Alliance of Angels

Alliance of Angels is a Seattle-based angel investment group established in 1997, recognized as the largest and most active in the Pacific Northwest. The organization focuses on early-stage investments in sectors such as life sciences, consumer goods, and technology. Each year, Alliance of Angels invests over $10 million into more than 20 companies, contributing to a cumulative investment of over $100 million in over 200 companies since its inception. The group has celebrated more than 40 successful exits, resulting in returns exceeding a billion dollars. Its network comprises over 140 active angel investors and is supported by a $6.6 million seed fund, enhancing its capacity to foster and support emerging businesses.

Emer Dooley

Executive Director

Yi-Jian Ngo

Managing Director

Dan Rosen

Chairman

Past deals in Oregon

Solace Cremation

Seed Round in 2021
Solace Cremation offers a family-focused direct cremation service with online arrangements. It is a licensed funeral establishment and each of its service partners is licensed and vetted to deliver the premium quality standards required by Solace. Solace is also accredited by the Better Business Bureau. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Drone Complier

Convertible Note in 2017
Drone Complier is a software company specializing in drone compliance management solutions, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon. The company's offerings include a comprehensive suite of tools for managing drone operations, such as airspace mapping, flight planning, risk management, invoicing, fleet management, and safety oversight. Drone Complier's software is designed to streamline compliance with civil aviation regulations, making it easier for operators to understand where they can legally fly and what certifications are required for commercial operations. The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority selected Drone Complier's application as an official resource for informing drone pilots about safe flying locations. The company's solutions have been validated through real-world applications, including partnerships with educational institutions like Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where they provided critical aerial support during emergencies. By integrating administrative control and mobile accessibility, Drone Complier ensures that both managers and operators are aligned in their drone operations, enhancing safety and efficiency.

Rigado

Seed Round in 2017
At Rigado, they have the privilege of working on a variety of exciting new products with cutting edge technologies. Their products have applications across multiple industries. They turn challenges into opportunities and find the fun in everything. Rigado hires talented professionals with outstanding skills and strong work ethic. Rigado careers are made for people who want to make a real difference in the world by creating products that solve problems. They are seeking professionals with talents in their current areas of operation, as well as those who can bring new skills to their dynamic team.

Hemex Health

Seed Round in 2017
Hemex Health, Inc. develops and manufactures medical diagnostic devices for populations at risk for malaria and sickle cell disease (SCD). Its products include Magneto-Optical Device (MOD), a device to detect all strains of malaria at low concentrations under a minute; HemeChip, a device to identify hemoglobin disorders; and SMART, which provides solutions for early SCD and malaria diagnosis through point-of-care testing and mobile device registries in health facility settings. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Lumen Learning

Series A in 2017
Lumen helps educational institutions reduce textbook costs and improve student success using open educational resources and learning analytics. It creates affordable digital course materials using open educational resources (OER). Every Lumen OER course is designed to improve learning and replace expensive textbooks in high-enrollment college courses. Adding timely updates, learning design, and technical support to OER, Lumen makes the transition to open content simple, reliable, and effective for instructors and students. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Poached Jobs

Venture Round in 2016
Poached Jobs, Inc. operates Poachedjobs.com that offers staffing solutions for owners and hiring managers in the food and drink industry. Its portal provides various tools to owners and hiring managers to rate, sort, filter, download, and make notes on resumes that are connected to their jobs; and job seekers to sign up, review, and apply for posted positions. The company serves customers in Portland, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Poached Jobs, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Bigleaf Networks

Series A in 2015
Bigleaf Networks, Inc. is a cloud-based provider of internet redundancy and optimization services, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. Founded in 2012, the company focuses on enhancing the reliability and performance of internet connectivity for businesses reliant on cloud and remote applications. Bigleaf offers solutions that include seamless failover for all applications, circuit-aware load balancing, and true Quality-of-Service over standard internet connections. Its intelligent networking services utilize a plug-and-play router to connect office networks to cloud-based gateway clusters, allowing businesses to gain end-to-end visibility and control over their internet traffic. This approach aims to minimize disruptions, optimize critical applications, and enhance overall connectivity for stakeholders.

Chord.us

Debt Financing in 2015
Chord.us, formerly known as CloudEngage, Inc., is a company that specializes in developing geo-aware software tools aimed at enhancing the interactions between businesses and their customers. Founded in 2013 and based in Portland, Oregon, Chord.us offers a comprehensive customer personalization platform that enables organizations to deliver tailored experiences to their web visitors, thereby significantly increasing conversion rates. Its product suite includes a personalized experience engine, live chat functionality, and a unique free customer data platform. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing websites and provides services for content creation across various digital mediums, including websites, mobile sites, and native applications. By utilizing a simple line of code, Chord.us allows website owners to improve their marketing strategies and achieve deeper lead conversions with both new and prospective customers.

Lumen Learning

Seed Round in 2015
Lumen helps educational institutions reduce textbook costs and improve student success using open educational resources and learning analytics. It creates affordable digital course materials using open educational resources (OER). Every Lumen OER course is designed to improve learning and replace expensive textbooks in high-enrollment college courses. Adding timely updates, learning design, and technical support to OER, Lumen makes the transition to open content simple, reliable, and effective for instructors and students. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Droplr

Seed Round in 2014
Droplr is an online file-sharing application that provides simple photo and text sharing services. Users can customize their screens; embed links, movies, and more optimize retina shots, preview PDFs, annotate screenshots, integrate workflow, and more. Unlike other screen-sharing tools, Droplr is fast, seamless, and intuitive with high-speed file transfers and smooth captures all the way. Teams and professionals from companies like Nike and AirBnB use Droplr to save time and effort in their communications. Droplr was founded by Josh Bryant and Levi Nunnink in 2013 and is based in Bend, Oregon.

Droplr

Seed Round in 2013
Droplr is an online file-sharing application that provides simple photo and text sharing services. Users can customize their screens; embed links, movies, and more optimize retina shots, preview PDFs, annotate screenshots, integrate workflow, and more. Unlike other screen-sharing tools, Droplr is fast, seamless, and intuitive with high-speed file transfers and smooth captures all the way. Teams and professionals from companies like Nike and AirBnB use Droplr to save time and effort in their communications. Droplr was founded by Josh Bryant and Levi Nunnink in 2013 and is based in Bend, Oregon.

GlobeSherpa

Series B in 2013
GlobeSherpa is a Portland, Oregon-based software company specializing in mobile application development for transit agencies and parking management companies. We strive to be the most innovative provider of mobile software and services that enable our clients to improve operations and better serve their customers. Founded in 2010, we provide a secure technology platform for transit service operators interested in moving to open payments, open data, and mobile fare collection with minimal infrastructure investment. Our team is composed of seasoned software engineers, graphic and user experience designers, and project managers. We focus on application development for native and mobile web applications, as well as server side integration and development of enterprise applications for the transit industry. Using these skills, GlobeSherpa helps transit providers integrate their legacy fare and eFare collection efforts and information technology services with a usable, reliable, and beautiful mobile platform that riders will want and use.

Indow

Series A in 2012
Indow Windows provides people with comfort and quiet while helping them achieve financial and environmental harmony. Indow Windows are window inserts that press into place on the inside of existing window frames with no nails, screws, or adhesives. It gives all of the energy-saving benefits of double pane windows but has the bonus feature of reducing the noise coming in from outside by 50% or more. An Indow Window is made of a sheet of acrylic glazing edged with our patented Compression Tube. The simple yet elegant design creates a very low profile when installed so that the product disappears and its own Home's beauty shines through. Indow Windows was founded by CEO, Sam Pardue with the mission of maximizing carbon reductions and customer comfort and savings.

CrowdCompass

Series A in 2011
CrowdCompass creates event, meeting conference and tradeshow mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Android devices. By combining schedules, maps, exhibitor listings, sponsorship opportunities, QR code scanning, messaging and social networking into custom-branded apps, CrowdCompass enables event organizers to produce better connected, less wasteful and more successful events.

AWS Elemental

Seed Round in 2007
Elemental Technologies is the leading supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company pioneered the use of software-based video processing to distribute and monetize video over IP networks. Solutions from Elemental provide the flexibility, scalability and performance required to transform high quality video into new revenue streams via turnkey, cloud-based and virtualized deployment models. Powering video experiences for more than 600 leading media franchises worldwide, Elemental helps pay TV operators, content programmers, broadcasters and enterprise customers bring video to any screen, anytime – all at once. The company has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India and Brazil.

CleverSet

Series A in 2005
Cleverset was started by statistics expert Bruce D'Ambrosio, professor emeritus at Oregon State University. He got a grant from the National Science Foundation to track the behavior of satellites. He later hired CEO, Todd Humphrey, to help turn the project into a business.

ScaleOut Software

Angel Round in 2004
Focused on delivering scalable, memory-based storage for ecommerce, back-office, financial, and HPC applications, ScaleOut Software is an in-memory distributed data grid that offers dynamic load-balancing, data replication, parallel query, and map/reduce with specific support for scaling in the cloud. Founded in 2003 by CEO Dr. William L. Bain, ScaleOut Software (www.scaleoutsoftware.com) has offices in Bellevue, WA, and Beaverton, OR.

SnapNames

Series A in 2001
SnapNames is a domain name auction site for previously registered domain names. It is a member of the [Oversee.net](/organization/oversee) family of companies, and was formed in 2000 to provide the first commercially available technology for "back-ordering" a currently registered domain name. SnapNames acquires and offers by auction the majority of expired domain names from each of the major top-level domains. More than 100 million names worldwide expire and delete each year, giving SnapNames customers access to literally millions of domain names the moment they come back on the market.