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72 Best Oregon Angel Investors

Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Oregon Angel Investors. 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 Oregon Angel Investors

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.


Ross Lipson

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Ross Lipson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dutchie, a leading cannabis technology platform that powers dispensary operations, provides consume…


Debi Coleman

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Deborah Coleman has been a member of our Board of Directors since November 1995. Ms. Coleman is a general partner of SmartForest Ventures, a…


Thomas Gonser

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Venture

Tom Gonser is founder at DocuSign, The Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management™.Tom founded DocuSign in 2003 with the goal of hel…


Bobby Balachandran

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Bobby Balachandran is the founder, president and CEO of Exterro, Inc. After an extensive career building mission-critical applications in th…


Chris Finley

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Chris Finley is the former vice president of business development at [SurveyMonkey](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/surveymonkey#/en…


Ryan Finley

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Ryan is the founder of SurveyMonkey. After graduating in 1999, Ryan launched SurveyMonkey as a part-time project out of his apartment. Since…


Pat Gelsinger

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Pat Gelsinger – CEO @ Intel


Angela Jackson

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Angela Jackson is an active angel investor and coach to emerging companies and entrepreneurs. Her background is in marketing/sales, strategy…


Daniel Jewett

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Dan Jewett is Tableau Software’s Vice President of Product Management. Dan has more than 20 years of product management and development expe…


Stephen Marsh

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Stephen Marsh founded the hosted email archiving and compliance provider Smarsh, Inc. in 2001, and now oversees a global operation with more…


Jim Grube

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Jim Grube currently serves as Audit Committee Chair on the Board of Directors for GameStop. Previously, he served at Vacasa as their chief …


Allen Alley

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Allen Alley – Managing Partner @ The Alley Group, LLC


Steve Barham

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Steve is an experienced sales and marketing executive focused on launching, building and scaling pioneering technology companies. As co-foun…


Nitin Khanna

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Nitin Khanna is the CEO of MergerTech, a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory firm that works closely with the selling process of technology co…


Darius Monsef

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Darius A. Monsef IV, known by his friends as Bubs, knows every person has an awesome creative talent and wants to help them find it and shar…


Travis Rush

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Travis Rush has been developing web applications for companies all over the world since 1997. He is the owner of multiple online web solutio…


Jaime Schmidt

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture

Jaime Schmidt is an entrepreneur and the founder of Schmidt’s Naturals, a brand of natural personal care products that she started in her ki…


Alex Payne

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Alex Payne the co-founder and CTO of BankSimple, an online banking disruption startup. Previously he was an Engineer at [Twitter](http://www…


Joe Stump

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Joe Stump was the Lead Architect of [Digg](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digg). While there he was responsible for making sure the …


Nathan Wheeler

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Mr. Nathan Wheeler is the Founder of ENTROPIX, Inc. and serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. Mr. Wheeler is the Founder of Network Optix an…


Adam Audette

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Adam is a digital marketer and SEO. Co-founder at AudetteMedia, president at Rimm-Kaufman Group (RKG), SVP Global SEO Leader at Merkle, SVP …


Chris Williams

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Chris unknowingly started his career in high school when he started building his band’s website. The site quickly needed features which were…


Eric Breon

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Eric Breon founded Vacasa in November 2009 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Vacasa, Eric Breon co-founded Oregon Green So…


Christopher Merkle

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Christopher Merkle – Founder @ MIME


Robert Lipinski

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Robert is a serial entrepreneur who has over 10 years of experience in the defense industry. He has led and exited multiple successful compa…


David Nelsen

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

David Nelsen is the Founder and CEO of Bumped. He was the co-founder and President of Giftango, LLC a leading digital and mobile e-gifting t…


Nitin Rai

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Nitin is an entrepreneur. He came to Oregon as a Software Engineer at Mentor Graphics after having worked for three software startups in Sil…


Dino Vendetti

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Dino has spent his career as an entrepreneur, investor, and exec in leading technology companies and is focused on building and growing the …


Bill Lynch

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Bill Lynch is the VP, Prouduct Management & Co – Founder at Jive Softare. As the head of Product Management, Bill is responsible for the …


Peter Hollens

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed

Peter Hollens is an American pop singer and producer best known for his work on YouTube as an a cappella cover artist. With 2.5 million subs…


Melanie Strong

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed

Mel has spent most of her life in the sports marketing industry, with 17 years of experience working at Nike leading teams in running, socce…


Gene Kim

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Gene is a multiple award winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written three books, in…


Trevor Mauch

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Trevor Mauch is a tech angel investor out of Portland, Oregon and entrepreneur who focuses on building businesses in the marketing automatio…


Stephen Pao

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Stephen Pao is a consultant and board advisor to early-stage technology companies. Prior to consulting, Steve was an early employee and exe…


Craig Froude

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

He has a degree in finance from Oregon State University, where he serves as an advisor to the OSU Austin Entrepreneurship Program. He sits o…


Raghu Raghavan

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Raghu is the product visionary and driving force behind the company. A seasoned entrepreneur, he led the initial design of the Act-On servic…


Alan Wizemann

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Alan Wizemann – Vice President of Guest Experience and Digital Product Management @ Lululemon


Thomas Brenneke

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Thomas Brenneke – Founder, President @ Network Redux


Ganesh Shankar

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Ganesh Shankar – Co-Founder & CEO @ RFPIO Inc.


Sam Blackman

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Sam Blackman is CEO and co-founder of Elemental Technologies, Inc., a Portland-based startup company. Blackman brings extensive managem…


Pete Grillo

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Pete Grillo has been active in Portland-area high-technology firms for more than 20 years. In 1997, Pete founded WeSync.com, a venture-backe…


Michael Taus

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Growth through Product, Marketing and Business Development, formerly at ABODO, CrowdStreet, FoundersPad and Rent.com.


Ron Sheridan

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Presently the Dir of Business Development at Attensa.com. Was a co-founder of Oversee.net.


Scott Allan

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Strategy and market development for new technologies.


Walden C Rhines

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Walden C Rhines – Chief Executive Officer @ Mentor Graphics


Jason Burby

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Jason, former President of WPP’s digital agency POSSIBLE, is an author and frequent speaker on helping companies shift their culture to take…


Chuck Kilo

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Kilo is Chief Medical Officer at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) where his responsibilities include performance improvement, c…


Kanth Gopalpur

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Kanth is responsible for the overall strategic direction, performance, and leadership of Monsoon Commerce and is a member of the Board of Di…


Dan Hobin

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Dan Hobin – Chief Executive Officer @ G5


AJ Brown

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

AJ Brown is the CEO for LeadsRx.


Bill Ryan

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Bill Ryan – Principal , Owner & Chairman @ Maine Red Claws


Paul Weinert

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed

Paul Weinert – Managing Principal / Founder @ GRAYBOX


Matt Haughey

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Matt Haughey – Founder @ MetaFilter


Matt Ziebart

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Matt Ziebart


Chris Demonico

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Chris Demonico


Tom Kilroy

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Tom Kilroy


William Flaiz

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

William Flaiz


Sylviane Norris

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Sylviane Norris


Jim Meehan

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Jim Meehan’s New York establishment Please Don’t Tell (PDT) helped start the current speakeasy bar craze. But his cocktails are more than ju…


Matt O’Dore

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Matthew O’Dore is a Owner at Matador Exteriors.


Alex Zehnbacht

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Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Serial Entrepreneur


Kiran Sidhu

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Kiran Sidhu


J Allard

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

J Allard – Chairman & CEO @ Project 529


VItaliy Rizhkov

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

VItaliy Rizhkov


Michael Hoffman

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Michael Hoffman is co-founder of Object Theory, a Mixed Reality agency with a focus on strategy, user experience, and product development. O…


Jim Williams

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Jim Williams founded MustHaveMenus, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.


Jim Thompson

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Jim Thompson – Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer @ GreatVines


Perry Cook

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Perry Cook – Executive Vice President – Algorithms & IP Strategy @ Kadenze


Loui Byrdziak

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Loui R. Byrdziak is the Co-Founder at BestThings.


Hal Brown

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Hal Brown


Corky Ellis

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Corky Ellis


Matt Smith

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Matt Smith

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