Oregon Venture Fund
VC Fund
Portland, United States
Oregon Venture Fund is a VC fund in Portland focused on Software and Information Technology. Founded in 2007, the Oregon Venture Fund is the largest and most active venture fund focused on supporting startups and growth companies with a presence in Oregon and SW Washington. The fund has invested over $120 million and is backed by the leaders of Oregon’s business, technology, and entrepreneurial communities. Consistently one of the topperforming venture funds in North America, OVF invests $15 million annually in the most promising startups and growth companies in Oregon and SW Washington. Over 4,200 jobs have been created by the 75 companies in the portfolio. OVF’s largest investors include the State of Oregon, Oregon Community Foundation, and Meyer Memorial Trust.OVF invests $500K to $3M per round and can allocate up to $10M for each portfolio company. The fund is stage and sector agnostic.
- Total investments:
- 89
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
- Fund size:
- $11M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Oregon Venture Fund invests in
Stages Oregon Venture Fund invests in
Countries Oregon Venture Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$7.7M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$17M
- Series B
- $1.3M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 22 (25%)
- Information Technology 10 (11%)
- SaaS 9 (10%)
- Enterprise Software 7 (8%)
- Mobile 6 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 29 (33%)
- Seed 27 (30%)
- Series B 10 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (7%)
- Funding Round 4 (4%)
Country
- United States 61 (69%)
- New Zealand 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ann Carney Nelson
Member of Investment Strategy Board
|
Member of Investment Strategy Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Eric Rosenfeld
Co-Founder & Partner
|
Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Lynn Fletcher
Operations & Investor Relations
|
Operations & Investor Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Scott Sandler
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Alline Akintore
principal
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principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| NLM Photonics is a pioneering photonics company developing computing and networking solutions and devices. | Series A / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| AiStrike is committed to solving security investigation and response challenges for modern organizations with AI-powered automation. By reducing alert volume by up to 85%, AiStrike helps security teams overcome alert fatigue, while enriching and prioritizing critical alerts for smarter decision-making and faster mean time to resolution (MTTR). WithAiStrike, organizations gain the advantage of real-time alert triage, guided investigation, and automated response – all within one intuitive platform. AiStrike’s custom AI models are run locally, ensuring data privacy and security. | $7M / Seed / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Digs is a SaaS platform that serves builders and contractors by providing tools to streamline preconstruction planning, document collaboration, and homeowner handover. The service offers modules like file management (“DigsCloud”) that centralize project files and enable AI-powered search, collaboration boards (“DigsCanvas”) that generate 2D/3Ddigital twins of homes from standard blueprints, and handoff/warranty tools (“DigsCare”) that deliver digital home portfolios and postbuild support. The product is designed to bring all stakeholders, including builders, subcontractors, suppliers, and homeowners, into a unified workspace, tracking selections, approvals, changes, and warranties in one place. By converting traditional paper-based processes into a structured digital workflow, Digs aims to reduce information silos and improve communication across the build lifecycle. | $5M / Seed / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| Huckleberry uses AI to package and deliver feedback directly to people in a way that's only helpful. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 30, 2025 | ||
| ConductorOne integrates permission management for the web and modern infrastructure. Alexander Bovee and Paul Querna co-founded ConductorOne in Portland, Oregon in 2020. | $79M / Series B / Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| semiconductor-based systems for AI and hyperscale computing | $15.5M / Seed / Sep 17, 2025 | ||
| Conveyor is the leading generative AI-powered platform that automates and scales the most tedious part of the sales process: customer security reviews. Trusted by the world's top SaaS companies, Conveyor helps vendors build trust with customers while reducing the time spent on the mind-numbing task of sharing security information and answeringsecurity questionnaires by over 90%. | $20M / Series B / Jun 12, 2025 | ||
| Hydrolix is an early-stage startup with an ambition to change the economics of high density data. The company develops a query service technology intended to process petabyte-scale time series data.Hydrolix's cloud-based query service utilizes proprietary compression and indexing technology, allowing customers to process sub-secondinteractive queries at a fraction of the cost of other existing services. | $80M / Series C / Apr 03, 2025 | ||
| Distributional makes AI safe, reliable and secure. | $19M / Series A / Oct 08, 2024 | ||
| Purpose-built with AWS best practices, Platformr configures AWS infrastructure, sets up AWS landing zones, and deploys scalable, well-architected workloads in minutes—accelerating AWS Cloud migration and modernization. | $2.5M / Seed / Aug 15, 2024 | ||
| See all 89 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Oregon Venture Fund invest in?
Oregon Venture Fund invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 89 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 Oregon Venture Fund's check size?
Oregon Venture Fund typically joins rounds of $1M–$7.7M at Seed, $1.4M–$17M at Series A and $1.3M–$35M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Oregon Venture Fund participates in.
How do I contact Oregon Venture Fund?
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Who are the partners at Oregon Venture Fund?
The team at Oregon Venture Fund includes Ann Carney Nelson (Member of Investment Strategy Board), Eric Rosenfeld (Co-Founder & Partner) and Lynn Fletcher (Operations & Investor Relations), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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