Silicon Florist 🌹 $30M for Aisles, +1M Portland Startups Slack posts #️⃣

Issue 750

Jun 01, 2024

Portland startup Aisles raises $30 million

I don’t know if you’ve heard but… AI is kind of hot right now. So even in this money-is-expensive, down-economy Portland AI-driven startup Aisles was able to raise $30 million… More

More than 1 million messages served on the Portland Startups Slack

I hadn’t really been paying attention. But while I was in the admin panel adding a new feature that folks requested on the Portland Startups Slack, I noticed that there have now been more than 1 million messages sent on our little local community Slack instance. I don’t know how good all of them were. Because a lot of them were mine. But this is more of a quantity over quality post.

Insights from a founder who experienced a ton of startup scenarios

Remember how I told you that Dave Hersh — founding CEO of Jive Software — published a book…? What’s the matter? Don’t you like to read? Fine. Then maybe getting some of Dave’s valuable insights firsthand would be more palatable to you? Okay then. He’s going to be here in town. And you’re invited. (As long as they still have space.) More

Who is pitching at Columbia River Pitch…?

In case you haven’t been following along with TiE Oregon’s pitch competition strategy this year, let me bring you up to speed. TiE Oregon used to have on big pitch event called Pitch Oregon. And then they added Westside Pitch — which was focused primarily on Washington County startups. Now, they’ve expanded that strategy to have regional competitions. Next up…? The Multnomah and Clark counties competition: Columbia River Pitch… More

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