Silicon Florist 🌹 Do SF & NYC VCs like PDX…? 🤔

Issue 621

Dec 11, 2021

Portland among top 20 cities where VCs invest outside their region

Raising capital is hard. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. It’s just difficult. And when you have to go outside of town for that capital, that makes it exponentially more challenging — and complex. But if this recent report from Rise of the Rest tells us anything, it’s that Portland startups are doing a decent job of dealing with that additional complexity. And landing early stage capital from outside of the state… More

Upon further review: Combined Statistical Area and VC analysis

Yesterday, I shared a recent report by Rise of the Rest which illustrated the number of VC dollars from the Bay Area and New York City that were being invested elsewhere in the country. Portland did okay in the rankings. But something was gnawing at me. Like I needed some additional context. And suddenly it dawned on me this morning that that additional context might be the populations of the metropolitan areas that were highlighted — and what the per capita venture capital investments were… More

Rick Turoczy @turoczy

Just hit 6000 folks on the Portland Startups Slack. So we've got that going for us. Also, really glad I disabled @here and @Everyone. 6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ #pdx

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

The application numbers for local startup pitch competitions and accelerator programs is concerning. Not surprising. Actually almost predictable. But concerning nonetheless.