Rany Raviv

Co Founder @ The R-Group, LLC

📍 Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 68 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States50+ investments
68
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Private Investor
Mar 2020
Sila is the leading ACH API for fintech developers. Our customers have built industry-leading Fintech applications using our developer-friendly sandbox, bank partnerships, and compliance resources. If your application needs ACH, RTP, FedNow, digital wallets, KYC/KYB, and a card-acquiring solution…we should chat.
Private Investor
Feb 2020
Accelerate and deepen your commercial loan portfolio analysis, stress testing, reporting, and risk management. Dynamic dashboards provide a customized view of commercial loan portfolio concentrations, as well as aggregated asset values. Filter and drill in on data in real time with user friendly dashboards; analyze individual loans and evaluate scenarios. Proactively identify and manage risk. After running a real estate fund of his own and then serving as CEO of services company with over 300 banks as customers, Qualtik CEO Mark Prior saw many versions of complex spreadsheets that community banks use to analyze, report on, and manage their commercial loan portfolios. Qualtik aims to change the way community banks manage their portfolios, using technology to speed up the process, to add flexibility and reliability.
Private Investor
Jul 2019
Source is procurement done differently. From furnishings to finishes, we’ve made it faster, easier, and less expensive to source, purchase, and install FF&E, OFCI & OS&E for all types of projects from hospitality to housing. We’re a passionate team of industry pros on a mission to use our cloud-based technology and expertise to save you time, money, and increase the value of your real estate assets. With over $6 billion in project experience, we streamline the entire process with 24/7 dashboards to keep project teams informed every step of the way. Our flat fees and vendor-direct pricing are always transparent and predictable. Fortune 100 companies and small boutique operators rely on us to mitigate risk, and efficiently deliver goods on time and on budget. Trust matters. We would be delighted to earn yours
early stageHospitality
Private Investor
May 2019
Salt & Straw makes unbelievably delicious ice creams that tell the narrative of artisans, meaningful food movements and important social causes. The company creates a unique menu in each city that changes every four weeks, making ice cream by hand in small batches, and design a generous store experience that’s personalized and welcoming.
Private Investor
Mar 2019
Our mission is to accelerate deep in-vivo insights into human biology and enable researchers to develop and deliver solutions that improve human health An expert in CRISPR genome editing, InVivo Biosystems creates custom genome-edited C. elegans and zebrafish models to enable aging, developmental and disease studies. Our unique living platforms and technologies bridge the gap between cells and mice, providing faster, cost-effective investigations that focus on proof-of-principle experiments for rapid go/no-go decision making and advance the discovery and early-stage development of new compounds. InVivo Biosystems provides essential services to help pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, biotechnology companies and academic research institutions around the globe accelerate their research and drug development efforts.
Private Investor
Dec 2018
Megh Computing provides a real-time, AI-based Video Analytics Solution (VAS) deployed on any platform from edge-to-cloud. Megh’s solution automates the use of video as a signal for real-time actionable insights. Megh’s solution is differentiated by its Nimble application framework that uniquely supports CPU, GPUs and/or FPGAs enabling it to deliver unparalleled flexibility and scalability with the highest performance. It supports various use cases out-of-the-box for smart buildings, factories and cities undergoing a digital transformation. It can also be easily customized with new trained models to support specific use cases for small to large enterprises to drive operational efficiencies. Megh offers its solution to enterprises as a B2B software with various licensing options.
Private Investor
Dec 2018
Megh Computing provides a real-time, AI-based Video Analytics Solution (VAS) deployed on any platform from edge-to-cloud. Megh’s solution automates the use of video as a signal for real-time actionable insights. Megh’s solution is differentiated by its Nimble application framework that uniquely supports CPU, GPUs and/or FPGAs enabling it to deliver unparalleled flexibility and scalability with the highest performance. It supports various use cases out-of-the-box for smart buildings, factories and cities undergoing a digital transformation. It can also be easily customized with new trained models to support specific use cases for small to large enterprises to drive operational efficiencies. Megh offers its solution to enterprises as a B2B software with various licensing options.
Private Investor
Nov 2018
We outfit youth sports teams with customized gear – on time for game time! ​
Private Investor
Aug 2018
Rumpl is a Portland, OR-based company with a mission to introduce the world to better blankets. We pair technical materials found in premium outdoor gear with bold, exciting aesthetics to update a centuries-old and dated blanket category. Our products blur the line between indoor comfort and outdoor performance, keeping you comfortable anywhere you go, or when you don’t go anywhere. As a certified Benefit Corporation, we meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. We offset our entire carbon footprint each year and donate 1% of all sales to environmental causes. Check us out at www.Rumpl.com
Private Investor
Apr 2018
Streem, LLC was founded to help companies connect with their customers in new and more useful ways. StreemCore® is an enterprise-class, remote visual assistance tool using out-of-the-box augmented reality (AR) capabilities. By adding an interactive, no-download video collaboration tool, companies can quickly see and solve remotely - accelerating diagnosis and support resolution times. With Streems APIs or SDK, remote AR-enabled video tools can embed and/or integrate into native apps and existing workflows. Streem’s tools help support, visualize, and maintain our home and world by reducing waste and inefficiencies. A Frontdoor (NASDAQ: FTDR) company
Private Investor
2018
Bumped is a platform that gives banks, brands, and businesses the ability to reward customers in fractional shares of stock. Our suite of products can help businesses reward their customers in stock and build stronger relationships—from retailers to restaurants, from favorite brands to financial institutions. Bumped is available across the U.S., and proudly built in Portland, Oregon. Learn more about integrating stock rewards into your loyalty programs at Bumped.com.
Private Investor
May 2017
Hiring now! Visit https://www.rigado.com/careers/ to view all open positions. Rigado provides ‘edge-as-a-service’ infrastructure for Commercial IoT solutions such as asset tracking and smart buildings - including flexible wireless gateways and a containerized edge computing platform. We proudly power more than 300 global customers and 6 million connected devices. Our Cascade solution includes our IoT Gateways, as well as a secure application platform, integrated tools for edge monitoring and orchestration, and a managed service to deliver critical security updates. This enables and simplifies large-scale Commercial IoT deployments, helping IoT teams to deliver increased business value while reducing time-to-market, complexity, and risk. We also offer pre-certified low-energy wireless modules to accelerate development for a variety of low-power wireless protocols, including BLE and 802.15.4. Rigado’s Solutions Engineering team engages with innovative clients and partners for custom design and development of Commercial IoT Solutions. Rigado is headquartered in Portland and Salem, Oregon with offices in London, UK and Shenzhen, China. You can reach us at www.rigado.com.
Private Investor
May 2017
Powering smart apartment technology for the multifamily industry, IOTAS is one of the first and most established providers in the PropTech space for apartments. Utilizing a user-friendly mobile app, IOTAS provides turn-key solutions for smart locks, community access, voice control, lights, thermostat, leak detectors, switches, and so much more. IOTAS apartment buildings are shown to increase rent premiums, lower operational and utility costs, and increase resident satisfaction and renewals. https://youtu.be/3GQ9DVQpK5o
mid stageReal Estate
Private Investor
Apr 2017
DesignMedix develops impactful disease cures that overcome drug resistance. The Company has an innovative approach that takes advantage of existing drugs used safely and effectively for years before resistance arose. Modifying those drugs with strategic designs to overcome drug resistance results in cost-effective, novel drugs. The initial project, a cure for drug-resistant malaria, works on all human malaria samples tested, no matter how resistant to other drugs. The drug is being formulated for Phase I human trials, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. The DesignMedix product pipeline includes additional discovery stage novel, antimicrobial treatments.
late stagePharmaceuticals
Private Investor
Feb 2017
Outdoor Project is an outdoor enthusiast and adventure travel media company, and community. Our collective mission is to empower people of all abilities to get outside and explore; ultimately fostering healthy lifestyles and a deeper connection to nature.
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2023
Venture Partner
Sep 2023
Breakwater Ventures is a pre-seed and seed fund that invests in exceptional founding teams across the US and Canada with a preference for founding teams in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. Were more than capital. We’re committed to the journey.
2022
Industrial Advisor
Oct 2022
A global private markets firm. 30+ years of unlocking returns and growth for investors beyond public markets.
2021
Venture Partner
Nov 2021
Pre-Seed and Seed fund focused on PNW and BC startups
Angel Investor
Jun 2021
Founded by Jason Calacanis. LAUNCH is on a mission to support founders and inspire innovation. Our small team of rebels put on the largest startup conference in the world, the LAUNCH festival, the podcast This Week In Startups and we run the LAUNCH Incubator. We invest millions of dollars into 40 promising founders a year, some of which go on to change the world. Most of these founders spend 12 weeks in our very intense -- but fabulously fun -- accelerator.
2020
Private Investor
Mar 2020
Sila is the leading ACH API for fintech developers. Our customers have built industry-leading Fintech applications using our developer-friendly sandbox, bank partnerships, and compliance resources. If your application needs ACH, RTP, FedNow, digital wallets, KYC/KYB, and a card-acquiring solution…we should chat.
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