1 billion.

He authored The Map of Innovation: Creating Something Out of Nothing.

He lives in Santa Barbara but his home is for sale there. O'Connor received his bachelor's degree in 1983 from the University of Michigan