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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Financial Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Portland Seed Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Portland, Oregon, United States, North America | ||
Oregon Venture Fund | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Portland, Oregon, United States, North America | ||
Rogue Venture Partners | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Portland, Oregon, United States, North America | ||
Elevate Capital | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Portland, Oregon, United States, North America | ||
North Atlantic Capital | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Portland, Maine, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture 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 Financial Services 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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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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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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Elevate Capital
Elevate Capital is a seed and early-stage investment firm with a primary focus in the Pacific Northwest and investing in under-represented founders. Elevate proudly maintains a 50/50 male/female founder split among its invested portfolio and has 100% of its investments where at least one co-founder is from a minority group (East Indian, Veterans, East Asian, African American, Latino, and etc.).
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services
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North Atlantic Capital
North Atlantic Capital is a venture capital firm that provides growth capital to innovative technology companies across the United States. It specializes in helping businesses with $3 million to $50 million in sales. Investment size ranges from $2 million to $5 million.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Portland, Maine, United States, North America
Industries: B2B, EdTech, Enterprise, Financial Services, Information Technology, Mobile Advertising, Telecommunications
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SmartForest Ventures
SmartForest Ventures, an early-stage, venture-capital firm targeting the best new technology companies in the Pacific Northwest, was formed in 2000 to develop successful, fast-growth companies by providing capital as well as expertise and mentoring. The objective: to nurture the ideas of innovative, high-tech entrepreneurs and accelerate their development by offering much more than just funding as one of the first incubators in Portland. SmartForest was formed by Hugh Mackworth and Debi Coleman.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, 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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Pivotal Investments
Pivotal Investments, the Northwest’s first venture capital firm enabling the sustainable economy through a disciplined, early stage investment approach that recognizes exceptional value today and tomorrow.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Capybara Ventures
Capybara Ventures is a managed seed capital fund supporting technology-based growth businesses in Oregon and SW Washington. With experience in launching over 25 venture-backed businesses, Capybara’s principals bring proven operations management skills, technical depth, and extensive industry relationships to companies in the fund’s portfolio.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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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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St. Laurent Investments
Family office specializing in banking, biotechnology, fintech and commercial real estate. We backed Craig Venter and were early investors in the Human Genome Project. Today, the St. Laurent Family is the largest shareholder of People’s Bank of Commerce, a publicly traded community bank, as well as SeqLL Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company specializing in True Single Molecule RNA Sequencing.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
Industries: Biotechnology, Finance, Financial Services, Real Estate
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