Investors
| Menlo Ventures is a private venture capital firm which invests in emerging growth opportunities throughout the United States. Since its inception in 1976, the firm has organized and managed ten funds with combined investment capital of over $4 billion and has financed more than 350 companies in a wide range of industries. Menlo Ventures X, L.P., is a $1.2 billion venture capital limited partnership providing capital and management to early stage and emerging growth companies.
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| Oregon Angel Fund encourages veteran and new angel investors to “learn by doing,” with the aim of increasing the number of active local angel investors and funded startups in Oregon and SW Washington. OAF's one-year investment horizon is designed to encourage decision-making, diversification, and learning, as well as to further position PAN as the most-active venue for funding startups in Oregon and SW Washington. Comprised of 50+ accredited investors, OAF seeks to invest in four early-stage growth companies per year. Investments may be made in companies operating in any industry and targeting any market.
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| Divergent Ventures, LLC is an early-stage venture capital investment firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm invests in early-stage companies, with an emphasis on software, internet infrastructure and information technology enabled services. In addition to investment capital, Divergent actively provides business management consulting services to our portfolio companies, supplying strategic and tactical advice, helping to recruit key employees, and assisting with fundraising efforts.
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| The Sustainability Investment Funds are managed by Reference Capital Management whose team has more than twenty years' experience investing in the rapidly growing opportunities within the sustainable economy. We believe that by creating and growing companies that leverage the attributes (market, talent, technology, capital) of the Northwest and the West Coast, these companies will deliver an excellent return to investors, be globally competitive and establish market leadership positions.
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| Raj Dhesikan VP of Engineering, New Technologies & Ventures Division Sanmina-SCIRaj Dhesikan is a veteran of the networking & telecom industry with multiple years of product development and operations experience. He has built multiple products in his career including media gateways, voice-data convergence gateways, multi-service provisioning platforms, and firewall / VPN's. He has been a thought leader that chooses with conviction and follows through to completion. View LinkedIn Profile |  | Diane Fraiman Venture Partner Voyager CapitalDiane focuses on software and digital media investments in the Pacific Northwest, particularly Oregon. Diane has over 30 years of technology experience with firms such as Digital Equipment, Sequent, Tektronics, Informix and Sanctum, leading marketing, strategy and business development. Currently Diane works with start ups in the enterprise software, Internet/Web 2.0, and security software industries throughout the West Coast and Texas. View LinkedIn Profile |  | Ian Miller Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing Cray, Inc.Ian Miller has global IT experience and most recently navigated PolyServe’s sales and business development team from 2002 to their acquisition by HP in 2007. Prior to that Ian worked for IBM, Sequent, Software AG and Unisys. View LinkedIn Profile |
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