Portland Seed Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Portland, United States

Total investments

216

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

126

Rounds per year

16.62

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.42

Exits

18

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSocial Media

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
GoodsTraveltechClimate techCommunity/Social networkConsumer/Retail Show 7 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Canada, British Columbia
Check size
50K

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 13900000
Fund raised date
2019-07-31

Analytics

Total investments
216
Lead investments
5
Exits
18
Rounds per year
16.62
Follow on index
0.42
Investments by industry
  • Software (82)
  • Enterprise Software (27)
  • Mobile (26)
  • Information Technology (24)
  • Analytics (23)
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Investments by region
  • United States (203)
  • Australia (2)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
15M
Group Appearance index
0.51
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
0.16
Strategy success index
0.50

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Hydrolix 01 Mar 2020 Internet, Information Technology, Cloud Data Services, Database, Outsourcing Seed United States, Oregon, Portland
Youme Healthcare Inc. 07 May 2024 Health Care Early Stage Venture 14M

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