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Issue 626

Jan 15, 2022

Pitchbook: 2021 was $1 billion year for venture capital in Portland

The Portland Business Journal is reporting this morning on numbers from Pitchbook that show Portland metro area startups raised more than $1 billion in venture capital in 2021. The more impressive number from my perspective? That total was the result of investments in 138 deals… More

Bootstrapped Portland startup LeadsRx acquired by Unbounce

Another exit for a local startup. Portland’s LeadsRx which has been focused on increasing marketing conversion rates since its founding in 2015 has been acquired by Unbounce, an industry leader in landing page optimization… More

Westside Pitch: Giving Washington County startups the limelight

Not to date myself, but for the first decade or so I worked in startups, my commute — and the commute of the vast majority of my peers — consisted of heading out to Beaverton and Hillsboro. Because at a time when startups needed a room full of servers and room full of engineers, Washington County had both the floor plates and the cost per square foot to make it manageable… More

Rick Turoczy @turoczy

Seeing a lot of startup pitch competitions — both established and brand spanking new — starting to bubble up. Which reminds me to remind you, dearest startup founder, that a pitch is a performance. But a pitch on stage is a very different performance from a pitch to a VC. 🧵👇

🌟 Community kudos

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💼 Jobs

Python Web Services Engineer with Django Experience at Panic
Producer (Web/Digital/Marketing) at Flickerbox, Inc.
Senior Full Stack WordPress or Drupal Developer at Flickerbox, Inc.
IT Manager/Webmaster - "Web Specialist II" at Oregon Health & Science University - Portland State University School of Public Health
Lead Front End Engineer at Nombolo
Tiny Startup Seeking React Frontend Developer [Quote Us / Freelance / Remote] at Hyacinth Tech
Backend Developer at DeepSurface Security
iOS Developer at Kiva.org
Senior Backend Engineer, Protocol at Kiva.org
Senior Backend Internal Tools Engineer at Kiva.org

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

Pretty sure today’s depictions of the metaverse are going to feel like this in a few years