Tag: spac

Sweetening up the SPAC potential: Company formerly known as ID Experts to be acquired by ZeroFox

Rick Turoczy on December 20, 2021

A Portland company is one ingredient sweetening a pending SPAC deal. ZeroFox, which is intending to go public, snapped up IDX, the Tigard based company formerly known as ID Experts.

Category: Acquisitions, Oregon, Portland
Tag: acquired, id experts, idx, spac, zerofox

It’s not an actual IPO, but at least it’s actually Portland: Vacasa to go public via SPAC

Rick Turoczy on July 29, 2021

After a long drought, there have been any number of “Portland area” companies going public or planning to do so. There’s just been one slight problem. None of them are actually Portland companies. But now there might be one. Vacasa is in talks to go public via SPAC at a valuation of $4.5 billion.

Category: Oregon, Portland, Startups
Tag: spac, vacasa

A single startup exit creates two firsts for the Portland Seed Fund

Rick Turoczy on June 3, 2021

The Portland Seed Fund, one of the most active investors in Seed stage companies in the state, has been working to invest in early stage startups for more than a decade. But they’ve had a couple of meaningful firsts recently. All thanks to ESS, a startup in their portfolio.

Category: investors, Oregon, Portland
Tag: ess, exit, Portland, portland seed fund, public, seed, spac