Silicon Florist 🌹 Black Founders Matter, XXcelerate, Flux, PIE 🥧

Issue 634

Mar 12, 2022

Portland venture capital fund featured in Crunchbase

One of the more recent VCs to call the Portland area home, Black Founders Matter, recently had the opportunity to take Crunchbase through some of the goals and motivations for starting the fund designed to support Black-led businesses… More

VIDA and XXcelerate announce grant program

Looking for more access to resources to help your business? Portland’s XXcelerate and VIDA have partnered to offer a grant designed to enable women-owned businesses easier access to coworking, community, and other services that can benefit their business… More

Living in Flux: A virtual fireside chat with Portland’s April Rinne

Like it or not, we live in a time of constant change. The past couple of years, perhaps more so than other times in our lives, have brought that fact into sharp relief. But surviving this state of being is very different from thriving in this mode of existence. Which is why I’ve really appreciated the work of April Rinne, who has captured some of her thinking in Flux: 8 superpowers for thriving in constant change… More

Applications for mentorship and support from the PIE close March 14

I know you’re busy. Building a company from scratch isn’t easy. And with so many things to do, it’s easy to lose track of stuff that’s not on the critical path for you. Which is why I’m taking the opportunity to remind you that applications for PIE, an early stage startup accelerator for product-based companies that has been working to support founders for more than 12 years, are due by March 14, 2022, at 11:59PM Pacific Time… More