Venture Fund Member Profile
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The Oregon Angel Fund (OAF) is a highly structured, professionally managed, investor-driven angel fund. The fund provides accredited investors privileged access to the most promising startups and early-stage growth companies in Oregon and SW Washington. Investors in OAF have the option of receiving memberships in the Portland Angel Network (PAN) and/or, the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN).
OAF launches a new $3M+ fund each spring. Each annual fund aims to place 4-5 investments over a 12-month active investing period, followed by another 10 years of fund life to grow and exit each portfolio. The fund typically invests $400k-$600k per deal with individual OAF members and venture capitalists investing alongside and after OAF.
OAF was created by OEN in 2007 to encourage veteran and new angel investors to hone their investing skills, with the aim of increasing the number of active angel investors and funded startups in Oregon. Each fund's one-year investment horizon is designed to encourage decision-making, diversification, and learning, as well as to further position OAF as the most-active, local venue for funding startups. The 60+ active OAF investors collaborate on due diligence and use a highly participatory, democratic process to select investments.
Managed by Capybara Management, the fund is sponsored by OEN, Ater Wynne LLP, Geffen Mesher & Co., Perkins Coie LLP, and Umpqua Private Bank. The Oregon Growth Account is a non-voting investor in OAF and proceeds from its investment support public schools in Oregon.
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Scott Sandler
Fund Manager
Oregon Angel Fund (OAF) |
Scott joined the Oregon Angel Fund in 2012 and manages the day-to-day activities of the Oregon Angel Fund including generating deal flow, evaluating business plans and due diligence management. Scott became CEO of electronic design automation (EDA) startup Novas Software in 2000. There he honed his management skills and engaged his passion for building teams and brands. After selling the company to Taiwanese EDA leader SpringSoft in 2008 he fulfilled a promise to pursue something completely different at mid-life in 2010. He stopped commuting to San Jose, returned to Oregon full time, and invested in the Oregon Angel Fund, quickly becoming one its most active members. Scott is an engineer who found out early that he liked talking about technology and products more than designing and testing them. Starting at Intel in the mid-80s provided a solid launching pad for a career in high-tech startups and marketing. He was the first applications engineer for the Verilog hardware description language, spent a year in Japan with formal verification pioneer Chrysalis Symbolic Design, and created a partnership with Microsoft while with early networking vendor Shiva Corporation. Scott received a BS in Computer Systems engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Representative Investments
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CrowdCompass develops native iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry apps for meetings, conferences, events and trade shows of every size. |
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Diabetomics Pioneering non-invasive assessment of diabetes risk, progression, and complications. |
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Lux Bio Group dba northshore bio is a fusion of biological science & nanotechnology engaged in the alchemy of connecting silicon machines with the molecules of life. By focusing the transformative power of electronic and digital technologies on molecular information, we synthesize new tools to explore the meaning within life. |
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Meridian Indoor, turn-by-turn GPS system for mobile apps. |
Scott participated in the FundingPost event: Portland VC and Angel Event
on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in OR, Sponsored by Perkins Coie, Oregon Angel Fund, SocialRadius
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