Our Funds
Twenty four angel investors came together to form SWAN Venture Fund in 2015. Every 3 years or so, we have formed a new fund and recruited expanded our fund size to 70 investors. We are in our fourth fund of active investors, many of whom are based in the Pacific Northwest.
We often lead in early pre-seed and seed rounds into companies that tend to be based in the Pacific Northwest. We tend to be the first major outside investment to a startup, ranging from $200k – $1.2 million.
Some of our team members are listed below with express permission.
Peter Weiss, Managing Member, Over forty years of finance and managerial experience from Wall Street (mergers & acquisitions and leveraged buy-outs) through business ownership to twenty years providing corporate finance consulting, startup CFO for many PNW-based companies, general management advice and coaching to young companies and investors. Peter has been a part of SWAN since forming our first fund.
Nate Doran, Business Director, Nate has played an active role in Seattle’s Prior to this recent career, Nate spent over 10 years working in social research and data engineering. Nate takes particular care in managing daily operations for the funds. Nate has played a core part of the SWAN team from formation of our first fund to the growth of each successive fund.
Who we are
Our members are experienced angel investors with diverse backgrounds in entrepreneurship, ranging from AI, datascience, and developer tools, to startup finance, startup law, intellectual property. Through our members and networks, we have guided many entrepreneurs through the journey of company building, raising capital, and exiting.
As active investors, we have provided our expertise to entrepreneurs in:
- Business development
- Product development
- Financial management
- Key person recruitment
- Operations
- Marketing
- Exit strategies
- Mergers & acquisitions