Category: Acquisitions

Another Portland company acquired: Higher Logic scoops up Kavi

Rick Turoczy on February 16, 2017

So this is interesting. For all the positives of the Skyward acquisition today, it still had one issue that has been consistently part of our “liquidity event” stories: it was a solitary event. Portland doesn’t have multiple exits happening in rapid succession. We don’t get the opportunity to build momentum. Or at least we didn’t… but it may be starting. Because Portland based Kavi announced their acquisition by Higher Logic today, too. Read More

Flying high: Why Verizon’s acquisition of Skyward bodes well for all Portland startups, drone or otherwise

Rick Turoczy on February 16, 2017

Sure, sure. Everyone is talking about the Verizon acquisition of Yahoo! But honestly? I’m more interested in an acquisition that may fly below the RADAR. (Buh dum buh… tiss!) You see, Verizon just made an acquisition that both bodes well for Portland—and for our future in the drone industry. Verizon has acquired Portland startup Skyward. Read More

And with a wave of the hand… Portland's early gesture recognition player ONtheGO Platforms acquired by Atheer

Rick Turoczy on December 2, 2015

What began with Google Glass has ended in a successful exit for ONtheGO Platforms—and the local investors who took a risk on the company before it was clear where the market was going. Atheer has acquired OTG for its team and technology, who were early players in exploring the potential of gestures within virtual and physical environments. Read More

Betting it's for more than 4K: Quintessential Portland startup Elemental acquired by Amazon Web Services

Rick Turoczy on September 3, 2015

As long as I’ve been banging on a keyboard about this whole Portland startup scene thing, there’s been one company that has been referenced in any Portland startup conversation: Elemental. And now, it’s a startup no longer. Elemental Technologies is being acquired by Amazon Web Services. Read More

Did AWS Device Farm sound familiar? That's because Amazon acquired Portland startup AppThwack to build it

Rick Turoczy on July 14, 2015

Last week, the Web was all abuzz with this nifty new mobile testing environment from Amazon called AWS Device Farm. Folks were waxing philosophic about the magic of being able to test their mobile apps on real physical devices. And we, here in Portland, were sort of scratching our heads. Wasn’t this what AppThwack does? Well, yes. And yes. You see AWS Device Farm is AppThwack. Read More

Golden ticket: Portland mobile ticketing startup GlobeSherpa acquired by RideScout

Rick Turoczy on June 30, 2015

Portland startup GlobeSherpa—perhaps best known locally as the technology behind the TriMet mobile ticketing app—announced today that they have been acquired by Austin based RideScout. Read More

They're playing our song: CenturyLink acquires Portland startup Orchestrate to deliver next generation data services

Rick Turoczy on April 21, 2015

For many startups, the promise of substantially growing their businesses comes with strong partnerships. And often, those partnerships quickly become something much more significant. Such was the case, yesterday, when it was revealed that leading connectivity provider CenturyLink had acquired database-as-a-service startup Orchestrate to augment its CenturyLink Cloud offering. Read More

Acquired in a jiffy: Animated gif app Nutmeg acquired by Giphy

Rick Turoczy on March 19, 2015

Well that was fast. Almost as fast as an animated gif. Regardless of how you pronounce it. Nutmeg, an alum of PIE class of 2014, has been acquired by the leading presence in animated gifs, Giphy, which had recently raised $17 million. This marks the first PIE accelerator alum to be acquired. To date, only members of the PIE coworking space had been acquired—with Geoloqi, Glider, and Paleo Plan, and Simple being the most prominent acquisitions. Read More

Visualize an exit: Portland's Vizify acquired by Yahoo!

Rick Turoczy on March 5, 2014

Another Portland startup has been acquired. Vizify has been picked by Yahoo! who has, obviously, been making a string of acquihires. Read More

Yet another perk: Perka acquired by First Data for an estimated $30 million or so

Rick Turoczy on October 31, 2013

If you frequent Portland coffee shops—well honestly, like some 90 establishments coffee or otherwise in the Portland area—you’ve no doubt come across Perka, the service designed to replace the loyalty punch cards in your wallet with something far more manageable: an app. Read More

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