Three VC funding rounds announced this week and whole bunch of Portland startup events to cover from AI in Bend to incubators in Vancouver Washington and everything in between. Let’s get into it. PORTLAND STARTUP LINKS
- Travel Oregon ads
- Speaker Skills https://speakerskillsacademy.com/crea…
- AI in the West https://aiwestconf.com/
- Portland Startup Week 2025 https://lu.ma/pdxstartupweek
- Dayo launch party https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dayo-lau…
- Beeminder https://www.beeminder.com/
Portland startup news chapters
- 00:00 Portland startup news intro
- 01:16 Thanks so much for the comments!
- 01:43 Hydrolix raises $80 million
- 04:45 OpenAI imagery reminded me of Travel Oregon ads from @wiedenkennedy
- 06:10 Sturdy.ai raises $6 million
- 08:40 Prophetic raises Seed round
- 10:39 TEDxPortland adjacent speaker coaching workshop
- 14:08 AI in the West
- 16:00 Portland Startup Week
- 20:15 Portland startup community gathering
- 25:45 Vancouver Washington Startup Incubator
