Rick Turoczy
Angel Investor · at The Bridges Accelerator
Portland, United States
Rick Turoczy is a non-equity assistance investor at The Bridges Accelerator in Portland focused on Food and Beverage and Food Processing. Rick Turoczy has been working in, on, and around venture funded startups in the Portland area for 30 years.As founder and editor of Silicon Florist, he has blogged about Portland startups for 17+ years — even though numerous people have begged him to stop. In 2009, that side project led Rick to cofound PIE (the Portland Incubator Experiment), anongoing experiment exploring the potential for mutually beneficial collaborations between the Portland startup community and more well-established entities like corporations, government organizations, and educational institutions. Partners in that experiment have included Autodesk, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Google, Intel, Nike, Prosper Portland, Puppet, the State of Oregon, Stoel Rives, Target, and Wieden+Kennedy, among others. Using what he learned at PIE, Rick cofounded Built Oregon, a nonprofit designed to celebrate, connect, and accelerate all of the amazing consumer product companies throughout Oregon — the Silicon Valley of consumer products.Rick regularly mentors for startup accelerator programs around the world. He has been recognized as one of the “OG”s of startup ecosystem building by the Kauffman Foundation. And he has been humbled by any number of additional opportunities to speak on stages from SXSW to Kobe to Muscat, including an opportunity to share his views on community building on the TEDxPortland stage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj98mr_wUA0). All because of a blog. Weird.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
Last updated:
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Industries Rick Turoczy invests in
Stages Rick Turoczy invests in
Countries Rick Turoczy invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 3 (38%)
- Food Processing 2 (25%)
- Catering 1 (13%)
- Snack Food 1 (13%)
Stage
- Non-equity Assistance 7 (88%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Hot Mama Salsa offers line of fresh-made salsas, hot sauces, Mexican-style chili oils and tortilla chips. | Non-equity Assistance / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| Red Nose Factory offers consultation, design and creation of one-of-a-kind noses, clown noses sculpted to fit your face distinctly or to compliment your clown character perfectly. | Non-equity Assistance / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| Gather Nuts is a supplier of slow roasted nuts based snack food. | Non-equity Assistance / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| Savorease Therapeutic Foods offers nutrorion based Crispy Melts a line of crunchy foods . | Non-equity Assistance / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| Good Wolf offers Probiotic Refreshers that support gut health and contain calming adaptogens and electrolytes. | Jun 23, 2023 | ||
| The Better Boba minority owned company that makes and offers all natural, gluten free, Vegan and all-natural boba pearls. | Non-equity Assistance / Jun 23, 2023 | ||
| Kachka provides craft cocktails, beer, wine, and catering services. | Non-equity Assistance / Jun 23, 2023 | ||
| Flourish Spices is a one-stop-shop of African spices and offers catering services for events, cooking classes. | Non-equity Assistance / Jun 23, 2023 |
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FAQ
What does Rick Turoczy invest in?
Rick Turoczy invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Catering startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Rick Turoczy last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rick Turoczy closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 8 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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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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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