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Portland Seed Fund

Founders Angela Jackson

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Total investments 214
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 124
Rounds per year 16.46
Lead investments 5
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Exits 18
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Mobile
  • Information Technology
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Summary

In 2010 was created Portland Seed Fund, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Portland.

The current fund was established by Angela Jackson. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Portland Seed Fund, startups are often financed by Starve Ups, Seven Peaks Ventures, Cascade Seed Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Alliance of Angels, Starve Ups, Techstars. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rogue Venture Partners, Starve Ups, Cascade Seed Fund.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ONtheGO Platforms, iFlipd, 4-Tell. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Social Media.

The top activity for fund was in 2015. Opposing the other organizations, this Portland Seed Fund works on 20 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Portland Seed Fund is 5-10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Digs

Construction
Smart Building
Software
$7M25 Jan 2024 Vancouver, Washington, United States

Digs

Construction
Smart Building
Software
$7M01 Feb 2023 Vancouver, Washington, United States

TrovaTrip

E-Commerce Platforms
Travel
$15M20 Sep 2022 Portland, Oregon, United States

Tribute

Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$2M01 Aug 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

mpathic.ai

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Software
$4M21 Jun 2022 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Photon Marine

Marine Technology
$2M01 Jun 2022 -

Enduring Planet

CleanTech
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Sustainability
$2M05 May 2022 Portland, Oregon, United States

Overwatch Imaging

Aerospace
Artificial Intelligence
Drones
Navigation
Photography
$11M05 Apr 2022 Hood River, Oregon, United States

StormSensor

Automotive
B2B
Computer
Information Technology
Infrastructure
SaaS
Software
Water
$10M01 Dec 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States
News
The Renewal Workshop Closes $6M Funding Round

– The Renewal Workshop from Cascade Locks, Oregon is a technology enabled service provider that powers circular business for brands.
– Company raised $6m in funding.
– Backers included Rubio Ventures, Shift Invest, Quadia, Closed Loop Partners, Gratitude Railroad, Portland Seed Fund, Fashion for Good, DOEN, Mosiaco Management, Mistletoe, and Volta Circle.
– The new investment will be used to continue to expand operations and its business reach.

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Total investments 214
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 16.46
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.42
Exits 18
Group Appearance index 0.51

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Digs

Construction
Smart Building
Software
$7M25 Jan 2024 Vancouver, Washington, United States

Digs

Construction
Smart Building
Software
$7M01 Feb 2023 Vancouver, Washington, United States

TrovaTrip

E-Commerce Platforms
Travel
$15M20 Sep 2022 Portland, Oregon, United States

Tribute

Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Information Technology
$2M01 Aug 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

mpathic.ai

Apps
Artificial Intelligence
Software
$4M21 Jun 2022 Bellevue, Washington, United States

Photon Marine

Marine Technology
$2M01 Jun 2022 -

Enduring Planet

CleanTech
Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
Sustainability
$2M05 May 2022 Portland, Oregon, United States

Overwatch Imaging

Aerospace
Artificial Intelligence
Drones
Navigation
Photography
$11M05 Apr 2022 Hood River, Oregon, United States

StormSensor

Automotive
B2B
Computer
Information Technology
Infrastructure
SaaS
Software
Water
$10M01 Dec 2021 Seattle, Washington, United States
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