Fluke Venture Partners

Overview

Fluke Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with a long tradition of assisting Pacific Northwest entrepreneurs in building successful and enduring companies. Over more than three decades, the firm has viewed its relationship with each management team it funds as a long-term partnership that extends from a venture's early stages all the way to industry leadership and beyond. The firm's mission is to fund a deliberately diverse portfolio of the most promising high-growth technology, healthcare, and consumer-oriented opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies, particularly in the Pacific Northwest region, with a focus on software and internet sectors. Fluke Venture Partners has been integrally involved in financings for such successes as Starbucks, Aldus, Coinstar, Eagle Hardware & Garden, Sur La Table, and Tegic Communications. The firm's guiding principles are integrity, discipline, and teamwork, striving for excellence in all they do and valuing the trust and confidence placed in them by their partners and colleagues. Fluke Venture Partners limits its portfolio size so that its partners can work to actively support the management team of each of its investments. The firm prefers to invest in later-stage profitable businesses but enjoys building long-term relationships with successful entrepreneurs at any point and is interested in meeting them even if initial financing is not in the immediate future. Initial investment size can be as low as $500,000, but the firm typically invests from $2.5 to $4 million per company, inclusive of follow-on rounds of financing.

Investment Focus

• High-growth technology, healthcare, and consumer-oriented opportunities in the Pacific Northwest

Portfolio Companies