Oregon Venture Fund

Oregon Venture Fund, established in 2007 and based in Portland, Oregon, is a prominent venture capital firm dedicated to supporting startups and early-stage growth companies primarily located in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The firm invests across a diverse range of sectors, including energy, healthcare, consumer products, technology, and life sciences, among others. It typically commits between $500,000 and $4 million per investment round, with an annual investment of approximately $15 million. Oregon Venture Fund focuses on nurturing innovative businesses that demonstrate high growth potential, aiming to create significant job opportunities within the region. With a portfolio that has led to the creation of over 4,200 jobs, the firm is recognized as one of the most active and effective venture funds in North America.

Alline Akintore

principal

Matt Compton

General Partner

Deepthi Madhava

Partner

Jonathan Maroney

General Partner, Connecting and Cultivating

Sandler, Scott

Fund Manager

Drew Smith

Partner

Ethan Smith-Gillespie

Member and Investor

Stewart Yaguda

Investor

79 past transactions

Hydrolix

Series C in 2025
Hydrolix is a data lake platform focused on enhancing the cost efficiency of log data management for organizations dealing with large volumes of information. The company offers a robust solution that addresses challenges in data storage, real-time analytics, and scalability. By utilizing elastic cloud technology, Hydrolix enables high-performance query capabilities for high-volume, high-cardinality data stored in affordable cloud environments. Their platform features high-density compression, scale-to-zero controls, and zero-egress on-prem deployment, significantly lowering costs associated with ingesting, querying, and storing append-only data. This allows clients to execute sub-second interactive queries while maintaining consistent performance, even as data demands grow.

NLM Photonics

Venture Round in 2025
NLM Photonics is a semiconductor technology company focused on developing advanced electro-optic modulation technology aimed at enhancing networking, computing, and sensing applications. Originating from over two decades of research at the University of Washington, the company's patented Hybrid Organic Electro-Optic (OEO) Technology facilitates efficient data transfer between electronic components and photonics, which is crucial for applications like fiber optics and LIDAR. This technology addresses the power and bandwidth limitations of existing silicon photonics platforms by enabling low-voltage, low-power integration that can be retrofitted into existing manufacturing processes with minimal disruption. NLM's solutions provide significant improvements in power efficiency and scalable bandwidth, making them attractive to hyperscale data center operators and commercial fabs. The company's growth is supported by strategic partnerships with major industry players, enhancing its position in the rapidly evolving photonics landscape.

Distributional

Series A in 2024
Distributional is a developer of an AI testing and evaluation platform focused on ensuring that artificial intelligence systems are safe, reliable, and secure. The company offers tools for continuous monitoring, which include generating test cases and analyzing results. These tools help organizations ensure that their AI systems perform as expected, thereby fostering trust in AI technologies. By providing these capabilities, Distributional enables customers to deploy AI products more frequently and effectively, allowing them to fully leverage the potential benefits of AI within their operations.

Platformr

Seed Round in 2024
Purpose-built with AWS best practices, Platformr configures AWS infrastructure, sets up AWS landing zones, and deploys scalable, well-architected workloads in minutes—accelerating AWS Cloud migration and modernization.

Hydrolix

Series B in 2024
Hydrolix is a data lake platform focused on enhancing the cost efficiency of log data management for organizations dealing with large volumes of information. The company offers a robust solution that addresses challenges in data storage, real-time analytics, and scalability. By utilizing elastic cloud technology, Hydrolix enables high-performance query capabilities for high-volume, high-cardinality data stored in affordable cloud environments. Their platform features high-density compression, scale-to-zero controls, and zero-egress on-prem deployment, significantly lowering costs associated with ingesting, querying, and storing append-only data. This allows clients to execute sub-second interactive queries while maintaining consistent performance, even as data demands grow.

digs

Seed Round in 2024
Digs is a web-based collaboration platform designed to streamline the construction process for builders. Utilizing artificial intelligence, it allows users to store and manage essential documents, facilitating collaboration on home building projects. The platform emphasizes a human-centric design, enabling builders to share final fixtures, selections, and house plans with realtors and homeowners. One of its key features is the automatic generation of digital homeowner handoffs, which provides a comprehensive digital understanding of the home, making information both usable and shareable. This approach not only enhances efficiency in building projects but also ensures that homeowners have access to a complete overview of their new property.

Wicked Saints

Seed Round in 2023
Wicked Saints Studios is a developer of a game studio platform that focuses on creating interactive media using behavioral technology. The company integrates narrative augmented reality experiences to engage a generation that is increasingly concerned about mental health and social issues. This innovative approach enables users to participate in real-life quests, facilitated through augmented reality, thereby fostering a unique blend of entertainment and personal well-being.

Source

Series A in 2023
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.

Hydrolix

Series A in 2023
Hydrolix is a data lake platform focused on enhancing the cost efficiency of log data management for organizations dealing with large volumes of information. The company offers a robust solution that addresses challenges in data storage, real-time analytics, and scalability. By utilizing elastic cloud technology, Hydrolix enables high-performance query capabilities for high-volume, high-cardinality data stored in affordable cloud environments. Their platform features high-density compression, scale-to-zero controls, and zero-egress on-prem deployment, significantly lowering costs associated with ingesting, querying, and storing append-only data. This allows clients to execute sub-second interactive queries while maintaining consistent performance, even as data demands grow.

digs

Seed Round in 2023
Digs is a web-based collaboration platform designed to streamline the construction process for builders. Utilizing artificial intelligence, it allows users to store and manage essential documents, facilitating collaboration on home building projects. The platform emphasizes a human-centric design, enabling builders to share final fixtures, selections, and house plans with realtors and homeowners. One of its key features is the automatic generation of digital homeowner handoffs, which provides a comprehensive digital understanding of the home, making information both usable and shareable. This approach not only enhances efficiency in building projects but also ensures that homeowners have access to a complete overview of their new property.

Eclypsium

Series B in 2022
Eclypsium protects organizations from the foundation of their computing infrastructure upward, controlling the risk and stopping threats inside firmware of laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure.

TrovaTrip

Series A in 2022
TrovaTrip is a travel management platform designed for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses to monetize their audiences through group travel experiences. The platform enables hosts to plan and sell trips worldwide, simplifying the process of bookings, payments, and pre-trip communication. Additionally, TrovaTrip allows users to offer paid or donation-based livestreams and sell digital products such as ebooks and recorded workshops. This comprehensive approach helps hosts establish their own group travel businesses while providing travelers with affordable and well-organized trip options.

KIVO

Seed Round in 2022
Kivo develops a document management and collaboration platform tailored for early-stage life science companies. Its platform facilitates document management and submission orchestration, which streamlines the regulatory publishing process. Kivo offers over 130 standardized document templates based on international and regional guidelines, ensuring consistency across submission documents. The platform is designed to enhance the authoring process and improve content tracking across submissions, thereby helping organizations optimize their regulated development activities. By adhering to the industry-standard EDM reference model, Kivo supports life science companies in managing their documentation efficiently and effectively.

Customer.io

Series A in 2022
Customer.io is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that specializes in marketing automation, providing businesses with tools to enhance user engagement through targeted communication. The platform enables users to send triggered emails, push notifications, and messages based on specific user behaviors, such as inactivity or unmet conditions. By utilizing on-site JavaScript code and a RESTful API, Customer.io collects data on user interactions and applies predefined rules to determine when to send communications. This targeted approach aims to encourage users to take desired actions, thereby fostering stronger relationships and driving growth in subscriptions and revenue. Additionally, Customer.io offers analytics to measure the effectiveness of these communications, allowing businesses to refine and optimize their marketing campaigns continuously.

Wayfinder

Series A in 2022
Wayfinder, developed at the Stanford University d.school, offers a K-12 curriculum focused on equipping students with essential future-ready skills that extend beyond traditional social-emotional learning. The curriculum emphasizes Self-Awareness, Adaptability, Empathy, Collaboration, Agency, and Purpose, aiming to connect classroom learning with real-world applications and preparing students for lifelong success. The program fosters meaningful relationships and enhances student engagement while improving school climate. It features the Waypoints assessment suite, which provides real-time insights into student progress, facilitating targeted instruction and timely interventions. With flexible implementation options suitable for various educational settings and grade levels, Wayfinder integrates seamlessly with major learning management systems. Since its launch in 2015, the program has been well-received, showing significant improvements in student engagement and social awareness in various districts across the United States and in over 65 countries worldwide. Wayfinder has received high recognition from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and Common Sense Education, underscoring its effectiveness in developing life readiness skills.

Clickety

Seed Round in 2021
Clickety is a computer software company established in 2019 that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM) software tailored for non-sales roles. The company's innovative platform enables employers and businesses to capture, visualize, and enhance their workflows around people. By focusing on personal relationship management, Clickety's system helps users document their daily tasks, contextualize their work, and improve execution efficiency. The organization operates primarily in a remote-first environment, employing individuals across multiple states.

TrovaTrip

Venture Round in 2021
TrovaTrip is a travel management platform designed for creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses to monetize their audiences through group travel experiences. The platform enables hosts to plan and sell trips worldwide, simplifying the process of bookings, payments, and pre-trip communication. Additionally, TrovaTrip allows users to offer paid or donation-based livestreams and sell digital products such as ebooks and recorded workshops. This comprehensive approach helps hosts establish their own group travel businesses while providing travelers with affordable and well-organized trip options.

Sila

Series A in 2021
Sila Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing banking and payment solutions through its API designed for software teams. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Sila offers a comprehensive infrastructure-as-a-service that facilitates the development of financial products and services. Its platform enables users to identify customers, connect bank accounts, and facilitate money transfers using a built-in stablecoin, enhancing the efficiency of financial transactions. Sila's developer-friendly tools and embedded compliance features allow fintech and crypto companies to transition from initial setup to live production with compliant payment solutions in a matter of weeks. By innovating on top of the ACH payment system, Sila addresses the challenges of immediate fund availability and fraud, making it a valuable partner for businesses in the financial sector.

Cloud Campaign

Series A in 2021
Cloud Campaign is the easiest way for agencies to manage multiple brands on social media at scale. Simplified scheduling, in-depth analytics, 1-click client reports, team workspaces, and many other features make the product the perfect solution for marketing agencies that are serious about results. The company was founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California.

Hydrolix

Seed Round in 2021
Hydrolix is a data lake platform focused on enhancing the cost efficiency of log data management for organizations dealing with large volumes of information. The company offers a robust solution that addresses challenges in data storage, real-time analytics, and scalability. By utilizing elastic cloud technology, Hydrolix enables high-performance query capabilities for high-volume, high-cardinality data stored in affordable cloud environments. Their platform features high-density compression, scale-to-zero controls, and zero-egress on-prem deployment, significantly lowering costs associated with ingesting, querying, and storing append-only data. This allows clients to execute sub-second interactive queries while maintaining consistent performance, even as data demands grow.

Bumped

Series A in 2020
Bumped, Inc. is a technology company based in Portland, Oregon, that provides a platform enabling publicly traded consumer brands to reward their customers with fractional shares of stock as loyalty rewards. Founded in 2017, Bumped's application allows consumers to convert their everyday spending into stock ownership, thus facilitating a direct relationship between brands and their customers. By partnering with various brands, Bumped offers consumers the opportunity to receive free stock or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on their purchases. This innovative approach not only enhances customer loyalty but also democratizes access to the stock market, allowing everyday individuals to become shareholders in the brands they support. Bumped is dedicated to creating mutually beneficial relationships between consumers and businesses, fostering a sense of ownership and engagement.

Eclypsium

Series B in 2020
Eclypsium protects organizations from the foundation of their computing infrastructure upward, controlling the risk and stopping threats inside firmware of laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure.

Sila

Seed Round in 2020
Sila Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing banking and payment solutions through its API designed for software teams. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Sila offers a comprehensive infrastructure-as-a-service that facilitates the development of financial products and services. Its platform enables users to identify customers, connect bank accounts, and facilitate money transfers using a built-in stablecoin, enhancing the efficiency of financial transactions. Sila's developer-friendly tools and embedded compliance features allow fintech and crypto companies to transition from initial setup to live production with compliant payment solutions in a matter of weeks. By innovating on top of the ACH payment system, Sila addresses the challenges of immediate fund availability and fraud, making it a valuable partner for businesses in the financial sector.

Qualtik

Seed Round in 2020
Qualtik, Inc. is a company that offers a specialized platform aimed at enhancing the analysis and reporting of commercial real estate loan portfolios. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with an additional office in Austin, Texas, Qualtik's platform, known as Spark, provides tools for real-time valuation, stress testing, scenario analysis, and reporting on both individual assets and entire portfolios. It enables commercial lenders, including banks, debt funds, and credit unions, to efficiently manage their real estate and collateralized debt portfolios. The platform's advanced filtering capabilities allow users to analyze their loan portfolios and uncover insights, thereby facilitating proactive risk management and strategic decision-making.

Absci

Series D in 2020
Absci is a drug and target discovery company that utilizes deep learning AI and synthetic biology to enhance the therapeutic potential of proteins. By employing its Integrated Drug Creation Platform, Absci identifies novel drug targets and discovers optimal biotherapeutic candidates while simultaneously generating the necessary cell lines for manufacturing. This innovative approach allows biotech and pharmaceutical partners to develop next-generation protein-based drugs, including Bionic Proteins that incorporate nonstandard amino acids and other unique drug designs that may be unattainable through traditional methods. Absci's mission focuses on advancing the development of improved medicines by effectively translating innovative ideas into viable drugs.

Qualtik

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Qualtik, Inc. is a company that offers a specialized platform aimed at enhancing the analysis and reporting of commercial real estate loan portfolios. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with an additional office in Austin, Texas, Qualtik's platform, known as Spark, provides tools for real-time valuation, stress testing, scenario analysis, and reporting on both individual assets and entire portfolios. It enables commercial lenders, including banks, debt funds, and credit unions, to efficiently manage their real estate and collateralized debt portfolios. The platform's advanced filtering capabilities allow users to analyze their loan portfolios and uncover insights, thereby facilitating proactive risk management and strategic decision-making.

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.

InVivo Biosystems

Venture Round in 2019
InVivo Biosystems specializes in utilizing non-mammalian model organisms for biological and biomedical research. The company has developed a proprietary transgenic platform that allows for the genetic modification of simple microscopic animals, such as C. elegans and zebrafish, to serve as human proxies in disease research and drug discovery. This innovative approach provides researchers with valuable insights into genetic mutations and human health. By offering custom genome-edited models, InVivo Biosystems supports pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and biotechnology companies, as well as academic institutions, in accelerating their research and drug development initiatives. The company aims to make research more affordable and accessible, ultimately contributing to the exploration of treatments for significant health challenges, including Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, and cancer.

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.

Salt & Straw

Venture Round in 2019
Salt and Straw is an ice cream company that produces and offers ice cream made by hand w/ local ingredients. The company was launched in 2011 by cousins Kim and Tyler Malek.

Megh Computing

Seed Round in 2018
Megh Computing, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in real-time analytics and artificial intelligence. Founded in 2017 and based in Hillsboro, Oregon, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, the company offers a platform designed to accelerate applications that process streaming data using machine learning and deep learning algorithms. This platform is particularly beneficial for video analytics, addressing key use cases in the retail supply chain. Additionally, Megh Computing provides a collection of codes for field-programmable gate arrays, allowing developers to integrate these solutions into their applications for enhanced data processing in both data centers and cloud environments. The company's offerings enable effective operational efficiencies, reduce risks, and unlock valuable insights while minimizing costs through cross-platform support.

Hubb

Series B in 2018
Hubb, LLC is an integrated app platform designed to streamline the workflows involved in managing and marketing content for conferences and meetings. Founded in 2012 and based in Vancouver, Washington, Hubb offers a range of tools including Exhibitor, which enables sponsors to manage their profiles and booth requests, and Attendee, which helps participants plan schedules and receive real-time updates on any device. The Hubb Platform supports virtual, onsite, and hybrid events, providing powerful engagement tools that enhance the overall event experience. With its focus on empowering event planners, Hubb has become a key player in the event management industry, catering to some of the world's largest conferences.

Rumpl

Venture Round in 2018
Rumpl applies technical materials to everyday blankets for indoor and outdoor use.

Bumped

Series A in 2018
Bumped, Inc. is a technology company based in Portland, Oregon, that provides a platform enabling publicly traded consumer brands to reward their customers with fractional shares of stock as loyalty rewards. Founded in 2017, Bumped's application allows consumers to convert their everyday spending into stock ownership, thus facilitating a direct relationship between brands and their customers. By partnering with various brands, Bumped offers consumers the opportunity to receive free stock or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on their purchases. This innovative approach not only enhances customer loyalty but also democratizes access to the stock market, allowing everyday individuals to become shareholders in the brands they support. Bumped is dedicated to creating mutually beneficial relationships between consumers and businesses, fostering a sense of ownership and engagement.

Rigado

Series A in 2018
Rigado Inc. specializes in the development and manufacturing of Bluetooth low energy modules and edge-as-a-service infrastructure for commercial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company offers a range of products, including various Bluetooth connectivity solutions, evaluation boards, and tools for software and firmware development. Their solutions cater to diverse sectors such as health and fitness, kiosks, payment systems, and military research. Rigado also provides services in product development, electrical and mechanical design, and wireless engineering, helping clients implement large-scale IoT deployments effectively. The company's edge computing solutions facilitate secure and scalable sensor integration across Wi-Fi networks, supporting applications like asset tracking and smart building management. Rigado has established strategic partnerships with several technology leaders to enhance its offerings and continues to innovate in the IoT space. Founded in 2010, Rigado is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Absci

Series C in 2018
Absci is a drug and target discovery company that utilizes deep learning AI and synthetic biology to enhance the therapeutic potential of proteins. By employing its Integrated Drug Creation Platform, Absci identifies novel drug targets and discovers optimal biotherapeutic candidates while simultaneously generating the necessary cell lines for manufacturing. This innovative approach allows biotech and pharmaceutical partners to develop next-generation protein-based drugs, including Bionic Proteins that incorporate nonstandard amino acids and other unique drug designs that may be unattainable through traditional methods. Absci's mission focuses on advancing the development of improved medicines by effectively translating innovative ideas into viable drugs.

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.

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.

Wildfang

Series A in 2017
Wildfang is a fashion and lifestyle company dedicated to providing a centralized place for women to find menswear-inspired clothing. Wildfang was launched in February of 2013 with actress Kate Moennig, musician Hannah Blilie, and soccer pro-Megan Rapinoe serving as brand ambassadors.

Rigado

Seed Round in 2017
Rigado Inc. specializes in the development and manufacturing of Bluetooth low energy modules and edge-as-a-service infrastructure for commercial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company offers a range of products, including various Bluetooth connectivity solutions, evaluation boards, and tools for software and firmware development. Their solutions cater to diverse sectors such as health and fitness, kiosks, payment systems, and military research. Rigado also provides services in product development, electrical and mechanical design, and wireless engineering, helping clients implement large-scale IoT deployments effectively. The company's edge computing solutions facilitate secure and scalable sensor integration across Wi-Fi networks, supporting applications like asset tracking and smart building management. Rigado has established strategic partnerships with several technology leaders to enhance its offerings and continues to innovate in the IoT space. Founded in 2010, Rigado is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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.

Customer.io

Seed Round in 2017
Customer.io is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that specializes in marketing automation, providing businesses with tools to enhance user engagement through targeted communication. The platform enables users to send triggered emails, push notifications, and messages based on specific user behaviors, such as inactivity or unmet conditions. By utilizing on-site JavaScript code and a RESTful API, Customer.io collects data on user interactions and applies predefined rules to determine when to send communications. This targeted approach aims to encourage users to take desired actions, thereby fostering stronger relationships and driving growth in subscriptions and revenue. Additionally, Customer.io offers analytics to measure the effectiveness of these communications, allowing businesses to refine and optimize their marketing campaigns continuously.

Outdoor Project

Series A in 2017
Outdoor Project LLC is an online community dedicated to outdoor adventure and travel, offering a comprehensive platform for outdoor enthusiasts. Founded in 2012 and based in Portland, Oregon, the company provides a wealth of resources, including inspiring photos, detailed maps, and curated guides for various human-powered activities such as hiking, camping, kayaking, and more. It aims to modernize adventure planning by replacing outdated guidebooks and scattered resources with an integrated platform that allows users to easily find, plan, and engage in outdoor experiences. Additionally, Outdoor Project enables users to book guides, purchase gear, and share their adventures and feedback with others, creating a vibrant community focused on outdoor exploration. In 2020, Outdoor Project became a subsidiary of onXmaps, Inc., further enhancing its capabilities in the outdoor recreation space.

The Wild

Seed Round in 2017
The Wild is a cloud-connected extended reality (XR) platform tailored for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals. It facilitates the presentation, collaboration, and review of projects in immersive and interactive environments, allowing users to engage in real-time experiences from any location. The platform enhances productivity by merging immersive technology with effective communication of spatial concepts, enabling teams to conduct design reviews together in a virtual space. This approach fosters improved decision-making among clients and stakeholders, ultimately streamlining the project development process.

Hubb

Series A in 2016
Hubb, LLC is an integrated app platform designed to streamline the workflows involved in managing and marketing content for conferences and meetings. Founded in 2012 and based in Vancouver, Washington, Hubb offers a range of tools including Exhibitor, which enables sponsors to manage their profiles and booth requests, and Attendee, which helps participants plan schedules and receive real-time updates on any device. The Hubb Platform supports virtual, onsite, and hybrid events, providing powerful engagement tools that enhance the overall event experience. With its focus on empowering event planners, Hubb has become a key player in the event management industry, catering to some of the world's largest conferences.

Polysync

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.

Brandlive

Venture Round in 2016
Brandlive is a company focused on creating high-quality virtual experiences for businesses looking to enhance their digital engagement. The platform enables users to produce live and recorded video content, facilitating sales training, marketing campaigns, and direct-to-consumer sales. With features such as real-time video broadcasting, customized registration, and email notifications, Brandlive helps brands foster meaningful connections with their audiences. The Events product enhances attendee engagement through audience tracking and analytics, while Showrooms serve as dynamic video hubs for showcasing products. Additionally, Greenroom provides easy-to-use video production tools, allowing hosts to create professional content without the need for extensive technical knowledge. Together, these offerings empower companies to elevate their virtual presence and drive business outcomes effectively.

Notion

Venture Round in 2016
Notion unlocks business intelligence for team metrics by providing a home for your team to tell the story behind their data. Notion is based around a game-changing, integrated experience for your team: simple workflows, easy data capture, meaningful visualizations, linked activity feed, and best-practice KPI library. Notion is designed to be the central place for business performance data with one key premise: teams are struggling with their current solutions to readily (and easily) make data-driven decisions.

Poached Jobs

Venture Round in 2016
Poached Jobs, Inc. operates Poachedjobs.com, a specialized job marketplace that connects employers and job seekers in the food and drink industry. Founded in 2011 and based in Portland, Oregon, the platform provides staffing solutions tailored to the needs of owners and hiring managers. It offers tools for employers to manage resumes by allowing them to rate, sort, filter, and make notes, thus streamlining the hiring process. Job seekers can easily sign up, review, and apply for various positions, including both full-time and on-demand shift jobs. Poached Jobs serves a range of major cities, including Portland, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, enabling employers to quickly fill open positions and reduce turnover costs.

Absci

Series A in 2016
Absci is a drug and target discovery company that utilizes deep learning AI and synthetic biology to enhance the therapeutic potential of proteins. By employing its Integrated Drug Creation Platform, Absci identifies novel drug targets and discovers optimal biotherapeutic candidates while simultaneously generating the necessary cell lines for manufacturing. This innovative approach allows biotech and pharmaceutical partners to develop next-generation protein-based drugs, including Bionic Proteins that incorporate nonstandard amino acids and other unique drug designs that may be unattainable through traditional methods. Absci's mission focuses on advancing the development of improved medicines by effectively translating innovative ideas into viable drugs.

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.

MobileRQ

Debt Financing in 2015
MobileRQ is a provider of a mobile marketing platform that assists brands in engaging with their customers effectively. The platform leverages intelligent analysis to tailor messages based on user context, allowing enterprises to enhance customer loyalty and drive revenue. By focusing on personalized and relevant content, MobileRQ helps global consumer brands improve the quality of customer experiences through their smartphones, which have become essential tools in daily life. This approach enables businesses to create engaging mobile experiences that resonate with their audience.

Bright.md

Series A in 2015
Bright.md Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in software solutions for the diagnosis and treatment of low-acuity conditions. The company offers SmartExam, an AI-driven online care platform that enhances telehealth services for healthcare systems. SmartExam connects patients with physicians to address common health concerns through an asynchronous process, allowing individuals to receive high-quality care from trusted providers via their computers or mobile devices. By partnering with leading healthcare organizations, Bright.md serves over 10 million patients, streamlining access to urgent and primary care while reducing the need for in-person visits. Founded in 2012, Bright.md aims to modernize the patient experience by providing a virtual front door for healthcare services.

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.

Customer.io

Convertible Note in 2015
Customer.io is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that specializes in marketing automation, providing businesses with tools to enhance user engagement through targeted communication. The platform enables users to send triggered emails, push notifications, and messages based on specific user behaviors, such as inactivity or unmet conditions. By utilizing on-site JavaScript code and a RESTful API, Customer.io collects data on user interactions and applies predefined rules to determine when to send communications. This targeted approach aims to encourage users to take desired actions, thereby fostering stronger relationships and driving growth in subscriptions and revenue. Additionally, Customer.io offers analytics to measure the effectiveness of these communications, allowing businesses to refine and optimize their marketing campaigns continuously.

ActionSprout

Series A in 2015
ActionSprout, Inc. is a company based in Bellingham, Washington, that specializes in creating tools centered around Facebook to enhance social engagement for non-profit organizations, news outlets, and political campaigns. Founded in 2012, ActionSprout enables users to conduct social action campaigns directly on Facebook, allowing supporters to sign up for events or sign petitions without leaving the platform. This integration significantly improves user engagement, as each action taken generates an average of 1,500 impressions within the user's network. The platform not only fosters virality, attracting additional participants beyond the organization's existing fan base, but also captures valuable user information such as names and emails. This data can subsequently be exported for further engagement, helping organizations cultivate deeper relationships with their supporters both on and off Facebook.

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.

Bright.md

Seed Round in 2014
Bright.md Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in software solutions for the diagnosis and treatment of low-acuity conditions. The company offers SmartExam, an AI-driven online care platform that enhances telehealth services for healthcare systems. SmartExam connects patients with physicians to address common health concerns through an asynchronous process, allowing individuals to receive high-quality care from trusted providers via their computers or mobile devices. By partnering with leading healthcare organizations, Bright.md serves over 10 million patients, streamlining access to urgent and primary care while reducing the need for in-person visits. Founded in 2012, Bright.md aims to modernize the patient experience by providing a virtual front door for healthcare services.

Veelo

Seed Round in 2014
Veelo provides a sales enablement and learning platform that increases sales effectiveness and marketing ROI. The platform enables sellers to have better selling conversations by predictively recommending content and virtual coaching in the context of the specific sales opportunity. Veelo also helps ramp new hires faster with tools to develop and deliver coaching in ways proven by science to be the most effective.

Muut

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.

Inpria

Venture Round in 2014
Inpria Corporation is a company based in Corvallis, Oregon, that specializes in the design, development, and manufacturing of EUV metal oxide photoresists for the semiconductor industry. Founded in 2007, Inpria is recognized for its innovative approach to extending semiconductor lithography through inorganic photoresists and thin films for nanoscale patterning. The company's patented photo-condensed molecular oxides allow for the direct deposition of atomically smooth and dense metal oxide films from solution, which can be photopatterned for advanced applications. Inpria's photoresists are meticulously designed to meet rigorous industry specifications, addressing key factors such as resolution, sensitivity, and line width roughness, while integrating seamlessly into manufacturing processes. This holistic approach provides customers with a comprehensive solution that includes photoresists, developers, and related materials.

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.

Brandlive

Series A in 2013
Brandlive is a company focused on creating high-quality virtual experiences for businesses looking to enhance their digital engagement. The platform enables users to produce live and recorded video content, facilitating sales training, marketing campaigns, and direct-to-consumer sales. With features such as real-time video broadcasting, customized registration, and email notifications, Brandlive helps brands foster meaningful connections with their audiences. The Events product enhances attendee engagement through audience tracking and analytics, while Showrooms serve as dynamic video hubs for showcasing products. Additionally, Greenroom provides easy-to-use video production tools, allowing hosts to create professional content without the need for extensive technical knowledge. Together, these offerings empower companies to elevate their virtual presence and drive business outcomes effectively.

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.

Celly

Seed Round in 2013
Celly, Inc. operates a mobile social network known as Celly, which allows users to create public or private social networks easily. The platform is accessible via Android and iPhone apps, as well as through the web, email, and text messaging. Celly primarily serves educational institutions, businesses, families, community groups, and social movements, enabling users to join networks instantly with a text. The platform facilitates communication through group messages, polls, reminders, and web alerts, making it a versatile tool for collaboration and engagement. Founded in 2008, Celly, Inc. is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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.

CrowdCompass

Series A in 2011
CrowdCompass specializes in the development of mobile applications tailored for events, meetings, conferences, and tradeshows across various platforms, including iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and Android devices. The company's custom-branded apps integrate essential features such as schedules, maps, exhibitor listings, sponsorship opportunities, QR code scanning, messaging, and social networking. By providing these tools, CrowdCompass aims to enhance connectivity among event participants, reduce environmental waste, and contribute to the overall success of events organized by its clients.

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.

The Clymb

Series A in 2011
The Clymb is an online retail platform that specializes in flash sales of premium outdoor apparel, footwear, and gear. Founded in 2009 in Portland, Oregon, by experienced executives from the outdoor and sports industries, The Clymb connects outdoor enthusiasts, athletes, and professionals through a private, invitation-only membership model. Members can access significant discounts, often up to 70% below retail prices, on products from a carefully curated selection of elite brands. This unique shopping experience not only offers substantial savings but also fosters a community where members can invite like-minded individuals. The Clymb aims to enhance product distribution for its core consumers while maintaining the integrity of its partner brands, promoting a healthy and adventurous lifestyle.

ClearFlow

Venture Round in 2010
ClearFlow, Inc. is a medical device company specializing in the development and manufacturing of active blood and fluid evacuation systems to address catheter obstructions. The company's primary product, the PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology system, is designed to clear chest tubes, preventing the retention of blood and fluids in the chest cavity, particularly for pediatric cardiothoracic surgery patients. This innovative technology allows for improved postoperative blood evacuation, enabling the use of minimally invasive drainage tubes, which can enhance patient comfort and reduce surgical complications. ClearFlow is expanding its product pipeline based on its proprietary technologies to tackle catheter clogging across various medical segments, including urinary and gastrointestinal catheters, as well as wound drainage. Founded in 2006 and based in Anaheim, California, the company also operates a service center in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

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.

Giftango

Series A in 2009
Giftango is a provider of a digital gift card delivery platform that transforms how consumers utilize mobile and digital payments. The company emphasizes enhancing the consumer experience while addressing the needs of merchants and channels involved in distributing gifts, rewards, incentives, and offers. Giftango operates within the prepaid marketplace, offering applications that enable merchants to send digital gift cards via mobile, email, and social media. Additionally, the company plays a role in the incentives industry and provides support for app developers and the mobile wallet sector. The management team at Giftango boasts extensive industry expertise, with members having previously worked at notable organizations such as Intel, Microsoft, Starbucks, and American Express.

RNA Networks

Series A in 2009
RNA Networks specializes in data center infrastructure services that enhance business performance by accelerating application speed and efficiency. The company's Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP) transforms memory into a shared network resource, enabling scalable solutions across commodity hardware while utilizing existing data center assets. RNA Networks offers memory virtualization products designed for enterprise architectures and provides RNAcache on Ethernet solutions tailored for data analytics, business intelligence, and customer relationship management applications. This approach allows clients to meet their application capacity and performance objectives without requiring changes to existing applications, thereby reducing dependency on traditional data center infrastructure.

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.

AWS Elemental

Seed Round in 2007
AWS Elemental, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, specializes in software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. The company has pioneered software-based video processing, enabling the distribution and monetization of video over IP networks. Its solutions are designed to provide the necessary flexibility, scalability, and performance to transform high-quality video into new revenue streams through cloud-based and virtualized deployment models. Serving over 600 leading media franchises globally, AWS Elemental assists pay TV operators, content programmers, broadcasters, and enterprise customers in delivering video content seamlessly across various devices, including televisions, computers, and mobile devices. The company maintains a presence in multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India, and Brazil.

DesignMedix

Series A in 2007
DesignMedix develops pharmaceutical drugs designed to address the rapid rise in drug resistance in multiple diseases. Its drugs are developed by covalently linking a chemical moiety derived from a resistance reversal agent in order to fulfill the roles of both therapeutic agent and resistance reversal agent, enabling medical practitioners to treat malaria and other infectious diseases without a hassle.
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