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 25, 2026.
Team · 9 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 51 of 76 portfolio companiesSaaS ×23AI & Machine Learning ×20Enterprise Software ×16Cybersecurity ×9Marketing Tech ×8Consumer ×6Cloud Computing ×5Direct to Consumer ×5
HQs:United States×36
Who they back
founder profiles across 22 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×92 founders×43 founders×74+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with education data
University of California, Berkeley ×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 13 founders with career history
Atheer ×2Box ×2Brex ×2VR Motion Corp. ×2
Investments · 76 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 42024 · 12023 · 22022 · 12018 · 12016 · 12014 · 415 dated
Absci uses an AI-based drug creation platform combined with wet lab validation to design biologic therapeutics such as antibodies from scratch.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechPortland, US
Sean McClain(Executive Officer)inPhil Barish(Executive Officer)
BoardZach Jonasson(Director)Daniel Gold(Director)Bryan Lawlis(Director)
Co-investorsDas & Co.Phoenix Venture PartnersTachyon VenturesTau VenturesBiotechnology Value FundCasdin Capital+2 more
Sprinklr provides an AI-native customer experience platform that manages feedback, customer interactions, and contact center operations across multiple channels.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Ragy Thomas(Executive Officer, Director)inMurali Swaminathan(Executive Officer, Director)Christopher Lynch(Executive Officer)Carlos Dominguez(Director)Rory Readin
BoardCarey Lai(Director)
Co-investorsBattery VenturesConductive VenturesICONIQJC2 VenturesSixth StreetValor Capital Group+1 more
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechPortland, US
Sam Kolbert-Hyle(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardStewart Yaguda(Director)Stephen Marsh(Director)in
Board seatBrooke Chaffin· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsElevate CapitalPortland Seed Fund
Portland, US
Juli Morse(Executive Officer, Director)Zac Wheeler(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)Jon J Maroney(Director)
BoardJonathan Maroney(Director)inAlexander Bernstein(Director)Cory Comstock(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 TechSaaSSocialBellingham, US
Chris Wade Finley(Director)Shawn Kemp(Executive Officer, Promoter)Drew Robert Bernard(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
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)in
Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalDreamit Ventures
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)in
Co-investors33NArtisanal VenturesBright Pixel CapitalClearSkyCyber Mentor FundDelta-v Capital+14 more
Cisco provides networking, data center, and security technology for enterprises, including infrastructure to run traditional and AI workloads and tools to keep organizations running against cyberattacks and outages.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareIoTSan Jose, US
John ChambersinChuck Robbinsin
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersAllegisCyber CapitalAviv Venture CapitalBantam GroupCastile VenturesCeltic House Venture Partners+31 more
Bigleaf provides SD-WAN and network optimization technology that manages connectivity across satellite, cellular, and metered circuits, offering automatic failover, redundancy, and data cap enforcement.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBeaverton, US
JOEL MULKEY(Executive Officer, Director)JOHN DESMOND(Director)BRUCE CHATTERLEY(Director)JEFF BURCHETT(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAlliance of AngelsBreakwater VenturesEastward Capital PartnersGoAhead VenturesPortland Seed FundSeaChange+1 more
Portland, US
DAVID A. NELSEN(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsCanaan PartnersCommerce VenturesElevate Capital
ClearFlow develops PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology, a device that maintains chest drain patency after cardiac surgery to reduce Retained Blood Syndrome complications, along with products for sternal fixation and reconstruction following sternotomy.
HardwareHealthtechMedical DevicesIrvine, US
Edward M. Boyle(Director)Paul Molloy(Executive Officer, Director)Hannah Beathard(Executive Officer)Andrew D Firlik(Director)Edward M Boyle, Jr.(Director)
BoardAlexander Suh(Director)in
Co-investorsAphelion CapitalCalifornia Technology Ventures
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)in
Co-investorsAccelFelicis VenturesGaruda VenturesGlynn Capital ManagementGreycroftOperator Collective
Conveyor automates customer security reviews, using a RAG-based AI engine to answer security questionnaires and handle SOC 2 requests.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Charles Ballew(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Chas Ballew(Founder)inFrank Macreery(Director)
BoardFarinacci Chris(Director)Matthew Kinsella(Director)Tony Pezzullo(Director)in
Co-investorsSignalFireCERVIN VENTURESMaverick Ventures
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
Customer.io offers a customer engagement platform with a visual workflow builder and AI features for building automated, cross-channel marketing and transactional messaging journeys across email, push, in-app, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack, and webhooks.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS
Colin Nederkoorn
Co-investorsBeyond CapitalEarl Grey CapitalKima VenturesKnockout CapitalPortland Seed FundSur Ventures+3 more
Co-investorsSpectrum EquityZelkova Ventures
Digs offers an AI-powered platform for custom home builders to manage construction projects from pre-construction through warranty, centralizing plans, specs, selections, and documents in one place.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechPropTechSaaSVancouver, US
Ryan Fink(Co-founder)inTy Frackiewicz(Co-founder)inJef Holove(Executive Officer)
BoardAbe Cohen(Director)Tyler Williams(Director)
Co-investorsBetaworksFlying Fish VenturesFUSELegacy Capital VenturesLong Way VenturesLoup Ventures+2 more
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)Alex B(Founder)John Ewert(Executive Officer)
BoardAlex Doll(Director)inTimothy Porter(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAndreessen HorowitzAV8 VenturesaVentureBasecamp FundDnipro+13 more
GearUP provides custom youth sports uniforms and fan gear for schools, clubs, leagues, and recreation programs, setting up online team shops and shipping orders direct to athletes and families.
Direct to ConsumerE-commerceSports TechHillsboro, US
Lawrence Lavier(Executive Officer, Director)Mark Schneider(Executive Officer)Todd Lind(Executive Officer)Rich Radford(Executive Officer)Joe Monahan(Executive Officer)Tacy Lind(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsPortland Seed FundSun Mountain Capital
Portland, US
Michael L. Gray(Executive Officer)Nathaniel Parker(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardScott Grout(Director)Nitin Rai(Director)Carolyn Young(Director)
Honey Mama's makes indulgent treats made from nutrient-rich whole foods, positioning its products as both healthy and flavorful.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTech
Christy Goldsby(Founder)
Co-investorsAMBERSTONE
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)Hasan Alayli(Founder)in
Co-investorsAV8 VenturesBlumberg CapitalCostella KirschFrontline VenturesNava VenturesPortland Seed Fund+5 more
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
Andrew Grenville(Executive Officer, Director)Jim LaCasse(Director)Ann Carney Nelson(Executive Officer)Dong-Su Kim(Director)Christopher Progler(Director)
Co-investorsBandgap Ventures
Co-investorsLong Way VenturesPortland Seed FundCascade Seed Fund
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
Co-investorsFrancisco PartnersInsight PartnersMadrona Venture GroupUpdata Partners
Kivo is a Part 11-compliant document and process management system for life sciences teams, covering document management (DMS), regulatory information management (RIM), quality management (QMS), and electronic trial master files (eTMF).
BiotechHealthtechSaaS
Co-investorsLong Way VenturesCascade Seed Fund
Lumen Learning provides courseware and teaching tools built on open educational resources (OER) for higher education, aimed at faculty and students.
EdTechSaaSPortland, US
Kim Thanos(Founder)
Co-investorsLong Way VenturesPortland Seed FundCascade Seed Fund
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
Magnify provides customer experience software for software companies, using AI and automation to deliver personalized customer interactions at scale.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSeattle, US
Joshua Crossman(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardSudhir Steven Singh(Director)Barry Crist(Director)
Co-investorsDecibel PartnersMadrona Venture GroupPivotal Ventures
Minimus develops security solutions for cloud-native applications, founded by the team behind Twistlock.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsNew York City, US
Ben Bernstein(CEO & Co-Founder)inDima Stopel(VP R&D & Co-Founder)John Morello(CTO & Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsMayfield FundRain CapitalYL Ventures
Mueon builds data center-scale infrastructure designed for next-generation AI workloads.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechHillsboro, US
Wilfred Gomes(Founder)jack hwang(Founder)
Co-investorsDefined VCGeodesic CapitalIn-Q-TelIntel CapitalGeodesic Alliance
NLM Photonics develops hybrid organic electro-optic modulation materials and devices that integrate into silicon photonics and other photonic integrated circuit platforms to improve modulation efficiency and reduce power consumption.
Deep TechHardwareNew MaterialsSemiconductorsSeattle, US
Lewis Johnson(Co-founder)Gerard Zytnicki(Co-Founder & Corporate Advisor)inPaul Nye(Co-founder)Delwin Elder(Co-founder)Bruce Robinson(Co-founder (advisory))Lewis E. Johnson(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)in
Co-investorsEmerald Technology Ventures AgPack VenturesStoryHouse
Cvent provides event management and hospitality software used by event planners and organizations to plan, market, and run in-person and virtual events.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechMarketplacesSaaS
Reggie Aggarwal(CEO and Founder)inChuck Ghoorah(Co-founder, President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing)David Quattrone(Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer)inAmy Lucia(Chief Marketing Officer)Kathy Wagner(Chief Financial Officer)Jeannette Koonce(General Counsel & Corporate Secretary)
Co-investorsEast Valley VenturesMaryland TEDCONew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Valence Ventures
Opal is a planning platform for marketing teams that combines AI-powered content creation with campaign organization and visual calendar management.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsAccelMadrona Venture GroupMMC VenturesPortland Seed Fund
Oregon Business is a regional news publication covering business, politics, economy, technology, and industry topics across the state of Oregon.
Media & Entertainment
Platformr provides a CloudOps platform for AWS environments, offering organizational governance, workload deployment, and observability tools to centralize and manage cloud operations.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSBend, US
Bill Stock(Founder)William Stock(Executive Officer)Ryan Comingdeer(Chief Executive Officer)
BoardPreston Callicott(Director)Jim Gochee(Director)
Co-investorsAviso VenturesLong Way VenturesCascade Seed FundLookout Ventures
Portland, US
Peter J. Bro(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Kirk Thornby(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardKanth Gopalpur(Director)Alan Holzman(Director)
Co-investorsPortland Seed FundBigfoot Capital
Preemptive builds a continuous, clinician-guided health monitoring layer positioned beneath primary care, using sensing and AI to detect early physiological changes before symptoms appear.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Jamien McCullum(Founder / CEO)Matt Whitehill(Founder / Chief Technology Officer)Jorge Sanchez(Medical Director)
Co-investorsEvolution VC PartnersBlumberg CapitalHike VenturesRuntime Ventures
Co-investorsJumpstart Ventures
Organic nitro cold brew coffee (acquired by UPTIME Energy)
Co-investorsDarco CapitalElizabeth Street VenturesWinklevoss Capital
Rumpl designs and sells outdoor blankets and comfort gear, including its Original Puffy Blanket, fleece and merino wool blankets, sleeping bags, pillows, and mats made with environmentally responsible and recycled materials.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceSan Francisco, US
Wylie Robinson(Executive Officer, Director)Nicholas Polinko(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsLong Way VenturesCascade Seed Fund
Salt & Straw is an ice cream brand that makes handcrafted ice cream sold as pints, bundles, gifts, and subscriptions, along with rotating monthly menu series such as its summer pies collection.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Co-investorsKarpReilly
Source provides FF&E (furniture, fixtures & equipment) and OS&E (operating supplies & equipment) procurement services for property owners and developers, pairing purchasing experts with an AI-native software platform.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechPropTech
Co-investorsGraham Walker VentureMetaPropMetaProp VenturesRogue Womens Fund
Streem built an augmented-reality-powered remote video assistance platform that let service professionals see customers' problems through their smartphone cameras and capture spatial data.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerDeveloper ToolsMarketplacesMedia & EntertainmentPropTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ritik Malhotra(Founder/CEO)inTanooj Luthra(Founder/CTO)inSamvit Ramadurgam(Founder)in
Co-investors500 GlobalFlying Fish VenturesGFR FundY Combinator
Co-investorsPHX Ventures
Distributional has rebranded as Talaria Scientific following a company pivot; the page is an announcement of this transition and provides no concrete detail about the new product or business.
AI & Machine LearningBerkeley, US
Nick Payton(Founder)Renaud Bourassa(Founder)Scott Clark(Founder)Tobias Andreasen(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzAngel Collective Opportunity FundOperator StackPoint72 VenturesOperator Collective
thatDot develops Quine, a real-time streaming graph engine that processes massive data streams to detect complex attack patterns and threats in milliseconds.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDefense Tech
Co-investorsCrowdStrikePortland Seed Fund
The Wild is an immersive collaboration platform that lets architecture and design teams review and prototype 3D models together in VR, AR, or desktop, with support for Revit, SketchUp, and BIM 360 workflows.
Construction TechPropTechSaaS
Co-investorsElevate Capital
Thread provides AI "guides" that run customer onboarding and sales-to-customer-success handoffs on a per-account basis, pursuing goals across text, email, and voice while verifying each step against the customer's CRM, data warehouse, or product telemetry.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Justin Vandehey(Founder)in
Co-investorsFirst Row Partners
TrovaTrip organizes ethical tourism experiences that prioritize meaningful connections and cultural respect.
ConsumerImpact & Social GoodMarketplacesTravel & HospitalityPortland, US
Christopher Nicholas Poggi(managing member)Lauren Elizabeth Schneider(managing member)Brandon Bruce Denham(managing member)Nick Poggi ✈️(Founder)inLauren Schneider(Founder)in
Co-investorsMadrona Venture GroupPortland Seed FundElevate Capital
Arctic Wolf provides AI-powered endpoint security solutions, including threat protection, detection and response, and managed security services for organizations.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsDreamit Ventures
Beaverton, US
Tracy Camp(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardSvetoslav Vassilev(Director)
Co-investorsAccomplice
Veelo is a sales enablement platform that provides sales teams with content management, onboarding and training programs, coaching, and engagement analytics.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Wayfinder is an education platform sold to schools and school districts, offered through state and federal funding programs.
EdTechSaaS
Co-investorsDesigner FundBattery VenturesNotation CapitalWayfinder VenturesY Combinator
Wicked Saints Studio is a game development studio that designs narrative-driven, interactive story games, including its World Reborn project.
GamingMedia & EntertainmentMedford, US
Jessica Murrey(Executive Officer, Director)inThomas Gewecke(Director)inAlicia Clifton(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsAUTHENTIC VENTURESBronze InvestmentsPortland Seed FundRogue Womens Fund
Wildfang is an apparel brand offering gender-fluid clothing, reinterpreting menswear classics tailored to fit the female form across a range of sizes.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commercePortland, US
Emma McIlroy(Co-founder & CEO)Julia Parsley(Co-founder)Taralyn Thuot(Co-founder)Amy Hjorth(Executive Officer)
BoardSarmad Saghir(Director)Jonathan Whitcher(Director)
Co-investorsAssembled BrandsBackstage CapitalLong Way VenturesPortland Seed FundVTF CapitalCascade Seed Fund+1 more
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 · 3
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioPortfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesLumen · simplywall.st · Aug 22, 2026
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Wayfinder · betakit.com · Jul 29, 2026
Sprinklr · investing.com · Jul 15, 2026
Magnify · techfundingnews.com · Jul 3, 2026
Customer · pulse2.com · Jul 1, 2026
Rise Brewing · bevnet.com · Jun 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Oregon Venture Fund made?
- Oregon Venture Fund has 73 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 4 dated in the last 24 months.
- 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.
- Who does Oregon Venture Fund co-invest with?
- Oregon Venture Fund most often shares deals with Portland Seed Fund, Long Way Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, among 184 tracked co-investors.
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