EdgeScale Ventures
EdgeScale Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in Portland, Oregon investing in Other. The firm typically writes $100K–$2.5M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$2.5M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- Portland, Oregon
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-15
Seed
$100K – $2.5M
2+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage fund focused exclusively on edge computing startups delivering mission-critical efficiencies in logistics, manufacturing, and transport.
How EdgeScale Ventures invests
EdgeScale Ventures is a vc firm based in Portland, Oregon. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Other. It does not invest in Consumer IoT.
EdgeScale Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$2.5M per investment.
EdgeScale Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including LoadSmartEdge, FreightVision.
Partners & Team
Marc Rouanne
General Partner
Co-founder of Edgescale; described as having built, partnered with, and invested in foundational technology companies underpinning the internet and the cloud across global ecosystems and millions of operating sites worldwide.
Brian Mengwasser
General Partner
Co-founder of Edgescale; described as having built, partnered with, and invested in foundational technology companies underpinning the internet and the cloud across global ecosystems and millions of operating sites worldwide.
David La Placa
General Partner
Co-founder of Edgescale; described as having built, partnered with, and invested in foundational technology companies underpinning the internet and the cloud across global ecosystems and millions of operating sites worldwide.
Catherine Moore
GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
LoadSmartEdge
FreightVision
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $2.5M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Marc Rouanne, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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