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Arch Venture Partners |
ARCH invests primarily in companies co-founded with leading scientists and entrepreneurs, concentrating on bringing to market innovations in information technology, life sciences, and physical sciences. We enjoy special recognition as a leader in the successful commercialization of technologies developed at academic research institutions and national laboratories. ARCH currently manages six funds totaling over $1 billion and has invested in the earliest venture capital rounds for more than 110 companies. ARCH investors include major corporations, pension funds, endowment funds, financial institutions, and private investors |
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Benaroya Capital
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Benaroya Capital
has been investing in early stage Northwest companies
since the mid '80s. We specialize in equity and equity-bridge financings in post
seed-stage growth companies in a wide range of industries. Our investments have
been from the fields of Internet (b2b and b2c), telecommunications (chips,
equipment, and software), manufacturing, and consumer. |
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Fluke Venture Partners |
Fluke Venture Partners is one of the oldest and most active venture firms in the Pacific Northwest. Over more than two decades—and through up and down cycles—we’ve viewed our relationship with each management team we fund as a long-term partnership that extends from a venture's early stages all the way to industry leadership and beyond.
Our mission is to fund a deliberately diverse portfolio of the most promising high-growth technology, healthcare and consumer-oriented opportunities in the Northwest. As such, we are proud to have backed some of the region’s most successful and enduring enterprises, including Aldus, Coinstar, Eagle Hardware & Garden, Innova, Starbucks, and Tegic Communications. |
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Frazier Healthcare Ventures |
Frazier Healthcare Ventures, founded in 1991 and with more than $1 billion of capital under management, is one of the nation's leading providers of early stage venture and growth equity capital to healthcare companies. Having invested in more than 85 emerging healthcare companies, Frazier Healthcare Ventures is known well for the depth of experience and technical expertise of its eleven member investment team. This experience encompasses product development and launch, clinical trial implementation and design, industry operating experience, academic research and clinical practice. Partnering with Frazier Healthcare provides access to capital and an unparalleled breadth of relevant healthcare industry experience. |
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Frazier Technology Ventures |
At FTV, our mission is to leverage our operational and investment experience in the new investing environment in a way that finds, develops and matures the best technology rich ideas into sustainable operating companies.
We do this by seeking out promising entrepreneurs, companies and ideas and by getting involved early in a company’s development or — in some cases — even seeding companies. As a result, the majority of our initial investments are either at the seed or Series A level of financing. |
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Ignition Partners |
Ignition Partners, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is a premier venture capital firm focused on exceptional value and leadership in software, technology and service start-ups. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise and operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders with more than 160 years of combined experience, who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Microsoft's enterprise business. Ignition has approximately $750 million in capital under management. |
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Madrona Venture Group |
Madrona Venture Group
is the leading venture capital investor focused on the
Internet economy in the Pacific Northwest, one of the world's most dynamic
regions for producing early-stage, technology-based ventures. Madrona is focused
on technology and software opportunities that leverage the driving forces of the
New Economy: Internet, Broadband, Semiconductor and Wireless technologies.
Headquartered in Seattle, Madrona manages a $250 million fund. |
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Maveron |
Maveron a leading venture capital firm focused on the convergence of consumers and technology. Maveron focuses its investments on the Consumer Continuum, an investment universe that spans the consumer/technology spectrum. The Consumer Continuum is based on the premise that technology now impacts almost every facet of a company’s relationship with consumers. |
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| Montlake Capital |
Montlake Capital is a Pacific Northwest private equity firm dedicated to growing capital for our investors by investing in and building emerging growth companies. We strive to build enduring companies by leveraging over 150 years of combined operational experience to provide exceptional hands-on support. Our successes include Shurgard Storage, Gymboree, the Commerce Bank and Callaway Golf. Montlake Capital invests primarily in the business or consumer products/services, healthcare, retail, technology and financial services industries. Our first fund has made investments in 13 companies including Door to Door Storage, Ivey Imaging, Performant and Intrepid Learning Solutions. |
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OVP Venture Partners |
OVP is the market leader in the Pacific Northwest with over $500 million in committed capital under our management. We originate and lead our investments and focus on firms serving markets such as the network edge and mobility, the corporate data center, imaging and the digital home, bioinformatics and nanotechnology. |
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Polaris Ventures |
We believe that venture investing should be a
partnership between investors and entrepreneurs. We seek entrepreneurs who share
our values, and we are extremely selective: we typically review more than 100
potential investments for every company added to our portfolio. |
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Rustic Canyon Partners |
Rustic Canyon Partners is a leading West Coast-based investment firm with approximately $700 million under management. With a unique footprint that covers Southern California, Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest, and an extraordinary team with diverse and complementary backgrounds, we provide the expertise and strategic insight that prudent investment decisions require, and the guidance necessary for sustained growth and superior returns. |
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Trilogy Equity Partners LLC |
Established by a team of wireless and technology entrepreneurs, Trilogy Partnership invests private capital in areas where in-house expertise and market growth promise superior financial returns. Current businesses include operating wireless carriers in the Caribbean and Latin America as well as investments in multiple early stage application and infrastructure companies. Based on experience building mobile franchise in 12 diverse national markets, Trilogy seeks high growth opportunities in both developed and emerging countries. Our partners have long been at the center of the global wireless revolution as founders of Voicestream (T-Mobile) and Western Wireless (Alltel) in addition to previously holding pivotal roles at McCaw Cellular (AT&T). |
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Voyager Capital |
Voyager Capital
is Seattle's
leading ebusiness venture capital firm and provides entrepreneurs with the
resources, experience, and connections to build successful companies. Voyager
invests in early stage e-business software and services, Internet
infrastructure, and wireless companies. Voyager's managing directors bring
experience from a variety of senior management, business development, and
venture capital roles. Voyager's advisory board members and investors provide
important contacts for e-business startups, and are among the most successful
information technology executives and investors in Seattle and Silicon
Valley. |
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Vulcan Capital |
Vulcan Capital's venture team focuses on investments within the software, semiconductor, life sciences and communications sectors. We look to partner with entrepreneurs who have the vision and drive to transform technology breakthroughs and scientific advances into world-class companies. We are a focused, hands-on investor with years of operational and investing experience within our team. We strive to be a thoughtful and trusted partner to both our companies and syndicate co-investors. |
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WRF Capital |
WRF Capital is the venture investment arm of the Washington
Research Foundation. WRF Capital creates and invests in
technology-based start-up companies that have strong ties to the
University of Washington and other non-profit research institutions in
Washington State. Proceeds from investments are used to make financial
gifts to Washington State research institutions. |
