Month: May 2025

You’re on the downhill portion now! You’ve figured out Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Now it’s time to figure out how you’re going to immerse yourself in Portland Startup Week 2025 on Thursday. If only so that you can keep the streak going and sail into Friday. Let’s take a look at what’s happening.

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Way to contribute to PDX Digital Corps this week

Volunteer, non-profit? Whoever, join us! You’ll get a chance to meet other technologists, hear about active projects and what we’ve learned so far. We’re more than halfway through our digital sprint. The beauty of PDX Digital Corps isn’t just the volunteering, it’s learning how to scale an effort like this in real-time, and sharing those learnings with other interested groups that might want to model this in their own communities.

Whoof. It’s been such a busy week, I totally forgot to share the TAO Oregon Tech Awards 2025 winners. Sorry about that. Hopefully, you were already in the loop. But if not, let’s get you in the loop and up to speed and all that.

In a day and age where the news seems to be flooded with news of grants being rescinded, it gives me great joy to share details on a new grant program that’s actually giving people money. That’s right. Graze Social is granting folks money to work on AT Protocol projects.

Sure. You’ve got Monday dialed. And Tuesday is starting to get there, as well. But you’re going to need to prep to ensure you have the stamina to make it through all of Portland Startup Week 2025. So let’s start sketching out where you plan to be on Wednesday, next week.

Not everyone enjoys the “I’ll just dabble with this until I figure it out” approach to new technology. And that’s absolutely okay. But it’s important that we provide a variety of learning opportunities for the vast array of learning styles out there. Especially with subject matter that changes as rapidly as AI. That’s why I’m happy to see two new offerings designed to get people up to speed on getting the most out of AI.

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Nvidia CEO says missing China AI market would be ‘tremendous loss’

Nvidia said it would take a $5.5 billion quarterly charge due to the restriction, the strongest sign so far that the company’s historic growth could be slowed because of U.S.-China trade tensions. Later in April, Huang said at a tech conference in Washington, D.C., that China is “not behind” in AI, and that Huawei is “one of the most formidable technology companies in the world.”

It’s always nice to wake up to a Portland startup trending on Product Hunt. And that was the case this morning with Hedy — which just released Hedy 2.0 for MacOS. While the product has been a hit on iOS and Android, this release marks its launch on the Mac desktop environment.

Got next Monday figured out…? Good. Let’s move on to Tuesday. It is Portland Startup WEEK after all. And like Monday, next Tuesday has a whole bunch of startuppy goodness from which to choose. All. Day. Long. Let’s see what’s on the docket.