Investing with OVF is a treat not a trick!

October 2025

Melissa Freeman

Here’s a treat for accredited investors. Oregon Venture Fund is raising its next annual fund. OVF 2026, our 20th annual fund, enables one to invest in local founders and companies that are going to create the jobs of the future. With a 19-year track record, we’ve identified some tricks of the trade and believe you will enjoy the opportunity to invest with our professional team.  

As the largest, most active, and best performing fund between Seattle and the Bay Area, we welcome you to join us in investing in, and profiting alongside, our region’s top startups and growth companies. Founders such as Ryan Fink, CEO and co-founder of Digs, Wilfred Gomes, President and co-founder of Mueon, and Jessica Murrey, CEO and co-founder of Wicked Saints Studios, represent the talent and drive that entrepreneurs in our region demonstrate. We consider ourselves lucky to have the opportunity to add fuel (both financial and social capital) to their companies’ growth.

Earning an average net 16% IRR and 3.5X on every dollar invested (including realized and unrealized gains) across all funds, we are your local wealth-building machine, producing outsized results for patient investors. In this asset class, investors are usually rewarded for taking early bets on world class teams and waiting for the bulk of the returns which typically materialize 8 to 10 years out.

Our investments must have a founder or C-suite executive who lives in Oregon or Southern Washington. The team can be distributed globally. Our investments have supported 84 companies to date, which have created 6,423 jobs. Despite some of Oregon’s headwinds in the media, we are meeting exceptional founders who live here or have recently moved to our region to launch or grow their companies for reasons ranging from cost, access to top talent, and quality of life.

With an unusually low minimum for a professional venture fund, we hope you will reach out to learn more about investing meaningfully, ambitiously, and locally while the opportunity lasts. Please contact me, Melissa Freeman, Director, Investor Relations, to find time to connect this Fall.

OVF 2026 is open to accredited investors while space allows and is by invitation only.