Oceans Ventures

The firm is run by its general partners, including Steven Rojas and Josh Rahn. Rojas sold Quattro Wireless to Apple, where his product became iAd, and later served as President of Foursquare. Rahn opened Facebook's New York office in 2007 and spent nine years scaling the platform. The partnership also includes Sheryl Sandberg's first business-side recruiter at Facebook and an operator who built and sold Clearforest to Thomson Reuters.

Oceans deploys its general partners as embedded operating executives — they conduct candidate interviews, make customer introductions, model runway, and participate in late-night founder calls. The firm frames this as providing the executive bench a startup needs a year before it can afford a CFO or head of people. Every founder works with the full partner group, not a single relationship manager or associate.

The firm leads or co-leads pre-seed and seed rounds and also co-invests at Series A. Oceans has not publicly disclosed a standard check size or total fund size. Its model focuses on concentrated, high-touch engagement rather than volume of positions.

The firm concentrates on enterprise software, AI/ML, and mobility and transportation companies. Its partners' operating careers at Apple, Facebook, and Google provide domain depth in consumer and enterprise technology, though the portfolio emphasis tilts toward enterprise and platform businesses.

Oceans leads or co-leads pre-seed and seed rounds and co-invests alongside other firms at Series A. The firm's model requires meaningful ownership and board-level influence to justify the partner time commitment, making lead positions typical at the earliest stages.

The firm is based in New York and describes a New York-centric DNA, but its website does not restrict investments to a single geography. Partners' networks — built at Apple, Facebook, and Google — are global, and the firm has not published a geographic mandate.

The firm has not publicly disclosed its reserve strategy or follow-on policy. Its model of deep partner involvement suggests a concentrated portfolio with capacity to support companies through multiple rounds, but specific allocation mechanics have not been made public.