Mark Kendall
Angel Investors play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Portland 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 Portland Angel Investors
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Debi Coleman
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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…
Bobby Balachandran
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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…
Angela Jackson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Allen Alley – Managing Partner @ The Alley Group, LLC
Nitin Khanna
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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…
Chris Williams
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Christopher Merkle – Founder @ MIME
David Nelsen
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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…
Bill Lynch
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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 …
Melanie Strong
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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…
David Shaw
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Shaw – Managing Partner @ Black Point Group
Stephen Pao
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Alan Wizemann – Vice President of Guest Experience and Digital Product Management @ Lululemon
Thomas Brenneke
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Thomas Brenneke – Founder, President @ Network Redux
Sam Blackman
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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…
Jean Hoffman
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Putney’s Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jean Hoffman, is a successful entrepreneur with a strong track record in the pharmac…
Pete Grillo
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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…
Mark MacMahon
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Founder, CEO of X2X Community.
Ron Sheridan
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Presently the Dir of Business Development at Attensa.com. Was a co-founder of Oversee.net.
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…
Edward McKersie
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Edward McKersie
Chuck Kilo
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
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…
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 Ziebart
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Matt Ziebart
Peter Handy
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Peter Handy – CEO, President @ Bristol Seafood
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
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
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Matthew O’Dore is a Owner at Matador Exteriors.
Alex Zehnbacht
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Serial Entrepreneur
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 Thompson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jim Thompson – Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer @ GreatVines
Loui Byrdziak
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Loui R. Byrdziak is the Co-Founder at BestThings.
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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