Vacasa to go public via SPAC
After a long drought, there have been any number of āPortland areaā companies going public or planning to do so. Thereās just been one slight problem. None of them are actually Portland companies. But now there might be one.Ā Vacasa is in talks to go public via SPAC at a valuation of $4.5 billionā¦ More
Sila raises $13 million Series A
In case you havenāt been tracking, former Simple cofounderĀ Shamir KarkalĀ has been quietly building another fintech startup here in Portland. But after today, it might not be āquietlyā much longer. You see, that company,Ā Sila, just raised $13 millionā¦ More
Conversa Health acquired as part of $320 million deal
While theyāve been relatively quiet, Portland startup Conversa Health has clearly been building something attractive. They just got snapped up in aĀ two company acquisition by publicly traded Amwell, totaling $320 millionā¦ More
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Kiva.org
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Kiva.org
Communications & Growth Manager at PDXWIT
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Executive Director at Oregon Technology Business Center
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