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We're glad you're here! Our goal is to provide updates on the impact of Oregon Venture Fund portfolio companies and venture capital in our region. You'll also find open positions from some of our portfolio companies - in case you or someone you know is looking for their next gig.

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FUND + TEAM NEWS 

Three Ideas for Unlocking Customers as a Super Early-Stage Founder 

Former founder and current OVF partner, Alline Akintore [pictured], shares enlightening ideas and her experience on the early days of building a company when you're attempting to sell a vision and to land your first customers as a ‘nobody’ startup. Alline provides valuable insight on how to make a customer, not just a sale. Read more about her experience and actionable advice here.

Platformr raises $2.5M and Joins OVF Portfolio

OVF is thrilled to add Platformr to our portfolio! Platformr simplifies and accelerates the path to AWS in less than an hour, empowering organizations to deliver scalable, reliable products and features to the market faster. Purpose-built for AWS, the solution is designed for companies who are ready to migrate to AWS but facing time-to-market pressure, cloud governance challenges, scalability issues, unknown security risks, and regulatory compliance requirements. Genius!

OVF is excited to lead Platformr's seed round and support founder Ryan Comingdeer [pictured] and the dedicated Platformr team. Check out the details in the Platformr announcement and learn more about why we invested in Jon Maroney's perspective.

Distributional raises $19M and Joins OVF Portfolio

Serial entrepreneurs Scott Clark [pictured], Nick Payton and team are revolutionizing AI model and app testing through automation. Distributional is an enterprise AI testing platform designed to test, deploy, upgrade, and maintain AI applications. This is a big step forward in advancing efficient, reliable AI development. The team has now raised $30M to date and plans to use the latest financing to expand its technical team, with a focus on UI and AI research engineering. We're excited to support this accomplished team alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Two Sigma Ventures, and others. Learn more about why we invested in Deepthi Madhava's perspective and more about Distribution's raise in this TechCrunch article.

The Funded 2024: OVF's CEO Summit

Each year OVF convenes the venture-backed CEOs in our region for an afternoon to work on our collective craft as leaders. We work hard to ensure it's an afternoon well spent with impactful learnings and time for connecting. This year we discussed peak performance for leaders. We learned how to activate the high-performance state of flow and 2) traits, habits, and abilities of great leaders. Many thanks to all who attended and contributed to the valuable afternoon. Read Matt Compton's recap of the event and how we can all benefit from achieving "a state of flow" here.

OVF's AI Demo Night is Back

Several times a year we gather to showcase AI products coming from our region's founder and engineering community through lightning demos and Q&A. Join us for a fun evening of learning & networking as we get an inside peak into the latest AI demos from innovative local founders and companies: Wed, November 13th, 6pm. Registration required, space is limited and fills quickly. Register here.

PORTFOLIO NEWS

Rumpl's Flame-Resistant Collaboration

Rumpl is innovating and collaborating again. The team has redesigned their takibi flame-resistant blanket through a collaboration with Japanese inspired design firm Snow Peak. The flame-resistant blanket can help facilitate tabiki time - time to come together to build bonds and make lasting memories (doing so around a campfire is even sweeter). You can find some Zen and the limited edition tabiki blanket on the Rumpl website. P.S. It makes a great gift.

Opal a Great Place to Work

Opal has been named by The Oregonian as the 4th Top Workplace (as voted on by employees) in Oregon and SW Washington. Founder and CEO George Huff [pictured] and team are not only creating a marketing source of truth and breaking down those all-too-common silos, they're also ensuring they are creating a workplace where employees want to be and can thrive. Congratulations to Team Opal!

JOBS

Looking for your next gig? Know someone who is? Below are a few of the open positions at some of OVF's portfolio companies. Please check them out and pass them along. Thanks!

Account Manager Northeast - Wayfinder

Inside Sales Development Rep - customer.io

Onboarding & Enablement Manager - Brandlive

Check out the OVF job board for the complete, up-to-date list of all 100+ openings at a number of our portfolio companies.

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Since its founding, OVF and its investors have invested $180M in 80 companies that have created over 5,794 jobs. 35% of our portfolio companies are founded or led by a woman and 23% by an entrepreneur of color.

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Disclosure: This newsletter is intended to provide general information regarding OVFs investments and impact and not for the purpose of soliciting investors for any fund. Under no circumstances should the information provided be considered an offer to sell, or a solicitation to buy, any security. Such offer or solicitation may only be made to accredited investors and qualified purchasers pursuant to the current offering documents of the relevant OVF Fund. The information provided may not be reproduced or disseminated to any third parties without the written consent of OVF. The past performance of previous OVF Funds and portfolio companies is not necessarily indicative of future results. Investors in OVF Funds may lose investment capital. There can be no assurance that any future OVF Funds or portfolio companies will achieve comparable results.