Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Full-Cycle Sales Rep (Commission-Only, Contractor) Job at Topsail
This is a full-cycle sales role responsible for sourcing opportunities, running the sales process, and closing new business. You’ll work closely with the founders and Topsail leadership along the way, with the opportunity to help shape the sales motion as we grow. This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys building, wants meaningful upside, and is comfortable selling in an early-stage environment where support is available but initiative is expected.
Real Agents Ship Vibes – by Chris Anderson – Vibes DIY
The interesting thing about vibes-diy is not any single feature. It is that the entire path from “agent has an idea” to “people are using the app” fits in one loop with no manual steps in between.
C1: The Headless Identity Infrastructure
Headless infrastructure matters because agents don’t use consoles. They have no eyeballs, they do not click, and they don’t file helpdesk tickets. If your identity infrastructure requires a human at a screen, it cannot govern what’s coming.
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web | WIRED
Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.
How AI Agent Memory Works
Language models forget the moment they finish replying. Memory is everything the system around them does to make that not matter. This essay walks through the ideas one at a time, with something to touch in every section.
Design from the inside || Matt Ström-Awn, designer-leader
This is the reality of design at high-growth startups in the AI era. Engineers can build so fast and so independently that trying to map out the product area is a lost cause. Some of the traditional tools of product design — mapping and evaluating UX from a bird’s eye view — are useless. So what do you do instead?
NEA’s Tiffany Luck On How Startup Founders Can Build Moats In Vertical AI
Today, Luck’s thesis centers on the AI application layer, betting on vertical AI and the “last mile” of automation to bridge the gap between horizontal model potential and tangible enterprise ROI.
6 Key Takeaways From Our Conversations on AI and AppSec – Minimus
AI powered vulnerability discovery has quickly moved from research labs into mainstream security conversations. Between projects like Mythos and Glasswing, and the broader rise of AI assisted offensive research, security teams are facing a new reality: vulnerabilities can now be discovered faster, at greater scale, and with lower barriers to entry than ever before. To better understand what this shift actually means for defenders, Minimus sat down with several industry leaders and security practitioners, including Bruce Schneier, Frank Kim, Chenxi Wang, and Justin Somaini.
What Forward Deployed Design Actually Looks Like – Ron Bronson
In the forward-deployed context, that means ability to navigate ambiguity, stakeholder management, low ego, bias toward working in the open and collaborating. The other big thing and I’ll bold this: hired designers who can do more than one thing.
Murderbot is a perfect film
Today I imported all episodes into iMovie, then edited out the cruft by hand and ended at a final cut that is 3 hours, 28 minutes long. That’s a tad much for an action-packed film, but it’s quickly becoming normal for today’s blockbusters in terms of length.
6-4-26 Accelerate Biotech Happy Hour » Calagator: Portland’s Tech Calendar
Kick off June with OBI’s Accelerate Happy Hour! Good conversations, great people, and a relaxed space to connect. This month’s happy hour is fueled by our beverage sponsors, Ramsey Cox Media Relations and Public Affairs and Nucleate.
Oregon Business Council and Oregon Life Sciences Launch Statewide Task Force to Accelerate Life Sciences Industry Growth
The Oregon Business Council (OBC) and Oregon Life Sciences today announced the launch of the Oregon Life Sciences Competitiveness Task Force, a statewide initiative to define how Oregon will compete, win market share and scale high-wage job growth in life sciences.
Panthalassa secures $140M for wave-powered AI nodes
The wave-powered AI startup has developed a platform that captures ocean wave energy to power autonomous floating nodes equipped with AI computing capabilities. This innovation addresses the growing demand for data center infrastructure, which reached $580 billion in investments in 2025. Traditional data centers are constrained by land, power, and cooling needs, whereas Panthalassa’s ocean-based solution bypasses these limitations entirely.
Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off | TechCrunch
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with this editor about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.
Startup Grind Portland | Global Community for Entrepreneurs
Welcome to the relaunch of StartupGrind Portland! We are dedicated to supporting early-stage startups and bootstrapped founders by creating a community where entrepreneurs can learn from experienced founders and investors. Through our events and resources, we aim to provide practical insights and opportunities for networking that help you take your startup to the next level. Sponsored by FirstCity Foundry and Up Start Collective, we’re building a vibrant ecosystem for Portland’s next generation of innovators. Join us as we expand, learn, and grow together!
Build Something That Matters Hackathon, Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:00 PM | Meetup
Build Something That Matters Hackathon is a hands-on community sprint where small teams work with local nonprofits to understand a real problem, build a practical solution, and present what they created by the end of the event.
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