Client Spotlight: RealWear to Receive $17 Million Investment from Columbia Ventures Corporation

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Stoel Rives LLP congratulates firm client RealWear on its recent award of an investment round of $17 million in a Series A deal with Columbia Ventures Corporation, also a firm client, as lead investor in the round.

RealWear, an augmented reality startup founded in Milpitas in California’s Silicon Valley, opened a location at the Fort Vancouver Artillery Barracks in Vancouver, Wash., in early 2017 and later relocated its headquarters there. The company, which manufactures a helmet-mounted Android computer with attached display and hands-free, voice-controlled user interface that allows workers to remotely operate equipment needed for a job, hopes to eventually raise another $3 million in funding and, by the end of 2018, employ 100 in Vancouver.

Columbia Ventures Corporation is a private investment company with roots in the Northwest’s aluminum industry. After divesting its aluminum assets in the early 2000s, it “has continued to invest in a wide range of strategic, innovative or contrarian opportunities,” including telecom companies in Australia, Europe and the U.S.; a Vancouver software business; a pulp mill in Dayton, Wash.; and a housing development in Texas.

The Stoel Rives deal team was led by Kevin Burnett and included Brie Bridegum.

More coverage of the companies and the deal can be found at Columbia Ventures leads $17 million investment in Vancouver augmented reality startup, Augmented reality startup raises $17 million after moving HQ from Silicon Valley to Vancouver and Wearable-tech firm RealWear finding Fort Vancouver a good fit.

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