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TAO’s Oregon Tech Awards 2026 winners

The Technology Association of Oregon held its 42nd annual Oregon Tech Awards on Tuesday, May 5, at the Hilton Downtown Portland — and the winners across eight categories cover a pretty wide swath of what’s happening in Oregon technology right now.

  • Momentum: SheerID — identity verification
  • Most Disruptive: Panthalassa — ocean wave energy and offshore AI compute
  • Enterprise Tech Company of the Year: nLIGHT — high-power lasers
  • Growth: Valaurum — nanotechnology gold
  • Pre-Revenue: Encypher — AI content provenance, co-chairing the C2PA Text Task Force
  • Emerging: D8TAOPS — enterprise AI data orchestration
  • Rising Star: Prophetic Software — AI for real estate land acquisition
  • Accelerate: Overwatch Imaging — aerial imaging and wildfire detection

For more information, visit TAO.

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