Steven Rosenblatt

Steven Rosenblatt, Co-Founder & General Partner at Oceans

Steven Rosenblatt is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Oceans, a venture capital firm based in New York City. With over 20 years of experience scaling startups and building technology companies in the digital and mobile ecosystem, Rosenblatt co-founded Oceans in 2018.12

Prior to Oceans, Rosenblatt served as President of Foursquare for six years, where he was responsible for transitioning the company from a consumer-facing location platform into an enterprise business, building a multi-product strategy and growing revenue by more than 70x.123 During his tenure, Foursquare won numerous awards including being named in CNBC's Disruptor 50 list as one of the most disruptive tech companies in the world.1

Before joining Foursquare, Rosenblatt launched iAd, Apple's advertising platform for brands and developers, where he managed sales, agency relations, and the creative and strategy team.13 He also served as Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales at Quattro Wireless until it was acquired by Apple in January 2010.13

Rosenblatt is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan.13 He co-founded Oceans with Joshua Rahn, who helped set up Facebook's New York office, and Glenn Handler, who had worked in recruiting for Morgan Stanley, Google, and Facebook.4

Oceans is a seed-stage venture capital firm that leads pre-seed and seed rounds, investing in teams or solo founders committed to handing over a significant chunk of equity to someone who has strengths where they don't.45 The firm has closed two funds totaling $42 million from primarily founders and executives.4