Oregon Sports Angels
About Oregon Sports Angels
Oregon Sports Angels (OSA) is an Oregon-based angel network. We are a non-profit, member-based organization made up of a diverse team of experienced sports, outdoor, and fitness industry professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, and do-gooders. Our mission is to find and help grow the next great sports & fitness product and service companies.
We focus our investments on high-potential, early-stage sports product, experience, service, and technology companies. In addition to investing, our members also mentor, coach, and connect entrepreneurs to resources needed for early-stage business development.
We target EARLY STAGE companies who have achieved a level of market success and consumer adoption.
• Early revenue, MVP or early prototypes
• Seed stage/pre-series A
• Investments range from $100k to $1M
Teams with integrity.
• We’re drawn to founders who are all in and can always be trusted to put the business first.
• We assess: Leadership, expertise, passion, hustle, commitment, coachability, compatibility, diversity.
Products with potential.
• We’re energized by products that show promising traction with real value-creation.
• We assess: Pain-point solution, compelling design, unique market positioning, replicability, sustainability.
Opportunities that scale.
• We’re optimistic about businesses that can be proven with a small investment, then grown to size.
• We assess: Total addressable market, upside reality, supply chain setup, consumer engagement, and customer acquisition costs.
People
- Jim Chi, Founding Member & President