Oregon Venture Fund
Venture capitalPortland · Pre-Seed–Growth · 9 people tracked
Also known as CAPYBARA MANAGEMENT, LLC
Investment thesis
Oregon Venture Fund backs ambitious founding teams in its region, targeting large market opportunities with 'must-have' solutions that improve the world. The firm emphasizes investing locally while helping companies scale globally, supporting the next generation of world-class growth companies. It also fosters a 'virtuous cycle' in which investors and entrepreneurs reinvest their proceeds into more regional startups and contribute to a Community Giving Fund at the Oregon Community Foundation to strengthen the broader community and benefit more Oregonians.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 11, 2026.
Team · 9 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 37 of 77 portfolio companiesSaaS ×17AI & Machine Learning ×14Enterprise Software ×14Cybersecurity ×9Marketing Tech ×6Cloud Computing ×5Consumer ×3Deep Tech ×3
HQs:United States×22
Investments · 77 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12023 · 12022 · 12018 · 12016 · 12014 · 16 dated
Absci uses AI and wet lab research in iterative cycles to design novel antibody therapeutics and biologics for drug discovery.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechPortland, US
Zach Jonasson(Director)Bryan Lawlis(Director)Phil Barish(Executive Officer)Daniel Gold(Director)Sean McClain(Executive Officer)
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechPortland, US
Stewart Yaguda(Director)Sam Kolbert-Hyle(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardStephen Marsh(Director)
Board seatBrooke Chaffin· per SEC Form D
Portland, US
Zac Wheeler(Executive Officer, Director)Juli Morse(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatJon Maroney· per SEC Form D · $800K raise · filed Mar 2015
Portland, US
Christy Goldsby(Executive Officer, Director)Jared Schwartz(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJonathan Maroney(Director)Alexander Bernstein(Director)Cory Comstock(Director)Sam Hurster(Director)
Board seatJon Maroney· per SEC Form D · $1M raise · filed May 2020
ActionSprout is a social media engagement platform for managing community interactions, advocacy, and content strategy, primarily on Facebook.
Marketing TechSaaSSocial
AiStrike builds an AI-native security operations platform that uses agentic AI to help organizations reduce alert noise, accelerate threat response, and modernize security operations.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDublin, US
Nitin Agale(Founder & CEO)inKayzad Vanskuiwalla(Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer)inHarsh Patwardhan(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)inNishtha Agale(Executive Officer)
BoardPramod Gosavi(Director)
Arctic Wolf provides managed detection and response (MDR) services with 24x7 security teams that detect, investigate, and respond to threats using an open XDR platform processing trillions of events weekly.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Brian NeSmith(Founder & CEO)
Bigleaf provides intelligent software for internet connectivity, automatically resolving networking issues in real time to keep organizations connected to cloud-based tools.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBeaverton, US
JOHN DESMOND(Director)BRUCE CHATTERLEY(Director)JEFF BURCHETT(Executive Officer)JOEL MULKEY(Executive Officer, Director)
HealthtechIrvine, US
Edward M. Boyle(Director)Paul Molloy(Executive Officer, Director)Hannah Beathard(Executive Officer)Edward M. Boyle, Jr.(Director)Andrew D. Firlik(Director)
BoardAlexander Suh(Director)
Cloud Campaign is a white-label social media management platform that lets marketing agencies and freelancers schedule and publish content across major platforms, collect client approvals, generate branded reports, and use AI tools for captions, images, and replies.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
ConductorOne provides an AI-native identity security platform designed to manage and secure modern identities—including human, non-human, and AI identities—for enterprise security and IT teams.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Paul Querna(Executive Officer, Director)inAlexander Bovee(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMarcie Vu(Director)Ping Li(Director)
Conveyor provides AI tools that answer customer security questions and complete security questionnaires in any format, working within tools like Slack, Teams, and Claude.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Charles Ballew(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Frank Macreery(Director)
BoardFarinacci Chris(Director)Matthew Kinsella(Director)Tony Pezzullo(Director)Daniel Karp(Director)
C-Power is an ocean power company that builds wave-energy generation systems supplying persistent power, data collection, and cloud transmission for offshore applications such as unmanned underwater and surface vehicles, autonomous maritime AI, and remote loads.
CleantechEnergyRobotics
Eclypsium provides hardware and firmware security solutions for enterprises to identify and address vulnerabilities in chips, low-level code, and digital supply chains.
CybersecurityDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareHardwarePortland, US
Yuriy Bulygin(Co-founder)Alex Bazhaniuk(Co-founder)John Ewert(Executive Officer)
BoardAlex Doll(Director)Timothy Porter(Director)
Cisco provides networking devices and infrastructure software for data centers, workplaces, and security operations.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Jose, US
Huckleberry is an AI-powered, voice-first coaching platform that provides always-on leadership and professional development to managers, individual contributors, and HR teams.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR Tech
Hydrolix is a real-time data analytics platform that enables sub-second analytics at global scale for petabyte-scale log data, reducing infrastructure costs while providing instant insights from both real-time and historical data across distributed environments.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Marty Kagan(Founder & CEO)Hasan Alayi(Founder)
Inpria, a JSR company, designs and manufactures metal oxide EUV photoresists based on organometallic tin-oxide clusters for improved patterning resolution in chip production.
Deep TechNew MaterialsSemiconductorsCorvallis, US
Everon provides integrated security, access control, video surveillance, remote video monitoring, fire and life safety services, smart in-unit devices (thermostats, locks, leak detection), and centralized property management for multifamily property owners and managers.
HardwareIoTPropTech
Jama Connect is a requirements management platform used by technology and aerospace companies for product development and compliance.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Lumencor designs and manufactures solid-state light engines and optical instrumentation, including the CELESTA and SPECTRA light engines and the VOLTA kinetic optical plate reader, used for microscopy, spatial genomics, high-throughput screening, and ion channel analyses.
BiotechHardwareMedical Devices
Mueon builds data center-scale infrastructure designed to support next-generation artificial intelligence workloads.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep Tech
Portland, US
Kanth Gopalpur(Director)Alan Holzman(Director)Peter J. Bro(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Kirk Thornby(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Organic nitro cold brew coffee (acquired by UPTIME Energy)
San Francisco, US
Wylie Robinson(Executive Officer, Director)Nicholas Polinko(Executive Officer, Director)
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioPortfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesSprinklr · investing.com · Jul 15, 2026
Magnify · techfundingnews.com · Jul 3, 2026
Absci · investing.com · Jun 25, 2026
Minimus · siliconangle.com · Jun 23, 2026
Eclypsium · securityweek.com · Mar 20, 2026
ConductorOne · securityweek.com · Nov 5, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Oregon Venture Fund invest at?
- Oregon Venture Fund invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
- What is Oregon Venture Fund's typical check size?
- Oregon Venture Fund typically writes checks of $500K – $5M.
- What sectors does Oregon Venture Fund focus on?
- Oregon Venture Fund focuses on Biotech, Cleantech, Consumer, EdTech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, Media & Entertainment, Medical Devices, New Materials, PropTech, Retail Tech, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Oregon Venture Fund located?
- Oregon Venture Fund is headquartered in Portland, US.
- Does Oregon Venture Fund lead rounds?
- Oregon Venture Fund typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
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