Raina Kumra
Placement Agent at Old City Investment Partners
Santa Monica, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2022 - Current
Spicewell puts vitamins and minerals in salt and pepper - helping to close the nutrient gap 94% of Americans face with no habit change required.
Spicewell develops and creates food seasoning products that includes various kinds of micronutrients.
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Ashton Kutcher, Jin Song Gao, Jonathan Hung, Joanne Bradford, Entrepreneur Ventures, Mila Kunis, Path Ahead Ventures and Joyance Partners.
Advisor
2021
X, the moonshot factory invents and launches breakthrough technologies and radical solutions.
Placement Agent
2024
Member Board Of Directors
2022
Partner
2020
The Fund LA is an early stage venture capital fund composed of local founders and operators, investing in Southern California.
Board Member
2021 - 2022
Company acquired.
CEO
2006 - 2022
Organizational Transformation, Leadership Development and Marketing and Branding. Recent Clients include the Ad Council, ONE.org and The Walt Disney Corporation & Knight Foundation. The agency has worked on digital and traditional strategic projects for the following clients: Nike, Neiman Marcus, Nokia, Gallo, Monocle, Adidas, Bordeaux Wines, The City of Amsterdam, Burberry, OMA, HP, Medic Mobile and FrontlineSMS:Credit.
Juggernaut is an agency focused on digital, design & disruption through behavioral & brand strategy.
Technology Strategy Lead, USAGM Agency Review Team, Biden-Harris Transition Team
2020 - 2021
Prepared the technology strategy overview and recommendations for the incoming leadership of USAGM. The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), formerly the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), is an independent agency of the United States government which operates various state-run media outlets. It describes its mission to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy". USAGM supervises Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Televisión Martí, Radio Free Asia, and Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa.
Network Leader
2019 - 2021
Director
2018 - 2019
Leads key investments aimed at helping technologists prevent, mitigate, and correct unintended consequences of technology.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2017 - 2018
Investing in alternative business models and ethical interventions for the technology industry.
Education
MdesS - Harvard Joint Program
2005 - 2006
Certificate
2022 - 2022
MPS
2000 - 2002
BS
1995 - 1999