Silicon Florist 🌹 Portland Seed Fund x3, The Sports Bra, Feeling stuck…? 😰

Issue 745

Apr 27, 2024

Portland Seed Fund: New venture partner, new fund, new investments

It’s not odd that venture funds go quiet from time to time. As they need to cycle through their own fundraising and whatnot. But it’s always nice to see them starting to make noise again. And Portland Seed Fund is doing that in multiple ways with their news today… More

Former Magic Leap folks building Trace close $2M round

Granted, in a remote-first world it can be difficult to accurately define an “Oregon” company, but given that the CTO lives here, Portland Seed Fund participated in this round, and they went through PIE, I’m calling the news that Trace just closed a $2 million Pre-Seed round “local startup news”… More

Questions about Portland startups…?

The Sports Bra gets backing from Alexis Ohanian’s 776 Foundation

The Sports Bra — the Portland pub focused on women’s sports — has captured media attention since its founding. But this latest news is only sure to further that trend: Alexis Ohanian, the cofounder of Reddit, investor, and philanthropist, has shared that his 776 Foundation will provide backing for The Sports Bra expansion to other cities… More

Startup feeling stuck…? Maybe Dave Hersh’s Reignition would help

Even if it there wasn’t a whole bunch of nostalgia wrapped up in this post, I would still be recommending Reignition, a new book written by Dave Hersh. Part memoir, part collection of case studies, part workbook, this quick read takes stuck founders through a clear path through getting their startups unstuck — and provides cautionary tales for founders who may be unknowingly hurtling their startups headlong into stuck-ness… More

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