Top 10 Portland startup stories on Silicon Florist for Q1 2026

Don’t look now, but we’re already a quarter of the way through 2026. (How does this keep happening, year after year…?) So much activity. Time flying so fast. And all of us just trying to do our startuppy stuff as effectively as possible. I’ll bet that you probably haven’t even had a single spare moment to think about all of the things that have happened in 2026. Right…? Well, with that in mind, I thought it might be useful for all of us if we simply took a breath and paused for a moment to look back at what folks actually clicked on over the past three months. If only so I could actually remember all of this stuff, too.

Here are the top 10 stories on Silicon Florist for Q1 2026 — based on pageviews, not my opinion. (Although, naturally, I do have opinions. I’ll just keep them to myself.)

1. Why is no one talking about Oregon eliminating QSBS tax breaks…?
2. Oregon AI Accelerator reveals inaugural cohort
3. Three ways to immediately engage with folks from the Portland startup community
4. Anthropic plans to pop by Portland for a Claude Code Hackathon
5. Silicon Forest Tech Summit 2026: It’s back and promising to be bigger than ever
6. Investing $125M in downtown Portland garners Jeff Swickard two buildings… and a new UpStart tenant
7. YC alum Depot raises $10M Series A
8. My response to the Oregon Governor’s Prosperity Council
9. Who is taking the stage at the Silicon Forest Tech Summit next week…?
10. Portland startup Kivo lands additional funding

Honorable mentions:

• Portland will be part of the OpenClaw Global Unhackathon
• Leading edibles company Wyld to acquire peer Grön
• Eclypsium is quietly becoming Portland’s biggest cybersecurity bet
• Portland Women in Technology (PDXWIT) reboots

On the very very lightweight analysis front, a couple of things jump out:

• That QSBS post wasn’t even close. It got more than double the pageviews of anything else I published this quarter. And the posts where I actually had a point of view…? The QSBS piece, the Prosperity Council response — outperformed the straight news by a wide margin. Just sayin’.
• Also worth noting: three of the top five aren’t about a specific company. They’re about the community — how to get involved, what events to attend, what policies affect you. That also tells me something. It tells me that no matter how many times we all think we’ve told folks how to get engaged with the Portland startup community. We need to keep doing it. Again and again and again. So that people who are looking to get involved know how to get involved.

Thanks for reading. And watching. And listening. And stuff. See you in Q2.

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