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| May 16, 2019 | Apptio Acquires Cloudability, Its Third Company In Two Years | 16 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: Apptio picks up Cloudability, making its 2018 acquisition pace seem less like a fluke.
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Apptio, a SaaS company focused on helping companies manage t... |
| Feb 21, 2019 | Marketing tech startup Lytics raises $35M to help companies learn more about individual customers | Lytics CEO and co-founder James McDermott. (Lytics Photo)
Lytics has raised more funding to help brands such as Nestlé, The Economist, Atlassian and others bolster their 1-to-1 customer marketing outreach.
The Portland, Ore.-based startup a... |
| Jan 12, 2016 | Meet Portland’s newest VC firm: Elevate Capital looks to invest in Oregon startups | The Elevate Capital team: Robin Jones, Nitin Rai, Eric Boothe, and Stephen Green. Photo via Elevate.
Entrepreneurs in Oregon — including those among underrepresented groups — have a new option to finance their startups.
Elevate Capital laun... |
| Feb 20, 2014 | Online banking startup Simple acquired for $117 million | Simple, an online banking startup based in Portland, has agreed to be acquired by banking giant BBVA, based in Madrid, Spain, in a deal valued at $117 million, the companies announced this morning.
It’s a big exit for the Rose City’s tech c... |
| Dec 23, 2013 | Deals of the Year: The top 28 venture capital investments we tracked in 2013 | Venture capital investing in Washington state started out with a whimper in 2013, but it is ending with a bang.
After the slow start, as evidenced by the chart above from CB Insights in which just $100 million was invested in the first quar... |
| 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 6, 2013 | Portland: Time to celebrate companies getting big | Jeff Hardison of Meridian; angel investor Chris Logan; David Nelson of Giftango; and PIE’s Rick Turoczy
We’re hanging in Portland this week, attending the big TechFestNW conference and hanging with some of our favorite PDX startups. Last ni... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | Appcelerator Acquires Singly, A Developer Platform For Integrating Third-Party Services | Appcelerator has acquired Singly, a platform that integrates third-party services in both web and mobile applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Singly will soon start to integrate its AppFabric and DataFabric service into the A... |
| 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... |
| Jul 12, 2013 | Why this founder left the Bay Area for Portland | Tilde.io founder Tom Dale.
Portland is certainly growing as a national startup hub and one San Francisco founder frustrated with Bay Area scene is making the move north to the Rose City.
Tom Dale, who co-founded San Fran-based development s... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | Oregon’s top research universities form accelerator to create more startups | Portland, Oregon. Photo via Radworld
In an effort to spur startup growth, Oregon legislators just passed a bill that will help the University of Oregon and Oregon State University come together to pump out small companies based on research ... |
| Jul 1, 2013 | Former Vulcan partner Dino Vendetti raising cash for new Oregon venture fund | Dino Vendetti
Dino Vendetti, a former partner at Vulcan and exec at Metawave, has raised $3 million of a $15 million fund for a new Bend, Ore.-based venture fund called Seven Peaks Ventures.
Seven Peaks has a simple website up and describes... |
| May 30, 2013 | Slick video shows why Portland is an awesome city for tech startups | When we sat down with Elemental CEO Sam Blackman earlier this month, the GeekWire Startup CEO of the Year wasn’t shy about his thoughts on Portland being the hottest startup spot in the country.
“In my opinion, if you are a software enginee... |
| May 13, 2013 | Portland data visualization startup Lucky Sort gobbled up by Twitter, will shut down | 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 patt... |
| Apr 11, 2013 | VC investing tanks in Washington, overtaken by Oregon for first time since 1993 | Portland, Oregon. Photo via Radworld
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 i... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | Meet the 10 companies of the Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars | Inside the Nike+ Accelerator office in Portland.
Three months ago, Nike and TechStars announced the formation of the Nike+ Accelerator, with 10 startup companies invited to participate in the three month startup program.
And as the journey ... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Portland just isn’t where young people go to retire: It’s where they get VC money too | They’ve got The Timbers, and we’ve got the Sounders. They have a mediocre NBA team, and we’re getting ours back. They’ve got a quirky TV show with Kyle MacLachlan, and we once had one in the form of Twin Peaks.
The Portland-Seattle rivalry ... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Jawbone acquires Portland-based design firm Visere | Wearable computing hardware company Jawbone has acquired Portland-based digital design firm Visere, a startup that already played an important role in designing Jawbone’s UP wristband fitness app.
“Many thanks to those who got to this point... |
| Feb 1, 2013 | On a roll: Keith Richards using Chirpify to sell t-shirts | Portland-based Chirpify is on a roll, quite literally.
The payments-through-Twitter platform already had the likes of Green Day, Wale and Kat Graham use its service, but now Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards is on Chirpify as well.
Richa... |
| Sep 8, 2012 | Portland Digital eXperience: A few of my favorite things | Dude, seriously, you are beautiful. … You’re so sexy when you smile.
These two phrases were emblazoned across the mirror of the women’s bathroom in a karaoke bar in Portland, and from my brief foray to the Rose City for the Portland Digital... |
| Aug 22, 2012 | Four minutes on the train with … Portland startup guru Rick Turoczy of PIE | Angel investor Dave McClure shares a laugh on board Geeks on a Train. Photo via Kyle Kesterson
Editor’s note: Team GeekWire participated in the Geeks on a Train voyage between Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday night as part of t... |
| Apr 5, 2012 | Tixie raises cash, helps music fans win free concert tickets | At the Hacker News Meetup earlier this week, I bumped into Seattle entrepreneur Forest Gibson who is working on a new online concert and event ticketing service called Bookr. Well, as it turns out, Bookr isn’t the only Pacific Northwest sta... |
| Feb 18, 2012 | Austin inventors created “The Mounty” and now seek funding on Kickstarter | On Kickstarter, Casey Hopkins of Portland, Oregon, set out to raise $75,000 to create the Elevation Dock for the iPhone. He ended up raising $1,464,706 from 12,521 backers.
He saw a problem. He found a solution. And the marketplace responde... |
| Jan 4, 2012 | @WalmartLabs Acquires Mobile Agency Small Society | @WalmartLabs, the retailer’s digital technology division, has acquired Portland-based mobile agency Small Society. The company helped businesses create, develop and launch iOS applications, and has served a number of high-profile clients, i... |
| Jan 4, 2012 | Walmart scoops up mobile dev shop that built iPhone apps for Starbucks, Zipcar and others | Small Society, a tiny Portland mobile application development firm which in the past has developed apps for Starbucks, Amazon.com, Zipcar and the Democratic National Committee, has been acquired for an undisclosed price by Walmart.
The acqu... |
| 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... |
| May 12, 2011 | A Twitter crime thriller, and why laptop tracking could save you some heartache | I got hooked tonight on an amazing Twitter drama, watching in real time as Sean Power live Tweeted about his attempts to recover his stolen laptop from a guy in a bar in New York City. Using software called Prey, Power was able to track the... |
| Aug 10, 2010 | Flattr Moves Micropayment Concept Forward – but History Bodes Poorly | We have to admit – European startup Flattr appears to have its act together. The site is smooth, has an active group of beta testers, received positive press and boasts a famous name – Peter Sunde, one of the founders of Pirate Bay.
But Fla... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | Urban Airship Gets Funded | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Portland, OR-based Urban Airship, a mobile messaging startup, has raised $1.1 million led by True Ventures, with participation from Seattle-based Founder’s Co-op. The news was... |
| Jan 14, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Portland | When asked what shapes Portland’s startup culture, Silicon Florist blogger Rick Turoczy named 3 defining aspects of the industry – hardware roots, open source projects and iPhone development. Turoczy has been in Oregon for the past 15-years... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Glympse and TravellingWave Step Out, Microsoft Does Voice Search, and More Mobile News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s been a very busy week for news in the mobile industry. First, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) rolled out a one-click mobile payments service that promises to shake up the world of ... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | City of Portland, Oregon Officially Backs Open, Structured Data | The City Council of Portland, Oregon unanimously approved a resolution today that directs the city government to open data to outside developers and encourages adoption of open source solutions in technology procurement.
Like the creation o... |
| Sep 11, 2009 | Portland Tech Startups Power Through a Summer of Highs and Lows—A Guest Roundup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Like many metropolitan areas, the Portland, OR, startup scene has had its share of ups and downs this summer. Some folks started new ventures, some won new customers and garne... |
| Jun 5, 2009 | SplashCast Focuses on Social TV, Looks To Get Acquired | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Portland, OR-based SplashCast has been making news in the past day or so, after a report surfaced in TechCrunch that it has discontinued its original product—user-generated co... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot: A Portland Startup Preview | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I spent yesterday pounding the pavement in Portland, OR, enjoying a burst of warm sunshine and a weird, creative vibe. It offered a great contrast from the last time I tried t... |
| Apr 2, 2009 | Digg Launches New Toolbar – Makes Digging and Sharing Easier | And we have a bookmarklet that makes it even better!
Digg
, the popular social news site, just
launched its long awaited DiggBar
, a new toolbar that will appear on any page Digg links to. From within the toolbar, users can digg stories and... |
| Oct 14, 2008 | Jive Software Lays Off 1/3 Of Staff | When it comes to layoffs, 1/3 of total staff seems to be a magic number. Portland based Jive Software, which is backed by Sequoia, laid off around 40 people today, a third of their total staff. This follows massive employee growth over the ... |
| Oct 6, 2008 | ReadWriteWeb Expands Silicon Forest Empire – Rick Turoczy Joins Us | Our newest writer started tonight, Rick Turoczy – who many of you will know from his tech blog Silicon Florist. Rick is yet another RWW writer who hails from Portland, Oregon, USA. Marshall Kirkpatrick and Frederic Lardinois are also from t... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Some Web Apps Work Better Together | How many new websites can you fit in a Volkswagen Beetle? Sometimes it feels like that’s what we’re trying to do these days – but all these new applications and services don’t have to be crammed into our heads and lives as separate things t... |
| May 8, 2008 | How To Find the Top Twitterers in Your City | While it’s fun to follow some of the bigger names on Twitter like Scoble, Jason, Leo, and Kevin, it’s even better when you find others with similar interests with whom you can have real conversations. And even better than that is finding ot... |
| Jan 7, 2008 | Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond | Steve Outing wrote a very good article at Editor and Publisher on Friday about the need for cultural change inside the newpapers around the US (found via the wonderful CyberJournalist.net). That article got me thinking that people in many d... |
