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Raina Kumra

Placement Agent at Old City Investment Partners

Santa Monica, California

Overview 

Raina Kumra is a versatile professional with a background in private equity, venture capital, and digital media, currently serving as the Founder of SpiceWell and an Advisor at X, the moonshot factory. Noteworthy highlights of her career include leading Juggernaut LLC as CEO and serving as the Technology Strategy Lead for the Biden-Harris Transition Team.

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.

  • 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.

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