11 Best & Most Active Portland Accelerators

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Accelerators play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Portland Accelerators. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.

This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.

Top Portland Accelerators

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Starve Ups

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Investor Type: Accelerator

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Starve Ups was Oregon’s first startup accelerator, and is its only scalerator, which is defined as an end-to-end accelerator. Starve Ups was founded by founders and is solely made up of a community of startup founders and their membership companies.

Formed in October of 2000 the scalerator provides support for founders from inception to acquisition to scale membership companies through all three defining stages of the startup lifecycle, known as the Survive, Strive and Thrive stages.

In turn, founders in Starve Ups have the highest levels of success through scaling daily with the support of their hundreds of peer co-founders, who collectively provide proven peer mentoring, highly established networks, vetted strategic partnerships, direct investment and funding sources, and every possible startup resource available.

The Roux Institute Techstars Accelerator

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Investor Type: Accelerator

Investment Stage:

Roux Institute Techstars works with startups that builds products in various areas of artificial intelligence and related sectors.

VertueLab

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Investor Type: Accelerator

Investment Stage: Pre-seed, seed

VertueLab supports early-stage cleantech and climate tech entrepreneurs with wrap-around support services including funding, federal grant support, and an accelerator program.