Silicon Florist 🌹 Pitch Latino 2023, No consumer products funding 👟
Issue 715
Applications to take the stage at Pitch Latino 2023 are open
Are you a Latina/Latino/Latinx founder looking to share what you’re building with a live Portland audience — and the rest of the world once that Portland audience starts talking about it…? Well, you’re in luck. Because the premier pitch competition for Latinx-founded companies — Pitch Latino — is currently accepting applications until October 12, 2023… More
Why aren’t consumer products a focus for Oregon?
This week, we learned that the food and beverage project was not selected to receive funding, nor were any programs associated in directly supporting, innovating, and scaling consumer product companies. The programs that were selected — while truly all promising and worthwhile — remained deeply entrenched in efforts focused on technology and represent many of the same organizations funded under the original SRC structure… More
Next founder.coffee takes place at Coava Coffee
Looking to connect with local founders…? There’s no better spot than founder.coffee, the regular gathering of Portland founders that takes place at a variety of coffee shops around the region. This time around, they’ll be at Coava Coffee in SE Portland on Tuesday, October 10, 2023… More
🗓️ Events
Be sure to check Calagator for the latest list of events — or to share your event with the community. It’s absolutely free.
Sunday (Oct 1) Data Viz Portland
Tuesday (Oct 3) Startup Open Coffee (Vancouver, WA)
Wednesday (Oct 4) Startup Corvallis (Corvallis, OR)
Friday (Oct 6) BSidesPDX 2023
Saturday (Oct 7) Mentorship Saturdays
Tuesday (Oct 10) founder.coffee
Tuesday (Oct 10) 4K4Community Fun Run
Tuesday (Oct 17) Built Festival 2023 (Bend, OR)
Thursday (Oct 19) Bend Venture Conference (Bend, OR)
💼 Jobs
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