# Gerry Langeler

> Gerry Langeler is a Series B investor at OVP Venture Partners backing Software and Marketing. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OVP Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ovp-venture-partners)
- Location: Portland, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Mar 2012
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerrylangeler
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/gerrylangeler
- Website: http://www.langeler.com

Gerry Langeler is a Series B investor at OVP Venture Partners in Portland focused on Software and Marketing. Gerry Langeler joined OVP Venture Partners in 1992 and focuses on investments in the semiconductor, software, imaging and digital biology sectors. His investments include 800.com, Captivate Network, Carbonflow, djangos.com, Elekom, EnerG2, Foundstone, Max-Viz, M2E Power, Now Software, Portland Software, Preview Systems, Surplus Software, TView,Unify, Vascular Solutions, Viral Logic Systems Technology (VLST), and Webridge. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Ambric, Carbonflow, Collaborative Software Initiative, EnerG2, Max-Viz, M2E Power and Viral Logic Systems Technology (VLST) and is a Board Observer to Advanced Inquiry Systems, SafeHarbor, and Serus.Prior to joining OVP, Gerry was co-founder of Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) in Portland, OR in 1981. There he served as President, and over eleven years helped lead Mentor through its IPO to over $400M in worldwide sales and over $1B in market capitalization. He began his technology career at Tektronix.Gerry received his AB in Chemistry from Cornell University and his MBA from Harvard University. He is the author of The Vision Trap (Harvard Business Review, 3/92). He also authored a chapter in Venture Capital Best Practices (Aspatore Books, 2005). Gerry serves on the Advisory Board of Highway 12 Ventures in Boise, Idaho.He is the father of two boys, and enjoys skiing (when his knees can stand it) and golf.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| Marketing | 2 | 13% |
| Advertising | 2 | 13% |
| Local | 1 | 7% |
| Sales | 1 | 7% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 33% |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DataSphere | DataSphere provides Web technology and an ad sales team focused on generating neighborhood level user engagement and monetization for existing media companies. | $8M | Series D | Mar 13, 2012 |  |
| PrecisionDemand | PrecisionDemand, formerly Lucid Commerce, is an early stage company and television media agency based in Seattle and New York. PrecisionDemand applies sophisticated analytic techniques to cost-efficiently target more impressions on advertisers' best prospects. Using their cutting-edge technology platform, PrecisionDemand is able toprecision-target the TV audience and quantify the impact these targeted impressions are having on sales. This targeting leverages many hundreds of individual and household demographic and behavioral attributes. Through their revolutionary Buyometric targeting system, PrecisionDemand has been able to decrease their clients' cost-per-sale by over 25% while predicting sales volumes through multiple channels with over 95% accuracy. The PrecisionDemand team is made up of industry leading experts in media, technology, and data mining. | $8M | Series C | Jul 29, 2011 |  |
| Cradlepoint | Cradlepoint offers a cloud-based network solution to connect people, places, and things over wired and wireless broadband. Cradlepoint NetCloud is a software and services platform that extends the company’s 4G LTE-enabled multi-function routers and ruggedized M2M/IoT gateways with cloud-based management and software-defined network services.With Cradlepoint, customers can leverage the speed and economics of wired and wireless Internet broadband for branch, failover, mobile, and IoT networks while maintaining end-to-end visibility, security, and control. More than 15,000 enterprise and government organizations around the world — including 75 percent of the world’s top retailers, 50 percent of the Fortune 100, and 25 of the largest U.S. cities — rely on Cradlepoint to keep critical sites, workforces, vehicles, and devices always connected and protected. Major service providers use Cradlepoint network solutions as the foundation for innovative managed service offerings. Founded in 2006, Cradlepoint is a privately held company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with development centers in Silicon Valley and Kelowna, Canada, and offices in the UK, Australia, and Japan. | $11.5M |  | Apr 08, 2011 |  |
| CarbonFlow | CarbonFlow is a developer of carbon trading software. Specifically, the company works to lower the cost and time it takes to create a credit. The Carbonflow suite enhances productivity, reduces both administration costs and the financial risks of managing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) offset projects, and manages the delivery of certified carboncredits for buyers and sellers worldwide founded in 2006. | $4.2M | Series B | Oct 28, 2010 |  |
| DataSphere | DataSphere provides Web technology and an ad sales team focused on generating neighborhood level user engagement and monetization for existing media companies. | $10M | Series C | Sep 09, 2010 |  |
| PrecisionDemand | PrecisionDemand, formerly Lucid Commerce, is an early stage company and television media agency based in Seattle and New York. PrecisionDemand applies sophisticated analytic techniques to cost-efficiently target more impressions on advertisers' best prospects. Using their cutting-edge technology platform, PrecisionDemand is able toprecision-target the TV audience and quantify the impact these targeted impressions are having on sales. This targeting leverages many hundreds of individual and household demographic and behavioral attributes. Through their revolutionary Buyometric targeting system, PrecisionDemand has been able to decrease their clients' cost-per-sale by over 25% while predicting sales volumes through multiple channels with over 95% accuracy. The PrecisionDemand team is made up of industry leading experts in media, technology, and data mining. | $5M | Series B | Apr 16, 2010 |  |
| PrecisionDemand | PrecisionDemand, formerly Lucid Commerce, is an early stage company and television media agency based in Seattle and New York. PrecisionDemand applies sophisticated analytic techniques to cost-efficiently target more impressions on advertisers' best prospects. Using their cutting-edge technology platform, PrecisionDemand is able toprecision-target the TV audience and quantify the impact these targeted impressions are having on sales. This targeting leverages many hundreds of individual and household demographic and behavioral attributes. Through their revolutionary Buyometric targeting system, PrecisionDemand has been able to decrease their clients' cost-per-sale by over 25% while predicting sales volumes through multiple channels with over 95% accuracy. The PrecisionDemand team is made up of industry leading experts in media, technology, and data mining. | $1.9M | Series B | Sep 15, 2009 |  |
| Novomer | Novomer is a new materials company pioneering a family of competitively priced high-performance green plastics, polymers and other chemicals. With proprietary catalytic technology and a world-class scientific team, Novomer's groundbreaking technology allows carbon dioxide and other renewable materials to be cost-effectively transformed intopolymers, plastics and other chemicals for a wide variety of industrial markets.It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $14M | Series B | Aug 01, 2009 |  |
| Tigo Energy | Tigo Energy is a solar power installations group that increases output power, up-time, and reliability on existing and new solar installations, resulting in a faster return on investment and lower cost of ownership. By viewing the system holistically over the span of its useful life, Tigo Energy mitigates a variety of issues which limit theefficiency, availability and flexibility of today's solar installations. | $10M | Series B | Jun 08, 2009 |  |
| CarbonFlow | CarbonFlow is a developer of carbon trading software. Specifically, the company works to lower the cost and time it takes to create a credit. The Carbonflow suite enhances productivity, reduces both administration costs and the financial risks of managing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) offset projects, and manages the delivery of certified carboncredits for buyers and sellers worldwide founded in 2006. | $2.9M | Series A | Jul 23, 2008 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ignition Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignition-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Montlake Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/montlake-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alexander Hutton Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-hutton-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amgen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amgen-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ARCH Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arch-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DSM Venturing](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsm-venturing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About OVP Venture Partners

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

OVP Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology-based companies.

5 contacts available at OVP Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gordon Steele | Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gordon-steele-2 |
| Bill Funcannon | Controller, Managing Director & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-funcannon-2 |
| Chad Waite | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-waite-2 |
| Dick Strayer | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dick-strayer-68c9 |
| Gerry Langeler | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerry-langeler |

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## FAQ

### What does Gerry Langeler invest in?

Gerry Langeler invests primarily in Software, Marketing and Advertising startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Gerry Langeler last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gerry Langeler closed in Mar 2012. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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