Silicon Florist 🌹 Lytics acquired, Graze launches 🚀

Issue 782

Jan 11, 2025

Portland startup Lytics acquired by Contentstack

While they’ve kept a relatively low profile in the Portland startup community, Lytics has continued to make waves in the Consumer Data Platform category — a category they basically defined. Today, those waves have a new owner. Lytics has been acquired by Contentstack… More

Bluesky tooling startup Graze officially goes to market

If you’re going to have your stealthy startup revealed, having the CEO of the company you’re building tooling for — in this case Bluesky — is probably the best way to have that go down. Even if you’re not quite ready. But things in startups change quickly. And now Portland startup Graze is officially revealing its offering to the world… More

Pitch Black launches Pitch Black Food

Feeling a little down because the next big Pitch Black competition isn’t until later in the year, this time around…? Well, turn that frown upside down. Because if you act quickly, you can be part of a new — ahem — flavor of Pitch Black: Pitch Black Food, a cooking competition happening in February… More

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Rebooting the concept of a community calendar for Portland tech

In the early days of my engagement with the open source tech communities, one of the clear issues was the plethora of event scheduling and management tools that everyone used to organize events. To get a firm handle on what was happening on any given day, you had to check a whole bunch of different sites — including individual organization blogs. That was the pain point that resulted in the development of an open source project that became Calagator… More

Latino Founders builds out team with new Accelerator Manager

I’m trying to hold back. I swear. But man oh man. 2025 is starting off in the best ways. Amazing interest in the community kickoff event. Pitch Black expanding to feature food. And now, Latino Founders is building out their team. It’s a good January by any measure. Even if we stopped today. But let’s not. Let’s meet Zimri Rodriguez, the new Accelerator Manager for Latino Founders… More

Update: Portland startup community kickoff is sold out

“Maybe it would interesting to throw a little networking event to kickoff the year,” I thought. “We could probably get a few folks to show up.” Welp. We’ve officially hit capacity for the 2025 Kickoff event for the Portland startup community on January 14, 2025. This means two things… More

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