🚂 ConductorOne is the newest local player in identity management
For a while, I thought fintech was going to be the dominant industry in the Portland startup community. Now, I’m beginning to think that it may be identity management. And news like the reveal of new Portland startup ConductorOne only strengthens that opinion… More
📖 New free ebook: A Kids Book About Anti-Asian Hate
At the start of the pandemic, Portland startup A Kids Book About launched their first free ebook in an effort to help parents and kids talk about COVID-19. Now, they’ve released a new title as a free ebook in an effort to get conversations started about anti-Asian hate, written by Kim Pham… More
🗓️ Grab office hours with the newest Seed fund in town
If you’re interested in getting some one-on-one time with a local Seed stage fund, you’re in luck. Josh Carter, principle at 1859 Ventures, is holding office hours for interested startups on April 14, 2021… More
💰 There’s a new pre-Seed fund in the Pacific Northwest
In order to sustain a vibrant startup investor ecosystem, funds need to start, find success, and raise more funds. And should that success cause them to grow beyond their previous stage focus, then new funds need to start to backfill the gaps. So as many of the early stage funds in the Pacific Northwest achieve success and move downstream to Seed and Series A investments, it’s nice to see new funds stepping up to take the opportunity to support pre-Seed startups. Like the new Startup Haven Venture Fund… More
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Jobs 💼
Engineering Manager at Fairygodboss
Lead Front-end Developer at Filmio, Inc.
Back End Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
Customer Support Specialist at BeFunky
Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at Verivest
Senior DevOps Engineer at Stellar
Senior Associate/Principal - Partner Track at Oregon Venture Fund
Senior Software Engineer - social impact at Troy Medicare
Senior Android Engineer at Kiva Microfunds
Senior Backend Engineer at Kiva Microfunds
Digital Marketing Associate at Foghorn Labs
Wordpress Implementer at GRAYBOX
Director of Technology at GRAYBOX
Senior Software Engineer at GRAYBOX
DevOps Engineer at DeepSurface Security
Software Developer at Koan
Full Stack Developer at Flickerbox, Inc.
Senior Software Developer at Brandlive
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Events 🗓️
Realizing you’re overly busy… here are some events that are worth your time:
Wednesday (1:00PM) 1859 Ventures Public Investor Office Hours
Wednesday (5:00PM) LGBTQ+ in Tech: Changing the World with Tech
Thursday (3:00PM) Early Stage Fundraising AMA
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