Oasis Devices Leadership Team & Executives

Ricky Rosa

Founder & CEO

Ricky Rosa is the solo founder and CEO of Oasis Devices, a Miami-based hardware startup building smart rings for human-computer interaction. Rosa studied computer science and physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and began his career as a nuclear engineer before pivoting to software roles at Mastercard (blockchain research), Georgia Tech (linear algebra lecturer), and American Express. His encounter with the Microsoft HoloLens during his time at Mastercard convinced him that head-mounted computing would define the next technology paradigm and that interaction design, specifically arm fatigue and the absence of a natural input device, would be its central unsolved problem. Rosa went full-time on Oasis Devices approximately three years before the July 2026 interview, around late 2022. He has no prior company exits. In the years leading up to the public launch, Rosa operated with extreme capital efficiency, spending roughly $300,000 to hand-build every unit in-house using injection molding machines in his Miami office. He personally soldered components, tuned BLE antennas with an RF engineer, and sourced local packaging vendors when overseas suppliers fell through. Early beta units cost approximately $600 each to produce, well above the $289 retail price, as Rosa prioritized learning over margin. Oasis Devices' Oasis One smart ring features patented sensor fusion technology combining optical and capacitive sensing to enable continuous two-dimensional scrolling. The company shipped its first beta batch of just under 100 units around Christmas 2024 early 2025, then launched publicly in mid-2026, selling out roughly 700 units in approximately two days driven entirely by organic virality on X with 2.6 million views. Rosa has raised approximately $500,000 in total funding with a new angel round in progress as of July 2026, including commitments from investors with backgrounds at Meta Reality Labs and interest from Japanese investors. The team stands at four people.