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Silicon Florist 🌹 Antfly raises $2M, Pitch Latino 🎤
Serial founder raises $2M for Antfly
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: Portland’s sweet spot for tech is “engineers building tools for other engineers.” Tektronix, Intel, Airship, AppFog, Cedexis, Elemental, Hydrolix...
Week ending Sep 18, 2026 – Oregon startup news
Portland startups have a long, storied history of engineers building tools for other engineers—from Tektronix oscilloscopes to Puppet. This week, we look at how that open-source builder tradition is roaring back with a fresh $2M round for A...
Silicon Florist 🌹 A VC who says the quiet part out loud, YC alum Revoy hires in Portland 🚚
Interested in what VCs won’t say…?
I think I first encountered Clarence Bethea on Clubhouse during the pandemic. Remember Clubhouse…? This was a regular scheduled “pitch practice” sort of thing. Where folks would take the opportunity...
Week ending Sep 11, 2026 – Portland startup news
Talking to venture capitalists often feels like that scene in The Notebook—"What do you want?!" This week, we preview a rare, candid workshop coming to Portland with Clarence Bethea designed to decode "VC speak" and share the quiet parts ou...
Silicon Florist 🌹 New Innovation Hub leadership, BVC 2026 Growth Stage semifinalists 🚀
Portland Metro Region Innovation Hub names new director
Following the departure of the previous director, our friends at the Portland Metro Region Innovation Hub — the Portland chapter of a statewide network of hubs for innovat...
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