Oregon Angel Fund
The Oregon Angel Fund (OAF) is a community supported, professionally managed, investor driven venture capital fund. The fund provides investors privileged access to the most promising startups and early-stage growth companies in Oregon and SW Washington. Founded in 2007, OAF has grown to become the most active local venue for funding startups in terms of both participants and dollars invested. OAF launches a new $8 million fund each calendar year. Employing a rigorous and disciplined due diligence process, each annual fund aims to make 5-7 investments over a 12-month active investing period, followed by another 9 years of fund life to grow and exit each portfolio. The fund targets to invest $100K to $2M per deal with individual OAF members and venture capital funds often investing alongside and after OAF. Each fund's one-year investment horizon is designed to solicit deal flow and encourage investor decision-making, diversification, and learning. OAF’s active members collaborate in small teams to research, select, and manage the portfolio of investments. Participating investors in OAF are some of the region's most successful and respected business and technology leaders, including professional investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and active and retired executives. Some 85% of OAF investors have led or founded a business. The Oregon Community Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, and the Oregon Growth Account invest annually in OAF, with the gains from the state’s investments supporting public education in Oregon. OAF collaborates with the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network and receives generous support from Ater Wynne LLP, Geffen Mesher & Co., Perkins Coie LLP, and Umpqua Private Bank.
Sector
67 past transactions
Pacific Light Technologies
Seed Round in 2012
Pacific Light Technologies is a materials company producing engineered nanomaterials for high-efficiency solid-state lighting. PLT is an early-stage start-up with laboratories located in the Portland metropolitan area, whose core competency is nanomaterial production and integration for consumer products.
Sila
Series A in 2021
Sila is the platform that powers modern financial apps. Sila gives you unparalleled ability to design a product where money movement can be tied to events within your platform, with just a few lines of code. It’s also an out-of-the-box digital wallet for your customers that’s easy to set up. And there’s the normal money stuff too: Sila can make and receive ACH transfers, link bank accounts, and verify customer identity—all at a fraction of the cost of traditional bank partnerships.
Rumpl Inc.
Venture Round in 2018
Rumpl Inc. manufactures and markets blankets for indoor and outdoor use. It offers its products online. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
ClearFlow, Inc.
Venture Round in 2010
ClearFlow, Inc., a medical device company, develops and manufactures active blood and fluid evacuation systems to medical tube obstructions. It offers PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology, a system that clears chest tubes and prevents the retention of blood and fluids in the chest cavity, as well as treats pediatric cardiothoracic surgery patients. The company’s product pipeline is based on its proprietary Active Clearance Technology to resolve catheter clogging in multiple medical market segments, including urinary catheters, gastrointestinal catheters, and wound drainage. ClearFlow, Inc. was formerly known as Clear Catheter Systems, Inc. and changed its name to ClearFlow, Inc. in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Anaheim, California. It has a service center in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Wildfang Co.
Series A in 2017
Wildfang Co. manufactures and retails apparel for women. It offers tops, including button-ups, tees, tanks, sweaters, sweat shirts, outerwear, and vests; bottoms, including jeans, pants, shorts, and overalls; and accessories, such as bags, hats, jewelry, ties, scarves, and novelty. The company also offers shoes, including boots, flats, and heels. In addition, it offers products online. The company was formerly known as WILDFANG International Inc. Wildfang Co. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Project Wayfinder
Series A in 2022
Project Wayfinder designed for all students to develop lives of meaning and purpose.
Krowdsourced Inc.
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.
Celly
Seed Round in 2013
Celly, Inc. develops Celly, a mobile social network that works with mobile phones or devices. The company’s Celly solution is available via Android App, iPhone App, Web, email, or text messaging. Its Celly serves middle schools, high schools, and colleges; Occupy movements; city governments; businesses; families; friends; teams and clubs; churches; and neighborhoods. The company’s solution enables members to join instantly with a text; and exchange group messages, polls, reminders, and Web alerts. Celly, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Rigado, LLC
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.
Salt and Straw
Venture Round in 2019
Salt & Straw Inc. owns and operates ice cream stores. Salt & Straw Inc. produces ice cream using local and organic flavors, such as black olive brittle and goat cheese, green apple and wasabi flowers, iris liqueur, and edible flowers sorbet. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with stores in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.
Meridian
Seed Round in 2011
Meridian Apps, Inc. ("Meridian") is an enterprise mobile software company for location-based businesses.
Retailers, hospitals, museums, subways, corporate campuses and other venues use the Meridian's platform to build indoor-GPS apps to engage with their visitors. Customers include Macy's, New York City subway system, American Museum of Natural History, Boston Children's Hospital, Intel and the Venetian hotel-resort-casino.
Supporting Meridian deployment is the location-based services industry's first content management system, Meridian Editor. Within minutes, enterprise customers can use the Meridian Editor's AppMaker to build a full-featured app with turn-by-turn directions, add multimedia and integrate with third-party features. And app developers can use Meridian's SDKs to add indoor navigation and indoor positioning to existing apps.
Meridian was developed by the founders of Spotlight Mobile, an award-winning mobile-app development firm known for their app for Barnes & Noble, American Museum of Natural History, Conde Nast and Nike.
Cloud Campaign, Inc.
Series A in 2021
Cloud Campaign, Inc. develops a software solution for marketing agencies to manage multiple brands on social media. It offers Cloud Campaign that allows users to tag their content to schedule, filter, or track analytics by category; fill their content library with a blog, YouTube channel, Shopify store, or any other data source; and work together with own team or their clients to build the content piece. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon with an additional office in San Francisco, California.
Veelo
Seed Round in 2014
Veelo™ sales enablement and learning platform increases sales effectiveness & marketing ROI. Boost lead conversion by helping your sellers have better sales conversations. Veelo arms your sellers with relevant content and training bursts matched to each stage of the buying cycle, while providing just in time support for reps that’s fast, easy to access, and available on any device. Plus, track which content your reps are actually using for maximum ROI.
Second Porch
Series A in 2010
Second Porch is a vacation rental listing and house swap application for [Facebook](/organization/facebook/).
Homeowners can list on the application that maximizes the dynamic social interactions that Facebook enables for 250 million people so far, connecting the vacation rentals with their existing network. This enables a personal interaction with increased accountability and trust.
TrovaTrip
Venture Round in 2021
TrovaTrip is an audience monetization platform for influencers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. Hosts use our platform to easily plan and sell group trips, offer paid or donation-based livestreams, and sell digital products like ebooks and recorded workshops.
Customer.io
Series A in 2022
Customer.io is a SaaS product that provides infrastructure to send triggered emails users to improve an app’s engagement level with users.
Customer.io receives data about user behavior through on-site javascript code as well as a RESTful API.
Customer.io has rules to match users in various conditions like “hasn’t logged in in 30 days” or “has not connected to facebook”.
Users who match conditions receive emails encouraging them to change their behavior. Customer.io measures the effectiveness of those emails and allows its customers to continuously tweak and improve their triggered email campaigns.
MobileRQ
Debt Financing in 2015
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.
Clickety
Seed Round in 2021
Kivo
Seed Round in 2022
Sila
Seed Round in 2020
Sila is the platform that powers modern financial apps. Sila gives you unparalleled ability to design a product where money movement can be tied to events within your platform, with just a few lines of code. It’s also an out-of-the-box digital wallet for your customers that’s easy to set up. And there’s the normal money stuff too: Sila can make and receive ACH transfers, link bank accounts, and verify customer identity—all at a fraction of the cost of traditional bank partnerships.
Bigleaf Networks
Series B in 2018
Bigleaf is a cloud-based internet redundancy and optimization service that provides improved reliability, performance, and support, for businesses that rely on the internet. This enables increased protection from business disruption, delivers the full potential of cloud and remote applications, and creates peace of mind for stakeholders.
With previously unavailable features such as seamless failover for all applications, circuit-aware load balancing, and true Quality-of-Service over commodity internet, Bigleaf is the evolution of internet connectivity.
ActionSprout
Series A in 2015
ActionSprout, Inc. designs and markets Facebook-centered tools. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Bellingham, Washington.
Muut, Inc.
Seed Round in 2014
Muut (formerly Moot) is a powerful discussion platform, unencumbered by the weight of unnecessary features and distractions. It places the conversation back to the forefront. Clean user interface, persistent content and deep integration to the site makes a more natural and meaningful discussion and the content focuses on topics the people care about.
Bright.md Inc.
Seed Round in 2014
Bright.md is a developer of an AI-powered virtual-care platform designed to modernize direct-to-patient telehealth for healthcare systems. The company partners with premier healthcare organizations to offer SmartExam to more than 10 million patients who are seeking convenient urgent and primary care online, connecting them to their physicians via a home computer or mobile device reducing visits, enabling patients to receive conveniently, high quality, asynchronous, online care from established and trusted health system providers.
The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Brandlive
Series A in 2013
Reinventing virtual experiences. As the world bends towards virtual, and Zoom becomes the everyday meeting place, Brandlive empowers companies to create and stream high-end virtual experiences that stand out from the crowd.
Strike a pose, bring the pow, and make a splash — in a virtual world, Brandlive products help customers raise the bar in new and memorable ways.
With Events, companies can maximize attendee engagement and capture value in a virtual format with audience tracking, rich analytics, and the ability to drive impressions for content and sponsors.
With Showrooms, brands create their own compelling go-to-market video hub for their products each season. Each show helps drive business outcomes by educating global teams (both internally and accounts) in a secure fashion on what’s hitting the market next.
With Greenroom, users can create professional video content as easily as hosting a video call or webcast.
Greenroom gives event hosts access to high-end, integrated video production tools that are designed for anyone to use, not just technical producers.The result is elevated shows that blow everyday video meetings away. (Greenroom is not sold separately from Events or Showrooms)
Brandlive
Venture Round in 2016
Reinventing virtual experiences. As the world bends towards virtual, and Zoom becomes the everyday meeting place, Brandlive empowers companies to create and stream high-end virtual experiences that stand out from the crowd.
Strike a pose, bring the pow, and make a splash — in a virtual world, Brandlive products help customers raise the bar in new and memorable ways.
With Events, companies can maximize attendee engagement and capture value in a virtual format with audience tracking, rich analytics, and the ability to drive impressions for content and sponsors.
With Showrooms, brands create their own compelling go-to-market video hub for their products each season. Each show helps drive business outcomes by educating global teams (both internally and accounts) in a secure fashion on what’s hitting the market next.
With Greenroom, users can create professional video content as easily as hosting a video call or webcast.
Greenroom gives event hosts access to high-end, integrated video production tools that are designed for anyone to use, not just technical producers.The result is elevated shows that blow everyday video meetings away. (Greenroom is not sold separately from Events or Showrooms)
Revelation
Series A in 2008
Revelation creates cutting edge web applications for conducting qualitative market research. Launched in 2007, Revelation Project dramatically extends the reach of qualitative research, enabling researchers to spend more time with consumers wherever they are and get a truer picture of the consumer experience. Researchers can collect more data faster at a fraction of the cost.
Outdoor Project
Series A in 2017
Outdoor Project LLC owns and operates an online member-based community for outdoor adventure and travel. It provides content and guides for various types of human-powered outdoor activities, including trails, campgrounds, parks, kayaking, and others. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Portland, Oregon. As per the transaction announced on December 30, 2020, Outdoor Project LLC operates as a subsidiary of onXmaps, Inc.
Qualtik
Seed Round in 2020
Qualtik, Inc. develops a platform that helps lenders to improve their real estate portfolio analysis and reporting. It offers Spark, a platform that helps users to manage their commercial real estate and collateralized debt portfolios with real-time valuation, stress testing, scenario analysis, modeling, and reporting for individual assets; and portfolios. The company’s platform also collates real estate data of clients and make them accessible and searchable at one place by applying filters. Qualtik, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Portland, Oregon with an additional office in Austin, Texas.
Jama Software, Inc.
Series B in 2013
Jama Software provides the leading platform for requirements, risk, and test management. With Jama Connect and industry-focused services, teams building complex products, systems, and software improve cycle times, increase quality, reduce rework, and minimize effort proving compliance. Jama’s growing customer base of more than 600 organizations includes companies representing the forefront of modern development in areas such as automotive, medical devices, financial services, industrial manufacturing, and aerospace.
Hubb
Series A in 2016
Hubb, LLC provides an integrated app platform that automates the complex workflows and tasks required to collect, manage, and market content for conferences or meetings for clients. It also offers Exhibitor, which allows sponsors to self-manage everything from company profile to requesting their booth location; Attendee, which provides attendees the ability to plan their schedules and receive instant updates and evaluations on any device; and Website marketing tools. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Vancouver, Washington.
Customer.io
Convertible Note in 2015
Customer.io is a SaaS product that provides infrastructure to send triggered emails users to improve an app’s engagement level with users.
Customer.io receives data about user behavior through on-site javascript code as well as a RESTful API.
Customer.io has rules to match users in various conditions like “hasn’t logged in in 30 days” or “has not connected to facebook”.
Users who match conditions receive emails encouraging them to change their behavior. Customer.io measures the effectiveness of those emails and allows its customers to continuously tweak and improve their triggered email campaigns.
Qualtik
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Qualtik, Inc. develops a platform that helps lenders to improve their real estate portfolio analysis and reporting. It offers Spark, a platform that helps users to manage their commercial real estate and collateralized debt portfolios with real-time valuation, stress testing, scenario analysis, modeling, and reporting for individual assets; and portfolios. The company’s platform also collates real estate data of clients and make them accessible and searchable at one place by applying filters. Qualtik, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Portland, Oregon with an additional office in Austin, Texas.
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.
Customer.io
Seed Round in 2017
Customer.io is a SaaS product that provides infrastructure to send triggered emails users to improve an app’s engagement level with users.
Customer.io receives data about user behavior through on-site javascript code as well as a RESTful API.
Customer.io has rules to match users in various conditions like “hasn’t logged in in 30 days” or “has not connected to facebook”.
Users who match conditions receive emails encouraging them to change their behavior. Customer.io measures the effectiveness of those emails and allows its customers to continuously tweak and improve their triggered email campaigns.
Notion
Venture Round in 2016
Notion Data, Inc. provides a Software-as-a-Service platform that allows product-focused teams to collect and track performance metrics. Its platform comprises reporting and business intelligence dashboards that allow companies to collect, track, and act on product development data from multiple data sources via a comprehensive plug-and-play interface. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. As of January 11, 2018, Notion Data, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Jama Software, Inc.
Bumped
Series A in 2020
Bumped, Inc. develops a platform that allows publicly traded consumer brands to offer customers fractional shares of stock as loyalty rewards. Its platform offers consumers to stock ownership while also giving brands a way to reward customers. Bumped, Inc. was formerly known as Solovex, Inc. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
NemaMetrix, Inc.
Venture Round in 2019
NemaMetrix, Inc. develops whole animal electrophysiology equipment to accelerate the pace of research in various fields that range from academics to toxicology texting, and drug discovery to the genetic basis of disease. The company develops microfluidic devices with incorporated electrodes to make extracellular recording of bioelectric activity easy and repeatable; and RediStain fluorescent kits for improved visualization of C. Its solutions are used in pharmaceutical drug discovery, academic research, and global health markets. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Eugene, Oregon.
Hydrolix
Seed Round in 2021
Hydrolix is an early-stage startup with an ambition to change the economics of high density data. The company develops a query service technology intended to process petabyte-scale time series data.
Hydrolix's cloud-based query service utilizes proprietary compression and indexing technology, allowing customers to process sub-second interactive queries at a fraction of the cost of other existing services.
Rigado, LLC
Series A in 2018
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.
Giftango Corp.
Series A in 2009
Giftango is changing the way consumers use mobile and digital to pay for things. They have a passionate focus for the consumer experience and for solving real world problems for merchants and channels that distribute gifts, rewards, incentives and offers.
Giftango focuses on the prepaid marketplace and has a number of applications that include merchant services to send digital gift cards to mobile, email and social. They also facilitate the incentives industry, help app developers, and support the emerging mobile wallet community.
The Giftango Management team has a deep industry expertise with employees that previously held positions at places like Intel, Microsoft, Incomm, Starbucks, Amazon, American Express, Coinstar, and Western Union.
Bigleaf Networks
Series A in 2015
Bigleaf is a cloud-based internet redundancy and optimization service that provides improved reliability, performance, and support, for businesses that rely on the internet. This enables increased protection from business disruption, delivers the full potential of cloud and remote applications, and creates peace of mind for stakeholders.
With previously unavailable features such as seamless failover for all applications, circuit-aware load balancing, and true Quality-of-Service over commodity internet, Bigleaf is the evolution of internet connectivity.
DesignMedix
Series A in 2007
DesignMedix, Inc., a drug development company, develops small molecule drugs to overcome drug resistance in treating infectious diseases. The company develops DM1157, a drug candidate that provides cure for drug-resistant malaria to vulnerable patients, including children and pregnant women. Its portfolio also includes drug candidates for trichomonas vaginalis and helicobacter pylori, and bacterial and parasitic diseases. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
AbSci, LLC
Series D in 2020
AbSci, LLC develops protein production technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. The company offers SoluPro, a genetically engineered E. coli-based expression system that enables optimizable and scalable production of antibodies, antibody fragments, and other soluble recombinant proteins to be produced at a fraction of their current cost. Its therapeutic proteins and antibodies are used in cancer and hormone therapies, as well as autoimmune and blood disorder therapies. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Bright.md Inc.
Series A in 2015
Bright.md is a developer of an AI-powered virtual-care platform designed to modernize direct-to-patient telehealth for healthcare systems. The company partners with premier healthcare organizations to offer SmartExam to more than 10 million patients who are seeking convenient urgent and primary care online, connecting them to their physicians via a home computer or mobile device reducing visits, enabling patients to receive conveniently, high quality, asynchronous, online care from established and trusted health system providers.
The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
AbSci, LLC
Series C in 2018
AbSci, LLC develops protein production technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. The company offers SoluPro, a genetically engineered E. coli-based expression system that enables optimizable and scalable production of antibodies, antibody fragments, and other soluble recombinant proteins to be produced at a fraction of their current cost. Its therapeutic proteins and antibodies are used in cancer and hormone therapies, as well as autoimmune and blood disorder therapies. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Eclypsium
Series B in 2020
Eclypsium, Inc. develops a cloud-based device security platform for organizations. Its platform Eclypsium, an enterprise device security platform that offers security to the unprotected firmware and hardware layer of the enterprise including laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure. Eclypsium, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
The Wild
Seed Round in 2017
Wild Technology, Inc. develops and delivers The Wild, a collaboration platform that enables all project stakeholders to experience design together in real-time. The company’s spatial sketching tool enables rapid prototyping of 3D concepts and provides a way to ideate and share ideas with team. Its Add-In for Autodesk Revit is used in architecture, commercial interior design, and virtual design and construction. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Megh Computing
Seed Round in 2018
Megh Computing, Inc. delivers a platform for accelerating real-time analytics using Spark Streaming and other frameworks. Its platform enables seamless acceleration of applications that process streams with machine learning and deep learning algorithms to extract value from data as it is moving. It offers video analytics solution, addresses critical use-cases throughout the retail supply chain. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Hillsboro, Oregon with an additional office in Bengaluru, India.
Bumped
Series A in 2018
Bumped, Inc. develops a platform that allows publicly traded consumer brands to offer customers fractional shares of stock as loyalty rewards. Its platform offers consumers to stock ownership while also giving brands a way to reward customers. Bumped, Inc. was formerly known as Solovex, Inc. The company was founded in 2017 and is based 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.
Inpria Corporation
Venture Round in 2014
Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metal oxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing.
ClearFlow, Inc.
Series B in 2011
ClearFlow, Inc., a medical device company, develops and manufactures active blood and fluid evacuation systems to medical tube obstructions. It offers PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology, a system that clears chest tubes and prevents the retention of blood and fluids in the chest cavity, as well as treats pediatric cardiothoracic surgery patients. The company’s product pipeline is based on its proprietary Active Clearance Technology to resolve catheter clogging in multiple medical market segments, including urinary catheters, gastrointestinal catheters, and wound drainage. ClearFlow, Inc. was formerly known as Clear Catheter Systems, Inc. and changed its name to ClearFlow, Inc. in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Anaheim, California. It has a service center in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Little Bird
Venture Round in 2014
Little Bird powers fast and focused engagement for modern marketers in tech, entertainment, and financial services. Its solution helps marketers overcome the noise and chaos of the social web, to map and engage with the most influential subject matter experts online. Little Bird helps marketing organizations build social capital, expand their relevant reach, and grow their businesses.
The Clymb
Series A in 2011
The Clymb is the industry-leading venue for connecting premium outdoor enthusiasts, athletes and professionals. Exclusive arrangements with our partner brands allow members access to pricing as low as 70% below retail on apparel, footwear and gear from an elite group of premium manufacturers.
The Clymb is a private online community. Members shape the network by inviting like-minded friends and colleagues. There is no cost to join, but membership is by invitation only.
The Clymb was founded in 2009 in Portland, Oregon by a seasoned team of outdoor and sport industry executives with one goal: innovating product distribution for the benefit of core consumers while protecting the integrity of our valued partner brands.
The Clymb is a private member network for dedicated outdoor enthusiasts, athletes, and professionals. We offer Member pricing on the planet's most sought-after outdoor brandsâ„¢
Lumen Learning, LLC
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.
Perfect Company
Venture Round in 2015
Perfect Company is a producer of smart products for smart homes. It is the leading developer and innovator of connected kitchen products. Their smart scales and guided recipe apps enable easy, seamless, beginning-to-end food, and drink preparation at home.
It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington.
Elemental Technologies
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.
PolySync Technologies, Inc.
Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2013, Polysync Technologies builds solutions to help partners safely accelerate their development, testing, production, and market deployment of driverless vehicle mobility solutions. Automotive engineering services, developers, government agencies, and universities around the world rely on Polysync for autonomous software and vehicle development. Polysync's products are in operation in more than 17 countries, with offices in Portland, OR, Palo Alto, CA, Detroit, MI, and Europe.
Bigleaf Networks
Series B in 2019
Bigleaf is a cloud-based internet redundancy and optimization service that provides improved reliability, performance, and support, for businesses that rely on the internet. This enables increased protection from business disruption, delivers the full potential of cloud and remote applications, and creates peace of mind for stakeholders.
With previously unavailable features such as seamless failover for all applications, circuit-aware load balancing, and true Quality-of-Service over commodity internet, Bigleaf is the evolution of internet connectivity.
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.
Hubb
Series B in 2018
Hubb, LLC provides an integrated app platform that automates the complex workflows and tasks required to collect, manage, and market content for conferences or meetings for clients. It also offers Exhibitor, which allows sponsors to self-manage everything from company profile to requesting their booth location; Attendee, which provides attendees the ability to plan their schedules and receive instant updates and evaluations on any device; and Website marketing tools. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Vancouver, Washington.
OPAL
Seed Round in 2013
Opal is a marketing collaboration platform for modern marketing teams. Working in Opal helps teams align on strategy, create campaigns with confidence, streamline the reviews process, improve the facilitation of content, and seamlessly integrate with a team’s preferred distribution method. The Opal Platform tears down silos, reduces complexity, and connects teams across the enterprise for winning results.
It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
OPAL
Series A in 2014
Opal is a marketing collaboration platform for modern marketing teams. Working in Opal helps teams align on strategy, create campaigns with confidence, streamline the reviews process, improve the facilitation of content, and seamlessly integrate with a team’s preferred distribution method. The Opal Platform tears down silos, reduces complexity, and connects teams across the enterprise for winning results.
It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
AbSci, LLC
Series A in 2016
AbSci, LLC develops protein production technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. The company offers SoluPro, a genetically engineered E. coli-based expression system that enables optimizable and scalable production of antibodies, antibody fragments, and other soluble recombinant proteins to be produced at a fraction of their current cost. Its therapeutic proteins and antibodies are used in cancer and hormone therapies, as well as autoimmune and blood disorder therapies. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Streem, Inc.
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.
IOTAS, INC.
Series A in 2017
IOTAS, INC. provides home automation services for apartment residents in Portland, Oregon. It installs and sets up smart outlets, hubs, smart switches, smart plugs, open/close sensors, and motion sensors in apartments. The company also provides home automation platform that integrates pre-installed hardware with software to interact with homes; and enables residents to manually control and automate lights and devices based on a schedule or various triggers. IOTAS, INC. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
