About Cascade Seed Fund
Cascade Seed Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. It is primarily based out of Bend, United States. As of Dec 2025, Cascade Seed Fund has invested in 65 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Kivo Overall, Cascade Seed Fund portfolio has seen 10 acquisitions including key companies like Hubly, Stabilitas and DeepSurface. A lot of funds co-invest with Cascade Seed Fund, with names like Oregon Venture Fund sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Cascade Seed Fund has team of 7 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Portfolio Acquisitions
Cascade Seed Fund's List of Top Investments
Cascade Seed Fund has a portfolio of 65 companies. Their most notable investments are in Droplr and ToolBelt.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada and United Kingdom. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Retail and 22 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Cascade Seed Fund:1. Digs
Provider of SaaS-driven collaboration software for home builders. It provides solutions for file management, reviewing with clients & suppliers, assigning & managing tasks, contract management, document management, and more. The platform also helps homeowners to understand the project and make decisions on project ideas.
Key facts about Digs
- Founded Year: 2022
- Location: Vancouver (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $20M
- Employee Count: 58 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: FUSE, Oregon Venture Fund and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Aug 27, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Hubly
Business management platform for financial advisors. It is a platform offering financial planning solutions. It provides features such as task management, collaboration tools, and integrations with other applications for productivity. It assists in creating workflows, tracking client progresses, generating performance analytics, and managing workflows. Also, offers tools to share personalized recommendations to clients.
Key facts about Hubly
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $2.45M
- Employee Count: 5 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: OCA Ventures, Mucker and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Nov 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Goal Five
Internet first brand offering soccer apparel for women. The product catalog includes tops, bras, bottoms, shorts, tees, etc. The company also offers a few accessories like hats, socks, and water bottles.
Key facts about Goal Five
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Oakland (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $1M - $10M as on Dec 31, 2021
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $3.5M
- Employee Count: 11 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: The Perkins Fund, Broadway Angels and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Mar 31, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Poached Jobs
Poachedjobs is an online job board to connect job seekers to jobs available in restaurants and bars. Developed a proprietary BackOffice tools that are designed around industry hiring practices. As of May 2016, operating in Chicago, Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Denver, San Francisco, L.A., Portland, and Seattle. For members, it costs $28 to post a job and $35 for others.
Key facts about Poached Jobs
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: Portland (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $3.05M
- Employee Count: 31 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Rezon8 Capital, Oregon Venture Fund and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Feb 08, 2016, $*****
5. Kivo
Cloud based platform for document management. It is a document and process management system that offers features such as compliance, and team management. The tools include spreadsheet data tracking, virtual collaboration workspace, workflow management, data transfer, vendor, project, and audit management, templates administration, and more. It is a tool available on the subscription based pricing model.
Key facts about Kivo
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Wayne (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $9.63M
- Employee Count: 47 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Grayhawk Capital, Peninsula Ventures and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 17, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Cascade Seed Fund's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Cascade Seed Fund has invested in 65 companies over the last 12 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 5 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Tiga AI and most recent follow-on round was in Kivo.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2023 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2022 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2021 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2018 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2017 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Cascade Seed Fund's Investments by Stage
Cascade Seed Fund has made 29 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.86M and 8 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $2.85M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 29 |
Series A | 8 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Cascade Seed Fund's Investments by Sector
Cascade Seed Fund has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, FinTech, Vertical SaaS and Retail. Notably, it has invested in 60 Tech companies, 48 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 42 Software companies and at least 30 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 27 |
Consumer | 8 |
FinTech | 8 |
Vertical SaaS | 8 |
Retail | 6 |
Others | 21 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Cascade Seed Fund's Investments by Geography
Cascade Seed Fund has made most investments in United States (36), followed by Canada where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 36 |
Canada | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Cascade Seed Fund's recent investments
Cascade Seed Fund has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Cascade Seed Fund:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Dec 17, 2025 | United States | Series A | 8127 | ||
Nov 07, 2025 | United States | Seed | 4886 | ||
May 02, 2025 | United States | Series A | 6709 | [+4] | |
Mar 31, 2025 | United States | Seed | 9824 | [+4] | |
Mar 05, 2025 | United States | Seed | 4470 |
Acquired companies in Cascade Seed Fund's Portfolio
10 companies from Cascade Seed Fund's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Hubly in Mar 2025 by Docupace for $*****.Here are Cascade Seed Fund's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 11, 2025 | Nov 2021 | Seed | 6563 | |
Feb 04, 2025 | Sep 29, 2020 | Seed | 1314 | |
Nov 02, 2022 | May 28, 2021 | Seed | 8385 | |
Aug 30, 2022 | - | - | 3834 | |
Feb 14, 2022 | - | - | 3608 |
Team profile of Cascade Seed Fund
Cascade Seed Fund has a team of 7 members including 1 Partner and 2 Principals located in United States. Cascade Seed Fund's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of all team members in Cascade Seed Fund:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | Bend | - | ||
Principal | Portland | - | ||
Principal | Portland | - | - |
Co-investors of Cascade Seed Fund
Over the past 12 years, 136 investors have co-invested in Cascade Seed Fund's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Cascade Seed Fund: Bend Venture Conference, BVC Growth Fund and 17 others have invested in rounds before Cascade Seed Fund. There are 3 companies where Bend Venture Conference has invested before Cascade Seed Fund and 2 companies where BVC Growth Fund has invested before Cascade Seed Fund.
- Top Co-investors of Cascade Seed Fund: 72 investors entered a company along with Cascade Seed Fund. These include investors like Oregon Venture Fund (7 companies).
- Invested after Cascade Seed Fund: A total of 45 investors have invested in Cascade Seed Fund's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include HHS (2 companies), SPLYCAP (1 company) and lanthornehomes.com (1 company).
Recent News related to Cascade Seed Fund
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Upward: $8 Million Seed+ Funding Raised And Partnership Signed With MastercardPulse 2.0•Nov 07, 2025•Breakwater Ventures, Outside-Vc, Altari Ventures, Cascade Seed Fund and 8 others
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FlexPoint Secures $12M in Series A Fundingintelligence360•May 21, 2025•FlexPoint, Foundry, Haymaker Ventures, Garuda and 3 others
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FlexPoint raises $12M Series A funding to expand its partner led B2B payments networkGlobal Fintech Series•May 13, 2025•FlexPoint, Foundry, Haymaker Ventures, Garuda and 3 others
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FlexPoint Raises $12M in Series A FundingFinSMEs•May 13, 2025•FlexPoint, Foundry, Haymaker Ventures, Garuda and 3 others
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Tiga.ai Raises $2M in FundingFinSMEs•Mar 05, 2025•Tiga AI, Bull City Venture Partners, Cascade Seed Fund, Vipc
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Platformr Secures $2.5M Seed Round to Power Growth & AWS CloudOps InnovationPR Newswire•Oct 16, 2024•Platformr, Oregon Venture Fund, Cascade, Cascade Seed Fund
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EVA, an entertainment booking platform for events, raises $2M as it expands to more citiesTechCrunch+•Sep 26, 2024•eva, Cascade Seed Fund, Stout Street Capital
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FlexPoint Raises $35 Million in Debt & Equity to Grow Payments Automation BusinessBusiness Wire•Mar 18, 2024•FlexPoint, Haymaker Ventures, Garuda, Far Out Ventures and 2 others
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Portland Inno - Cascade Seed Fund gears up for third fundThe Business Journals•Feb 02, 2024•Cascade Seed Fund
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Digs: AI-Based Homeowner And Builder Collaboration Extends Funding To $14 MillionPulse 2.0•Jan 29, 2024•Digs, Oregon Venture Fund, Legacy Capital Ventures, FUSE and 4 others
