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Willamette Valley Capital
Venture capital
Willamette Valley Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 that backs early stage deep-tech companies. It provides capital and coaching to science and technology startups, sourcing deals from across the US with a network focused on regions with deep R&D but limited capital.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdeep techsciencehealthcareairoboticslongevity
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Or find every investor that fitsWillamette Valley Capital lists 14 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (37%), Industrial & Manufacturing (11%) and AI & Machine Learning (11%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Elevate Capital, Long Way Ventures and Portland Seed Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Willamette Valley Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Willamette Valley Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 14. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 36th | 14 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 37% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 11% | 18% |
| Education | 11% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companies
Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund
1Show as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Elevate Capital | 5 |
| Long Way Ventures | 2 |
| Portland Seed Fund | 2 |
| 3i Partners | 1 |
| Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund | 1 |
| Big Brain Holdings | 1 |
| Coal Hill Ventures | 1 |
| Connectivity Ventures Fund | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers14100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Willamette Valley Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backvs Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund1 shared company→Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Willamette Valley Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Jun 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Willamette Valley Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Willamette Valley Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
14 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agility Robotics designs and deploys humanoid robots for industrial automation | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Blaze Bioscience develops imaging agents and imaging systems designed to give surgeons real-time, intraoperative visualization of tumor tissue, so more cancer can be removed with greater precision. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cartogram provides wayfinding solutions for hospitals using Google Maps and BLE technology. | Healthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Cascade Prodrug develops therapies for diseases such as wet age-related macular degeneration and solid tumors | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Handful designs and sells sports bras with various features such as removable pads and hide-away pockets. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Hemex Health detects and quantifies important blood-based conditions using its Gazelle diagnostic platform | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Levrum Data Technologies develops powerful EMS and fire department simulation tools — helping agencies identify service gaps, improve response times, and make smarter, data-driven decisions. | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Moonshadow provides software engineering services to help organizations process, store, retrieve, search, visualize and analyze big data streams more efficiently. | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Onboard Dynamics develops and provides natural gas compression systems that minimize methane and other greenhouse gas releases during pipeline operations | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Phosio develops and manufactures metal oxide coatings for optical components and displays | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Talkoot provides a platform for product content optimization using artificial intelligence for ecommerce businesses | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| TransformativeMed helps hospitals close clinical and operational EHR gaps quickly and easily by automating new and existing workflows with EHR-integrated, AI-enabled solutions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- willamette.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 2 Jun 2026
- Companies checked
- 14
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