Jeff Ragovin

Founder @ Ragovin Ventures | Exits to Salesforce & Samba TV | CEO Advisor scaling category-defining tech | Host of The Digital Fork dinner series | Award-Winning Director & Exec Producer: Host of Bounty Uncharted.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2021
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Dec 2021
Tyson 2.0 is a premier cannabis company formed with legendary boxer, entrepreneur and icon Mike Tyson. The company’s mission is to produce innovative, high-quality cannabis products known for purity, precision, and wide accessibility. Providing consumers an outstanding selection of products, Tyson 2.0 is an extraordinary balance of premium and affordable, full-spectrum cannabis flower, concentrates, and consumables available at retailers nationwide.
early stageManufacturing
Investor - LP
Jan 2020
Velvet Sea Ventures (VSV) is an operator-led venture capital firm that goes beyond capital to help entrepreneurs turn their visions into reality. Built by a family of entrepreneurs, VSV couples seed-to-growth stage capital investment with hands-on strategic support and guidance. Current Velvet Sea Ventures portfolio companies include Scopely, eToro, Liquid Death, LeoLabs, Autograph, Strigo, SuperRare, Elementus, and Pixel Vault.
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Jan 2016
Propeller Investments is a private equity firm built on one simple principle that forms the foundation for our investment strategy and philosophy: We invest in what we know, channeling our efforts on the business segments in which we have experience and expertise – Aerospace and Transportation. Using an experienced based methodology to identify and understand significant emerging investment opportunities is Propellers core competency. Our team has extensive overlapping operating and investment knowledge and experience in the global aerospace and transportation industry which allows us to provide unique insight that enhances the investment decision-making process. The Propeller team of proven professionals takes a proactive approach to finding driven entrepreneurs and compelling businesses that have the potential to create a substantive financial return for our investors, the company’s management team and our limited partners. We take a value-added approach to early stage investing in infrastructure, concept leading operating companies with definitive and industry leading concepts, and service and concession ventures in our core market sector. Propellers executive offices are located in New York with offices in Dublin and Atlanta.
Investor and Advisor
Jan 2015
It’s rowing – and so much more. CITYROW is a boutique fitness studio offering a one-of-a-kind workout that combines rowing intervals on sexy, water-based row machines with dynamic sculpting exercises for the perfect balance of cardio and strength training. Since opening in early 2014, CITYROW has amassed a devoted following and earned raves from Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Details and more
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2021
Investor
Dec 2021
Tyson 2.0 is a premier cannabis company formed with legendary boxer, entrepreneur and icon Mike Tyson. The company’s mission is to produce innovative, high-quality cannabis products known for purity, precision, and wide accessibility. Providing consumers an outstanding selection of products, Tyson 2.0 is an extraordinary balance of premium and affordable, full-spectrum cannabis flower, concentrates, and consumables available at retailers nationwide.
early stageManufacturing
2020
Investor - LP
Jan 2020
Velvet Sea Ventures (VSV) is an operator-led venture capital firm that goes beyond capital to help entrepreneurs turn their visions into reality. Built by a family of entrepreneurs, VSV couples seed-to-growth stage capital investment with hands-on strategic support and guidance. Current Velvet Sea Ventures portfolio companies include Scopely, eToro, Liquid Death, LeoLabs, Autograph, Strigo, SuperRare, Elementus, and Pixel Vault.
2018
Co-founder and Board President
Sep 2018
501 c 3
2016
Co-founder
Jan 2016
Social Native is the leading global marketplace connecting brands to the creator economy. Thousands of global brands like Adidas and Airbnb use the company's software to generate the largest selection of high-quality branded content, at scale, and on-demand. Scaling content and attributable revenue for e-commerce and digital media has never been simpler. By building a scalable content solution for commerce, we’re fulfilling our mission to grow and empower creator economies.
Investor
Jan 2016
Propeller Investments is a private equity firm built on one simple principle that forms the foundation for our investment strategy and philosophy: We invest in what we know, channeling our efforts on the business segments in which we have experience and expertise – Aerospace and Transportation. Using an experienced based methodology to identify and understand significant emerging investment opportunities is Propellers core competency. Our team has extensive overlapping operating and investment knowledge and experience in the global aerospace and transportation industry which allows us to provide unique insight that enhances the investment decision-making process. The Propeller team of proven professionals takes a proactive approach to finding driven entrepreneurs and compelling businesses that have the potential to create a substantive financial return for our investors, the company’s management team and our limited partners. We take a value-added approach to early stage investing in infrastructure, concept leading operating companies with definitive and industry leading concepts, and service and concession ventures in our core market sector. Propellers executive offices are located in New York with offices in Dublin and Atlanta.
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