Silicon Florist December 2019 🌹 Two new venture capital funds in town 💰
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Big stories for December 2019
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THERE'S A NEW SEED STAGE VENTURE CAPITAL FUND IN PORTLAND
One of the issues with the current state of the Portland startup community is the negative of a positive. The positive? Formerly early stage funds have found success, returned multiples on invested capital, matured, raised larger funds, and are now writing larger checks for Seed and Series A rounds.
https://siliconflorist.com/2019/12/05/theres-a-new-seed-stage-venture-capital-fund-in-portland-for-portland/
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PORTLAND STARTUP STREEM ACQUIRED
If you’ve been around the Portland startup community for any amount of time, you realize that many of the startups in our midst generally have a significant period of time between their founding date and when they experience a liquidity event like acquisition or private equity. (Or I guess there’s always on IPO. But seriously, who am I kidding?) Suffice it to say, “overnight success” is not a term that has much traction here.
https://siliconflorist.com/2019/12/05/well-that-was-quick-portland-startup-streem-acquired/
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ELEVATE CAPITAL INVESTMENT MINTS NEW BEAVERTON STARTUP
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A company manages to land early stage capital and, in so doing, decides to move their headquarters from their founding city to a city closer to their investor. Of course you’ve heard it. It’s something that regularly happened to Portland companies not so long ago. But today, there’s a new twist. Instead of companies leaving town, folks are starting to relocate those headquarters to Portland. And this time, at least part of that decision was thanks to a local investor.
https://siliconflorist.com/2019/12/11/an-investment-from-elevate-capital-results-in-a-new-beaverton-startup/
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NEW NON-TECH EARLY STAGE VENTURE FUND
Apparently, it just takes a little while for an idea to gain traction. After years of founders bemoaning a lack of early stage funding, a new crop of early stage venture funds are taking shape here in Portland. First, 1859 Ventures launched a new early stage venture fund. Now Cowen Partners Venture Fund has launched.
https://siliconflorist.com/2019/12/10/nothing-ventured-nothing-gained-cowen-partners-announces-new-non-tech-early-stage-venture-fund/
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STATE OF THE PORTLAND STARTUP COMMUNITY
Used to be, the startup community made it a regular habit of showing up to Portland City Council meetings to show support for issues that were important to us. That’s why things like the Portland Seed Fund exist. It’s been awhile, but since the opportunity presented itself, a bunch of startup community folks showed up at City Council yesterday to hear the report from the Prosper Portland Inclusive Business Resource Network, a community of practice composed on numerous organizations in the Portland area who work to support entrepreneurs.
https://siliconflorist.com/2019/12/20/state-of-the-portland-startup-community-prosper-portland-inclusive-business-resource-network-reports-on-findings-and-progress/
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Must attend event
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If you have time to attend only one event this month…
January 24 (4:00PM) Beer and Blog Reunion
http://calagator.org/events/1250476539
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That's it. Have a good month!
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