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Managers Selected for Portland Investment Fund

The City of Portland, the PDC and the board of directors have selected Jim Huston and Angela Jackson of Portland to manage the Portland Seed Fund.

August 19, 2010 | Posted in Politics, StartUps | Read More »

Portland Based Mobile Payment Startup Raises $5 Million

The Oregonian and The Portland Business Journal are both reporting today that Portland based Tyfone has raised $5 million in venture capital. Tyfone is the latest in a long list of Portland area companies that have secured significant investment this year, bringing the Silicon Forest back into relevance.
Tyfone makes software for cell phones that allows [...]

August 19, 2010 | Posted in Southwest, StartUps | Read More »

Bend Marketing Firm Raises $15 Million in Venture Funding

Yet another Oregon company has landed venture financing this year. Today, G5 Search Marketing of Bend annouced that they raised $15 million from a Boston venture firm.
Mike Rogoway, Technology Business journalist for The Oregonian, has the story:
Today’s investment will help fund development of G5’s software, according to the company.
G5 employs 80, nearly all in Bend, [...]

August 10, 2010 | Posted in Eastern Oregon, StartUps | Read More »

Another Portland Startup Wins Venture Funding, the Silicon Forest is Back

So far, 2010 has been a hot year for Portland area startup’s. Companies that have won venture financing this year include Urban Airship, Second Porch, ActiveTrak, Puppet Labs, Jive Software and now…..Elemental Technologies. Elemental is a video processing company that makes software and systems to process video more efficiently without loosing quality. This round of [...]

July 27, 2010 | Posted in Sci/Tech, StartUps | Read More »

Top Venture Firm Invests in Second Portland Company this Week

On the heals of their investment in Portland based Puppet Labs, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has joined Sequoia Capital to invest in Jive Software. The two venture capital firms invested a total of $30 million in this round of funding for Jive, putting the the total money raised at $57 million. Jive raised $12 million in October [...]

July 21, 2010 | Posted in Featured, StartUps | Read More »

Portland Software Company Takes $5 Million in Funding from Top Venture Firm

Portland based Puppet Labs (formerly known as Reductive Labs) has annouced today that they have taken a $5 million investment from veteran VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Puppet Labs moved their headquarters to Portland just last year and has now raised a total of $7 million.
TechCrunch explains what the company does:
Puppet, the company’s [...]

July 19, 2010 | Posted in StartUps | Read More »