We help build great companies
We help build great companies
Silicon Valley to Oregon
The Seven Peaks team of investors and Venture Partners includes some of the region’s most active angel investors and a highly networked group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors. We help Oregon-based startups build and scale their businesses by providing highly relevant mentoring and leveraging our deep network in Silicon Valley and beyond.
Passionate Entrepreneurs
We are sector agnostic and Oregon focused but will invest in outstanding companies from northern California to Washington. We are looking for driven entrepreneurs who are maniacally focused on understanding and delighting their customers and building scalable startups. We’ve hiked in their shoes and view our investment as a partnership.
Incubating Companies
Based on Lean Startup Principals, Customer Development, Evidence Based Entrepreneurship, and UX design as a differentiator, Bend-based FoundersPad runs 12-week programs for entrepreneurs who want to engage, develop, and take their startups to the next level.
Seven Peaks Ventures in partnership with Bruce Cleveland will foot the bill for entrepreneurs with powerful pitches and impactful ideas or the founders of high growth startups to fly from SFO to Bend. Additionally, they can bring along another team member and their spouses/significant others. The lucky entrepreneurs and their guests will meet local startup executives and community leaders and experience the lifestyle perks that Bend has to offer. We’ll cover all meals and treat founders and company to accomodations at the Oxford hotel. To ease their transition, the entreprepreneurs who chose to relocate to Bend will be offered temporary office space for their tech startup at no cost and we will assist the entrepreneurs in acquiring funding for their new ventures.
Interested? Send Bruce or Dino an email that includes some information about yourself, your current startup/project or idea for a tech business and your funding situation. Be sure to tell us why you think Bend is the right community for you and your company to grow. Keep your pitch simple, make it compelling and make it quick. Applications are only accepted until December 31, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.
Why Central Oregon?
Why Central Oregon?
Entrepreneur magazine has called Bend the next great city for entrepreneurship and has showcased FoundersPad as a model for innovation in the development of regional tech clusters. Bend has been one of the fastest growing metro areas in the nation for years and the 16th top city for high tech startup density as measured by The Kauffman Foundation. OSU-Cascades is building a new 4-year university in Bend with a Computer Science program that launched this fall.
For years Bend has been attracting passionate, talented entrepreneurs who wanted to build their businesses in a community where they could also satisfy their quest for outdoor adventure whether that be skiing on Mt. Bachelor, fly fishing, kayaking the Deschutes River, or riding any of the hundreds of miles of mountain bike trails that crisscross the area.
The startup community in Bend is strong and growing with companies like G5, Manzama, and Droplr located here, all founded by transplanted Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. There are a variety of other resources available to entrepreneurs including TechSpace Bend, a series of meet-ups & pub talks, Hackathons, Startup Weekends, Ruby on Ales conference, and the Bend Venture Conference (the largest Angel conference in the state).
FoundersPad launched its startup accelerator in Bend to support, enhance, and grow the community of entrepreneurism. And Seven Peaks Ventures is a catalyst to fund the most promising of the pioneering companies that are emerging from the region.
Whether in Silicon Valley or Central Oregon, we have the resources, network, and expertise to help promising entrepreneurs build great companies.
Dino has spent his career as an entrepreneur, investor, and executive in leading technology companies. Now he is putting his passion and focus on building and growing the tech eco-system in Bend. He is co-founder of FoundersPad Accelerator in Bend, Managing Director of Formative Ventures, and previously General Partner at Bay Partners and Vulcan Ventures. Dino earned his MSEE and MBA degrees from the University of Washington and a BSEE degree from San Diego State University.
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