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Rick Turoczy
Interested in Portland, Oregon, startup news…? Silicon Florist has been a leading source for news on early-stage startups in the Rose City since 2007. Now, I'm offering a quick recap of the stories from the week to ensure that you're always in the loop on what's happening in the Portland startup community.
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Nov 3, 2023 • 11min
Week ending Nov 3, 2023 - Portland startup news
Portland startup news this week includes the Portland teachers strike and its impact on Portland startup founders, ideas for getting connected to the Portland startup community, venture capital office hours in Portland, and more.
PORTLAND STARTUP NEWS - NOVEMBER 3, 2023
00:00 Portland startup news - November 3, 2023
00:31 Portland teachers strike and a CENTRL Office offer https://siliconflorist.com/2023/11/01/impacted-by-the-portland-teachers-strike-centrl-office-offers-bring-your-kids-to-cowork-option/
02:18 Two Portland happy hours https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/31/two-friday-happy-hours-from-which-to-choose/
03:58 Portland startup slow social networking
- https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/30/hello-portland-startup-community-im-ben-parzybok/
- https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/31/hello-portland-startup-community-im-zhou-fang/
- https://siliconflorist.com/2023/11/01/hello-portland-startup-community-im-nate-angell/
04:50 How to Portland startup community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tTd95IxIg
05:15 Portland Startups Slack at 6500+ users https://siliconflorist.com/2023/11/02/portland-startups-slack-has-more-than-6500-users-but-theyre-mostly-lurkers-or-inactive/
06:11 Current state of seed stage venture capital https://siliconflorist.com/2023/11/01/a-vc-perspective-on-the-current-state-of-early-stage-venture-capital/
06:55 VC office hours https://siliconflorist.com/2023/11/02/an-opportunity-for-founders-to-get-time-with-vcs-rethink-impact-rogue-women-and-or-wellington-access-ventures/
08:23 Y Combinator alum Streamdal on Product Hunt https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/31/local-y-combinator-alum-streamdal-trending-on-product-hunt/
08:53 New Techlandia podcast from TAO https://siliconflorist.com/2023/11/02/tao-launches-techlandia-podcast/
10:03 I would love your questions, comments, and feedback

Nov 3, 2023 • 8min
Week ending Oct 6, 2023 - Portland startup news
Portland news about startups. Reading is hard. Fundamental. But hard. Even if it's interesting stuff about the Portland startup community. So what if I took the opportunity to read you all of the headlines and gave you a brief overview of what's happening in the community, week to week…?
Giving this a test drive. It might work. It might not. It might put you to sleep.
Whatever the case, please let me know what you think.
https://siliconflorist.com/
PORTLAND NEWS STARTUP HEADLINES
Trying a new experiment for the Portland startup community
VertueLab denied funding https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/04...
Upstart Collective happy hour https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/04...
First Row Partners Ensemble Fund https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/03...
The Provenance Chain Network deal https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/03...
Buzzcutt for Sober October https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/04...
Pitch Latino tickets https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/02...
Bend Venture Conference https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/06...
Built Festival 2023 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/built-fe...
What did you think? I would love your feedback

Nov 3, 2023 • 9min
Week ending Oct 13, 2023 - Portland startup news
Rick Turoczy brings you the latest Portland, Oregon, startup news for the week ending October 13, 2023. Long story short, pretty busy week in the Portland startup community. An acquisition, an expansion to the Bay Area, a write up in a major tech blog… Everything is linked below for your convenience.
Portland startup news - Oct 13, 2023
Discogs https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/09/discogs/
Bright.md acquisition by Cigna https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/12/bright-future-cigna-acquires-bright-md/
Portland, Oregon, videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr9gWRSfZqd5P12vFOBTEcNhHwM9ZpXEX
Portland Startups Slack https://pdxslack.com
Radious expands to the Bay Area https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/11/now-you-can-rent-funky-workspaces-in-the-bay-area-thanks-to-portland-startup-radious/
Portland Retro Gaming Expo and Rose City Games https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/10/rose-city-games-hosts-portland-retro-gaming-expo-after-party/
4K4Community Fun Run https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/09/reminder-4k4community-fun-run-takes-place-october-10-2023/
Upstart Collective podcasting panel https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/11/thinking-about-getting-into-podcasting/
#social_beer Meetup group https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/10/feeling-social-social_beer-might-be-for-you/
Bend Venture Conference and Built Festival 2023 https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/06/bend-venture-conference-announces-early-stage-finalists-for-2023/
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Nov 3, 2023 • 14min
Week ending Oct 27, 2023 - Portland startup news
So much winning Portland, Oregon, startup news this week. Bend Venture Conference. Pitch Latino. Latino Founder. Sixty AI. Fridie Outdoors. Federal tech hub grants. Buzzcutt. Sober October. Win win win win. Winning startups. Winning founders. All kinds of startup wins.
Bend Venture Conference 2023 winners https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/24/winner-winner-bend-venture-conference-sorry-that-doesnt-rhyme/
Pitch Latino 2023 winners https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/25/the-icing-on-the-cake-barro-mexican-bakery-wins-pitch-latino-2023/
Sixty AI wins on Product Hunt https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/24/portland-ai-startup-sixty-launches-on-product-hunt/
Not winning: VC funding for Black founders is ABYSMAL https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/23/abysmal-vc-investment-in-black-founded-companies-continues/
Fridie Outdoors wins a spot in Black entrepreneur program https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/25/fridie-outdoors-among-companies-selected-for-black-united-fund-of-oregon-emerging-entrepreneur-program/
Oregon State University and Portland State University win federal Tech Hub grants https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/23/federal-government-reveals-oregon-tech-hubs-in-mass-timber-and-microfluidics-with-plans-for-smart-energy/
Buzzcutt is winning Sober October https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/25/a-pub-crawl-with-a-twist-no-alcohol/
Expensify is now B2B and B2C https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/26/expensify-makes-it-personal/
Flex Axion AI wins my attention https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/24/ai-enabled-portfolio-management-flex-axion/
Who won the 4K4Community race? https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/26/4k4community-raises-12500-4-err-for-poic-rosemary-anderson-high-school/
Please introduce yourself to the Portland startup community https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/25/hello-portland-startup-community-im-rick-turoczy/

Oct 20, 2023 • 12min
Week ending Oct 20, 2023 - Bend + Portland Oregon startup news
For Bend and other Oregon startups, it's High Desert Innovation Week in Bend, Oregon, with Bend Venture Conference (BVC) and more. But that's not the only thing in Oregon startup news, this week. There's stuff in Portland startup news, as well.
Portland startup news, this week https://siliconflorist.com
Bend Oregon High Desert Innovation Week https://www.hdinnovationweek.com/
Built Oregon + Cultivate Bend = Built Festival 2023 https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/19/built-to-bend-collaboration-with-cultivate-bend-culminates-in-successful-built-festival-2023/
Bend Outdoor Worx (BOW) Venture Out https://www.bendoutdoorworx.com/
Bend Venture Conference (BVC) https://www.bendvc.com/
Chaos Town https://www.youtube.com/@chaostown
Hello Portland startup community https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/18/hello-portland-startup-community-im-erik-blanchard/
Pitch Latino 2023 https://www.latinofounder.com/
KGW features Finnegan the Dragon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs8xbACrjq4
TiE XL Boot Camp https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/18/need-the-basics-for-building-a-startup-or-maybe-just-a-refresher-course-tie-xl-boot-camp-may-be-the-answer/
Portland Business Journal on venture capital in Oregon 2023 https://siliconflorist.com/2023/10/18/portland-business-journal-on-portlands-lackluster-q3-funding/
Climate Curious https://www.climatecurious.co/
a16z Techno Optimist Manifesto https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto

Oct 10, 2023 • 34sec
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Interested in staying up to date on Portland, Oregon, startup news? I've been writing about the Portland startup community for 16+ years. Now, I'm providing a weekly recap to ensure that you're always in the loop on what's happening. Even if you don't have time to read https://siliconflorist.com on a regular basis.


