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.