Yesterday, Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced its acquisition of This is L., a period care startup that manufactures organic pads and tampons. Although the startup would…
DouglasFebruary 6, 2019
We invest in hungry, brilliant teams working on huge ideas who are trying to push civilization forward and improve the human condition.
Soma is founded by Aneel Ranadive, who has +10 years experience building startups and +4 yrs investment experience with hits like Cruise, Rappi, Embarktrucks, Astranis, and Lendup (our companies have a combined valuation of over $20bn).
Aneel works with his father Vivek Ranadive, founder of Tibco (sold for $4.3bn to Vista). Tibco software includes big data, analytics, event processing and cloud services. Tibco originally digitized Wall Street and powers 80% of Fortune 500 companies including many of the biggest banks, airlines, retailers, hotels, casinos, and government services. Vivek has also been involved at the early stages with all time greats like Google, Yahoo, Salesforce, eBay and even mentored Steve Jobs in the early days of Next.
Soma Capital has a deep rolodex of CEO-level relationships with some of the biggest brands in the world and makes strategic introductions for portfolio companies. Ranadive also owns the Sacramento Kings (NBA basketball) providing many influential relationships in sports and entertainment. Soma works closely with Bow Capital, Vivek Ranadive’s later stage fund which anchors Soma Capital and can lead the Series A and beyond for Soma portfolio companies.
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The P&G acquisition of This is L., a startup retailer of period products and prophylactics, shows just how profitable investing in women’s healthcare brands and products can be. A…
DouglasFebruary 5, 2019
Amazon is using self-driving trucks developed by Embark to haul some cargo on the I-10 interstate highway, CNBC has learned. The trucks were previously noticed by a Reddit…
DouglasJanuary 30, 2019