Oregon Angel Fund

Oregon Angel Fund (OAF) is a professionally managed venture capital fund established in 2007, focusing on startups and early-stage growth companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington. OAF provides investors access to promising ventures through an annual fund of approximately $8 million, targeting investments between $100,000 and $2 million per deal. The fund aims to make 5-7 investments each year, utilizing a structured due diligence process over a 12-month active investing period, followed by a 9-year fund life for portfolio growth and exit. OAF is noted for its collaborative approach, with active members, many of whom are successful business and technology leaders, teaming up to research and manage investments. Institutional partners such as the Oregon Community Foundation and Meyer Memorial Trust also contribute, with proceeds from their investments supporting public education in the state. OAF's engagement with organizations like the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network highlights its commitment to fostering innovation and entrepreneurial success in the region.

Julianne Brands

Partner

Matt Compton

Portfolio Success

Lynn Fletcher

Operations & Investor Relations

Jon Maroney

General Partner

Eric Rosenfeld

Founder

Past deals in Oregon

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.

Clickety

Seed Round in 2021
Clickety is a computer software company founded in 2019 and based in Portland, Oregon. It specializes in information technology and customer relationship management (CRM). The company offers a personal relationship management system that enables users to capture and visualize their daily work activities. This platform is designed to help employers and businesses improve workflow efficiency by organizing and executing tasks more effectively. By providing tools to track and manage work, Clickety aims to enhance productivity and facilitate better networking for its clients.

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.

Sila

Series A in 2021
Sila Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing banking and payments infrastructure for software development teams. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Sila offers a digital wallet and an API for ACH payments, enabling users to identify customers, link bank accounts, and facilitate money transfers. The platform supports the movement of funds using a built-in stablecoin, allowing developers to create financial products where money movement is seamlessly integrated with their applications. Sila's services are designed to be cost-effective, offering an efficient alternative to traditional banking partnerships while simplifying the complexities of payment processing and identity verification.

Cloud Campaign

Series A in 2021
Cloud Campaign, Inc. provides a software solution tailored for marketing agencies to effectively manage multiple brands on social media. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with an additional office in San Francisco, the company offers a platform that enables users to schedule content, track analytics, and collaborate with teams and clients. Key features include simplified scheduling, in-depth analytics, and automated client reporting, which streamline marketing processes such as content approvals and performance tracking. This allows agencies to enhance their operational efficiency, manage a larger client base, and potentially increase revenue with fewer resources.

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.

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.

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.

Sila

Seed Round in 2020
Sila Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing banking and payments infrastructure for software development teams. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Sila offers a digital wallet and an API for ACH payments, enabling users to identify customers, link bank accounts, and facilitate money transfers. The platform supports the movement of funds using a built-in stablecoin, allowing developers to create financial products where money movement is seamlessly integrated with their applications. Sila's services are designed to be cost-effective, offering an efficient alternative to traditional banking partnerships while simplifying the complexities of payment processing and identity verification.

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.

Absci

Series D in 2020
AbSci, LLC is a biotechnology company based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in protein production technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. Founded in 2011, AbSci has developed SoluPro, an innovative expression system utilizing genetically engineered E. coli to facilitate the scalable and cost-effective production of antibodies, antibody fragments, and other soluble recombinant proteins. This technology significantly lowers production costs for both novel and existing biologics, enhancing the efficiency of drug discovery and manufacturing processes. AbSci's therapeutic proteins and antibodies play vital roles in treatments for cancer, hormone-related conditions, autoimmune diseases, and blood disorders. The company's approach integrates biologic drug discovery with cell line development, positioning it as a leader in the advancement of next-generation therapeutics.

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.

Bigleaf Networks

Series B in 2019
Bigleaf Networks, Inc. is a cloud-based provider of internet redundancy and optimization services, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. Founded in 2012, the company focuses on enhancing the reliability and performance of internet connectivity for businesses reliant on cloud and remote applications. Bigleaf offers solutions that include seamless failover for all applications, circuit-aware load balancing, and true Quality-of-Service over standard internet connections. Its intelligent networking services utilize a plug-and-play router to connect office networks to cloud-based gateway clusters, allowing businesses to gain end-to-end visibility and control over their internet traffic. This approach aims to minimize disruptions, optimize critical applications, and enhance overall connectivity for stakeholders.

NemaMetrix, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
NemaMetrix, Inc. specializes in developing whole animal electrophysiology equipment to enhance research across various fields, including academic studies, toxicology testing, and drug discovery. The company creates microfluidic devices equipped with electrodes for easy and repeatable extracellular recording of bioelectric activity, as well as RediStain fluorescent kits for improved visualization of C. NemaMetrix's innovative solutions cater to the pharmaceutical drug discovery, academic research, and global health markets. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, the company is committed to advancing the understanding of human health and facilitating the exploration of treatments for significant medical conditions.

Source

Seed Round in 2019
Krowdsourced Inc., operating as Source, is a Portland-based company that provides a comprehensive platform for the commercial construction industry. Established in 2018, Source connects professionals, including architects, designers, owners, and contractors, with manufacturers and product representatives to facilitate the sourcing of materials and solutions. The platform offers access to a wide array of resources, including finished samples, product pricing, technical documents, and project research assistance. By enabling users to discover and order building materials, finishes, fixtures, and other architectural and interior products, Source enhances collaboration within the commercial design sector. Additionally, the platform allows manufacturers to upload their product and sales representative information, thereby streamlining the communication process and improving overall efficiency in the construction supply chain.

Salt & Straw

Venture Round in 2019
Salt & Straw Inc. is an ice cream company founded in 2011 by cousins Kim and Tyler Malek, headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The company operates ice cream stores in locations including Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. Salt & Straw is known for its handcrafted ice cream made from local and organic ingredients, offering unique flavors such as black olive brittle and goat cheese, green apple and wasabi flowers, iris liqueur, and edible flowers sorbet. The company emphasizes quality and creativity in its ice cream production, which takes place in a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen, allowing customers to enjoy a diverse range of flavors both in-store and through online orders.

Megh Computing

Seed Round in 2018
Megh Computing, Inc. develops a platform designed to enhance real-time analytics through the use of Spark Streaming and other frameworks. This platform facilitates the acceleration of applications that handle streaming data, employing machine learning and deep learning algorithms to derive insights from data as it flows. The company also offers a video analytics solution that addresses key use cases across the retail supply chain. Founded in 2017, Megh Computing is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, with an additional office located in Bengaluru, India. Additionally, the company provides a collection of code for use in field programmable gate arrays, which developers can integrate into their applications for deploying these technologies in data centers or cloud environments.

Rumpl

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.

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.

Rigado

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.

Absci

Series C in 2018
AbSci, LLC is a biotechnology company based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in protein production technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. Founded in 2011, AbSci has developed SoluPro, an innovative expression system utilizing genetically engineered E. coli to facilitate the scalable and cost-effective production of antibodies, antibody fragments, and other soluble recombinant proteins. This technology significantly lowers production costs for both novel and existing biologics, enhancing the efficiency of drug discovery and manufacturing processes. AbSci's therapeutic proteins and antibodies play vital roles in treatments for cancer, hormone-related conditions, autoimmune diseases, and blood disorders. The company's approach integrates biologic drug discovery with cell line development, positioning it as a leader in the advancement of next-generation therapeutics.

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

Wildfang

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.

Rigado

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

IOTAS

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.

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.

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.

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.

Polysync

Seed Round in 2016
Polysync Technologies, Inc. specializes in creating a platform for the development, testing, and deployment of driverless vehicle applications. Established in 2013 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Palo Alto, California, and Europe, Polysync offers software tools and services that facilitate the research, development, and production of autonomous vehicle components. Its solutions are utilized by automotive engineering services, developers, government agencies, and universities globally, enabling safer and more efficient advancements in autonomous mobility. Polysync's products are currently operational in over 17 countries, underscoring its impact on the autonomous vehicle industry.

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)

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.

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.

Absci

Series A in 2016
AbSci, LLC is a biotechnology company based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in protein production technologies for the biopharmaceutical industry. Founded in 2011, AbSci has developed SoluPro, an innovative expression system utilizing genetically engineered E. coli to facilitate the scalable and cost-effective production of antibodies, antibody fragments, and other soluble recombinant proteins. This technology significantly lowers production costs for both novel and existing biologics, enhancing the efficiency of drug discovery and manufacturing processes. AbSci's therapeutic proteins and antibodies play vital roles in treatments for cancer, hormone-related conditions, autoimmune diseases, and blood disorders. The company's approach integrates biologic drug discovery with cell line development, positioning it as a leader in the advancement of next-generation therapeutics.

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.

Bright.md

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.

Bigleaf Networks

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

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.

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 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.

OPAL

Series A in 2014
Opal Labs Inc. operates a marketing collaboration platform designed for modern marketing teams. The platform enables organizations to plan, create, view, edit, and approve brand marketing content effectively. By facilitating alignment on strategy and streamlining the review process, Opal enhances content creation and distribution. Its intuitive interface connects various information and content, breaking down silos and reducing complexity within teams. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Opal focuses on improving collaboration among marketing professionals to achieve successful campaign outcomes.

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 is an online discussion platform that emphasizes simplicity and focus in conversations. By removing unnecessary features and distractions, it aims to enhance user engagement through a clean and user-friendly interface. The platform offers a complete discussion system that is easily customizable and integrates seamlessly with various websites. Its responsive and lightweight design ensures that users can participate in discussions effortlessly, making it a valuable tool for fostering meaningful conversations on topics of interest.

Inpria

Venture Round in 2014
Inpria Corporation, founded in 2007 and based in Corvallis, Oregon, specializes in the design, development, and manufacture of EUV metal oxide photoresists. The company is recognized as a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography by utilizing inorganic photoresists and thin films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s innovative photo-condensed molecular oxides allow for the direct deposition of atomically smooth and dense metal oxide films from a solution, which can be photopatterned. This technology enhances performance while simplifying processing, supporting advancements in EUV lithography and addressing the growing demands of the semiconductor industry.

Little Bird

Venture Round in 2014
Little Bird, Inc. is an influencer marketing platform based in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2011. The company specializes in providing tools for influencer discovery and engagement, enabling clients to identify key influencers and engage with them effectively to enhance brand awareness. Little Bird's platform allows users to find and share relevant content from influencers, helping organizations demonstrate thought leadership. In addition, it offers functionalities for creating targeted influencer lists for social campaigns, content discovery, social analytics, and market intelligence. The company serves various sectors, including technology, entertainment, and financial services, assisting marketers in navigating the complexities of the social web to build social capital and grow their businesses. Little Bird became a subsidiary of Sprinklr Inc. in 2016 and was previously known as Plexus Engine Inc.

OPAL

Seed Round in 2013
Opal Labs Inc. operates a marketing collaboration platform designed for modern marketing teams. The platform enables organizations to plan, create, view, edit, and approve brand marketing content effectively. By facilitating alignment on strategy and streamlining the review process, Opal enhances content creation and distribution. Its intuitive interface connects various information and content, breaking down silos and reducing complexity within teams. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Opal focuses on improving collaboration among marketing professionals to achieve successful campaign outcomes.

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)

Jama Software

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.

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. 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.

Pacific Light Technologies

Seed Round in 2012
Pacific Light Technologies is a materials company specializing in engineered nanomaterials aimed at enhancing solid-state lighting. Based in the Portland metropolitan area, the early-stage start-up focuses on the production and integration of optical nanomaterials as an alternative to conventional phosphors used in lighting and display applications. By employing on-chip quantum dot products, the company improves LED efficacy, allowing for higher color quality and efficiency in color-converted LEDs. Through its innovative approach, Pacific Light Technologies seeks to advance the performance of consumer lighting products.

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.

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 operates as a private online community that connects outdoor enthusiasts, athletes, and professionals with premium brands in the sporting goods industry. Founded in 2009 in Portland, Oregon, the platform offers members access to exclusive pricing on apparel, footwear, and gear, with discounts reaching up to 70% below retail. Membership is by invitation only and comes at no cost, fostering a network where members can invite like-minded individuals. The Clymb aims to innovate product distribution while maintaining strong relationships with its partner brands, providing a unique shopping experience that emphasizes expertly curated selections and quality service. Through these offerings, The Clymb supports customers in pursuing an active, adventurous, and sustainable lifestyle.

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 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.

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
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.

DesignMedix

Series A in 2007
DesignMedix is a pharmaceutical drug development company focused on combating the increasing challenge of drug resistance in infectious diseases. The company specializes in creating small molecule drugs that serve dual purposes as both therapeutic agents and resistance reversal agents. Its notable drug candidate, DM1157, offers a potential cure for drug-resistant malaria, particularly benefiting vulnerable populations such as children and pregnant women. In addition to malaria, DesignMedix is developing treatments for other conditions, including trichomonas vaginalis, helicobacter pylori, and various bacterial and parasitic diseases. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company aims to facilitate effective treatment for infectious diseases, alleviating the burdens faced by medical practitioners.