Portland, Oregon, startup news - Silicon Florist

Week ending Nov 1, 2024 - Portland startup news


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This week in Portland startup news, Agility Robotics ( @AgilityRobotics ) flirts with unicorn status and makes the cover of TIME, Trunknode causes some buzz, Oregon State University lands grant funding, SXSW ( @SXSW ) Pitch applications are due, and more.

PORTLAND STARTUP LINKS
- Agility Robotics https://agilityrobotics.com
- TIME features Agility Robotics https://time.com/7099118/how-we-picked-best-inventions-2024/
- OSU lands NSF grant https://advantage.oregonstate.edu/feature-story/oregon-state-university-one-eight-universities-receive-nsf-i-corps-hub-grant
- Trunknode https://trunknode.com/
- Salal https://salal.cognitivesurpl.us/
- Portland startup community docs https://github.com/portland-startups/docs/blob/master/index.rst
- PIE Cookbook https://github.com/piepdx/pie-cookbook/
- TiE Oregon Clackamas County Pitch https://events.tie.org/Oregon/ClackamasCountyPitch
- SXSW Pitch 2025 https://www.sxsw.com/pitch/Hat (not sponsored) by https://northleftlife.com/
PORTLAND STARTUP NEWS
00:00 Portland startup news
01:25 Agility Robotics
04:38 OSU NSF grant
06:53 Trunknode
10:19 Salal
14:20 TiE Oregon Clackamas County Pitch
18:11 SXSW Pitch 2025
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ABOUT RICK TUROCZY ----------
Rick Turoczy has been working in, on, and around the Portland, Oregon, startup community for nearly 30 years. He has been recognized as one of the “OG”s of startup ecosystem building by the Kauffman Foundation. And he has been humbled by any number of opportunities to speak on stages from SXSW to INBOUND and from Kobe, Japan, to Muscat, Oman, including an opportunity to share his views on community building on the TEDxPortland stage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj98mr_wUA0).
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