Dave Cobban — investor profile photo

Dave Cobban

Partner at Spikes, Founder at UNBRKBLE, former NIKE GM & CEO EasyKicks, Head of Strategy at Wieden+Kennedy

📍 United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 1 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2018
VC🌍 United States
1
Total investments
0
Early stage
0
Mid stage
0
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

1 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Angel Investor & Advisor
Sep 2018
OSC, Oregon Startup Center, offers several programs designed to help entrepreneurs and business owners succeed. From strategic planning, mentoring, and seed funding to in-house residency programs and virtual incubation programs. You will build relationships and gain the knowledge you need to take your business to the next level.
Experience · 4 entries
All (4)
Investments (1)
2024
Partner
Sep 2024
We are Spikes - an innovation consultancy leveraging the power of Excitement Points® Because excitement has the power to move mountains. Companies invest trillions in customer centricity. Because companies that excite people, win. But customers are unimpressed: 80% of the companies say they are customer centric – only 8% of the customer agree. But every now and then there are the rare and valuable moments where companies don’t just reach people or interest but excite them. How we do it? OUR EXCITEMENT SEARCH ENGINE. From the countless things companies do every day, our search engine finds the rare moments, that spike out of the sea of sameness. Where companies dont just reach people or interest them. But excite them. Over the last years, we built a cross industry database of more than 270.000 Excitement Points® that keeps on growing. What you will get? YOUR EXCITEMENT PROFILE: We discover the complete view on your company’s excitement profile. At which touchpoints your company excites people, with which emotions, and also where you don’t. YOUR PATH TO EXCITEMENT. Our connected database gives us the power to not just analyse your excitement profile - but to change it. We discover the most valuable emotional territory and the hidden innovations that are proven to excite customers and improve your profile where it is most needed. And where it will have the biggest impact on your sales funnel. YOUR CUSTOMER CENTRICITY ALERT. Your excitement performance is relative to your competition. And we will keep you up to date what they are doing. Where they find a new unseen way to excite people and win customers. And where you can beat them.
2021
Founding Partner, UNBRKBLE
Apr 2021
UNBRKBLE develops and delivers consumer-centric solutions for companies to deepen their long-term relationships with their customers.
early stage
2019
General Manager, Nike Adventure Club
Jul 2019
NIKE, Inc. is a purpose driven company fueled by a shared commitment to move the world forward through the power of sport. Guided by our mission to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world, we champion sport’s values of inclusion and diversity while pushing boundaries to shape the future. At Nike, every teammate plays a role. We operate with an athlete’s mindset — working together, embracing our differences, and demanding more of ourselves and each other to drive collective success. Whether you’re building products, platforms, experiences or systems, your work contributes to something bigger: making athlete* dreams real. Explore opportunities at nike.com/careers and join our Talent Community at https://nikeats.avature.net/niketalentcommunity. *If you have a body, you are an athlete.
2018
Angel Investor & Advisor
Sep 2018
OSC, Oregon Startup Center, offers several programs designed to help entrepreneurs and business owners succeed. From strategic planning, mentoring, and seed funding to in-house residency programs and virtual incubation programs. You will build relationships and gain the knowledge you need to take your business to the next level.
Investor lists
Lists that match Dave's portfolio