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Tag: Beaverton

PitchBlack 2023 successfully celebrates 10 Black businesses in the Portland area — and two new podcasts

Rick Turoczy on February 8, 2023

More than 500 people gathered in The Patricia Reser Center for the Performing Arts in Beaverton, Oregon, last night to participate in PitchBlack, the pitch competition conceived and organized by Stephen Green. Attendees were rewarded with a wide variety of pitches from Black founders and business leaders. And when it was all said and done, three companies walked away with capital to support their concepts — but it’s really the entire community that won, last night.

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PitchBlack is back, but this time, it’s in Beaverton

Rick Turoczy on January 18, 2023

No single event on the West Coast does more to showcase — and support — Black entrepreneurs than PitchBlack. So it only stands to reason that the next version of the pitch competition will take place during Black History Month. What may come as a surprise, however, is where the Portland-born event is taking place, this time around.

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Two local startups with $15 million funding rounds in rapid succession? Not so fast

Rick Turoczy on June 28, 2022

I was just doing some research on the ConductorOne $15 million raise when my DMs and email were bombarded with news of another raise. Which also happened to be $15 million. For a Beaverton company. Which I thought was coincidental. If not strange. And then I realized that it was simply a super common mistake. That’s been occurring for the last 15 years or so.

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$10 million infusion for Beaverton-based Facteus, the “largest provider of anonymized and synthesized consumer transaction data”

Rick Turoczy on March 23, 2022

Beaverton-based Facteus announced a $10 million investment by Curql Collective. The funding will be used to fuel growth and innovation, including expansion into additional markets. Plus the deal comes with data to augment an already impressive anonymized aggregated dataset already available through the company.

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REMINDER: Beaverton Startup Challenge applications are due today

Rick Turoczy on September 30, 2021

The close of the third quarter seems to be a popular time to close applications for startup opportunities. Today, September 30, 2021, is the last day to submit your application for the Beaverton Startup Challenge 2022, as well.

The City of Beaverton, the West Side Startup Fund, and OTBC worked together to create the Beaverton Startup Challenge. Each year we select five Startup Challenge companies. We are accepting applications now for the 2022 Challenge!

Beaverton startup Seamus Golf featured in Happy Gilmore 25th anniversary products

Rick Turoczy on August 4, 2021

I honestly didn’t ever see the opportunity to reference Happy Gilmore on Silicon Florist. But stranger things have happened. Like this 25th Anniversary Happy Gilmore collection from Extra Butter that features customer head covers by Beaverton startup Seamus Golf.

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Portland startup Brave Care expands to Austin, Beaverton, and North Carolina… not necessarily in that order

Rick Turoczy on April 22, 2021

Portland seems to have a knack for rethinking healthcare. Back when I first started in startups around here, it was the concept of Electronic Medical Records. Then came concepts like Zoom Care. Now, Brave Care is rethinking pediatric care. And they’re thinking much bigger than simply Portland.

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