Rogue Venture Partners

Rogue Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in startups. It seeks to invest in new and growing businesses in Oregon and the PNW. Rogue invests in entrepreneurs that reject the status quo, and who are driven by market traction. Rogue values ingenuity, insight and intelligence and accelerates entrepreneurial success with resources, values and vision. Rogue is committed to increasing Oregon's entrepreneurial footprint through committed, sustainable investment in new businesses and growing enterprises.

Caroline Lewis

Partner

Tom Sperry

Co-Founder and Managing Director

48 past transactions

KIVO

Seed Round in 2022
Kivo provides document management and submission orchestration for life science companies. Its platform includes over 130 ICH and regional document templates, ensuring consistency across all submission documents. Its repository follows the Industry-standard EDM reference model. Kivo content jumpstarts all aspects of the authoring process.

Behavioral Signals

Venture Round in 2022
Behavioral Signals (Behavioral Signal Technologies, Inc.) develops technology to analyze human behavior from voice data. With AI-MC, their flagship product, enterprises can automatically match each customer to the suited agent, using voice data and emotion AI, and see the overall performance and outcomes of their call center conversations reach higher levels of profitability

RSTLSS

Seed Round in 2022
RSTLSS is a developer of a digital fashion label that allows individuals to freely and fluidly express their identity. The company's platform gives artists, brands, and influencers the freedom and access to create and sell multiverse fashion through an engaging, gamified experience. It also grows crypto-native brands and onboards traditional internet protocols (IPs) into the metaverse via curated non-fungible token (NFT) drops, allowing them to create and monetize wearables and merchandise in the metaverse while maintaining complete control over their visual identities.

PortalOne

Series A in 2022
PortalOne is a pioneering startup in the videogames industry, taking the best parts of games and the best parts of TV and merging them together to create an immersive entertainment experience unlike anything that's been seen before. PortalOne's business model is centered around the concept of 'hybrid games', a novel category that combines elements of traditional gaming with interactive TV shows. Currently accessible only via mobile devices, the company hosts daily 24-hour tournaments every day where players can compete in a variety of games across different genres, including Atari games, for which the company has the exclusive global distribution rights for many of its titles like 'Pong', 'Breakout' and 'Centipede'. These games are not just standalone experiences, but are integrated with TV shows broadcasted within the games themselves. Players play throughout the day with the goal of climbing the Leaderboards for each game, with the opportunity to win real prizes such as cash and holidays. PortalOne's first show format, the 'Arcade Show' -- the TV component of hybrid games -- is hosted every single day in the PortalOne app. The show sees special guests come into the PortalOne universe and become immersed inside the game worlds as real characters. They play a round of a PortalOne game, and then players play against them on their mobile device at home. Previous guests on the Arcade Show include Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Tori Kelly, and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. The company has been operational since 2018 and has been steadfast in its mission to merge the best aspects of the gaming and TV industries. PortalOne's vision is to be the ultimate destination for hybrid games, in the same way that Spotify is for music and podcasts, and Netflix is for TV and film. PortalOne will host hundreds of games across all genres on its platform, with multiple show formats in its universe. The company also intends to become cross-platform. Currently operating in the US & Canada and Norway, PortalOne aims to be available worldwide with studios around the world producing localized TV shows for different geographies.

Contact

Seed Round in 2021
Contact is the place where creatives manage their career and get paid.

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.

Release

Seed Round in 2021
Release simplifies development by making the creation of environments easy. Environments are created based on a template that is automatically derived from a docker-compose file that defines the application. It allows creating any number of development, staging, demo, and production environments without ever having to deal with the underlying infrastructure. These environments can then be automatically generated and updated whenever you push a code change or create a PR. They can also be manually deployed via the Release user interface. It was founded by Tommy, David, and Erik in 2019.

PortalOne

Seed Round in 2021
PortalOne is a pioneering startup in the videogames industry, taking the best parts of games and the best parts of TV and merging them together to create an immersive entertainment experience unlike anything that's been seen before. PortalOne's business model is centered around the concept of 'hybrid games', a novel category that combines elements of traditional gaming with interactive TV shows. Currently accessible only via mobile devices, the company hosts daily 24-hour tournaments every day where players can compete in a variety of games across different genres, including Atari games, for which the company has the exclusive global distribution rights for many of its titles like 'Pong', 'Breakout' and 'Centipede'. These games are not just standalone experiences, but are integrated with TV shows broadcasted within the games themselves. Players play throughout the day with the goal of climbing the Leaderboards for each game, with the opportunity to win real prizes such as cash and holidays. PortalOne's first show format, the 'Arcade Show' -- the TV component of hybrid games -- is hosted every single day in the PortalOne app. The show sees special guests come into the PortalOne universe and become immersed inside the game worlds as real characters. They play a round of a PortalOne game, and then players play against them on their mobile device at home. Previous guests on the Arcade Show include Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Tori Kelly, and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. The company has been operational since 2018 and has been steadfast in its mission to merge the best aspects of the gaming and TV industries. PortalOne's vision is to be the ultimate destination for hybrid games, in the same way that Spotify is for music and podcasts, and Netflix is for TV and film. PortalOne will host hundreds of games across all genres on its platform, with multiple show formats in its universe. The company also intends to become cross-platform. Currently operating in the US & Canada and Norway, PortalOne aims to be available worldwide with studios around the world producing localized TV shows for different geographies.

Reperio Health

Seed Round in 2021
Reperio offers a patented at-home health assessment technology to reduce barriers to preventive care. It includes collecting multiple health metrics in real-time, including blood pressure, resting heart rate, body mass index (BMI), relative fat mass (RFM), total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and glucose levels.

Edify

Venture Round in 2020
Edify is a software tool that helps engineering managers quickly design and deploy technical onboarding plans for their new hires.

Anagram

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2014, Anagram is a unified revenue cycle management SaaS for eye care providers

Source

Venture Round in 2020
Source is a commercial construction SaaS platform for commercial designers and architects. The platform offers human intelligence, digital tools, and physical libraries to give architects, designers, reps, and manufacturers in commercial design a better way to discover products and collaborate. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon by Nicole Schmidt.

Lensabl

Series A in 2019
Lensabl offers an online prescription lens replacement service focused on making it both convenient and affordable for consumers to purchase high-quality lenses from the comfort of their home. The company was established in 2015 by co-founders Andy Bilinsky and Mike Rahimzadeh.

Source

Seed Round in 2019
Source is a commercial construction SaaS platform for commercial designers and architects. The platform offers human intelligence, digital tools, and physical libraries to give architects, designers, reps, and manufacturers in commercial design a better way to discover products and collaborate. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon by Nicole Schmidt.

Goods Unite Us

Seed Round in 2019
Goods Unite Us is a for profit, women-owned data company headquartered in Madison, WI. Consumers can use our free app to gain access to the political affiliation of over 5,000 brands and companies, so they can see which companies share their values. Investors can utilize us as an alternative data source which works as a proxy for both ESG and overall stock performance. Companies can see what their customers care about and how their political contributions create risk and opportunity within their sector.

Megh Computing

Seed Round in 2018
Megh Computing provides a collection of codes to be used in field-programmable gate arrays. The code can be used by developers in their applications for users deploying field-programmable gate arrays in their data centers and to rent them on a cloud.

Lensabl

Seed Round in 2018
Lensabl offers an online prescription lens replacement service focused on making it both convenient and affordable for consumers to purchase high-quality lenses from the comfort of their home. The company was established in 2015 by co-founders Andy Bilinsky and Mike Rahimzadeh.

Anagram

Funding Round in 2018
Founded in 2014, Anagram is a unified revenue cycle management SaaS for eye care providers

Rigado

Series A in 2018
Rigado enables secure, scalable sensors on any wifi network with their edge connect saas solution. It has combining proven technology management experience with deep engineering expertise. It provides edge-as-a-service infrastructure for commercial iot solutions such as asset tracking and smart buildings including flexible wireless gateways and a containerized edge computing platform.

Streem

Seed Round in 2018
Streem is an award winning technology company that enhances real-time communication and collaboration by creating an intelligent camera. The platform delivers a combination of augmented reality (AR), computer vision, and machine learning. It equips the expert with the capability to remotely capture crucial information by using proprietary spatial mapping, OCR, and object & pose estimation technology.

Streem

Seed Round in 2017
Streem is an award winning technology company that enhances real-time communication and collaboration by creating an intelligent camera. The platform delivers a combination of augmented reality (AR), computer vision, and machine learning. It equips the expert with the capability to remotely capture crucial information by using proprietary spatial mapping, OCR, and object & pose estimation technology.

Drone Complier

Convertible Note in 2017
With Drone Complier you can manage your entire drone operation with one intuitive, enterprise-grade solution. Plan and assign your drone fleet to flights around the world, track pilots, batteries and gear, customize safety plans and automate your compliance obligations with any country's civil aviation authority with one tool that goes wherever you fly. We have offices in the USA and Australia. The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), which is the equivalent of the USA's FAA, selected Drone Complier as the official app to inform drone pilots where it is safe and legal to fly drones as a hobby and where you need to be certified in order to conduct commercial drone operations. DRONE COMPLIER seamlessly links administrative control and mobile accessibility to ensure everyone involved in the company's drone operations is working from the same playbook. Administrators and risk management professionals get total visibility and ensure compliance with regulations and company policies, while operators get a valuable mission planning, logging and management app they can take anywhere they go. Our solution was selected by the ASSURE consortium of leading US Universities (including Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) as their official drone program management solution, and has been proven in the field in events like Embry-Riddle's Storm Chasers program, which made national headlines when students and faculty assisted first responders with real-time aerial imagery after tornados devastated Kansas. Customer testimony from Patrick Cape - Social Media and Communications Officer - Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority "The 'Can I fly there?' app has proven to be immensely popular with the drone community in Australia, with over 20,000 users in the first week after its release. With its easy-to-understand guidance about where you can and cannot fly, 'Can I fly there?' provides every drone operator in Australia, regardless of their aviation knowledge and experience, the ability to make every flight a safe one. The team at Drone Complier have been great to work with in developing the app, going above and beyond to ensure the product was delivered on time and to our specifications. We look forward to continuing to work with the Drone Complier Team..."

Rigado

Seed Round in 2017
Rigado enables secure, scalable sensors on any wifi network with their edge connect saas solution. It has combining proven technology management experience with deep engineering expertise. It provides edge-as-a-service infrastructure for commercial iot solutions such as asset tracking and smart buildings including flexible wireless gateways and a containerized edge computing platform.

Sightbox

Convertible Note in 2017
Sightbox is a vision service for people who wear contact lenses. Each membership includes an eye exam, contact lens fitting, an annual supply of contacts, and a payment plan to spread out the customer's cost over the course of a year. The Sightbox team works from the Pittock Block in downtown Portland, Oregon. Formerly a power generator station for the city and print room for The Oregonian newspaper, it is now home to many of the area's leading tech companies. Our five distribution centers are located across the US. Sightbox is designed for people who need new contacts and don’t have a current prescription. We spread out the high upfront cost of vision care into simple monthly payments. When a new member joins Sightbox our first priority is to refer them to a local optometrist for a comprehensive exam. We schedule the appointment, pay the doctor, and provide the patient with an annual supply of contacts. Sightbox supports all major manufacturer disposable lenses including toric, multifocal, and color contact within our standard vision memberships. Sightbox is available in all 50 US states. An annual membership is $39 per month and includes your eye exam, contact lens fitting, and an annual supply of 2-Week or Monthly contacts. We also offer an upgrade option, with flexible pricing, for members who wish to wear 1-Day contacts.

IOTAS

Series A in 2017
IOTAS is a Portland, Ore.-based developer of a premier smart home technology platform that delivers a fully-connected, smart home experience for residents and property managers that integrates IoT technology directly into multifamily units. IOTAS enables property developers to quickly install numerous smart devices by streamlining the set-up and deployment process. With this premium offering, building owners and operators attract new tenants at premium rents, while lowering utility and management costs. Residents have smart home technology as they move in that is managed from one app, voice control, and automation.

InVivo Biosystems

Venture Round in 2017
InVivo Biosystems is using alternative, non-mammalian model organisms in early biological and biomedical research. The company develops solutions and commercializes proprietary systems for the genetic modification of simple microscopic living animals through its transgenic platform to act as human proxies for disease research, drug discovery and help researchers reveal new insights into the true nature of genetic mutations. InVivo Biosystems provides essential services to help pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, biotechnology companies and academic research institutions around the globe accelerate their research and drug development efforts. The company's mission is to enable scientists and researchers around the world to better understand human health and explore potential treatments for high-impact disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, and cancer by offering a more affordable and accessible platform.

Complier Enterprise

Convertible Note in 2017
Complier Enterprise provides the software, training and professional services.

Sightbox

Seed Round in 2016
Sightbox is a vision service for people who wear contact lenses. Each membership includes an eye exam, contact lens fitting, an annual supply of contacts, and a payment plan to spread out the customer's cost over the course of a year. The Sightbox team works from the Pittock Block in downtown Portland, Oregon. Formerly a power generator station for the city and print room for The Oregonian newspaper, it is now home to many of the area's leading tech companies. Our five distribution centers are located across the US. Sightbox is designed for people who need new contacts and don’t have a current prescription. We spread out the high upfront cost of vision care into simple monthly payments. When a new member joins Sightbox our first priority is to refer them to a local optometrist for a comprehensive exam. We schedule the appointment, pay the doctor, and provide the patient with an annual supply of contacts. Sightbox supports all major manufacturer disposable lenses including toric, multifocal, and color contact within our standard vision memberships. Sightbox is available in all 50 US states. An annual membership is $39 per month and includes your eye exam, contact lens fitting, and an annual supply of 2-Week or Monthly contacts. We also offer an upgrade option, with flexible pricing, for members who wish to wear 1-Day contacts.

Antenna

Seed Round in 2016
Our mobile-first, real-time feedback platform captures true audience sentiment, increasing participation and conversions. We are personalized, two-way feedback for the mobile generation.

The Dyrt

Convertible Note in 2016
The Dyrt is a free to use camping website and top ranked app that offers campsite bookings and over a million photos, reviews and tips of campgrounds throughout the US. The premium membership, The Dyrt PRO, is an optional $36 annual subscription that makes going camping easier with a trip planner, offline search, public land map layers as well as discounts on campgrounds and gear. The Dyrt PRO is the largest and fastest growing consumer subscription service for campers in the US.

InVivo Biosystems

Convertible Note in 2015
InVivo Biosystems is using alternative, non-mammalian model organisms in early biological and biomedical research. The company develops solutions and commercializes proprietary systems for the genetic modification of simple microscopic living animals through its transgenic platform to act as human proxies for disease research, drug discovery and help researchers reveal new insights into the true nature of genetic mutations. InVivo Biosystems provides essential services to help pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, biotechnology companies and academic research institutions around the globe accelerate their research and drug development efforts. The company's mission is to enable scientists and researchers around the world to better understand human health and explore potential treatments for high-impact disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, and cancer by offering a more affordable and accessible platform.

Seed

Venture Round in 2015
Seed is simply a better way to bank. As a mobile first banking service designed with the small business in mind, Seed empowers small businesses with modern, easy-to-use digital tools and customer-support resources for starting, running, and growing a business. With Seed, business banking has never been easier.

Vadio

Series A in 2015
Vadio turns listeners into viewers by evolving traditional audio streams into rich media viewing experiences for both established and emerging media companies. Vadio is partnered with numerous media companies both in the U.S. and internationally across 6 continents. Vadio’s existing investors include Wieden+Kennedy (PIE), Rogue Venture Partners, BAM Ventures, Mucker Capital, Valence Ventures, Founder’s Co-op, Amplify, and multiple industry executives who have led companies such as Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, YouTube / Google, Microsoft, William Morris Endeavor, MP3.com, EMI, and AEG Digital.

Chirpify

Series A in 2015
Chirpify, Inc. operates a social media loyalty platform that provides solutions for marketers to enhance consumer engagement and brand loyalty. Founded in 2011 and based in Portland, Oregon, Chirpify enables brands to convert mobile and social media actions into rewards through various initiatives, including consumer engagement loyalty programs and marketing chat bots. The platform facilitates "in-stream" marketing by allowing users to purchase items directly through social media interactions, promoting a seamless transaction process. Additionally, Chirpify's tools support campaign activation, employee advocacy, event marketing, and customer insights, helping brands optimize their marketing strategies and improve customer lifetime value. Formerly known as Sell Simply LLC, the company rebranded to Chirpify in November 2011.

Indice Semiconductor

Series A in 2014
Indice is a fabless semiconductor company which has made it its mission to think outside the box, with a focus on producing efficient, powerful signal and power conversion for lighting, audio, ADC/DAC and other applications. Our solutions are developed around patented technology which enables many benefits over traditional power control schemes including active temperature management, active power management, high performance and high power density, typically reducing the required PCB size. Our LED product portfolio includes dimmable LED driver IC’s for MR16 (12VAC) and mains voltage (110VAC & 240VAC) solutions, driver boards and reference designs for turnkey manufacture. Indice LED driver IC’s are at the heart of each LED driver reference design we develop. Our flexible product offerings for MR16 and mains voltage LED drivers enable rapid time-to-market for customers wanting to develop their own LED product no matter what level of in-house expertise they have. Indice reference designs come in a variety of form factors to suit an array of lamp sizes and shapes.

DiabetOmics

Venture Round in 2014
DiabetOmics is a medical diagnostics company that provides non-invasive assessment and management of personalized health and diabetes risk. Its mission is to advance the health and wellbeing of people with, or at risk for, diabetes through simple, cost-effective, and easily accessible diabetes care. Their goal is to develop and provide point-of-care testing capabilities that are especially useful in alleviating the substantial economic and public health burden of diabetes. DiabetOmics was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon.

Better Bean

Series A in 2014
Better Bean offers the first-of-its-kind award-winning refrigerated beans that are ready to eat or heat for a quick dinner or snack. Varieties include Rethought Red Beans, Uncanny Refried Black Beans, Cuban Black Beans, Wholly Chipotle Bean Dip and Three Sisters Chili. Find Better Beans at select grocers throughout the country including Whole Foods Market, New Seasons, Wegmans and more.

MobileRQ

Venture Round in 2014
Global consumer brands must now compete on the quality of the customer experience. Great customer experiences only happen when the brand can personalize their customer conversations with relevant, targeted content on a single device that customers won’t leave home without their smartphone.

ONtheGO Platforms

Seed Round in 2014
ONtheGO Platforms is a developer of software applications for smart glasses. It offers a gesture recognition software that turns any mobile device with a standard camera into a gesture interface, for runners, and endurance athletes. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Gliph

Seed Round in 2013
Gliph allows people to connect and transact using its secure and private messaging system and P2P Marketplace. Gliph has apps for iPhone and Android and the mobile web, along with a Desktop Web client. For more information, please visit https://gli.ph

Conscious Box

Seed Round in 2013
Conscious Box is the window to a better world—one where you never have to worry about whether the products you’re buying are truly safe, effective, or good for you. It’s the destination for the best eco-friendly products, the most authoritative source on green, and an platform for creating successful natural product businesses.

SERPs

Seed Round in 2013
Instantly see the health of your website with the first true SEO Dashboard for competitive SEOs like you. Spot exactly what needs your attention today based on the latest rankings, analytics and link data.

AppThwack

Seed Round in 2013
AppThwack automatically tests Android, iOS, and web apps on 100s of real, non-emulated phones and tablets, providing reports in minutes so issues are caught well before deployment to customers. Developers and QA teams upload apps via the web client or through the API (Continuous integration, IDEs, etc) and AppThwack tests them on the desired devices. The built-in test suite require no code or instrumentation, and includes install, launch, AppExplorer - an intelligent crawler that dynamically navigates and interacts with the app, and stress. In addition to the built-in tests, AppThwack supports custom tests via all popular automation platforms (Robotium, Calabash, UI Automation, etc), making it possible to take full control of devices and exercise specific flows and behaviors in a given app. Focused reports generate in real time and contain high-level trends, low-level details, performance profiles, and high-resolution screenshots.

Measureful

Seed Round in 2013
Easy, automated analytics insights for marketers. Stop reporting and start telling stories.

Vadio

Angel Round in 2012
Vadio turns listeners into viewers by evolving traditional audio streams into rich media viewing experiences for both established and emerging media companies. Vadio is partnered with numerous media companies both in the U.S. and internationally across 6 continents. Vadio’s existing investors include Wieden+Kennedy (PIE), Rogue Venture Partners, BAM Ventures, Mucker Capital, Valence Ventures, Founder’s Co-op, Amplify, and multiple industry executives who have led companies such as Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, YouTube / Google, Microsoft, William Morris Endeavor, MP3.com, EMI, and AEG Digital.

Tellagence

Seed Round in 2012
Tellagence is a social prediction company, which successfully unlocks the complexities of all social networks and relationships to predict who will be motivated to pass a brand’s messages. Tellagence’s product for building community is built on algorithms that monitor and understand the dynamics of relationships within networks. Therefore, the product can predict how information will move and which relationships a brand should build to optimize the reach of content. Tellagence Discover allow brands to identify their audience within a social network based on how they use language. This allows them to take an unbiased look at how an audience talks about any topic, your brand or competition while allowing you to dig into the details of how specific language is used to inform your content strategy.

AthletePath

Seed Round in 2011
AthletePath is a development stage company, intends to develop an online platform for athletes that will illustrate their performance statistics. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
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