# Nate Doran

> Nate Doran is a pre-seed investor at SWAN Venture Fund backing Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SWAN Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swan-venture-group)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/natedoran
- X (Twitter): http://www.twitter.com/natedoran
- Website: http://www.nwventurenotes.com

Nate Doran is a pre-seed investor at SWAN Venture Fund in Seattle focused on Software and Information Technology. Nate Doran is the Business Director of SWAN Venture Fund. He attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 31% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| SaaS | 2 | 15% |
| Sustainability | 2 | 15% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 23% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 77% |
| Canada | 2 | 15% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Indicio.tech | Indicio provides companies and markets the ability to create, develop, and launch new Trusted Data Ecosystems, marketplaces, and business models for the exchange of high value information and data assets. Specializing in financial, healthcare, and travel markets, Indicio provides customers with technology and a decentralized network to issue, hold,and verify data contained in encrypted digital credentials. With Indicio’s privacy-preserving software, companies can confirm data authenticity repeatedly and efficiently from its source without the expense or risk of direct integrations—resulting in a boost to their bottom-line profit and information privacy reputation. |  | Series A | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| Impetus Agriculture | Impetus Agriculture focuses on developing multiple topical or transgenic insect control products. Products that are safe, effective, and sustainable. Products that are not subject to the same insect resistance that has developed in current commercial products. | $4M | Convertible Note | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Bold Reuse | Bold Reuse offers a platform solution that helps businesses reduce waste and packaging costs. We provide turnkey operations (sanitation and logistics), along with the technology required to support large scale reuse systems and work with companies like Starbucks, Imperfect Foods, Levy Restaurants, and nince professional sports teams including thePortland Trail Blazers, KC Current, Chicago Bears and Arizona Diamondbacks. We have a usage-based business model and a software subscription to access our enterprise analytics subscription and inventory management system. | $660K | Convertible Note | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| CurvaFix | CurvaFix is an emerging medical device company based in the Seattle area. We are developing a novel solution for an unmet need in orthopedic trauma. | $5M | Convertible Note | Jun 03, 2022 |  |
| HTuO Biosciences | Biotechnology company | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2021 |  |
| Automaton | More than 30% of all SaaS tech is selected, implemented and integrated by business users - with out support from engineering. But every QA and Monitoring toolkit requires the ability to code - leading to quality and monitoring issues from broken integrations or misconfigurations. Automaton is the first quality platform developed for the businessuser. Beginning with the Marketing, Advertising, Privacy Compliance, Analytics and Sales, Automaton brings DevOps-style quality and monitoring to business users | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 05, 2021 |  |
| SST Wireless | SST Wireless Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes wireless sensor technologies specifically to help each customer increase safety, conserve energy, and reduce operational downtime of vehicles and equipment. Their products are the result of years of research and development combined with extensive real-world field trials.Their history spansover a decade as a recognized leader in industrial and commercial grade wireless tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) that help increase safety, extend tire life and increase energy conservation for heavy duty vehicles such as mine haul trucks, construction equipment, transit buses and transport trucks.We’ve learned from a lot from their work with heavy duty vehicles. Based on their knowledge, they embarked on an ambitious plan in 2014 to develop a line of industrial wireless sensors for equipment condition monitoring. They are removing the barriers to deploying and commissioning sensors for any size of company, regardless of their technical resources. Over time, their monitoring software platform will help them gain new insights in to the service life cycle of their equipment while helping operations and maintenance teams make timely decisions to increase safety, reduce downtime and conserve energy.Their purpose designed sensors carry the philosophy that they must be easy to use, rugged and reliable to ensure that they will perform when it counts the most. Their team of engineers and software developers have delivered an impressive line of new sensors that include self calibration vibration sensor, high temperature sensor, pressure sensors, humidity and differential pressure sensor and a new sensor gateway platform. |  | Series A | Jan 29, 2020 |  |
| Cloudneeti | Cloudneeti delivers self-serviceable, workload assurance, security and compliance validations against industry standards. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| CurvaFix | CurvaFix is an emerging medical device company based in the Seattle area. We are developing a novel solution for an unmet need in orthopedic trauma. |  | Convertible Note | May 01, 2019 |  |
| Defined.ai | Defined.ai is enabling AI creators of the future, from those building their first boot-strapped models, to those fine-tuning complex AI projects. Defined.ai hosts the leading online marketplace where it's possible to buy, sell or commission off-the-shelf or custom-ordered AI data, tools and models, and offers professional services to helpdeliver success in complex machine learning projects. Defined.ai is a community of AI professionals working together to build fair, accessible, inclusive and ethical AI of the future. |  | Secondary Market | Dec 01, 2018 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Momenta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/momenta-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alliance of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliance-of-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archangel Network of Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel-4de5) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arizona Tech Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arizona-technology-investor-forum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ascend](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascend-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Enphase Energy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enphase-energy) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SWAN Venture Fund

VC Fund · Kirkland, United States

SWAN Venture Fund is a group of operators and industry experts. Our expertise ranges from tech development work, to connections into large acquisitive companies, to connections in the supply chain, to business development, and to almost every aspect of a business as it grows. This fund invests in pre-seed rounds (rounds of $500k-$1.5MM).Characteristics of companies that we are interested in: Since we are in the Seattle area, we tend to be interested in exciting value-driven and B2B tech companies with great teams, early revenues, and a competitive advantage. We invest if we like a company, they like us, and one of our members will put time/work into the company, if necessary. Otherwise, we don't invest.Categories we might consider: B2B software, IoT and scalable hardware, capital-efficient hard-science. Market-accelerating technologies. Low-regulatory-inhibited health: like healthIT, among others.Visit our website at www.swanventurefund.com

3 contacts available at SWAN Venture Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nate Doran | Business Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nate-doran |
| Leo Lam, PhD | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leo-lam |
| Mark Mueller-Eberstein | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-mueller-eberstein |

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## FAQ

### What does Nate Doran invest in?

Nate Doran invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 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 Nate Doran last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nate Doran closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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