Portland Seed Fund

The Portland Seed Fund invest in pre-seed and seed-stage companies across the Pacific Northwest. The majority of investments are in Oregon, with 10-20% of investments in other parts of the Northwest. Typical initial investment size of $50,000-$100,000 with participation in multiple follow on rounds. Sector agnostic - largest sector is B2B software / SaaS with investments in data center infrastructure, AR/VR, health care IT, direct-to-consumer, e commerce, mobile, cleantech, food, and apparel. 10-20 investments per year. Now investing out of third fund with more than $20 million AUM. Since 20011 PSF has invested $8 million in more than 90 companies who have gone on to raise more than $370 million from other sources. More than half of PSF companies have a female or person of color on the founding team, and more than a third have a female CEO.

Jim Huston

Co-MD

Angela Jackson

Co-MD

Jenn Lynch

Partner

179 past transactions

Tellagence, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Tellagence is a social prediction company, which successfully unlocks the complexities of all social networks and relationships to predict who will be motivated to pass a brand’s messages. Tellagence’s product for building community is built on algorithms that monitor and understand the dynamics of relationships within networks. Therefore, the product can predict how information will move and which relationships a brand should build to optimize the reach of content. Tellagence Discover allow brands to identify their audience within a social network based on how they use language. This allows them to take an unbiased look at how an audience talks about any topic, your brand or competition while allowing you to dig into the details of how specific language is used to inform your content strategy.

The Dyrt

Series A in 2018
The Dyrt, Inc. owns and operates an online portal that provides information and ratings on campsites. It offers The Dyrt, an open community consumer subscription software platform that lets campers search, review, and book campgrounds in the United States. The company’s application is also available on App Store and Google Play. The Dyrt, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

SkyPoint Cloud, Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Our Intelligent Customer Data Platform (CDP) built for personalization increase revenue, delight customers, lower customer service cost. Our customers are seeing approximately 10% increase in revenue, 150% improvement in conversion rates and 20% improvement in NPS. Get started today for FREE, paid plans start as low as $500/month. All paid plans include onboarding, training, support and available professional services.

4-Tell

Venture Round in 2011
4-Tell empowers merchants to build meaningful customer relationships and increase revenue by providing a Smart Commerce℠ Platform and the Your Store Experience that enables the delivery and optimization of powerful customer shopping experiences, in-store and online.at online shoppers are likely to buy. We are a full-stack omnichannel personalization solution. From in-store to online, we offer the capabilities, automation and insights that every team across your organization needs to power 1:1 personalized customer experiences.

Argent Mill, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
Argent Mill, Inc. retails women clothing and apparel online. It offers blazers, tops, pants, jumpsuits, outerwear, skirts, dresses, and sweaters as well as accessories. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Amplion

Seed Round in 2015
Amplion is an intelligence platform using machine learning and biomedical domain expertise to accelerate Precision Medicine. By harnessing the world’s largest and fastest-growing corpus of biomedical evidence, the company’s solutions deliver timely, targeted, and actionable insights to enable confident strategic decisions in drug and diagnostic development. Amplion has established trusted partnerships with leaders in precision medicine that leverage the platform to discover new opportunities and realize strategic objectives.

Measureful

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

DesignMedix

Angel Round in 2014
DesignMedix, Inc., a drug development company, develops small molecule drugs to overcome drug resistance in treating infectious diseases. The company develops DM1157, a drug candidate that provides cure for drug-resistant malaria to vulnerable patients, including children and pregnant women. Its portfolio also includes drug candidates for trichomonas vaginalis and helicobacter pylori, and bacterial and parasitic diseases. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Tellagence, Inc.

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

The Wild

Venture Round in 2021
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.

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)

Glider

Seed Round in 2013
**Business intelligence and shorter sales cycles for the contract process.** Glider takes the pain out of managing sales contracts and brings visibility to the "last mile" of the sales funnel. Glider provides finance and executive leadership with objective insight into which contracts will actually be signed by quarter-end, how many contracts are waiting on legal, how many are stuck in negotiations, and how many are out for final customer signatures. Glider reduces close times for reps by taking the focus away from process and putting it back on prospects. Companies can quickly create customizable workflows, setup contract approvals, collaborate on clause negotiations, and ultimately get e-signatures. **Primary benefits include:** • Shorter sales cycles • Better tracking and reporting for Finance • Objective KPIs for Sales, Finance, and Legal The company is backed by True Ventures, CrunchFund, TechStars, Portland Seed Fund, and a handful of first-class angel investors.

Measureful

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

Goodwell Co.

Seed Round in 2020
Goodwell Co creates sustainable products, systems, and patented technologies for the personal care industry.

4-Tell

Venture Round in 2013
4-Tell empowers merchants to build meaningful customer relationships and increase revenue by providing a Smart Commerce℠ Platform and the Your Store Experience that enables the delivery and optimization of powerful customer shopping experiences, in-store and online.at online shoppers are likely to buy. We are a full-stack omnichannel personalization solution. From in-store to online, we offer the capabilities, automation and insights that every team across your organization needs to power 1:1 personalized customer experiences.

Onboard Dynamics, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Onboard Dynamics, Inc. develops a compressed natural gas system that integrates into automotive engines and enables natural gas vehicles to be refueled with gasoline gallon equivalent natural gas from a low-pressure source, such as a home or business gas line. It offers its products for private and public fleets of trucks. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Bend, Oregon.

Plover, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Plover, Inc. designs and manufactures carwash machine that utilizes computer vision and robotics to clean cars using steam and water. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Atheer, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Atheer is the pioneer of the AiR™ (Augmented interactive Reality) smart glasses platform, designed to enhance the productivity and safety of deskless professionals at Fortune 1000 companies. The award-winning Atheer AiR platform consists of the following: • AiR Glasses, the world’s most interactive 3D smart glasses • The Android-based AiR OS • The cloud-based, collaboration-centric AiR Enterprise Suite AiR Glasses enable users to view critical work information right in their field-of-view and interact with it using familiar gestures, voice commands, and motion tracking. With the AiR Enterprise Suite, users can collaborate with remote experts via video calls and receive guidance through real-time image annotations to increase efficiency - all while keeping focus on the task at hand. Developers and companies around the world are leveraging the AiR platform and its open AiR SDK (Software Developer Kit) to create enterprise applications and workflows for high value tasks in industrial, energy, healthcare, insurance, construction and logistics industries.

2Morrow, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
2Morrow, Inc. provides evidence-based behavioral change programs and applications. The company’s programs include SmartQuit, an evidence-based smoking cessation program that uses protocols based on acceptance commitment therapy that helps smokers quit; My Pocket Coach, a personal goal and habit platform that gives individuals the focus and daily practice required to achieve personal goals, sustain new habits, or break bad habits; and Healthy Habits, a program that helps people to create good habits or break bad ones. It distributes its programs through employers, states, wellness programs, and health plans. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Kirkland, Washington.

Hively, Inc

Seed Round in 2011
Hively, a Portland, Oregon-based start up lets your customers give you real time feedback with 1 click, at their convenience. Stop sending surveys and stop guessing at customer happiness. Hively is the simplest way to gather customer feedback at every touch point.

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.

Tripgrid Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Tripgrid is a business travel workspace that capture, organize, and understand the project travel. It was built to help teams of all shapes and sizes better organize their team travel. They know there is no one-size-fits-all solution in team travel, every team is unique. With Tripgrid, teams are able to organize all of their travel information any way they want. The use of Tripgrid's powerful tools to optimize the tedious tasks of coordinating complex, group, and project travel make them manage their travel their way.

The Riveter, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
The Riveter is a membership workspace and community platform for women and allies. They provide daily programming to cultivate skills, from Podcasting 101 to angel investment pitch clinics. Moreover, they also give their members space to focus on wellness, including movement studios with daily classes, meditation rooms, and a full program of relevant conversations and workshops. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Collexion, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Collexion is an online platform that enables individuals to discover, purchase, and share a curated collection of high-value collectibles and antiques put forward by a global community of collectors. Enthusiasts can browse among a collection of categories, namely, art, decorative antiques, toys and games, trading cards, sports and recreation, transportation, memorabilia, clothing and accessories, cars, books and prints, porcelain and figurines, comic books, watches and jewelry, wine and spirits, music and instruments, paper ephemera, technology, stamps, coins, and more. Collexion was founded by Peter Kirwan, Doug Taylor, and Matthew Waclawik in October 2012 and is based in San Diego, California.

Simple Emotion, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Simple Emotion, Inc. develops applications for people with developmental disabilities. It offers mobile applications and games based on emotion recognition technology that recognizes anger, fear, sadness, and happiness. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

NurseGrid

Seed Round in 2015
Founded by nurses and technology entrepreneurs, NurseGrid makes integrated, intuitive staffing and communication tools just for nurses and nursing departments. NurseGrid has two products: NurseGrid Mobile & NurseGrid Manager. NurseGrid Mobile is the easiest way for nurses and healthcare workers to manage their complex schedules, connect with colleagues, and bring more balance to their work lives. More than 300,000 nurses have downloaded NurseGrid to date and the iOS app enjoys a consistent 5 star average rating on the App Store. NurseGrid Manager allows nursing departments to simplify team communication, staffing, and schedule management, making staff and managers happier and more productive. It complements core scheduling systems such as Kronos, API, and McKesson, filling in the critical gap current technologies leave between schedule creation and timekeeping, and giving nurse leaders a cost-saving, nurse-preferred way to manage day to day staffing and scheduling needs. NurseGrid was launched in 2013.

LeadMethod, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
LeadMethod is a software company focused on channel partner engagement and sales enablement, two factors that drive the most ROI, and channel partner loyalty. LeadMethod works with more than 23,000 suppliers, reps, and distributors to better align their businesses for growth. LeadMethod clients see between a 10-20% increase in revenue and have stronger communication and collaboration with their channel partners. LeadMethod can be used as a stand-alone system or integration with more than 65 CRM, marketing automation, or ERP systems for a total solution. LeadMethodwas founded in 2014 and is based in Bend, Oregon

Simple Emotion, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Simple Emotion, Inc. develops applications for people with developmental disabilities. It offers mobile applications and games based on emotion recognition technology that recognizes anger, fear, sadness, and happiness. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Onboard Dynamics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Onboard Dynamics, Inc. develops a compressed natural gas system that integrates into automotive engines and enables natural gas vehicles to be refueled with gasoline gallon equivalent natural gas from a low-pressure source, such as a home or business gas line. It offers its products for private and public fleets of trucks. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Bend, Oregon.

Vizify

Seed Round in 2011
SteamFunk Labs Inc., doing business as Vizify, operates an online portal that provides users to create their interactive profile. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Glider

Seed Round in 2012
**Business intelligence and shorter sales cycles for the contract process.** Glider takes the pain out of managing sales contracts and brings visibility to the "last mile" of the sales funnel. Glider provides finance and executive leadership with objective insight into which contracts will actually be signed by quarter-end, how many contracts are waiting on legal, how many are stuck in negotiations, and how many are out for final customer signatures. Glider reduces close times for reps by taking the focus away from process and putting it back on prospects. Companies can quickly create customizable workflows, setup contract approvals, collaborate on clause negotiations, and ultimately get e-signatures. **Primary benefits include:** • Shorter sales cycles • Better tracking and reporting for Finance • Objective KPIs for Sales, Finance, and Legal The company is backed by True Ventures, CrunchFund, TechStars, Portland Seed Fund, and a handful of first-class angel investors.

Complier Enterprise

Convertible Note in 2016
Complier Enterprise provides the software, training and professional services.

Amplion

Convertible Note in 2016
Amplion is an intelligence platform using machine learning and biomedical domain expertise to accelerate Precision Medicine. By harnessing the world’s largest and fastest-growing corpus of biomedical evidence, the company’s solutions deliver timely, targeted, and actionable insights to enable confident strategic decisions in drug and diagnostic development. Amplion has established trusted partnerships with leaders in precision medicine that leverage the platform to discover new opportunities and realize strategic objectives.

The Better Bean Company

Series A in 2015
Better Bean offers the first-of-its-kind award-winning refrigerated beans that are ready to eat or heat for a quick dinner or snack. Varieties include Rethought Red Beans, Uncanny Refried Black Beans, Cuban Black Beans, Wholly Chipotle Bean Dip and Three Sisters Chili. Find Better Beans at select grocers throughout the country including Whole Foods Market, New Seasons, Wegmans and more.

OnTheGo Platforms, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. provides gesture-recognition software for smartglasses and other mobile devices. It offers BrainWave, an Ari-powered app that allows users to control music players; Ari, which uses proprietary computer vision software to turn any Android device with a camera into a virtual touch interface; and Ari SDK, which integrates into applications allowing users to control an array of devices and applications with natural hand gestures. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. As of 2015, OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Atheer, Inc.

4-Tell

Seed Round in 2011
4-Tell empowers merchants to build meaningful customer relationships and increase revenue by providing a Smart Commerce℠ Platform and the Your Store Experience that enables the delivery and optimization of powerful customer shopping experiences, in-store and online.at online shoppers are likely to buy. We are a full-stack omnichannel personalization solution. From in-store to online, we offer the capabilities, automation and insights that every team across your organization needs to power 1:1 personalized customer experiences.

Good Works Now

Seed Round in 2012
Know more about your donors and raise more money for your organization to better carry out your mission. Creating and managing your annual funding plan has never been easier. Revenue Raiser helps you identify sources of income, plan activities, and assign tasks and deadlines to staff and volunteers. Your best source for future donations are your current donors! Learn who has more capacity to give and what causes they care about and support. Manage board recruitment, engagement and performance. Board Builder makes scheduling and communication faster, meetings more effective and team work more satisfying.

Tellagence, Inc.

Venture Round in 2014
Tellagence is a social prediction company, which successfully unlocks the complexities of all social networks and relationships to predict who will be motivated to pass a brand’s messages. Tellagence’s product for building community is built on algorithms that monitor and understand the dynamics of relationships within networks. Therefore, the product can predict how information will move and which relationships a brand should build to optimize the reach of content. Tellagence Discover allow brands to identify their audience within a social network based on how they use language. This allows them to take an unbiased look at how an audience talks about any topic, your brand or competition while allowing you to dig into the details of how specific language is used to inform your content strategy.

Vadio, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2016
Vadio, Inc. provides a video solution that detects the songs a user is playing live and plays the corresponding music videos in real-time. Its solution enables users to get a live video channel that plays the music video for the song they are playing on-air; and allows them to monetize with video advertisements during the commercial breaks. The company’s solution also integrates with the social media that converts social fans to digital content consumers; and provides analysis of data for actionable information. Vadio, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

iFlipd

Seed Round in 2016
iFlipd is a provider of an e-book renting platform designed to make books available to the students throughout the day. The company's platform offers all kinds of books that are available for renting, sharing and also for availing in a pay-as-you-play model structure where the lender can pay as per their choice, enabling students to read books for a minimal fee.

NurseGrid

Seed Round in 2014
Founded by nurses and technology entrepreneurs, NurseGrid makes integrated, intuitive staffing and communication tools just for nurses and nursing departments. NurseGrid has two products: NurseGrid Mobile & NurseGrid Manager. NurseGrid Mobile is the easiest way for nurses and healthcare workers to manage their complex schedules, connect with colleagues, and bring more balance to their work lives. More than 300,000 nurses have downloaded NurseGrid to date and the iOS app enjoys a consistent 5 star average rating on the App Store. NurseGrid Manager allows nursing departments to simplify team communication, staffing, and schedule management, making staff and managers happier and more productive. It complements core scheduling systems such as Kronos, API, and McKesson, filling in the critical gap current technologies leave between schedule creation and timekeeping, and giving nurse leaders a cost-saving, nurse-preferred way to manage day to day staffing and scheduling needs. NurseGrid was launched in 2013.

4-Tell

Series A in 2012
4-Tell empowers merchants to build meaningful customer relationships and increase revenue by providing a Smart Commerce℠ Platform and the Your Store Experience that enables the delivery and optimization of powerful customer shopping experiences, in-store and online.at online shoppers are likely to buy. We are a full-stack omnichannel personalization solution. From in-store to online, we offer the capabilities, automation and insights that every team across your organization needs to power 1:1 personalized customer experiences.

Indow Windows

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

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.

Amplion

Convertible Note in 2014
Amplion is an intelligence platform using machine learning and biomedical domain expertise to accelerate Precision Medicine. By harnessing the world’s largest and fastest-growing corpus of biomedical evidence, the company’s solutions deliver timely, targeted, and actionable insights to enable confident strategic decisions in drug and diagnostic development. Amplion has established trusted partnerships with leaders in precision medicine that leverage the platform to discover new opportunities and realize strategic objectives.

CrowdStreet, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
CrowdStreet, Inc. provides an online commercial real estate investing marketplace that connects accredited investors with institutional real estate investments. Its platform enables commercial real estate developers and operators to acquire, convert, and manage investors for their projects. The company also provides investment advisory services to privately managed accounts related to CrowdStreet Marketplace investment offerings. CrowdStreet, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

NurseGrid

Venture Round in 2018
Founded by nurses and technology entrepreneurs, NurseGrid makes integrated, intuitive staffing and communication tools just for nurses and nursing departments. NurseGrid has two products: NurseGrid Mobile & NurseGrid Manager. NurseGrid Mobile is the easiest way for nurses and healthcare workers to manage their complex schedules, connect with colleagues, and bring more balance to their work lives. More than 300,000 nurses have downloaded NurseGrid to date and the iOS app enjoys a consistent 5 star average rating on the App Store. NurseGrid Manager allows nursing departments to simplify team communication, staffing, and schedule management, making staff and managers happier and more productive. It complements core scheduling systems such as Kronos, API, and McKesson, filling in the critical gap current technologies leave between schedule creation and timekeeping, and giving nurse leaders a cost-saving, nurse-preferred way to manage day to day staffing and scheduling needs. NurseGrid was launched in 2013.

Brandlive

Seed Round in 2012
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)

Snapflow

Seed Round in 2014
Snapflow empowers developers to rapidly build and deploy secure software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that are dynamic and customizable across your customers. Whether you are building an internal productivity app or one that is customer facing, your can focus on creating a great user experience rather than server maintenance and complex infrastructure. Snapflow offers a subscription cloud-based platform for developing and scaling business-oriented SaaS applications, with out-of-the-box capabilities to interact with mobile devices. Snapflow manages a myriad of complex back-end services so you can assemble applications with speed, agility and flexibility.

Minnow

Seed Round in 2021
Minnow is a video streaming aggregator and discovery platform bringing the libraries of all popular streamers to one place.

AppThwack

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

Homeschool Snowboarding

Seed Round in 2011
Homeschool Snowboarding has the sole purpose of making the best technical outerwear on the market. Using Breathability, Durability, and Timelesness as the cornerstones of their products, they have put snowboarding outerwear on the market that snowboarders, from amateurs to professionals can enjoy in any kind of snow weather. On the website, customers can log onto find a variety of snow gear ranging from jackets to head gear.

HoneyComb Corporation

Seed Round in 2014
HoneyComb Corporation manufactures and sells drone-based aerial imaging solutions for precision agriculture and forestry markets. It offers AgDrone System that offers access to high resolution aerial information using a cloud-based data service to maintain and evaluate information, such as crop management, yield forecasting, land surveying, and insurance monitoring. The company also provides service and repair to its product. It sells its product through dealers. HoneyComb Corporation was founded in 2012 and is based in Wilsonville, Oregon.

Society Nine

Seed Round in 2015
Society Nine is a combat sports brand that produces boxing gear, MMA gear, and fashion sportswear for women. The company’s products include gloves, scarves, jackets, hoodies, rash guards, and flat brim hats. Society Nine was founded in 2013.

Tribute

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Finding a mentor in today’s fast-paced work environment can be tough. Tribute aims to redefine mentorship. Delivering an easy to use app for the enterprise that connects your workforce on-demand through shared life experiences and stories. Promoting a more authentic way to discover and connect with mentors, while using technology to simplify the process of delivering corporate mentoring programs. Tribute provides employers access to the insights they need to demonstrate results, while providing an innovative mentorship experience to serve today’s diverse workforce.

Droplr Inc.

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

Tellagence, Inc.

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

OnTheGo Platforms, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. provides gesture-recognition software for smartglasses and other mobile devices. It offers BrainWave, an Ari-powered app that allows users to control music players; Ari, which uses proprietary computer vision software to turn any Android device with a camera into a virtual touch interface; and Ari SDK, which integrates into applications allowing users to control an array of devices and applications with natural hand gestures. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. As of 2015, OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Atheer, Inc.

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.

SERPs

Seed Round in 2012
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IOTAS, INC.

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Society Nine

Convertible Note in 2016
Society Nine is a combat sports brand that produces boxing gear, MMA gear, and fashion sportswear for women. The company’s products include gloves, scarves, jackets, hoodies, rash guards, and flat brim hats. Society Nine was founded in 2013.

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.

Tripgrid Inc.

Series A in 2020
Tripgrid is a business travel workspace that capture, organize, and understand the project travel. It was built to help teams of all shapes and sizes better organize their team travel. They know there is no one-size-fits-all solution in team travel, every team is unique. With Tripgrid, teams are able to organize all of their travel information any way they want. The use of Tripgrid's powerful tools to optimize the tedious tasks of coordinating complex, group, and project travel make them manage their travel their way.

LeadMethod, Inc.

Funding Round in 2017
LeadMethod is a software company focused on channel partner engagement and sales enablement, two factors that drive the most ROI, and channel partner loyalty. LeadMethod works with more than 23,000 suppliers, reps, and distributors to better align their businesses for growth. LeadMethod clients see between a 10-20% increase in revenue and have stronger communication and collaboration with their channel partners. LeadMethod can be used as a stand-alone system or integration with more than 65 CRM, marketing automation, or ERP systems for a total solution. LeadMethodwas founded in 2014 and is based in Bend, Oregon

OnTheGo Platforms, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. provides gesture-recognition software for smartglasses and other mobile devices. It offers BrainWave, an Ari-powered app that allows users to control music players; Ari, which uses proprietary computer vision software to turn any Android device with a camera into a virtual touch interface; and Ari SDK, which integrates into applications allowing users to control an array of devices and applications with natural hand gestures. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. As of 2015, OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Atheer, Inc.

Vizify

Seed Round in 2011
SteamFunk Labs Inc., doing business as Vizify, operates an online portal that provides users to create their interactive profile. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Minetta Brook

Seed Round in 2013
Minetta Brook develops software that enables users to navigate, discover, and track relevant information from large bodies of data. Through their patent-pending machine learning & linguistics technology, their core engine can be applied to information sources such as streaming news, enterprise document repositories, defense agency data, and social & web content to combine both unstructured and structured data to allow for analysis of a complete picture. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Tellagence, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Tellagence is a social prediction company, which successfully unlocks the complexities of all social networks and relationships to predict who will be motivated to pass a brand’s messages. Tellagence’s product for building community is built on algorithms that monitor and understand the dynamics of relationships within networks. Therefore, the product can predict how information will move and which relationships a brand should build to optimize the reach of content. Tellagence Discover allow brands to identify their audience within a social network based on how they use language. This allows them to take an unbiased look at how an audience talks about any topic, your brand or competition while allowing you to dig into the details of how specific language is used to inform your content strategy.

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.
The Icon Savings Corporation, Inc., doing business as Icon Savings Plan, provides online retirement saving plans for businesses and individuals. It offers recordkeeping, marketplace platforms, employee onboarding solutions, and investment solutions. The Icon Savings Corporation, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DesignMedix

Series A in 2007
DesignMedix, Inc., a drug development company, develops small molecule drugs to overcome drug resistance in treating infectious diseases. The company develops DM1157, a drug candidate that provides cure for drug-resistant malaria to vulnerable patients, including children and pregnant women. Its portfolio also includes drug candidates for trichomonas vaginalis and helicobacter pylori, and bacterial and parasitic diseases. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Complier Enterprise

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

Minnow Technologies, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2017, Minnow is transforming how people get their food with its contact-free Pickup Pods, which keep food secure and people safe. A Minnow Pickup Pod can be used anywhere food is delivered or picked up. The result of a human-centered design journey that involved multiple generations of prototypes and thousands of hours of field testing, the Minnow food pickup platform is a versatile solution that can be used out of the box or integrated with existing POS, online ordering, and delivery platforms. To learn more, visit us at minnowpod.com

Vizify

Series A in 2013
SteamFunk Labs Inc., doing business as Vizify, operates an online portal that provides users to create their interactive profile. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Streem, Inc.

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

Bright.md Inc.

Series A in 2015
Bright.md is a developer of an AI-powered virtual-care platform designed to modernize direct-to-patient telehealth for healthcare systems. The company partners with premier healthcare organizations to offer SmartExam to more than 10 million patients who are seeking convenient urgent and primary care online, connecting them to their physicians via a home computer or mobile device reducing visits, enabling patients to receive conveniently, high quality, asynchronous, online care from established and trusted health system providers. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Gliph, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Gliph, Inc. develops text messaging application that enables users to connect, communicate, and transact Bitcoins. Its solutions enable users to connect to another person, and decide how many facets or pieces of personal information to reveal about them. The company offers its product in the form of mobile and web application. The company’s solutions give users granular identity management and messaging privacy. Gliph, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Empathy Rocks

Seed Round in 2022
Co-founded by a psychologist and ML engineer, Empathy Rocks is making the world better with empathy for AI. We're starting with empathy education for therapists and providing free skill-building in evidence-based listening skills. As we train therapists in empathy, they train our AI models, which in turn trains new therapists in empathic listening skills.

Owl Insights

Venture Round in 2020
Owl Insights, Inc., is the provider of precision-guided behavioral care management technology for behavioral health. Through its advanced platform, affectionately termed “The Owl,” the company offers a scalable strategy to integrate measurement-based care and clinical analytics into existing behavioral health treatment workflows covering all major behavioral health conditions. Owl Insights supports health systems and independent behavioral health organizations nationwide to expand access, improve quality care delivery, better manage costs, and support the preparation for value-based care.

Indow Windows

Series B in 2015
Indow Windows provides people with comfort and quiet while helping them achieve financial and environmental harmony. Indow Windows are window inserts that press into place on the inside of existing window frames with no nails, screws, or adhesives. It gives all of the energy-saving benefits of double pane windows but has the bonus feature of reducing the noise coming in from outside by 50% or more. An Indow Window is made of a sheet of acrylic glazing edged with our patented Compression Tube. The simple yet elegant design creates a very low profile when installed so that the product disappears and its own Home's beauty shines through. Indow Windows was founded by CEO, Sam Pardue with the mission of maximizing carbon reductions and customer comfort and savings.

Edify

Venture Round in 2020
Edify is the frictionless way to onboard software engineers. Keep the tools you already use and let us do the rest!

Drone Complier

Convertible Note in 2017
Drone Complier develops drone compliance management software application. The company offers drone airspace map, job and flight planning, risk management, invoicing and payments, fleet management, safety management, and logbooks. The company was formerly known as Drone Logger. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon.

Overwatch Imaging, LLC

Series A in 2022
Overwatch Imaging creates customized aerial image-based intelligence systems for long-endurance UAS and light piloted aircraft. Our tactical mapping systems combine high-resolution multi-band cameras in SWaP-efficient stabilized gimbals, and leverage real-time onboard computer vision and AI software to automatically extract key intelligence from massive datasets, allowing our customers to find the needle in the haystack.

LeadMethod, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
LeadMethod is a software company focused on channel partner engagement and sales enablement, two factors that drive the most ROI, and channel partner loyalty. LeadMethod works with more than 23,000 suppliers, reps, and distributors to better align their businesses for growth. LeadMethod clients see between a 10-20% increase in revenue and have stronger communication and collaboration with their channel partners. LeadMethod can be used as a stand-alone system or integration with more than 65 CRM, marketing automation, or ERP systems for a total solution. LeadMethodwas founded in 2014 and is based in Bend, Oregon

Lish

Convertible Note in 2016
Lish is an e-commerce company that offers a B2B technology platform that connects offices to local chefs and restaurants to create a food program that employees love. It offers workplace food programs for companies of all sizes. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Indie Vinos

Seed Round in 2013
Indie Vinos' mobile technology helps wineries grow their direct-to-consumer sales by synching the point of discovery with the sales opportunity, so wineries can sell their wines at the very moment the enthusiast first discovers them. Indie Vinos directly connects wineries with core wine enthusiasts and, with our embedded tools of engagement, enables wineries to create and manage meaningful relationships with enthusiasts that continue long after an enthusiast discovers their wines. Indie Vinos supports the sales transaction by facilitating order and shipping processing, so wineries can focus on making and selling great wine.

Smart Mocha

Seed Round in 2013
Smart Mocha is committed to creating the simplest to deploy, most useful, and most resilient remote monitoring solutions. Our mission is to improve knowledge of the world through sensor data. With decades of combined experience from organizations such as MIT, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Orange, Remedy and HP, Smart Mocha has the team to deliver on the promise that technology should enrich our lives, get out of our way, and make our jobs easier.

ZeroWall

Seed Round in 2020
ZeroWall operates as an enterprise security company.

OnTheGo Platforms, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. provides gesture-recognition software for smartglasses and other mobile devices. It offers BrainWave, an Ari-powered app that allows users to control music players; Ari, which uses proprietary computer vision software to turn any Android device with a camera into a virtual touch interface; and Ari SDK, which integrates into applications allowing users to control an array of devices and applications with natural hand gestures. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. As of 2015, OnTheGo Platforms, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Atheer, Inc.

SpaceView Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
SpaceView Inc. provides design visualization solutions to help users to visualize a virtual object in a real space. It offers a mobile application and SaaS solution that enables businesses to shorten their sales cycle by enabling their sales teams to show their clients how their products work in their space; collaborate with customers; and increase opportunities for up-sell and cross-sell. The company serves digital signage, display manufacturing, visual merchandising, event management, home furnishing, retail design, interior design, medical, and real estate industries. SpaceView Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Portland, Oregon. As of July 12, 2017, SpaceView Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Atheer, Inc.

Cloudability

Series B in 2015
Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing cloud expenses across any organization. Its platform aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports that identify and allocate cloud costs using accurate, precise data in real-time using enterprise-scale analysis and machine learning that enables IT, finance, and other business teams to get a real-time understanding of cloud spending, down to the penny, and continual optimization of cloud costs. Cloudability was established in 2011 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

HILOS

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Putting each of us at the center of what we wear by pioneering on-demand custom manufacturing in footwear and apparel.

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.

Elli

Series A in 2015
We help brides style a uniquely personal wedding by offering a full suite of customizable products that includes everything from invitations to day of décor to favors and gifts. We are passionate about offering great design, incredible quality and helping brides bring to life a truly-one-of-a-kind celebration. Based in Portland, Oregon, all of our products are created with love for brides and their friends and family.

The Renewal Workshop

Series A in 2021
The Renewal Workshop partners with the world’s best- loved brands and retailers to renew their “unsellable” returns and excess inventory.

Crowd Supply, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Crowd Supply, Inc. operates a product development and crowd funding platform for physical products. The company’s platform enables to create project campaigns and raise funds; provides product feedback and suggestions; introduces to manufacturers, suppliers, and collaborators through the service provider directory; and provides a list of media outlets, and fulfillment and logistics services. It provides services for companies in various stages of development, including pre-launch, crowd funding, pre-order, and in stock. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Portland, Oregon. As of October 3, 2018, Crowd Supply, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Mouser Electronics, Inc.