About Okeanos
Our Founding Story
A small group of active solo-angel investors in the DC metro area started to make investments in local startups together. Under the leadership of Mark Dumas, the group shared their collective knowledge, experience, and connections to inform their investment decisions, source deals, and leverage the wisdom of the crowd -- and Riverbend Capital was born.
Riverbend Capital began hosting monthly pitch dinners, organically expanding their local membership base and broadening investments geographically. Managing Partner Aaron Berkey joined shortly thereafter, developing the group’s investment thesis to include later stage, high growth ventures and growing the membership base to a national scale.
Riverbend Capital had grown to more than 100 members that had closed approximately 100 investments together.
Riverbend Capital restructured and rebranded as Okeanos Venture Management, embarking on a new growth trajectory with a deeper bench of full-time team members, membership growth from coast to coast, and the success raised of its first fund.
Building on our longstanding history of growth born from Riverbend Capital, Okeanos’ mission is to make the most promising private investment opportunities accessible to all, while empowering Okeanos-backed businesses to create a valuable and lasting impact on the world.
Top-tier investments.
Exclusive access.
Okeanos members fund multiple investments per month across the spectrum of venture capital, private equity and real estate. Our portfolio is inclusive of top-tier VC led rounds usually reserved for largest VCs, PEs and institutional funds.
From top-tier hypergrowth rounds typically inaccessible to the individual investor, to early-stage ventures, Okeanos is a multi-stage firm with special access to high-demand, high growth opportunities.
Okeanos leverages our 9-year track record and our diverse 200+ members to source, diligence, and fund the most promising opportunities. Our members represent the sectors in which we invest, offering their expertise and guidance throughout the investment process, both to their fellow members and to our portfolio companies.
Our thesis is predicated on simple concepts
With abundant deal flow and unique access, our management team and members carefully select and diligence opportunities, upholding the highest standard of quality to maximize return potential while serving our member interests.
We leverage the subject matter expertise of our broad membership to conduct rigorous analysis on prospective investments as part of engaged selection and diligence processes. With the wisdom of our expanding crowd, Okeanos is uniquely able to make wiser investment decisions.
Longstanding personal relationships with many of the top syndicate networks, VC and PE funds, and RE development partners provide abundant access to the most promising investment opportunities.
Okeanos maximizes diversification across private investment classes, encompassing the early to late stages in VC, pre-IPO and crossover rounds, and more risk averse PE and RE opportunities, to balance risk and liquidity horizons while delivering outsized returns.
