I wanted to pause for a second and provide a round up of the most popular stories for 2026 — so far — as decided by the readers of Silicon Florist. I never assume anyone has the time to keep up with every single thing I post around here. Consider this your halfway through the year cheat sheet for the most read Silicon Florist stories. That way, none of us has to pretend we caught every last one of them the first time around. And yet, we can still be up to date on all of the stuff.
- Governor Kotek signed SB 1507 as expected. But she also said something about QSBS that you need to hear
- Why is no one talking about Oregon eliminating QSBS tax breaks?
- Long-time innovation ecosystem builder Dwayne Johnson shares insights on Oregon economic woes
- Quietly raising one of the largest rounds in Portland startup history: Panthalassa’s $140M Series B
- Oregon AI Accelerator reveals inaugural cohort
- Silicon Forest Tech Summit 2026: It’s back and promising to be bigger than ever
- Three ways to immediately engage with folks from the Portland startup community
- Anthropic plans to pop by Portland for a Claude Code Hackathon
- Investing $125M in downtown Portland garners Jeff Swickard two buildings and a new UpStart tenant
- Portland Metro Region Innovation Hub loses another executive director
Honorable mentions
- Business Oregon has $125k for someone to tell us how innovative we’ve been for the last 5 years
- Portland venture capital just hit a 10-year low. Good.
- QQ: Do you feel represented by Portland Mayor Wilson’s new Central City Roundtable…?
- Remembering Joshua Baer, the godfather of the Austin, Texas, startup community
- My response to the Oregon Governor’s Prosperity Council
- An imperfect and meandering history of Portland startup incubators and accelerators
