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title: 'TAO’s Oregon Tech Awards 2026 winners'
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# TAO’s Oregon Tech Awards 2026 winners

The [Technology Association of Oregon](https://www.techoregon.org/) 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](https://www.sheerid.com/)** — identity verification
- **Most Disruptive: [Panthalassa](https://www.panthalassa.com/)** — ocean wave energy and offshore AI compute
- **Enterprise Tech Company of the Year: [nLIGHT](https://www.nlight.net/)** — high-power lasers
- **Growth: [Valaurum](https://www.valaurum.com/)** — nanotechnology gold
- **Pre-Revenue: [Encypher](https://www.encypher.ai/)** — AI content provenance, co-chairing the C2PA Text Task Force
- **Emerging: [D8TAOPS](https://d8taops.com/)** — enterprise AI data orchestration
- **Rising Star: [Prophetic Software](https://propheticsoftware.ai/)** — AI for real estate land acquisition
- **Accelerate: [Overwatch Imaging](https://overwatchimaging.com/)** — aerial imaging and wildfire detection

For more information, visit [TAO](https://techoregon.org).