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title: 'Using Portland startup Subfund to give you more context on Portland startups'
date: '2021-04-27T09:33:56-07:00'
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categories:
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - Startups
tags:
  - 'brave care'
  - 'Darius Monsef'
  - experiment
  - Portland
  - Startup
  - Startups
  - subfund
---

# Using Portland startup Subfund to give you more context on Portland startups

I always believe that the best way to understand a startup’s product is to actually use the startup’s product. I know. Call me crazy. So ever since I became aware of Portland’s [Subfund](https://subfund.me), I’ve been scratching my head for ways to put it into practice. And apparently all of that head scratching shook something loose. [Because I just came up with a new experiment](https://www.subfund.me/turoczy/post/623/Trivial%20facts%3A%20Darius%20Monsef%2C%20Brave%20Care).

> Last week, [news about Portland startup Brave Care’s $10M Series A](https://siliconflorist.com/2021/04/22/portland-startup-brave-care-expands-to-austin-beaverton-and-north-carolina-not-necessarily-in-that-order/) had me remembering all sorts of trivial facts about cofounder Darius Monsef and his significant history within the Portland startup community.
> 
> And he’s not alone. After all of these years, there is a veritable cornucopia of random knowledge locked up there in my bag-of-cats brain 😹🧠😹 But what fun is all of that potential insight if it’s only accessible to me?
> 
> Absolutely no fun. That’s how much. None.

Interested in following along with my trivial facts — and getting little historical insights about Portland founders and the Portland startup community? [Just subscribe on Subfund to join in](https://subfund.me/turoczy). But it’s going to cost you.

   

  

What’s that? You have a more creative way to use Subfund? Well, I would love to see it. And promote it here on Silicon Florist. And since I’ve been given the ability to invite folks to the private beta, [why don’t you grab a Subfund account of your own](https://www.subfund.me/signup?referrer=turoczy), fancy pants? And then maybe I’ll subscribe to your Subfund. Win win. (But please recognize that I can only invite you to the beta. You still have to be approved by Subfund. They’re not letting everyone in, yet.)

For more information on the service, visit [Subfund](https://www.subfund.me/).