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title: 'Bend Venture Conference 2024: Growth stage finalists'
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# Bend Venture Conference 2024: Growth stage finalists

For those of you who haven’t heard me say it before… [Bend Venture Conference](https://bendvc.com/) is the largest Angel competition in the Pacific Northwest. But it’s not just early stage startups. They have growth stage as well. And they just announced [the finalists for the growth stage](https://www.bendvc.com/news/meet-the-2024-bvc-growth-stage-semifinalists), this year.

So who made the cut…?

> - [**Beginly Health**](https://www.beginlyhealth.com/) (Portland, OR) – An AI curated job matching platform for healthcare professionals.
> - [**Canopii Inc.**](https://canopii.us/) (Silverton, OR) – A technology company building robotic greenhouse farms to make local food production more viable.
> - [**Green Canopy NODE**](https://www.greencanopynode.com/) (Seattle, WA) – A company that addresses the complex challenges of affordable housing through configurable, prefabricated kits for residential housing.
> - [**Health Elements AI**](https://healthelements.ai/) (Bend, OR) – A technology platform that leverages AI to streamline health data abstraction.
> - [**ProMedix Inc.**](https://promedixinc.com/) (Portland, OR) – A revolutionary, noninvasive wearable sensor for accelerating sepsis detection at the patient bedside.
> - [**Square Baby**](https://squarebaby.com/) (Bend, OR) – Dietician-designed, organic baby and toddler meals customized to age, stage and dietary needs including allergen introduction, vegan and animal proteins.
> - [**Stiira** ](https://www.stiira.com/)(Portland, OR) – A specialized SaaS solution designed to help organizations effectively manage the complexities of government-regulated leaves of absence.
> - [**Trace Biosciences**](https://www.trace-bio.com/) (Portland, OR) – A biotech startup creating agents for surgery that highlight nerves in real time to eliminate surgical nerve damage.

BVC takes place October 17-18, 2024, in — you guessed it — Bend, Oregon.

For more information, visit [Bend Venture Conference](https://www.bendvc.com/).

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