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title: 'Silicon Florist links arrangement for April 6, 2022 💐'
date: '2022-04-06T17:58:20-07:00'
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# Silicon Florist links arrangement for April 6, 2022 💐

### [North American Startup Investment Fell 11% In Q1](https://news.crunchbase.com/news/na-startup-funding-declines-q1-2022-monthly-recap/)

Altogether, investors put $82.8 billion into seed through growth-stage technology investments in the first quarter of 2022—down 11 percent from Q4 of 2021… but seed funding was up.

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> The [@OTRADIBio](https://twitter.com/OTRADIBio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Mentoring Program is now accepting applications for our Summer-Fall cohort. We are looking for mentors and mentees. Check out the details and apply by April 30! <https://t.co/Wi164ETruo>[\#mentoring](https://twitter.com/hashtag/mentoring?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\#bioscience](https://twitter.com/hashtag/bioscience?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\#digitalhealth](https://twitter.com/hashtag/digitalhealth?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\#medicaldevice](https://twitter.com/hashtag/medicaldevice?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\#OBI4You](https://twitter.com/hashtag/OBI4You?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/ONc4inmUCh](https://t.co/ONc4inmUCh)
> 
> — OBI (@OTRADIBio) [April 5, 2022](https://twitter.com/OTRADIBio/status/1511379557953138695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)



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### [21 companies up for Oregon Technology Awards](https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/inno/stories/news/2022/04/06/21-companies-up-for-oregon-technology-awards.html)

The annual event is slated for May 3 at the Oregon Convention Center. Each year, the trade association honors companies from Oregon and Southwest Washington across seven size categories. It also honors a company that isn’t based locally but has a local presence.

### [Startup Digest Portland – Issue #95](https://www.getrevue.co/profile/portland/issues/startup-digest-portland-issue-95-1118769)

A weekly email of the best events and meetups for entrepreneurs in Portland.

### [PDXWIT Happy Hour: Careers, Talks, Connection](https://www.pdxwit.org/upcoming-events/2022/04/19/pdxwit-happy-hour-careers-talks-connection)

Get ready for PDXWIT Happy Hour with event host PixelSpoke! This month’s Lightning Speakers will explore wellness and mental health as a social justice issue, as well as ways companies can better support their employees’ wellness. We will have ASL interpretation and closed captioning throughout.

### [Caravel: Bring contextual insights to your apps with our API](https://shiplog.caravelapp.com/announcements/bring-contextual-insights-to-your-apps-with-our-api)

Our API not only removes a lot of the arduous work of building, managing, and tuning ML models but also work that requires data preprocessing. Our Classifier API automatically segments your text to provide topic-level, sentence-level, and document-level insights.

### [Edify: Evaluating Technical Onboarding](https://www.getedify.co/evaluating-technical-onboarding)

Edify is bringing together a panel of engineering thinkers to discuss technical onboarding success from different perspectives: leaders, engops, and managers. You’ll leave with actionable ideas about how you can evaluate your technical onboarding program, get feedback, and show value to the business.

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