When we announced that Elemental’s Sam Blackman had won the Startup CEO of the Year award at last week’s GeekWire Awards, many of you likely had no idea who Blackman was or what the heck Elemental did as a company. Well, it’s probably time you learn more about one of the region’s fastest-growing startups that’s… Read More…
More and more paper products are going digital, and now, Portland’s transit ticketing system is the latest to do the same. TriMet, Oregon’s largest provider of bus, light rail and commuter rail transit services, today unveiled its new e-ticket app that was built by GlobeSherpa, a Portland-based provider of secure mobile ticketing software and services. Essentially, the free app… Read More…
Portland startup Lucky Sort has been acquired by Twitter and will be shutting down its service in the coming months as company employees move to Twitter’s revenue engineering department. Lucky Sort, founded in 2011, crunches trends and patterns in live text-based data streams to help users better predict market movements. The startup packaged that information… Read More…
Well, I guess the stereotypes of Portland are true. (At least as they relate to the city’s famous bike culture). According to a new ranking from Seattle startup Walk Score — which unveiled its Bike Score online ranking service last year — Portland is the No. 1 city in America for biking. It just edged… Read More…
10up, a company specializing in WordPress implementations, is opening up its first physical office in Portland, Ore. The company, which has worked with clients like TechCrunch, Juicy Couture and Consumer Reports, will have five-to-seven of its 25 distributed employes working in the office on a regular basis. 10up shared a lot of love for the Portland area… Read More…
Things are flying for Portland-based Chirpify, as the startup just announced a $2 million round led by Seattle firm Voyager Capital. Combined with a $1.3 million round one year ago, total funding sits at $3.3 million. Chirpify, which allows you to make purchases via your Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds, also just brought on Puma, Lil’… Read More…
Last week, we reported on the new CB Insights VC report, noting that Oregon had overtaken Washington in terms of quarterly venture investments for the first time since 1993. The MoneyTree Report, being released today by the National Venture Capital Association, Thomson Reuters and PricewaterhouseCoopers, offers a slightly different picture. Washington just edged out Oregon, with… Read More…
Portland-based startup Brandlive, a new video social commerce platform designed to help make the retailer-customer relationship more personal, just cleaned house at the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network’s Angel Oregon 2013. The startup not only won the angel investment prize of $260,000, but also walked away with the Audience Favorite Award among the “Launch Stage” companies that presented Wednesday. HoneyComb Corporation,… Read More…
I’ve been covering the venture capital beat for nearly 15 years in the Pacific Northwest, through good times and bad. And this marks the very first time I’ve seen this occur. Oregon overtook Washington in terms of venture capital investing during the first quarter. Venture capitalists invested $146 million in Oregon, compared to just $100… Read More…
Online education startup Treehouse has raised $7 million in fresh funding from Kaplan, Social + Capital Partnership and others. The money will be used to grow the Portland company’s team, which now consists of 52 employees. Total funding now stands at $12.6 million. Treehouse is competing in a super-hot area of online education, teaching students new… Read More…
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