Silicon Florist 🌸 Autodesk acquires The Wild, $10M Facteus, Want to host? 🥪
Issue 636
Portland XR startup The Wild to be acquired by Autodesk
This morning, Autodesk announced the intention to acquire Portland extended reality (XR) startup The Wild, which has significant applications in collaboration for the architecture and engineering world. This milestone also marks a significant event for the local venture capital community as The Wild counts local firms Elevate Capital, Ideaship, Oregon Venture Fund, Portland Seed Fund, and The R Group among its investors… More
$10 million infusion for Beaverton-based Facteus
Beaverton-based Facteus announced a $10 million investment by Curql Collective. The funding will be used to fuel growth and innovation, including expansion into additional markets. Plus the deal comes with data to augment an already impressive anonymized aggregated dataset already available through the company… More
Two Portland startups graduate from Founder Gym
While Founder Gym may not technically be a Portland startup accelerator — it’s a virtual program — interim CEO of Founder Gym, Paige Hendrix Buckner, is a long-time fixture of the Portland startup community. So we’ll just call it a Portland startup accelerator. And this class, two Portland startups joined Paige for the program… More
People want to get back to in-person events. Do you want to host…?
With the continued drop in pandemic numbers, more and more events are taking the opportunity to get back to in-person gatherings. And after two years, it comes as little surprise that people are really needing to be around other people. With that in mind, I asked the Portland Lunch 2.0 attendees if they’d rather do the next event as virtual or in-person. Guess what they said…? More
💐 Silicon Florist links arrangement
March 21, 2022: Mental health startups, Caravel, Reperio
March 22, 2022: Ride Report, Metrist, Tom McCall
March 23, 2022: When to give up, Hiring trends, Web3
March 24, 2022: Autodesk+The Wild, Marshall Kirkpatrick, NFTs
March 25, 2022: Gabe Paez, Metro pop 📉, Ken Westin
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