Darin Swanson

Advisor and interim executive partnering with leaders at hypergrowth startups. Angel investor.

📍 Portland, Oregon, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Investor
Aug 2021
DoubleLoop is a strategy development platform for creating alignment maximizing impact with a visual strategy map.
Investor
Apr 2021
Reforge provides expert training & AI-powered tools for product teams. AI is rewriting how we build and grow products. Reforge provides you the tools and expert training to adapt. Reforge Insight Analytics enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your fragmented customer feedback. You can find unique insights using AI by combining with quantitative data, intelligent search and chat analysis, realtime anomaly detection, and a lot more. We combine our software products, with expert-led training to help your team adapt to an AI-native world. Interested in more? Reach out to us at hello@reforge.com
Board Member
Jan 2019
Portland Wheelmen Touring Club is a sports company based out of P.O. Box 2972, Portland, Oregon, United States.
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2025
Advisor to the VP of Engineering
Mar 2025
Kairos Power has a mission to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal of dramatically improving people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. We are an engineering company focused on the delivery of a clean, affordable and safe energy solution through the integrated design, licensing and demonstration of advanced reactor technology. Growing from a broad research effort at U.S. universities and national laboratories, Kairos Power was founded to accelerate the development of an innovative nuclear technology that has the potential to transform the energy landscape in the United States and internationally. Kairos Power is focused on reducing technical risk through a novel approach to test iteration often lacking in the nuclear space. Our schedule is driven by the goal of a U.S. demonstration plant before 2030 and a rapid deployment thereafter. The challenge is great, but so too is the opportunity.
late stageUtilities
2021
Investor
Aug 2021
DoubleLoop is a strategy development platform for creating alignment maximizing impact with a visual strategy map.
Investor
Apr 2021
Reforge provides expert training & AI-powered tools for product teams. AI is rewriting how we build and grow products. Reforge provides you the tools and expert training to adapt. Reforge Insight Analytics enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your fragmented customer feedback. You can find unique insights using AI by combining with quantitative data, intelligent search and chat analysis, realtime anomaly detection, and a lot more. We combine our software products, with expert-led training to help your team adapt to an AI-native world. Interested in more? Reach out to us at hello@reforge.com
2019
Board Member
Jan 2019
Portland Wheelmen Touring Club is a sports company based out of P.O. Box 2972, Portland, Oregon, United States.
2016
Reason to Run
Board Member
Jan 2016
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