Month: November 2025

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

Glow & Gather: A Holiday Happy Hour for Portland’s Women in Tech, Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 4:30 PM | Meetup

We’re closing out the year in style with Glow & Gather — a festive happy hour that brings together Portland’s vibrant women-in-tech community to celebrate confidence, community, and another year of accomplishments. Come ready to shine and sparkle in your festive attire.

I was going to say “VCs shovel cash into Digs” for the pun, but that didn’t quite sound right. So let’s just keep it on the up and up. Vancouver, Washington, based Digs has raised an additional $5 million.

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

About The Other Night… – Graze Newsletter

How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy. Case study: the NYC mayoral election.

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

The Myth of the Magical Money Fairies — Chris Neumann

There are a lot of myths and misconceptions that exist around the world when it comes to Silicon Valley. In my experience, no topic is more misunderstood (and, frankly, misrepresented) than fundraising.

I thought you could use some happy new about NBA teams. Portland’s Expensify — which is on a mission to make managing expenses easy for any person in any business — revealed a multi-year partnership with the Brooklyn Nets, today.

In case your agent forgot to remind you, I’m reminding you. Hacking Agents PDX takes place this Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 5:30PM. And it might be fancy. Because it’s being held at Multnomah Athletic Club.

I can still remember the excitement back in the day when New Zealand founded AskNicely took up residence in Portland. It was one of those rare instances when a company picked Portland as a place to be — in a community that is often filled with companies founded by locals. Even better, that regional office eventually became the AskNicely HQ. Now, Portland is once again proving that it has something special to offer. AskNicely’s founder has picked Portland for his next company, as well.

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

The Startup Winter Is Always Coming

This optimism bias is natural. Nobody likes to imagine frostbite while basking in warmth. Yet the denial comes at the worst cost when the cold sets in: layoffs, shutdowns, or fire-sales at fractions of peak valuations.