Silicon Florist 🌹 Old founder, new founder; DeepSurface raises $4.5M 💵

Issue 630

Feb 12, 2022

Former Portland founder returns as cofounder and CEO of a new pursuit

In the early days of the SaaS and Cloud-based version of the Portland startup community, Jeff Martens was one of the more active, engaged, and recognizable figures in the community. His first startup — a product of Portland Startup Weekend called CPUsage — created a service that provided on-demand high-performance computing services to customers by leveraging idle time on vast arrays of participating machines… More

Portland startup DeepSurface raises $4.5 million Seed Round

While the size of today’s Seed Rounds seem more like Series A rounds from a few years ago, it’s nice to see a Portland startup taking advantage of the trend — and dry VC powder — to fuel their growth here locally. This morning, I got word that DeepSurface has raised $4.5 million. Participating investors include Differential Ventures, which led the round; Osage Venture Partners; Ginossar Ventures; and Peninsula Ventures… More

Interested in coaching or mentoring women-led startups?

One of my favorite things about the Portland startup community is a willingness to help one another. Rarely do I have a conversation with anyone in town that fails to include “Is there anything I can be doing to help you…?” It’s just the ethos around here… More

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

This turned up in a random search. A ton of things have changed in the Portland tech community, but this one thing hasn't. Thirteen years later, it's *STILL* all about community 🧡 #pdx

Adam DuVander @adamd

At PDXWI with @turoczy where he is talking about the State of Portland Tech. He says it's all about community, ~40 of which are here.

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