Bright Ventures

Forerunner secures $39M in funding to build the AI-powered system of record for government operations.

Ohai is an AI-powered household assistant designed to help families manage their schedules, tasks, and responsibilities more efficiently. It organizes events, meal plans, and reminders, reducing the mental load on parents and caregivers.

Mae Health is dedicated to reducing maternal health disparities by providing personalized health services and support for pregnant individuals.

Expert telehealth services for medication management.

ShareWell is a live peer support community where people join online support groups or connect 1-on-1 with others who’ve faced similar challenges. It offers free online peer support groups, private 1-on-1 sessions with trained Peer Specialists, and skill-building workshops.

KeepWOL stands for Keep Wondering Out Loud and targets the building blocks of team performance and development. It fosters long-term connections through meaningful human interactions, creating sustainable plans for faster execution of business goals.

Coreflux is an Industrial IoT platform built around a high-performance MQTT broker with built-in edge computing capabilities. It connects to industrial protocols and enables real-time data flow between devices, databases, and cloud platforms.

A $78M seed fund run by three Latin American immigrant partners who lead or co-lead rounds by writing $500K-$2.5M checks and taking at least 50% of each funding round. The fund deliberately hunts for breakout startups in overlooked U.S. markets like Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Miami.

Oregon's first institutional venture capital fund that focuses on underrepresented founders. Maintains a 50/50 male/female founder split among its investment portfolio and has 100% of its investments where at least one co-founder is from a minority group. Invests out of two funds: Inclusive Fund for women, minorities and veterans at the Pre-Seed and Seed Stage and Capital Fund II for local, regional, or global startups at the early-stage.

EO Ventures is founded and led by an unusual pairing of top-tier venture capitalist Bill Helman with controversial Harvard economist Roland Fryer, explicitly structured as a real-world experiment in whether capitalism can be harnessed to improve income mobility in the U.S. The fund uses Fryer's proprietary 'Social Money Multiplier' framework to quantitatively estimate and track the social mobility impact of each investment, requiring portfolio companies to set targets and report against this metric alongside standard business KPIs.

Black-led firm focusing on learning and work, fintech, and health-adjacent tools. Uses a trademarked Inclusive Investing™ five-criteria framework to underwrite deals and measure value for overlooked founders and institutions. Nearly $200M AUM.

Seed-stage investors founded by former YouTube and Twitter product leaders who invest their own money, take concentrated board-level positions, offer transparent communication, and back Chime, Plaid, and Gusto.