Roham Gharegozlou

Roham is founder and managing parter at Axiom Zen, an award-winning design studio based in Vancouver, Canada. Axiom Zen specializes in building, validating, and scaling technology products and services. We were named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business in March 2016.

Axiom Zen products are powering workflows of teams at some of the world’s leading companies includ...
See More ing Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Starbucks, and NASA JPL – not to mention eminent academic institutions and government organizations. Axiom Zen is the team behind Timeline, named Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, #1 Best New App in 88 countries, and #14 out of 25 Best Apps of the Year by Apple, and the creator of Toby, recognized as the Top Chrome Extension of 2016 by both Google and Product Hunt. Axiom Zen is also the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR) featured in VICE. Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Fast Company, USA Today, and Wired, to name a few.

Prior to Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund based in Silicon Valley as a partner focused on seed-stage investments including ZOZI, AdStage, and Lucibel (IPO: Euronext). Before Rising Tide, Roham worked with Newbury Ventures, a technology-focused venture fund with success stories including ZONG (acquired by PayPal), Sentillion (acquired by Microsoft), and NextBio (acquired by Illumina).

Roham's seed investment portfolio includes customer communication leader Intercom, mobile photography marketplace Twenty20, and sales technology platform Tout; as well as ephemeral messaging app Blink (acquired by Yahoo!), healthy living e-commerce startup Ecomom (acquired by Greencupboards), sport social network KYCK (acquired by sport ngin, now part of NBC), and location-based social network Urbantag (acquired by Tagged).

Roham splits his time between San Francisco and Vancouver. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and dual bachelor's and master's degrees in Biological Sciences from Stanford University.

Gender: Male
URL: www.facebook.com/rohamgh