Big week to start the year. Portland startup Lytics got acquired. Multiple sold out events on the calendar. Graze goes public with Bluesky tools. New leadership at Latino Founders. A new flavor of Pitch Black. And a new community calendar for Portland startup and tech folks.PORTLAND STARTUP LINKS- Save the date https://www.meetup.com/pie-portland-startup-community/events/305535888/- Lytics exit https://www.geekwire.com/2025/contentstack-acquires-lytics-a-customer-data-platform-startup-based-in-portland/- Graze https://graze.social- Pitch Black Food https://pitchblack.org- Community calendar for Portland tech https://www.pdxtech.io/- Portland Startups Slack https://pdxslack.com

2025 starts right now for Portland startups. (Fun fact: It actually started a couple of days ago.) Given the cyclical nature of startup communities, Portland startups can look to 2025 as a positive continuation of the momentum built in 2024. It's less of a prediction. And more of a "I've been through this cycle before. Several times."

The best of 2024 features the most popular Portland startup news stories — Portland, Oregon — from the past year including YouTube, the blog, the podcast, and the newsletter. But first, January 2025 deadlines and events.

This week in Portland startup news, the drone accelerator deadline is coming up, Genie sunsets kid AI companion, and a whole list of partners for the Portland startup community 2025 kickoff.

This week in Portland startup news, a stealth startup comes out of stealth, Demolicious Champion of Champions, Sightglass secures $3M, a resource for all of your gift giving needs, an open source satellite project survive 10,000 Gs, and more.

This week, the episode devolves into a short rant on Portland's RSVP culture, plus Portland startup news like Instrument and Vanport Studio collaborate to help three Portland startup product companies, two "save the date" reminders for January 2025, an Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB) training assistant, your last reminder for the 2024 Demolicious Champion of Champions event, and more.

Starting off with a heads up about some important US startup and small business paperwork (BOIR) that's due by the end of the year to the US Federal Government. Other Portland startup news includes an upcoming Portland startup community gathering, a game show casting call from  @learnwithjason  , Demolicious Champion of Champions competition, and more…

It's difficult to deny that Bluesky is having a moment, but there's still plenty of Portland startup news to cover beyond Bluesky's meteoric rise. (Also, I've never understood the phrase "meteoric rise.") From pitch competitions to accelerator programs, there's plenty of Portland startup news this week.Miss Portland startup news last week…? I gotchu https://youtu.be/QK_GhDY_E2M

This week in Portland startup news,  @AgilityRobotics  lands a new customer and investor, the winners of the 2024 OEN Entrepreneurship Awards, Radious offers Worksgiving, two hardware meetups, and more.

This week… if you're a VC then Oregon could be your LP, Rogue Women reaffirms thesis, Oregon Venture Fund holds another pitch event, and Senator Ron Wyden sits down with AI Portland.