Silicon Florist 🌹 DeepSurface acquired, AI Mascots™ 🤖

Issue 786

Feb 08, 2025

Portland startup DeepSurface has been acquired

I know, I know. You started reading “DeepS…” and you’re like “I thought he wasn’t talking about DeepSeek…?” Well, I’m still not talking about DeepSeek. I’m talking about Portland startup DeepSurface. Which was acquired by AttackIQ… More

WiseOx hones in on the market for AI Mascots™

I always love when startups find an established market that is perfect for their product. I’m even happier when those markets are nonobvious when it comes to applying cutting edge technology. So while “senior living” might not be your first choice for the application of AI, Bend startup WiseOx has managed to figure out exactly how that combination can work. Thanks to their approachable and knowledgeable AI Mascot™ offering… More

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Portland startup Data Speaks brings AI to your analytics

As long as I’ve worked in startups, there’s always been the “promise of data.” You know, the idea that if you just accumulate enough data that somehow value would magically be created from all of it. And for the longest time, we’ve continued to amass an almost insurmountable amount of data as we continued to pursue that seemingly unattainable value. But with AI, that insurmountable suddenly becomes surmountable. And valuable. Meet Data Speaks… More

Chatting with Portland Business Journal about the startup community

Every once in a while, I get to sit on the other side of the desk and talk to actual journalists about things and stuff. Like recently, when I had the opportunity to spend some time chatting with Suzanne Stevens, the editor of the Portland Business Journal. I can tell she’s an actual journalist because she managed to somehow distill my rambling observations on Portland and the startup community into something intelligible. And digestible… More

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