Silicon Florist 🌹 Pitch to Oregon Venture Fund, $61.5M in VC 💰

Issue 769

Oct 12, 2024

Interested in pitching to Oregon Venture Fund…? Make it quick

You heard about this thing called “8 minute abs”? Oh wait. That’s not it. I mean… You know what’s faster than a three minute pitch…? A two minute pitch. It’s a whole minute less, so you better have your story dialed. (Not to mention that, as an event organizer, you get to cram in more startup pitches in the same amount of time.) But whatever the case, if you feel you’re up to that challenge, then Oregon Venture Fund would like to hear from you… More

Quickly clarifying confusing City Codes: Fordje Code Clarifier

Bureaucracy. Sometimes necessary. Often frustrating. Always difficult to navigate. Take real estate zoning and codes and whatnot. Not the morass of jargon and confusion that most mere mortals ever willingly enter. Let alone understand. So why not get the robots to help…? That’s what Fordje is — um — for-dje. And they’ve just launched a product called Code Clarifier to help, well, clarify the codes. Clearly… More

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Crescendo raises $50M

I’m calling this one. Crescendo is a Portland startup. Whether they like it or not. You see, the founder and CEO of Crescendo is here in Portland. Malia Spencer at the Portland Business Journal is covering them. And the way we were defining “Portland startups” in the before times seems ripe for disruption. So I’m calling Crescendo a Portland startup. Which means a Portland startup just raised $50 million in Series C… More

The Provenance Chain™ Network raises $10.5M, secures grant

We often talk about startups landing venture capital. And we sometimes get to highlight when startups land grants. Today, we get to talk about both. With the exact same startup. Because The Provenance Chain™ Network has announced both an SBIR grant associated with the CHIPS Act and a $10.5 million VC investment within days of one another… More