Silicon Florist 🌹 Get vaccinated, $6.5B for PSF alum, Black History Month 2021
Issue 581
Access extra COVID-19 vaccines
One of the most challenging aspects of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is the shelf life of some of the vaccines — and that effective doses can go to waste if they’re not used in a timely manner. In an effort to streamline the process and to help ensure that more doses make it to more people, Portland startup SheerID has partnered with Force4Good to create a vaccine notifier… More
Portland Seed Fund alum exits for $6.5 billion
While Auth0 is a Seattle company, they do have a distinct Portland tie. You see, the Portland Seed Fund was one of the company’s early investors. And today was a big day for everyone involved, given that it was just announced that Okta is acquiring Auth0 for $6.5 billion… More
Revisiting Black History Month 2021
It’s become an annual tradition for Stephen Green to spend the month of February featuring one amazing Black business every day on Twitter in honor of Black History Month. A few years ago, Built Oregon joined the effort. And then my part of the annual tradition has become capturing all of the tweets in a single post. So let’s take a look at Black History Month 2021… More
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Jobs 💼
Senior Software Engineer - social impact at Troy Medicare
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Hiring? Every single day a whole bunch of super talented and interesting people check the Silicon Florist job board in hopes of finding amazing companies like yours. So if you’re looking for incredibly intelligent, informed, and charming folks to join your company, you should be clicking the “Post a job” button.
Events 🗓️
Realizing you’re overly busy… here are some events that are worth your time:
Monday (All day) International Women’s Day
Wednesday (6:00PM) Bootstrap Book Club
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