Silicon Florist 🌹 Stealthy $20M Seed, NedSpace 2.0, $2M for The Wild 😎

Issue 589

May 01, 2021

Vancouver startup Embedded garners $20 million Seed round

What was once a stealth startup has revealed its company and focus in grand fashion. Meet Vancouver, Washington, based Embedded, who just announced that they have secured $20 million in Seed funding from a who’s who of name brand venture funds… More

Portland coworking pioneer NedSpace has a new owner

It may seem weird now, but coworking wasn’t always a thing. And it really didn’t get traction in Portland until the mortgage crisis. When a couple of spaces were testing the appetite for shared space environments. Only one of those original trendsetters survived and flourished over the last decade: NedSpace. And now, NedSpace is moving on to its next chapter with new owner Jorge Guzman, founder and CEO of Vive Northwest and Hispanicpros… More

The Wild closes $2 million round, led by at.inc/

I don’t spend as much time combing through the Form Ds as I used to. But journalists still do. Why? Because SEC filings are a great way to get the jump on stories about who is raising capital, be it venture capitalists or startups… More

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

Inspired by the organizational skills of my friends over at @Commsor, I've been doing a little Spring cleaning on the Portland Startup Slack to help increase discoverability and engagement. If you haven't been there recently, you should come hang out and see how it works for you

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Jobs 💼

Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at The Wild
Lead Front-end Developer at Filmio, Inc.
Director of Development at Discogs
Quality Assurance Specialist at Clarity Innovations, Inc.
Technology Lead at Brandlive
Customer Service Manager at Act-On Software
Account Manager at Act-On Software
Customer Onboarding Consultant at Act-On Software
Deliverability Consultant at Act-On Software
Development Manager at Act-On Software
Product Designer at Act-On Software
Program Manager at Act-On Software
Sr. Manager Customer Experience at Act-On Software
Sr. Product Manager at Act-On Software
Sr. Software Engineer at Act-On Software
QA Support Specialist at Brandlive
Senior Full Stack Developer at Brandlive
Resiliency Program Director at RAIN
Back End Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor
Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at Verivest
Senior DevOps Engineer at Stellar
Senior Associate/Principal - Partner Track at Oregon Venture Fund

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Events 🗓️

Realizing you’re overly busy… here are some events that are worth your time:

Thursday (5:00PM) Accelerate Biotech & Digital Health Virtual Happy Hour
Friday (1:00PM) Breaking into Blockchain
Sunday (All day) Mother’s Day

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