Omar Johnson
Angel Investor
Los Angeles, United States
Omar Johnson is a marketing and branding keynote speaker, entrepreneur, former CMO at Beats by Dre, and former VP Marketing at Apple. At Beats Electronics, Johnson was responsible for brand development, advertising, retail experience, entertainment / sports marketing, and digital marketing for all global brand marketing and advertisingefforts. Adweek named Johnson a “Brand Genius” in 2013, and Business Insider named him one of the “Most Innovative CMOs” in 2016. Under Johnson’s tenure, Beats grew from $180 million to a $1.1 billion dollar global icon and category leader, becoming the #1 premium headphone in North America, UK, France, Germany, South Korea and Singapore. Johnson drove explosive growth in the headphone category through groundbreaking campaigns including #ShowYourColor Solo Campaign, Powerbeats starring LeBron James and The Pills featuring Chris Rock and Eminem. He used “ambush marketing” and influencers to expand the brand—giving athletes and musicians free headphones at private company parties—which helped turn Beats into the headphone of choice for the best musicians and athletes in the world. Previously, Johnson led innovative marketing programs for international brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, and Campbell Soup. As an advertising lead at Nike, Johnson produced some of Nike’s most memorable TV commercials including “Rise,” starring LeBron James, “All Together Now,” featuring Kobe Bryant, and “The Most Valuable Puppets”. Johnson also built the Nike+ sports music platform, establishing Nike’s first revenue-generating relationship with record labels. Johnson and his team created an industry-first sports music program with Universal, Interscope, Sony, Capitol, Def Jam and more than 25 independent labels. This collaboration sold +5 Million tracks and deepened the connection between music and sports. Johnson is from Brooklyn, NY. He received a BS in Biology and Chemistry from Georgia State University and an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Omar Johnson invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $5M–$7.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Beauty 2 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (50%)
- SaaS 1 (25%)
- Events 1 (25%)
- Women's 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (75%)
- Series C 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Soot is the creator of a visual filesystem used to organize content for creative activities. | $7.2M / Seed / Jun 20, 2024 | ||
| Hairtelligence is using computer vision technology that enables customers to customize their hair wigs and extensions, all from the comfort of their home. This is the first direct-to-consumer customization business model, eliminating the need for in person visits, and removing the costs associated with customization from traditional stylists.Our service generates customizable 3D hair models that match wigs and other hair extensions, such as clip-ins, braids, bundles, and closures that we manufacture, customize and sell, allowing the user to visualize realistic product results in real time. By capturing the dimensions of our customers facial features to measure wig, closure, and frontal fit, using color identification to match skin tone to lace tint, and allowing our customers to select the color and cut of their hairstyle, we provide fully customized wigs, weave bundles, frontals, and closures with a single purchase. The company was co-founded by Isoken Igbinedion and Ifueko Igbinedion. | $5M / Seed / Apr 28, 2022 | ||
| Parfait is a brand-new wig customization platform aimed at disrupting the category by integrating facial recognition and artificial intelligence to provide buyers with customizable wig products. | $5M / Seed / Apr 12, 2022 | ||
| Bevy is an enterprise-grade virtual conference and community events SaaS platform. It incorporates a variety of tools to plan, promote, and execute virtual conferences and community events. The platform is a flexible software solution that can be used to manage and host thousands of different types of virtual events. Built with enterprise-levelanalytics, integrations, and data security, the Bevy platform is used by a range of enterprise, consumer and education teams who want to host virtual events and turn them into thriving global communities. Featuring a deep permissions system and webcasting capabilities, community and field marketing teams can empower local brand advocates all over the world to build small local communities that collectively provide reach and scale.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $40M / Series C / Mar 24, 2021 |
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What does Omar Johnson invest in?
Omar Johnson invests primarily in Beauty, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Omar Johnson invest in?
Omar Johnson typically joins rounds of $5M–$7.2M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Omar Johnson's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Omar Johnson took part in.
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The most recent investment recorded for Omar Johnson closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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