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Not the Intel spinoff I had on my 2025 bingo card: Intel Capital

While it’s rare for VC-funded Portland startups to get into the realm of “strategic investors” — those VC funds run by corporate entities that are designed to fund strategic endeavors that benefit both the startup and the corporation — there has been collaboration from time to time with Intel Capital, the capital arm of Intel. Well, amid massive rethinking and restructuring at the company, Intel Capital is being spun out.

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Rebooting the concept of a community calendar for the Portland tech community

In the early days of my engagement with the open source tech communities, one of the clear issues was the plethora of event scheduling and management tools that everyone used to organize events. To get a firm handle on what was happening on any given day, you had to check a whole bunch of different sites — including individual organization blogs. That was the pain point that resulted in the development of an open source project that became Calagator.

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