RAA Ventures

RAA Ventures, founded in 2005 and based in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a venture capital firm that focuses on making angel investments in innovative entrepreneurs and transformative ideas. The firm aims to invest in a diverse range of sectors, including internet marketing, technology, e-commerce, consumer products and services, lifestyle, media, entertainment, social media, energy production, infrastructure, mobile gaming, and applications. RAA Ventures prioritizes investment opportunities in key urban areas such as San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Portland.

Robert Afshar

Founding Partner

Chris Afshar

COO

Paris Koleini

Managing Director

3 past transactions

Cheeze

Seed Round in 2021
Cheeze is a minting studio and social platform designed for photographers and families to share and preserve memories. It enables users to mint their photography collections on the blockchain, providing a secure environment for both creation and exchange. The platform features a marketplace where users can collect and discover NFT photography without incurring gas fees. Additionally, it offers tools for tracking sales and managing NFT portfolios, allowing users to curate their collections effectively. Through its innovative approach, Cheeze aims to enhance the experience of capturing and sharing personal moments in a digital format.

Socius

Seed Round in 2016
Socius Live UG operates a social media curation and publishing platform based in Berlin, Germany. The company specializes in integrating branded content with social media interactions, allowing brands, events, and publishers to create engaging social hubs. Its platform utilizes technology to collect, curate, and display content from various social media channels, which helps brands automate and manage their social media advertising efforts. By matching advertisers' social content with publishers' pages, Socius enables the monetization of this content through custom native ads, enhancing the digital advertising landscape for both publishers and advertisers.

DoubleUp

Seed Round in 2013
DoubleUp is a company that provides online sports contests with cash prizes, catering to casual sports fans. Unlike traditional daily fantasy sports platforms that often involve complex salary cap games requiring significant time investment, DoubleUp offers straightforward contests that can be entered in under 30 seconds. All contests feature free entries, making it accessible for fans to engage more actively with the sports they enjoy.
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