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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Portland Seed Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Portland, Oregon, United States, North America | ||
Maine Angels | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Portland, Maine, United States, North America | ||
The R-Group, LLC | Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture | Portland, Oregon, United States, North America | ||
Oregon Venture Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Portland, Oregon, United States, North America | ||
Ideaship | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Portland, Oregon, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Seed investors in Portland. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Portland)
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 – the 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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Maine Angels
Maine Angels they make investments with entrepreneurs with an emphasis on businesses.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Portland, Maine, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Impact Investing, Service Industry, Venture Capital
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Oregon Venture Fund
Founded in 2007, the Oregon Venture Fund is the largest and most active venture fund focused on supporting startups and growth companies with a presence in Oregon and SW Washington. The fund has invested over $120 million and is backed by the leaders of Oregon’s business, technology, and entrepreneurial communities. Consistently one of the top performing venture funds in North America, OVF invests $15 million annually in the most promising startups and growth companies in Oregon and SW Washington. Over 4,200 jobs have been created by the 75 companies in the portfolio. OVF’s largest investors include the State of Oregon, Oregon Community Foundation, and Meyer Memorial Trust. OVF invests $500K to $3M per round and can allocate up to $10M for each portfolio company. The fund is stage and sector agnostic.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Ideaship
Ideaship, a venture services affiliate of GTT Group, is equity-based patent development capital for early-stage ventures. Ideaship’s patent capital fund provides patent asset development services including virtual patent department and patent business banking along with subject matter expertise, external patent counsel funding, and fundraising support. Founded in 2017, Ideaship is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, making investments within North America.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Intellectual Property, Venture Capital
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Rogue Venture Partners
Rogue Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in startups. It seeks to invest in new and growing businesses in Oregon and the PNW. Rogue invests in entrepreneurs that reject the status quo, and who are driven by market traction. Rogue values ingenuity, insight and intelligence and accelerates entrepreneurial success with resources, values and vision. Rogue is committed to increasing Oregon’s entrepreneurial footprint through committed, sustainable investment in new businesses and growing enterprises.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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CEI Ventures
CEI Ventures is a private equity and venture capital investment arm of Coastal Enterprises specializing in seed/start-up, early stage, mid venture investments, recapitalizations, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in companies that are emerging, growing, or undergoing a transformation. CEI Ventures primarily invests in companies in the underserved markets throughout the Northeastern United States specifically in New England. It prefers to make investments in Maine. CEI Ventures typically invests between $250,000 and $1 million often through multiple financings. It prefers to exit its investment between five years and seven years. CEI Ventures seeks to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. It began operation in 1994, with its headquarters at Brunswick in Maine.
Stages: Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Portland, Maine, United States, North America
Industries: Angel Investment, Enterprise Software, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Color Capital
Color Capital is an early-stage consumer fund participating primarily in early and seed-stage financing of consumer-facing companies. It specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and private equity. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Upstart Labs
Upstart Labs is a startup accelerator. They invest in ideas and entrepreneurs. Their portfolio companies leverage their team’s experience in design, development, strategy, sales and marketing to bring new products to market. They help entreprenuers turn vision into ventures.
Stages: Seed
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Software, Venture Capital
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Black Founders Matter
Black Founders Matter is a $10million seed-stage fund investing primarily in Black-led ventures based in the United States. BFM is an industry-agnostic fund that focuses on sourcing high-quality Black-led deal flow from a wide range of sources including accelerator, universities, competitions, fund networks, and open-source applications. BFM roots itself in a syndication model where we partner and bring deals to Series Seed and Series A lead firms that are industry-specific to create a catalytic environment where our companies are capitalized and resourced to scale.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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