Rohan Oza
Angel Investor
San Francisco, United States
Rohan Oza is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on E-Commerce and Mobile. Rohan Oza is the Chief Marketing Officer across The Coca-Cola Company's still coke brands. He is also the founder of Idea Merchants Capital, a platform for investing and building iconic brands.Born and raised in Zambia and of Indian heritage, Oza attended the Harrow School in the United Kingdom and graduated from Nottingham University. Hethen received his MBA from the University of Michigan in the United States.Rohan began his career as a manufacturing manager at Mars M&M where he was recruited at the age of 20 as the youngest manager to run Snickers, the second largest product line in Europe.His first big career move was to The Coca-Cola Company where he ended up leading the Sprite brand to the number one brand for youth and African-American consumers. Rohan went on to manage the then declining POWERADE brand to three straight years of brand growth with the creation of break through designs, partnerships and advertising campaigns. In 2002, he was featured on the cover of Brandweek as one of their “top ten marketers” in the country and was featured on CNN as one of Coke’s fastest rising stars.Rohan left Coke to become a partner in a fledgling beverage company called glaceau where he built the power house brands vitaminwater and smartwater through innovative marketing programs and creative partnerships with celebrities like 50 Cent, Jennifer Aniston, Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, Venus Williams and Alicia Keys. Rohan’s career came full circle when the Coca-Cola Company purchased glacéau for $4.1 billion and Rohan was appointed as the Chief Marketing Officer across all of Coke still brands.Rohan subsequently went on to form Idea Merchants Capital. His latest ventures include popchips, the fastest growing snack in the country, and vitacoco the most exciting brand in beverages today. Following the model that he pioneered with 50cent and vitaminwater, Rohan has been instrumental in several celebrity investment deals for both popchips (Ashton Kutcher, Kim Kardashian and Heidi Klum) and vitacoco (Madonna and Rhianna)
- Total investments:
- 9
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 3 (33%)
- Mobile 2 (22%)
- Food and Beverage 2 (22%)
- Cooking 1 (11%)
- Medical 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (33%)
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Angel 1 (11%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (11%)
Investments
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Rocean
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At Rocean, we’re not only committed to sustainable, eco-friendly and transparent practices, but to innovative design and simple solutions. The problem we’re here to tackle? More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans every year. That’s why we're creating smart home products that make a positive impact and reduce our relianceon so-called 'disposable' plastic. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 09, 2019 | |
Cue
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Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep. Consumers can track 5 key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cueapp reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level. | $45M / Series B / Jul 10, 2018 | |
Gobble
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Gobble delivers gourmet 15-minute meal kits right to your doorstep. These chef-designed meals are easy to prepare, with simple recipe steps and fresh ingredients that have been chopped, portioned, and simmered so that dinner is both fast and flavorful.Gobble combines the convenience of takeout with the health, satisfaction, and freshness of ahome-cooked meal. Our Executive Chef Thomas Ricci carefully curates each recipe so that anyone can create a dynamic meal at home in just minutes - think of us as personal sous chefs! New, seasonal menus are released weekly, and include dishes for every palate. Whether you're looking for global cuisine, low-calorie options, comfort classics, vegetarian recipes, or kid-friendly meals, we have you covered. Plus, we think beyond dinner with delicious options for breakfast, lunch, sides, desserts, and more!Our CEO Ooshma Garg was inspired to help people cook up happiness even on the busiest evenings, and since founding Gobble in 2010, she has graced Forbes’ Top 30 Innovators Under 30 list. Our operations have grown rapidly, serving 47 states and spanning offices in California, Pennsylvania, and Toronto. Find out why our customers call us a life-saver on busy weeknights. We're dedicated to helping households across the country spend less time working in the kitchen, and more time at the table with the people they love. Visit www.gobble.com to check out our latest culinary creations. | $10.8M / Series A / Oct 29, 2015 | |
Pledge
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Pledge is the fundraising platform unlocking new ways for brands, nonprofits, and people to engage their communities - locally and globally - around the causes they care about. Pledgeling processes donations from 90+ countries to its database of over two million organizations, including all U.S.-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, as wellas hundreds of thousands of international charities. A member of the UN Global Compact, Pledge 1% and Conscious Capitalism, Pledgeling powers fundraisers for individuals, nonprofits, and 5,000+ mission-oriented brands (including Shopify, Box, Zoom, Discovery, and Evite). | $4M / Seed / Apr 17, 2015 | |
Soma
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Soma is a premium water filter service that includes a beautiful glass carafe and the world's most innovative water filters, which are delivered right to the door via subscription so customers never forget to change their filter on time. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2.2M / Series A / Oct 30, 2014 | |
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Soma
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Soma is a premium water filter service that includes a beautiful glass carafe and the world's most innovative water filters, which are delivered right to the door via subscription so customers never forget to change their filter on time. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $3.7M / Seed / Jul 16, 2013 | |
ShopTap Industries
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ShopTap industries operated The Hunt. The Hunt has been recapitalized and bought out by one of the founders in 2016. | $700K / Seed / Apr 17, 2013 | |
ecomom
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ecomom.com is the brainchild of parents and professionals who saw an unexplored area of parenting and shopping and wanted to bridge the gap between making healthy choices and making easy choices. ecomom.com provides comprehensive, eco-conscious, e-commerce and social shopping which is centered around making it easy to make mindful decisions aboutthe products parents choose to put on, in and around their children and families.ecomom.com also provides relevant information for moms as well as other trusted expert opinions from organizations like Healthy Child Healthy World, and professionals in pertinent parenting fields such as health, nutrition, fitness and mindful living.ecomom.com makes purchasing products, essential to the development of healthy children and families, accessible and effortless. | $4M / Series A / Dec 10, 2011 | |
Kiip
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Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements.It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others.Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010. | $300K / Angel / Oct 28, 2010 |
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What does Rohan Oza invest in?
Rohan Oza invests primarily in E-Commerce, Mobile and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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