Oregon Venture Fund‘s founder, Eric Rosenfeld, took the time to chat with Malia Spencer at the Portland Business Journal about Jama Software’s $1.2 billion exit, this week. Now, OVF’s Matt Compton provides a bit of an historical perspective on the investment in Jama, providing both concerns and positives.
With Jama’s $1.2 billion exit this week, we now have a 16-year story arc to look back on and see how it compares to the original vision and our original assessment of the opportunity. Gulp.
Our investing memo was, shall we say, less sophisticated back then but kind of elegant in its simplicity. The core of it was built around identifying three concerns and three positives that we would consider in our decision process. Here’s what we debated in 2008 and ultimately got us to a yes.
Learn more about the concerns, questions, and positives that convinced Oregon Angel Fund to invest in Jama Software.
More about the Jama exit
