Elevate Capital
VC Fund
Portland, United States
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.).
- Total investments:
- 74
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 49%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Elevate Capital invests in
Stages Elevate Capital invests in
Countries Elevate Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$3.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $365k–$1.1M
- Series A
- $2.3M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (19%)
- Health Care 13 (18%)
- SaaS 8 (11%)
- Information Technology 7 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 39 (53%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (9%)
- Series A 6 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (7%)
- Funding Round 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 50 (68%)
- Germany 3 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jill Nelson
Executirve Partner
|
Executirve Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nitin Rai
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 27 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedZERO is the world's first mobile lending platform dedicated to serving the healthcare industry. Designed to meet a growing problem, medZERO helps people pay for ever-increasing portions of their healthcare costs. An employer benefit, medZERO enables employees to pay out-of-pocket medical bills without incurring high credit card interest or401k loan fees.MedZERO is a mobile application that provides employees of participating businesses immediate access to funds to pay medical costs with zero interest and zero fees. Payments are made with a pre-paid virtual MasterCard and repayment is completed over 12 months directly from payroll deductions.MedZERO was developed through a joint venture between Portland, Oregon-based Sortis Holdings (SOHI) and Kansas City, Missouri-based Mobile Capital Group. Sortis Holdings’ wholly owned subsidiary Sortis Financial provides a national loan servicing platform and Mobile Capital Group brings a payments technology that supports millions of lending transactions used by some of the nation’s largest payroll providers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 02, 2026 | ||
| Phosio Corporation develops a photoresist material for the fabrication of high aspect ratio nanostructures. The company was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from Oregon State University's Department of Chemistry and the NSF-funded Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry. | $4M / Seed / May 13, 2026 | ||
| PortalSphere is a B2B eCommerce platform built for Shopify stores, transforming them into wholesale portals with personalized pricing and intelligent upsells. Developed by B2B Plus, Inc. in Portland, OR, and serves brands in beauty, health, apparel, food, and home goods categories. | $250K / Seed / Jan 12, 2026 | ||
| CleanHaus provides an AI-powered operations platform tailored for short-term rental hosts and cleaners, automating scheduling, task management, inventory tracking, and payments to prevent missed turnovers and streamline collaboration. | $250K / Seed / Jan 12, 2026 | ||
| StrateSea Technology is a startup specializing in AI/ML software for hydrographic and maritime applications. The company develops FeatureLab, a no-code platform that enables domain experts to build, train, and deploy custom computer vision models for analyzing sonar, multibeam, and geospatial data without requiring data science expertise. | $350K / Seed / Jan 12, 2026 | ||
| Overwatch Imaging designs and manufactures imaging systems with custom onboard AI software for piloted aircraft and drones. The precision imaging systems help organizations quickly find what they are looking for from the air, so they can focus less on the search and more on the best response. Specific uses of Overwatch Imaging systems includeautomated land surveillance, maritime patrol and search, and linear infrastructure inspection. Overwatch Imaging was founded in 2016 by UAS and airborne imaging experts and is based in Hood River, Oregon. | $500K / Jan 12, 2026 | ||
| Osheru is a cutting-edge, startup company making medical devices.With the Ziplyft from Osheru, eyelid surgery is now faster and simpler for both the patient and the surgeon, revolutionizing the field. For lid surgery, the Ziplyft makes minimally invasive procedures easier. | $250K / Seed / Jan 12, 2026 | ||
| Overwatch Imaging designs and manufactures imaging systems with custom onboard AI software for piloted aircraft and drones. The precision imaging systems help organizations quickly find what they are looking for from the air, so they can focus less on the search and more on the best response. Specific uses of Overwatch Imaging systems includeautomated land surveillance, maritime patrol and search, and linear infrastructure inspection. Overwatch Imaging was founded in 2016 by UAS and airborne imaging experts and is based in Hood River, Oregon. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 15, 2025 | ||
| ToolBelt is a computer software company that specializes in software development, staffing, labor sourcing, construction, and residential construction. It features a mobile-based software application platform that enables its users to scout talents, browse work materials, and connects then into their employees.ToolBelt was founded in 2018 andheadquartered in Vancouver, Washington. | $3.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 05, 2023 | ||
| JourneyTrack is a cloud-based (SaaS) enterprise collaboration suite to understand, track, and prioritize the Customer Experience. JourneyTrack helps to create living, data-driven maps to ensure the inclusive design and benchmark customer experience. | $1.5M / Seed / Oct 13, 2023 | ||
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FAQ
What does Elevate Capital invest in?
Elevate Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 74 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Elevate Capital's check size?
Elevate Capital typically joins rounds of $250k–$3.1M at Seed, $365k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed and $2.3M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Elevate Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Elevate Capital?
The team at Elevate Capital includes Jill Nelson (Executirve Partner) and Nitin Rai (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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