Education Week - 4/6/15

Lumen Learning, one of the better-known players in the world of open educational resources, announced that it has raised $2.5 million in private equity, money that will support the company's overall growth and its continued development of its courses across subjects.

GeekWire - 4/1/15

Bigleaf Networks, a Portland-based Internet redundancy and optimization service, has raised a $1.5 million Series A round led by Oregon Angel Fund. Portland Seed Fund, Alliance of Angels, and other angel investors also participated in the round.

Portland Business Journal - 6/9/14

A St. Louis-area private equity firm picked up Portland's Revelation Global as part of a drive to add qualitative research assets.

The Oregonian - 6/19/14

Oregon startups typically start with small, local investors, and then hit up the big players once they've gained some traction.  Corvallis startup Inpria Corp. has done the reverse.

The company announced Thursday that it's raised $1.45 million from the Oregon Angel Fund, a collection of local investors backing early-stage startups. OAF has gotten in early on some of Oregon's most successful young companies.

The Wall Street Journal - 2/14/14

A Portland startup called Little Bird Inc. has raised $1.7 million in new angel funding for technology that helps sales and marketing professionals find and connect with authentic experts and influencers in a given subject on the social Web, namely via Twitter.

The Oregonian - 1/11/14

“Elemental has been a small company. We’re at the point where we need to scale to something more well-known in our industry,” said Sam Blackman, Elemental’s co-founder and chief executive.

EdSurge - 10/7/13

Celly, a private communications platform, is rocking the perfect procurement scenario with a partnership announced last month with the Oregon Department of Education.

With support from the Oregon Angel Fund, the company aimed to "build the smallest tool that could make the biggest impact," says Okamoto in an interview with EdSurge.

The Oregonian - 10/5/13

Ah, the ambiance of convenience stores: hot dogs in a warming tray and row upon row of snacky, processed foods and drinks.

Lisa Sedlar had something else in mind. She dreamed for years of opening a chain of convenience stores with a focus on healthy eating...

The Oregonian - 9/9/13

Brandlive, a Southeast Portland start up whose technology connects retailers with prospective customers, said today that it has raised !1.6 million in an investment round led by the Oregon Angel Fund.

Oregon Business - 7/7/13

For more than a decade, Oregon has built a network of support for new businesses utilizing the novel properties of nanoparticles to innovate in health care, electronics and manufacturing. 

The Oregonian - 5/16/13

Plans call for retaining -- and expanding -- Meridian's Portland office following today's deal, according to Drew Bernard,  a Meridian board member and member of the Oregon Angel Fund, which backed the company.

TechCrunch - 2/19/13

Celly, a Portland-based startup that makes it easy to instantly create your own social network, believes that the opportunities for social networking in the real world are fundamentally emergent — that groups tend to arise spontaneously, grow and then combine to form interdependent networks.

The Oregonian - 2/6/13

The Oregon Community Fund has invested another $750,000 in the Oregon Angel Fund, part of a commitment to invest $2.25 million in OAF over three years. This follows a $1 million investment last year.

Portland Business Journal - 1/25/13

“When we first started the Oregon Angel Fund ... my partners and I spent a lot of time driving out to the suburbs to visit office parks and business parks,” said the Oregon Angel Fund founder.

The Oregonian - 6/19/12

Portland startup CrowdCompass, which makes smartphone apps for conferences, plans to announce this morning that it has sold its business to a Virginia software company called Cvent for $10 million.

Portland Business Journal - 5/4/12

A Portland startup developing technology to make LED lights more efficient and less expensive has landed a $3 million venture capital round led by local investor groups.

The Oregonian - 3/28/12

Telecommunications equipment giant Cisco Systems said this morning that it will buy Vancouver software startup ClearAccess, the latest Silicon Valley company to snap up a promising sprout in the Silicon Forest.

The Oregonian - 3/10/12

The Clymb, which started with nine employees, has 41 today and expects to double that total by next year. To keep pace, it's searching for a bigger headquarters near the converted Pearl District warehouse the company calls home.