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Cascade Rising Ventures

VC
Portland, ORWebsite

Cascade Rising Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Portland, OR investing in SaaS, Other, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $200K–$2.5M checks and has 10 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$200K – $2.5M

Portfolio

10+ companies

Team

5 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Empowering innovative startups in B2B gaming solutions from the Pacific Northwest.

How Cascade Rising Ventures invests

Cascade Rising Ventures is a vc firm based in Portland, OR. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on SaaS, Other, Enterprise. It does not invest in Pharmaceuticals.

Cascade Rising Ventures typically writes checks of $200K–$2.5M per investment.

Cascade Rising Ventures has backed 10 companies in our records, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks.

Meet the Team

NC

Neil Carpenter

GP

B2B SaaS
Gaming
JW

Jerry Weitzman

Venture Partner

Former SVP of Sales at Databricks. Grew ARR from $15M to $1.5B; built a 300-person enterprise sales organization across the Americas.

MB

Matt Berg

Partner, CIO

Deployed $5B+ in capital across 40+ public & private companies. Head of Late Stage Venture Capital at Manhattan West. Former analyst and portfolio manager at York Capital and Highbridge Capital.

MW

Matt Weisbarth

Partner, Head of Capital Formation

15+ years pioneering private market transactions in pre-IPO shares of leading technology companies — including Facebook — well before their IPOs.

DM

Dustin McCormick

Head of Operations

Firm infrastructure
Scale

Accomplished operator specializing in firm infrastructure and scale; has scaled multiple businesses across consulting and wealth management.

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Other
Enterprise

Does Not Invest In

Pharmaceuticals

Portfolio Companies (10)

Other

AN

Anthropic

OP

OpenAI

DA

Databricks

GR

Groq

RA

Ramp

CO

CoreWeave

LA

Lambda

VE

Vercel

DE

Decart

PL

PlayNet Solutions

B2B Gaming SaaS
How to pitch Cascade Rising Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Other, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $200K – $2.5M check.
  • •cold outreach ok
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Neil Carpenter, GP.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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