Oshiomah Richard Odior
Early Stage VC at Zeal Capital Partners
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Early Stage VC
2023 - Current
Investing in early stage companies Pre-seed & Seed
Venture Advisor
2020
Mercury is an early-stage venture capital firm. With over $600 million under management, Mercury focuses on software entrepreneurs and innovation originating in Middle America. Our investment themes target SaaS, Cloud, and Data Science/AI platforms that make the markets and industries of Middle America more competitive and efficient.
Mercury Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm.
Venture Partner
2019
NextGen invests $1 million in seed stage companies and $2 million to $10 million in companies with more than $10 million in revenue.
NextGen Venture Partners invests in seed-stage companies with the participation of their venture partners.
Board Member
2023
Built by New York’s leading VC firms, the Factor Fellowship connects top talent to startup careers. Together, we are building an innovation economy reflective of NYC’s diversity, hustle, and grit.
Investment Committee
2020
The Cap Table Coalition is made up of high-growth startups, VC firms, and emerging fund managers who want to work to close the racial wealth gap.
Cap Table Coalition creates investment opportunities for traditionally marginalized investors.
Investor in Residence
2019 - 2024
Provide 1:1 guidance to founders with a primary focus on GTM Strategy, Product Strategy , Partnerships, Operations and Fundraising.
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Head of Strategic Scaled Services, Meta Business Group
2019 - 2023
I led global cross-functional programs to execute against our senior leaderships strategic and product initiatives across the family of apps.
Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
Raised $25,607,817,488.00 from ValueAct Capital.
Co-Founder
2017 - 2020
Co-founded an organization focused on providing support to Black & LatinX founders at the Friends & Family Stage through providing access to mentorship, connectors, investors and venture ecosystem players to help scale their business. Over 33% of companies served raised over $1M in Seed Funding.
New Product Launch Strategist (Software & Platform Technologies)
2017 - 2019
Executed projects focused on software and platform companies with opportunity for hyper scale, see examples of type of projects: New Product Launch Strategy, RCS Messaging Company Growth Strategy, Automotive Technology company Investment & Due Diligence Strategy, Telehealth Expansion Strategy, EdTech Organization Business Innovation Strategy, Global Telco & ISP Customer Acquisition Strategy, Global Devices Company
Accenture Ventures is a venture capital firm arm of Accenture, delivers innovative solutions with strategic partnerships and investments.
Venture Capital
2015 - 2017
Sourced companies and conducted due diligence on potential investment opporutnities across multiple verticals align with our organizational mission. Executed special projects and programs with partner organizations to enhance our investment landscape and opportunity size. Created operational frameworks that enhanced the speed, consistency and execution of Fund systems and operations.