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| May 16, 2019 | Krowdsourced aims to be the Amazon and more for commercial space design | Nicole Schmidt, left, CEO and founder of Krowdsourced, with customer Brittney Herrera of HBx Studio. (Krowdsourced Photo)
Nicole Schmidt describes herself as an “accidental entrepreneur.”
Her real expertise is in interior design for commerc... |
| Mar 18, 2019 | Watch pitches from 13 startups at the Portland Incubator Experiment Demo Day | It was Pi Day last week, so naturally, PIE held a Demo Day.
The Portland Incubator Experiment, or PIE, hosted its first Demo Day in five years on Thursday as 13 Portland-area startups pitched their ideas on stage.
PIE launched a decade ago ... |
| May 10, 2018 | The Portland Incubator Experiment returns after 3 years with new startups and restructured model | PIE Program Manager Chevonne James.
Since 2009, the Portland Incubator Experiment has gone through multiple iterations but maintained a common goal: help founders build their businesses.
After shutting down its accelerator in 2015, PIE is b... |
| Jul 14, 2015 | Amazon’s AWS acquires Portland’s AppThwack, seeking an easy way to test apps in the cloud | AppThwack founders Trent Peterson and Pawel Wojnarowicz.
AppThwack announced this morning it was acquired by Amazon Web Services to help developers test their phone apps in the cloud.
In an announcement on its website, the Portland-based co... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | Startup Spotlight: Stand In helps mobile designers without coding skills create complex motions, interactions | Stand In CEO Kat Bobbitt and co-founder Asa Miller.
Stand In wants to redefine how mobile apps are designed.
The Portland-based startup, currently in the Techstars Seattle 2014 class, is developing a platform that allows mobile designers to... |
| Aug 6, 2014 | Pinterest Rolls Out Messaging So Pinners Can Have Conversations Around Shared Pins | Pinterest today is unveiling a new way users can communicate, collaborate and share with one another. With the launch of a new messaging feature, users will be able to keep discussions going on Pinterest around their favorite Pins without h... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | Urban Airship co-founders reunite in Portland after one year hiatus | Urban Airship’s four co-founders are reuniting — but not to start another company.
Rather, Michael Richardson and Steven Osborn are coming back to work for the company they helped start in 2009.
As fellow co-founders Scott Kveton and Adam L... |
| Feb 14, 2014 | Marshall Kirkpatrick’s social media search startup Little Bird raises $1.7M, adds execs | Little Bird, a Portland-based startup that helps businesses identify top influencers on social media, today announced $1.7 million in additional funding and two new executives.
The new investment was led by Oregon Angel Fund and ups total f... |
| Oct 11, 2013 | Live: Watch Demo Day presentations, meet the 7 new Portland Incubator Experiment startups | Three months of hard work, lots of caffeine and some pivoting culminate today in the Rose City as the seven startups from Portland Incubator Experiment‘s (PIE) third class give their pitch at Demo Day.
PIE started four years as an experimen... |
| Sep 17, 2013 | Portland mobile app-tester AppThwack partners with CIA venture capital arm | You know your startup is doing something right when the CIA’s investment arm decides to invest some money into the business.
That’s exactly what has happened to Portland-based AppThwack, a small business of four employees founded by two for... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | Meet the 7 new startups at the Portland Incubator Experiment | It’s been four years since the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) started as just that — an experiment. But since 2009, the workplace-turned-accelerator has come a long way, and today it welcomed the third PIE class to its downtown Portlan... |
| Feb 17, 2013 | New Relic Banks Its Billion Dollar Quest On Portland, The Crafty Land Of Big Beards, Beer And Bikes | New Relic has some pretty sweet digs in my hometown of Portland, high above the city on the 28th floor of the US Bank Tower. Couches are in the corners for engineers to chat and share ideas. Lacquered, clear-stained tree stumps are set up i... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | HootSuite’s Ryan Holmes, angel Geoff Entress launch new BC startup incubator Invoke Labs | Geoff Entress
Geoff Entress has the BC bug. The Seattle angel investor is partnering with HootSuite founder Ryan Holmes and others to create a new startup incubator in Vancouver, B.C. dubbed Invoke Labs.
The incubator is the latest step for... |
| Oct 7, 2012 | 5 Ways To Manage App Development On The Android Platform Without Going Nuts | The fractured state of the Android platform can make it difficult to manage app development. Testing can be a bear but cloud-based services are providing new ways for developers to quickly see how their apps look on any type of device.
In i... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | Little Bird Takes Flight: Marshall Kirkpatrick Launches His Influence-Finding Startup, Raises $1M | Little Bird, a startup that helps PR agencies, marketers, and media companies identify influencers on virtually any topic, is launching in private beta today.
The company was founded by tech blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick — an early TechCrunc... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | Lytics Unveils Real-Time Analysis For “Moneyball” Results | Lytics made its debut today at the PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) Demo Day with the unveling of its real-time analytics service. Lytics, which is in the process of finalizing a seed round of funding, tackles the problem that comes with... |
| Aug 15, 2012 | Hey, Big Enterprise Giants – Keep Looking Over Your Shoulder – A New Reality Fast Approaches | I had a briefing yesterday with BizSlate, a SaaS player that is launching its beta today to help all those small businesses growing so fast that Quicken just doesn’t do the job.
I like this company’s spunk. Its founder, Marc Kalman, is supe... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | TechStars alum Cloudability snags $8.7M from Foundry to track your cloud costs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cloud-cost tracking startup and TechStars Cloud a... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | Cloudability Raises $8.7 Million From Foundry Group For Service To Track Cloud Spending | Portland-based Cloudability has raised $8.7 million from the Foundry Group in a Series A round for its service that tracks cloud costs and gives better visibility into spending for online services that often go unmonitored. Other participan... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Think Seattle has startup mojo? Vancouver’s GROW Conference kicks it up a notch (or two) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This sponsored post is produced by Chris DeVore o... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Think Seattle has startup mojo? Vancouver’s GROW Conference kicks it up a notch (or two) | This sponsored post is produced by Chris DeVore of Founders Co-op.
As a Seattle-based seed investor, it’s my job to scout out the most talented and ambitious software teams located anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. Four years ago, Andy and... |
| May 4, 2012 | Techlandia: Portland 100 Wants To Help Local Startups Grow To $100 Million | Portland, OR isn’t just a place where young people go to retire and hang out at urban wineries. The city also plays host to a fair number of prominent startups, including companies like Urban Airship, JanRain, Simple and Puppet Labs, as wel... |
| Jan 16, 2012 | Meet PIE's newest class of start-ups from Portland | Vendscreen, Spotsi, AthletePath, MoPix, Revisu, DailyPath, Stayhound, Cloudability
PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) plans to introduce Tuesday its eight start-up recruits that have just graduated from its incubator program. Founded in 20... |
| Jul 29, 2011 | Google tosses support behind the Portland Incubator Experiment | We’ve talked before about how Google has Portland fever — using the Rose City to test new products like Google Offers and real-time transit information. Now, the search giant is tossing its weight behind the Portland Incubator Experiment — ... |
| Jul 28, 2011 | Looking To Sink Their Teeth Into Some Tasty Northwest Startups, Google Takes A Bite Of PIE | If you haven’t heard of PIE, it’s probably because you don’t live in the Pacific Northwest. But the Portland Incubator Experiment has already amassed such an impressive roster of startups that everyone may know about them soon enough. Recog... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | Startup incubator reheats in Portland with help from Coke, Nike and Target | The Portland Incubator Experiment, also known as PIE, is looking to hatch a new batch of startups this fall with the help of some of the biggest corporate brands on the planet. The next class of the Portland Incubator Experiment — bankrolle... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | The Incredible Story of Scott Kveton: Linux, Firefox, Bacon & iPhones | Geekdom may be a land of big personalities, but some peoples’ stories are better known than others. One story you might not know yet is the tale of Scott Kveton’s young, unusual, accelerated and admirable career. Not yet 40 years old, Scott... |
