Silicon Florist 🌹 An actual Portland IPO, $72M this week, Community kudos 🌟

Issue 614

Oct 23, 2021

Another local IPO announced… and this one is actually in Portland

Lately, there’s been a great deal of breathless media coverage about the recent spate of local initial public offerings. Especially because they’ve come after a lengthy drought for the region, in that regard. But all of these local IPOs have one curious thing in common: none of them were actually Portland companies. Absci is in Vancouver. Dutch Bros is Grants Pass. And ESS is Wilsonville. But now, a Portland tech company promises to truly end the dearth of Portland — and Portland tech — IPOs. Expensify has filed to go public… More

Vancouver, Washington, startup Embed raises $60 million Series A

With the seemingly ever increasing sizes of venture rounds these days, a $60 million round might not be eye popping for many folks. But it is for me. Especially when it’s a local Series A number. And that’s what Vancouver’s Embed — formerly known as Embedded — just raised… More

Portland startup The Dyrt raises $11 million in an effort to double in size

With all of the funding announcements bouncing around, it’s always nice to hear how the startups plan to use the capital they’re raising. Like Portland startup The Dyrt, which plans to use an $11 million capital infusion to double the employee base of the company by adding 30 new roles… More

Portland ecommerce startup Shop Latinx raises $1 million

I always say that Portland built its tech startup community on “engineers building tools for other engineers.” That began as far back as Tektronix and continues today with companies like Puppet and Sila. That being said, it’s always nice to see consumer facing tech startups beginning to find success here, as well. Like Shop Latinx, which just secured $1 million in funding… More

🌟 Community kudos

Has someone in the Portland startup community been helpful and deserving of recognition? Please take a few moments to share some kind words about them and let them know they’re valued as community members. Give them the kudos they deserve.

Rick Turoczy @turoczy

Given that I seem to have a more optimistic outlook after a getting through a major annual event and a major personal event, perhaps it would be warranted to provide some tips and tricks for finding the talent you need…? #hiring (Caveat: This may be particular to #pdxjobs) 🧵👇

Rick Turoczy @turoczy

I don't mean to be overly salty about this, but I get this a lot. A lot a lot. And apparently a lot a lot today.… I'm sorry, but I don't know of many talented developers who are just casually sitting around waiting to build your startup idea for you. Especially for free.

Jobs 💼

Platform Architect (Portland, OR or Remote) at Next Reason
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Lewis & Clark College, Bates Center for Entrepreneurship & Leadership
Javascript Software Developer at Marmoset LLC
iOS Developer at Kiva.org
Android Developer at Kiva.org
Product Manager at Leanpath (Food Waste Prevention)
Senior Backend Microservice Engineer at Kiva.org

Hiring? Every single day a whole bunch of super talented and interesting people check the Silicon Florist job board in hopes of finding amazing companies like yours. So if you’re looking for incredibly intelligent, informed, and charming folks to join your company, you should be clicking the “Post a job” button. And since you’re a newsletter reader, please feel free to take 15% off your next long-term job post. Just use the discount code “iamawesome.”

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Events 🗓️

I know that you’re busy. Here are events that are worthy of your consideration, this week.

Tuesday (5:30PM) RainSec - PDX Information Security Meetup
Wednesday (5:30PM) PDX Containerds: Securing K8s clusters and containers
Thursday (5:00PM) Fall Diversity Dinner

Have an event you’d like to promote? Make sure to add it to Calagator.

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