Oregon Venture Fund

What is Oregon Venture Fund?

Oregon Venture Fund (OVF) is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in startups and early-stage companies. Established in 2007 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, OVF targets innovative businesses within Oregon and Southwest Washington.

With a focus on empowering the region's trailblazing entrepreneurs, OVF is dedicated to funding and supporting the next generation of world-class growth companies, facilitating their scaling on a global stage. OVF invests across a diverse set of industries, including Software, IT, Media, BioTech, Business Solutions, FinTech, Hardware, Retail, IoT, CleanTech, A.I., HealthTech, Real Estate, Healthcare, Investment Management, Life Science, Mobile, and Nanotechnology.

OVF's investment approach emphasizes backing insanely great teams that target large opportunities with 'must-have' solutions intended to make the world a better place. They prudently select companies with an eye toward producing superior returns and meaningful impact, a strategy that has borne fruit in their investment highlights and company success stories.

Notably, the fund has a strong commitment to community involvement.

Through OVF's Community Giving Fund at the Oregon Community Foundation, which is also an investor in OVF, the firm encourages its investors and entrepreneurs to reinvest their gains into more startups and make philanthropic contributions to benefit the wider Oregonian community. To date, 315 individuals have collectively donated over $72,000 to the fund. OVF's ethos promotes a virtuous cycle of wealth creation and reinvestment, aiming to magnify the positive economic and social impacts of their investments.

What they say:

We are a venture capital fund providing funding and support.

What we look for: We invest in the next generation of companies.