Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson is an active angel investor and coach to emerging companies and entrepreneurs. Her background is in marketing/sales, strategy, fundraising and leadership. In addition to her role as the Portland/Oregon Keiretsu Forum Chapter President, Angela is also Managing Director & Fund Manager at Bridge City Ventures Portland Seed Fund, Manager of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, an investor in Oregon Angel Fund and co-chair of Angel Oregon’s Consumer/Active Lifestyle investment track and serves on the company selection committee for Women’s Investment Network. Angela also advises nonprofit/social entrepreneurs and recently was an “Ask the Expert” consultant to Craigslist Foundation social entrepreneurs in New York. She is an advisor/investor with Mercy Corps’ Phoenix Fund, which helps microenterprises in third world areas succeed. Growing up in a family culture of entrepreneurship and philanthropy, she co-founded Social Venture Partners Portland with other area investors in 2001 and has launched numerous non-profit and for-profit enterprises. She held various sales/marketing roles at Auctionpay through Series A and B rounds, a period of rapid growth which earned it numerous awards including a spot on Inc. Magazine 500 fastest growing companies list. Angela loves working with people to help accelerate the success of “the big idea” and is a proud Mom to two budding entrepreneurs, ages 11 and 15.