Month: August 2026

Not sure if you’ve heard, but Portland Startup Week is no more. Lead organizer Josh Carter has decided that it’s time to shut it down. I hear you. “What…? Right now…?!!? It was having a total resurgence following the pandemic. How could this happen…?” Well turn that frown upside down, gentle reader. This seemingly bad news has a distinctly silver lining. Meet Oregon Startup Week.

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Just a quick reminder that Business Oregon is looking for your input on Oregon’s 10-year Innovation Plan — which we’re currently halfway through.

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TiE Oregon has selected its 2026 TiE Women finalists. Since they’ll be going head to head tomorrow, August 12, 2026, I’m hoping to share the winner, this week.

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All told, Inc. featured 38 Portland metro areas companies in the Inc. 5000, this year. While none of the companies rank terribly high on the list of 5000, they’re still worth celebrating. So who made the top 10 locally…? I’m glad you asked because otherwise I’d feel pretty stupid continuing to type. So let’s get into it.

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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

Seattle Tech Week 2026: The Most Seattle Tech Week Yet

Seattle Tech Week started on a Monday night with pickleball in SoDo and ended, five days later, somewhere between a rooftop happy hour, a Lake Union cruise, and a Mariners game. In between: roughly 250 events across boardrooms, incubators, coworking spaces, an Amtrak train, pickleball courts, concert venues … and an axe-throwing range.

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I am always delightfully surprised by the projects that Portland-based Panic takes on — and how they always seem to excel at whatever it is. When they dipped their toe into video games and gaming consoles, I didn’t exactly know what to expect. And right on cue, I’ve been delightfully surprised. The latest in that effort…? Big Walk.

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Monday (Aug 10)

• PDX Code & Coffee — 9:00am, Beaverton
• Enterprise Blockchain Club — 6:00pm
• Dorkbot PDX: August Edition — 6:30pm

Tuesday (Aug 11)

• founder.coffee @ Slow Pour Coffee — 9:00am
• Data Prepper Triage Meeting (OpenSearch) — 9:00am
• Bridgespace Coworking X ATPROTO PDX — Open Coworking in Sellwood — 10:00am
• Development Backlog & Triage — ml-commons (OpenSearch) — 10:00am
• Happy Hour with AI Portland — 5:00pm
• Building a Document Processing Agent with Copilot Studio and Azure Foundry — 5:30pm
• Portland Geek Dinner (PADNUG) — 5:30pm, Tigard
• Coding Club (Westside) — 6:00pm
• Claude Code | Builders Night with Jim — 6:30pm, Beaverton

Wednesday (Aug 12)

• Search Community Meeting — Triage and Backlog (OpenSearch) — 9:00am
• (CS)²AI Online REPLAY: AI in OT Cybersecurity — 10:00am
• Coffee & Constructive Criticism — 10:30am
• Free AI Office Hours — Portland — 11:00am
• TiE Oregon Women Pitch Competition — 12:00pm
• Drafting Hours — 1:00pm
• Free AI Office Hours — Vancouver — 4:00pm, Vancouver
• August PubTalk: The Science of Startup Success — 5:00pm
• Applied AI Ethics Monthly Mixer — 5:00pm
• August Fintech PDX Meetup! — 6:30pm
• Summer Social @ Cartopia (Portland UX Content) — 6:30pm

Thursday (Aug 13)

• Perk Up, Portland! — 8:00am
• UpStart Collective: Open Co-Working Day! — 9:00am
• Abundance — Office Hour — 11:30am
• Better Futures Club — 1:30pm
• PHPdx: Jujutsu — A New Take on Version Control — 4:30pm
• Demolicious — August 2026 — 5:00pm
• Play pool. Talk tech (Tech Talent Pool) — 5:30pm

Friday (Aug 14)

• PNW CoffeeOps — 8:00am
• Startup Couve Coffee — 9:00am, Vancouver
• Co-creAIt — an unconference about Human/AI collaboration at work — 9:00am
• Friday Happy Hour at Beermongers (Code Freeze Fridays) — 12:00pm
• Coding Club (Westside) — 6:00pm

Saturday (Aug 15)

• Combat Bots Showdown — 10:00am
• Code & Coffee @ Roseline Coffee — 10:00am

Sunday (Aug 16)

• Portland Linux/Unix Group’s Monthly Linux Clinic — 1:00pm

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This day is always so odd for me. It’s August 7. And it’s the year 2026. Making this the 19th birthday of registering the domain for Silicon Florist. As of today, I have been doing this — whatever the fuck this actually is — for 6,940 days. Which is a genuinely strange way to spend a third of your life. ON A HOBBY. What exactly is wrong with me…? I swear. Every single year, it gets weirder and weirder to write this post.

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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 | TechCrunch

Bloomberg now reports that the device will be “donut-shaped,” designed thusly to allow users to carry it around their home and place it in different locations, like a bedside table or a kitchen counter.

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