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Cascade Rising Ventures

VC
Portland, ORWebsite
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$200K – $2.5M

Portfolio

10+ companies

Team

4 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

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

Meet the Team

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.

NC

Neil Carpenter

GP

B2B SaaS
Gaming
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.

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.

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Other
Enterprise

Does Not Invest In

Pharmaceuticals

Portfolio Companies (10)

Other

AN

Anthropic

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

OP

OpenAI

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

DA

Databricks

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

GR

Groq

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

RA

Ramp

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

CO

CoreWeave

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

LA

Lambda

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

VE

Vercel

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

DE

Decart

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

PL

PlayNet Solutions

B2B Gaming SaaS

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