Portland is home to 25 SaaS and AI products actively bought by companies on Cledara, led by Customer.io (0.45% market share). This ranking is built from real purchasing data — what companies actually pay for, not funding announcements — and updates monthly. Data as of 18 August 2026, 22:20 UTC.
| # | Product | Category | Description | Founded | Employees | Funding | 12-mo rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Customer.io | Marketing & Growth | Customer.io is a customer engagement platform that helps businesses send personalized messages using real-time customer data. The platform offers two main products: Journeys and Data Pipelines. With Journeys, businesses can build automated campaigns, one-time sends, and transactional messages to engage their audience at every stage of the customer journey. Data Pipelines allows businesses to conne | 2,012 | 201-500 employees | +13 | |
| 2 | Orca Security | IT & Security | Orca Security offers an agentless cloud security platform that helps organizations detect, investigate, and respond to in-progress attacks in cloud environments. It analyzes cloud provider logs and threat intelligence feeds using machine learning and rules-based heuristics and provides automated remediation to prevent security issues across the software development lifecycle. | 2,019 | 201-500 employees | $250M+ | |
| 3 | AskNicely | Customer Success & Support | AskNicely is a customer experience software that focuses on collecting customer feedback using the Net Promoter Score system. It allows businesses to motivate their frontline teams through goals and recognition, track team performance with analytics, and integrate feedback into business operations. | 2,014 | 51-200 employees | +106 | |
| 4 | Fluxguard | IT & Security | Fluxguard provides a platform for tracking and detecting changes on websites, including content, code, and visual alterations over time. It issues alerts and summaries when relevant changes are detected, for applications like compliance, security, and competitive monitoring. | 2,018 | 11-50 employees | ||
| 5 | Signwell | Legal, Risk & Compliance | SignWell is a platform that allows users to create, send, and manage legally binding documents for signing. | 2,019 | 2-10 employees | ||
| 6 | Reclaim.ai | Collaboration & Productivity | Reclaim.ai is a platform that automates scheduling and time management. It syncs calendars, schedules tasks and meetings, and allocates time for focused work, breaks, and personal activities. The platform integrates with various work tools, providing features like time blocking, habit tracking, and analytics on time usage. | 2,019 | 11-50 employees | $1M - $5M | |
| 7 | SimpleMDM | IT & Security | SimpleMDM is a platform designed to streamline the management of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS devices. It provides businesses with a centralized solution to configure, monitor, and secure their fleet of Apple devices. | 2,011 | 2-10 employees | ||
| 8 | Monitask | Collaboration & Productivity | Monitask is a platform that helps businesses track work hours, productivity, and project progress. | 2,016 | 2-10 employees | ||
| 9 | KitBash3D | Marketing & Growth | KitBash3D is a digital platform that provides 3D-asset kits for use in movies, video games, animation and other creative projects. It offers a library of ready-made 3D assets. | 2,017 | 11-50 employees | ||
| 10 | BeFunky | Marketing & Growth | BeFunky is a photo editing application enabling users to edit, save and share photos in social networks. | 2,007 | 11-50 employees | Under $1M | |
| 11 | dlvr.it | Marketing & Growth | dlvr.it is a social media automation tool that auto-posts content from RSS feeds to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, requiring user account integration. | 2,010 | 11-50 employees | ||
| 12 | Clip Studio | Marketing & Growth | Clip Studio Paint is a drawing software available on Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Galaxy, Android, and Chromebook. | 2,012 | |||
| 13 | TINYPulse | People Ops & Talent | TINYPulse is a platform that enables companies to gauge and improve employee engagement through surveys and feedback. | 2,012 | 501-1,000 employees | ||
| 14 | Appointlet | Collaboration & Productivity | Appointlet is an online scheduling tool. | 2,012 | 2-10 employees | ||
| 15 | RailsDevs | People Ops & Talent | RailsDevs is a reverse job board for independent Rails developers available for their next gig. | 2,021 | Self-employed | ||
| 16 | Jama Software | Collaboration & Productivity | Jama Connect is a requirements management platform that enhances product quality, detects risks, and improves performance across teams, supporting integration with various tools. | 2,007 | 201-500 employees | $100M - $250M | |
| 17 | Sensu | Engineering & DevOps | Sensu is an observability platform. | 2,017 | 11-50 employees | $10M - $25M | |
| 18 | LegitScript | Legal, Risk & Compliance | 2,007 | 201-500 employees | |||
| 19 | SoftwareWorld | Marketing & Growth | 2,018 | 11-50 employees | |||
| 20 | AnswerForce | Customer Success & Support | 2,003 | 51-200 employees | |||
| 21 | Norton | IT & Security | 2-10 employees | ||||
| 22 | Future Fonts | Marketing & Growth | 2,017 | 2-10 employees | |||
| 23 | Scribly | Collaboration & Productivity | 2,018 | 2-10 employees | |||
| 24 | Write The Docs | Collaboration & Productivity | 2,013 | 2-10 employees | |||
| 25 | Prowler | IT & Security | 2,023 | 11-50 employees |
The complete list is available as <a href="/api/export/startups/united-states/portland.csv">CSV</a> or <a href="/api/export/startups/united-states/portland.json">JSON</a>.
The largest SaaS company from Portland by headcount is TINYPulse (501-1,000 employees).
5 of 25 have disclosed funding, topped by Orca Security ($250M+).
The newest entrant is Prowler (founded 2023).
The oldest is AnswerForce (founded 2003); the newest, Prowler (2023).
| Category | Products |
|---|---|
| Marketing & Growth | 7 |
| Collaboration & Productivity | 6 |
| IT & Security | 5 |
| Customer Success & Support | 2 |
| Legal, Risk & Compliance | 2 |
| People Ops & Talent | 2 |
| Engineering & DevOps | 1 |
Portland's SaaS scene skews toward Marketing & Growth — 7 of its 25 tracked companies build marketing & growth software.
Portland accounts for 1% of the 3,477 ranked SaaS products founded in the United States.
Customer.io, Orca Security and AskNicely are the most-used SaaS products founded in Portland, based on real purchasing data from companies on Cledara. Last updated 18 August 2026, 22:20 UTC.
25 SaaS and AI products founded in Portland are actively bought by companies tracked on Cledara. Aggregators list more registered startups; this ranking counts only products with real, current usage.
Fluxguard and AskNicely show the strongest rank gains among Portland-founded products over the last 90 days.
Most lists rank Portland startups by funding raised or valuation. This one ranks them by adoption — how many companies actually pay for each product — measured monthly from Cledara's purchasing data.