Portfolio
Portfolio Companies
Portland Seed Fund’s investments to date are from diverse industries and business models but share a common throughline: the demonstration of both capital efficiency and high growth potential. Following Portland Seed Fund’s initial investment, Portland Seed Fund portfolio companies have gone on to secure more than $1.5 billion in outside capital and several significant exit events, such as acquisition by public companies in their industries.
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2Morrow
MedTech
2Morrow is a digital health company that offers a suite of research-based programs powered by our Behavior Change Engine, including the award-winning Healthy Habits app and the clinically-proven SmartQuit smoking cessation program.
4-Tell
Retail & ECommerce
Acquired by MediaGrif in 2024
4-Tell provides a personalization system for online merchants to increase shopper engagement, conversion and sales while providing business insights to merchandisers and marketers.
A Kids Company About
FinTech
A growing collection of books by amazing authors that cover a range of challenging, empowering, and important topics for kids.
ActionSprout
Marketing Applications
Acquired by MotiveAI in 2024
ActionSprout is on a mission to make Facebook the most powerful platform on the planet for good. Nonprofits, NGOs, foundations and Facebook depend on ActionSprout to help them do the right things at the right time on the world's largest social network.
AgTools
Business Applications
AgTools provides game-changing intelligence to the agriculture market through up-to-the-moment statistics.
Alleyoop
Retail & ECommerce
Travel-friendly, paraben- and phthalate- and cruelty-free beauty and body care that performs double duty, just like their customers.
Amplion
MedTech
Amplion is driving the promise of precision medicine by delivering key clinical information that informs strategic decisions for personalized care.
AppThwack
Developer Tools
Acquired by AMAZON in 2015
Appthwack (now AWS Device Farm) helps companies improve the quality of their iOS, Android, and web applications by testing against hundreds of real phones and tablets in the AWS Cloud.
Aunt Fannie's
Food & Beverage
Aunt Fannie's is a line of household cleaners and personal care products that are made with non-toxic microbiomic ingredients.
Auth0
Developer Tools
Acquired by OKTA in 2021
Auth0 is the leader in zero-friction identity infrastructure, built for developers.
Bala
Apparel & Outdoor
Bala Footwear has created the perfect shoe for nurses, combining performance, comfort, stability and style.
Better Bean
Food & Beverage
Acquired by Hain Celestial in 2017
Better Bean makes premium, fresh packed, ready to eat beans sold in refrigerated tubs as a tasty and healthy alternative to canned beans.
Bigleaf Networks
Business Applications
Bigleaf's SD-WAN service improves the reliability and performance of cloud applications like VoIP, SaaS, and VPNs for businesses with a software-controlled overlay network on top of the customers' internet connections to automatically re-route and prioritize traffic.
Brandlive
Marketing Applications
Brandlive builds and delivers end-to-end hosting, production, and support of the world's largest and most memorable virtual events.
Bright.md
MedTech
Bright.md's SmartExam is a virtual physician assistant that automates up to 90% of the time providers spend diagnosing and treating common conditions such as colds, flus and earaches through an easy-to-use online clinical exam accessible from patients' home computers or mobile devices.
ChEmpower
Business Applications
ChEmpower develops chemistry and materials to improve semiconductor planarization reliability and yields.
Chronicled
Business Applications
Automating business rule enforcement in the life sciences industry through the blockchain-powered MediLedger Network.
Clean Age
Retail & ECommerce
Clean Age's product line of deodorant, toothpaste tabs, toothbrushes, and hand sanitizer was created to give teens the essentials they need and to help them learn good habits for a lifetime.
Cloudability
Developer Tools
Acquired by Apptio in 2024
Cloudability manages more than $2 billion in cloud spending with data-driven cloud cost management software, analytics and optimization algorithms for IT and developers.
Community Energy Labs
Clean Tech
Investment Date: Jan 2022
CEL’s modern building control solutions make smart energy management and decarbonization both accessible and affordable for community building owners.
Cozera
FinTech
Cozera provides identity verification solutions that simplify customer experiences and enhance security.
Crowd Supply
Retail & ECommerce
Acquired by Mouser Electronics in 2018
Crowd Supply is a curated crowdfunding platform for exceptionally transparent and creative manufactured goods.
CrowdStreet
FinTech
CrowdStreet is disrupting the commercial real estate industry by enabling real estate operators and developers to efficiently engage in online capital formation, communicate with investors, distribute investment documents and centralize ongoing investor relations.
Customer.io
Business Applications
Customer.io harnesses real-time behavioral data and advanced segmentation across web and mobile channels to power a behavioral messaging platform that automates hyper-personalized customer communication at scale.
CytoImage
MedTech
CytoImage uses single cell imaging innovation to reduce recurrence in individuals diagnosed with cancer to identify therapies best-suited for each patient.
DocVocate
MedTech
Investment Date: Aug 2020
DocVocate uses AI to automate claims payments for physicians, optimizing reimbursement and reducing overhead.
Droplr
Business Applications
Acquired by (Private equity) in 2024
Droplr's visual collaboration app puts teams on the same page with less back and forth chatter, fewer wordy emails, and more clarity. Show, don’t tell.
Elli
Retail & ECommerce
Acquired by The Knot in 2024
Personalized wedding invitations, save the date cards, and other stationery designs that are fresh and unique that incorporate both vintage and modern styles.
Enduring Planet
Business Applications
Enduring Planet supports the transition to a low-carbon economy by investing in and actively supporting early-stage climate startups by offering non-dilutive capital to companies in return for a fixed percentage of top-line revenue.
ESS Inc.
Clean Tech
Acquired by IPO in 2024
ESS Inc. manufactures low-cost, long-duration iron flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications requiring 6+ hours of flexible energy capacity.
FleetNurse
MedTech
Using innovation and technology to connect healthcare facilities to quality healthcare providers on-demand.
Gear Up Sports
Apparel & Outdoor
Utilizing a proprietary mass customization design and manufacturing platform, Gear Up Sports delivers premium Nike branded uniforms and apparel directly to an athlete’s homes in 15 days or less.
Glider
Business Applications
Acquired by FPX in 2014
Contract management and process automation for the Fortune 1000.
GlobeSherpa
Business Applications
Acquired by RIDESCOUT in 2015
Moovel Transit (formerly GlobeSherpa) provides secure, convenient mobile ticketing for transit commuters and more.
Green Canopy NODE
Clean Tech
Green Canopy NODE combines smart construction technology solutions with sustainable development expertise to create housing for communities throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Handful
Apparel & Outdoor
Handful designs functional, comfortable sports bras and athletic apparel for women. Handful bras flatter, not flatten, with a design that works for women of all sizes - including breast cancer survivors.
Hemex Health
MedTech
Hemex creates affordable, life-changing medical diagnostics for populations at risk for malaria and sickle cell disease.
HerdDogg
Business Applications
HerdDogg builds state-of-the-art smart ear tags and readers for livestock ID and health monitoring.
Hilos
Retail & ECommerce
Investment Date: Mar 2021
HILOS is disrupting the $86 billion footwear market with personalized, on-demand manufacturing and zero inventory.
Hubb
Business Applications
Acquired by Intrado in 2021
Hubb is a content management system for conferences and meetings that automates the process of submitting, reviewing, approving, and publishing conference session content. Hubb's software also helps manage exhibitors and sponsors, build attendee schedules, and manage event staffing.
Hydrolix
Developer Tools
Hydrolix Turbine is a secure, reliable, cloud-native ingest and query service for petabyte-scale time-series data. Hydrolix's proprietary compression and indexing technology delivers revolutionary improvements in ingest, storage, and query performance, enabling sub-second interactive queries at a fraction of the cost of other solutions.
Indow
Clean Tech
Indow builds thermal window inserts that are quick to install and aesthetically pleasing, saving homeowners money and energy without the replacement window price tag or hassle.
InVivo Biosystems
MedTech
InVivo Biosystems provides essential analytical services to enable pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, biotechnology companies and research institutions around the globe accelerate their research and drug discovery efforts.
Iotas
Clean Tech
Acquired by ADT in 2022
IOTAS provides the multifamily real estate industry with a platform enabling smart apartments that provide building data and a new revenue source from tenants.
LeadMethod
Business Applications
Acquired by (Private equity) in 2021
LeadMethod helps companies automate the lead capture and distribution process, generate real-time feedback from their distributors and channel partners, and make data-driven decisions to increase revenue.
Lumen
EdTech
Lumen Learning creates digital course materials that replace expensive textbooks in high-enrollment courses for higher education saving students millions of dollars every term.
Madorra
MedTech
Madorra is developing a medical device solution to to vaginal dryness in post-menopausal women and breast cancer survivors.
Measureful
Marketing Applications
Acquired by CHIRPIFY in 2014
Measureful is a platform that collects online marketing data and distills into simple, insightful stories for managers.
Megh Computing
Business Applications
Investment Date: Jun 2018
Megh Computing delivers a scalable, efficient platform for Real Time Analytics using FPGA as a service in the cloud.
Mendi
Food & Beverage
Mendi is an athlete-built and women-owned sports CBD brand whose mission is to improve athletes' lives using nature's best recovery tools.
Minnow
Business Applications
Minnow is a contact-free food pickup platform for foodservice companies, food delivery services, restaurants, and other organizations who want to provide a safer and more convenient pickup experience.
mpathic
Business Applications
Mpathic.ai is a cloud-based empathy-as-a-service, or EaaS, that helps humans talk to humans using real-time text corrections.
Must Deliver
Business Applications
Must Deliver operates a marketplace connecting drivers and shippers with transparent pricing and real-time shipment statuses.
Narō
Retail & ECommerce
Investment Date: Jan 2022
Narō produces and distributes video journeys through Japanese culture—master chefs, artisans, sumo & more share their craft for the 1st time in exclusive streaming courses.
Notion
Business Applications
Acquired by Jama Software in 2018
Notion is the analytics layer for modern business teams, empowering answers to simple questions without the complex effort typical of general purpose business intelligence tools.
NurseGrid
MedTech
Acquired by HealthStream in 2024
NurseGrid helps hospitals put the right nurse in the right place at the right time by streamlining the flow of communications between nurses and nurse managers.
Onboard Dynamics
Clean Tech
Onboard Dynamics is commercializing revolutionary natural gas compression capability integrated into automotive engines, enabling natural gas vehicle refueling from the existing low pressure natural gas grid infrastructure.
Opal
Marketing Applications
Opal is a collaboration platform for brand marketing teams. The Opal Platform facilities the production and orchestration of the brand marketing process, enabling the visualization, alignment and deployment of campaigns across all marketing channels.
OpConnect
Clean Tech
OpConnect has developed an electric vehicle fueling management platform that works with a variety of electric vehicle charging stations, enabling rapid charger deployment for property owners, utilities, employers, and municipalities.
OROS
Apparel & Outdoor
Developed from the NASA technology used for space suit insulation, OROS Apparel manufactures thinner, warmer, more flexible outerwear.
Overwatch Imaging
Business Applications
Overwatch Imaging develops AI-driven onboard imaging software for both piloted and unmanned aircraft.
Owl Insights
MedTech
Owl Insights drives lower costs and improved health outcomes for behavioral health providers with a cloud-based outcomes and analytics platform that tracks patient-reported outcomes using a digital library of clinically-validated, evidence-based assessments.
Photon Marine
Clean Tech
Photon Marine is building the world's most powerful and intelligent electric outboard motor system tailored to commercial boat fleets.
Poached
Food & Beverage
Poached is a smarter way to hire for restaurants, bars and hotels. Poached streamlines the hiring process for both employers and workers and is the leading platform for jobs in the food, beverage and restaurant industry.
Printforia
Business Applications
Printforia offers real-time fulfillment and delivery of customized apparel.
PrivacyCode
Business Applications
PrivacyCode is the SaaS platform that translates complex privacy policies for developers
Radious
Business Applications
Radious is an online marketplace for rentable home office and meeting space.
Red Duck Foods
Food & Beverage
Acquired by (Private equity) in 2020
Investment Date: Jun 2018
Red Duck Foods is a Certified B-Corp and creator of unique, creatively-flavored condiments including ketchup, taco sauce and BBQ sauce.
Reperio
MedTech
Reperio's portable, patented screening kit includes FDA-cleared medical devices that bring the accuracy of lab tests home
SERPs
Business Applications
Acquired by (Private equity) in 2017
Cloud-based rank tracking software tools that help SEO professionals monitor and optimize website performance.
Sightbox
Retail & ECommerce
Acquired by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care in 2017
Sightbox offers a full-service vision care subscription plan that takes care of finding and paying doctors, fulfilling prescriptions and providing a regular delivery of 1-day, 2 week, or monthly disposable contact lenses.
SkyPoint
Business Applications
SkyPoint Cloud is a customer data platform that champions privacy and compliance through connected privacy-first customer experiences.
Snap2Insight
Business Applications
Investment Date: Jun 2018
Snap2Insight delivers real-time shelf analytics to the world's largest retailers using artificial intelligence and next generation image recognition technology.
Society Nine
Apparel & Outdoor
Society Nine is a modern femme sports brand providing boxing gear and sportswear to empower you and your fight. Our mission is to create tools that strengthen women to uncover their power in mind, body and soul.
Spaceview
Business Applications
Acquired by Atheer in 2017
SpaceView lets salespeople and interior designers place virtual objects in a photo of a room using 3D technology, streamlining the visual approval process.
Winner of Angel Oregon Spring 2015.
Steamchain
FinTech
Simplifying payment processing in the international shipping and logistics industries.
StormSensor
Business Applications
StormSensor tracks the effects of climate change to reduce the vulnerability of our communities’ sewage infrastructure.
Streem
Business Applications
Acquired by Frontdoor in 2024
Investment Date: Jun 2018
Streem helps home repair professionals assess, scope and quote jobs without setting foot in a customer’s house, using a proprietary intelligent video platform delivered via smartphone.
Thaena
MedTech
Thaena is a women-founded company on a simple mission to restore balance and resilience to microbial ecosystems of the gut and skin.
thatDot
Business Applications
thatDot is a streaming data platform that connects, acts on, and explores streaming data for enterprise workflow and analytics.
The Dyrt
Apparel & Outdoor
The Dyrt leverages user-generated reviews and content to build the go-to resource for finding the perfect campground, and connects outdoor industry brands with the 40 million consumers who reserve campgrounds online.
The Wild
Business Applications
Acquired by Autodesk in 2021
Investment Date: Apr 2018
The Wild is a cloud-based, real-time collaboration platform for designers to create and share spatial design in virtual and augmented reality.
TiLT
Business Applications
TiLT automates the leave planning and management process for HR and employees.
Tonsil Tech
MedTech
Tonsil Tech sells a device specifically engineered for the safe and pain-free removal of tonsil stones.
Toolbelt
Marketing Applications
ToolBelt is the first online network to help builders, construction companies and skilled tradesworkers find each other fast.
Tribute
Business Applications
Investment Date: Aug 2020
Tribute is an enterprise mentorship app connecting employees together through shared life experiences and stories to discover a mentor.
TrovaTrip
Retail & ECommerce
TrovaTrip is a trip-hosting platform for topic influencers. It enables topic experts with large followings to monetize their audience by hosting group trips and retreats around the globe.
Vizify
Consumer Internet
Acquired by YAHOO in 2016
Transforming personal web identities with visualization tools.
Wild Friends Foods
Food & Beverage
Wild Friends makes delicious and nourishing nut butters made from non-GMO, organic and natural ingredients.
Wildfang
Apparel & Outdoor
Wildfang is a fashion and lifestyle brand liberating menswear one bowtie at a time. With physical and online retail locations, Wildfang is a fresh take on tomboy culture and a home for badass women.
YearOne
Business Applications
YearOne offers coding bootcamp graduates access to a network of companies that are looking to hire candidates with diverse experiences from around the US.