Contents 1 2012 1.1 Feburary 1.1.1 SweetSpot Acquired for $8.5 Million 1.1.2 LuckySort Raises $500,000 1.1.3 Elevation Dock Raises $1.5 Million on Kickstarter 1.2 January 1.2.1 VendScreen Raises $12 Million 1.2.2 4-Tell Raises $1 Million 1.2.3 Vizify Raises $1.2 Million 1.2.4 Small Society Acquired by Walmart Labs 1.2.5 Elevation Dock Raises $500k on Kickstarter 2 2011 2.1 December 2.1.1 Crowd Compass Raises $1.3 Million 2.1.2 Jive Software IPO at $12 per Share 2.1.3 Upstart Labs Launches New Incubator 2.1.4 Agilyx Raises $25 Million 2.1.5 Cloudability Raises $1.1 Million 2.1.6 AthletePath Raises $300k 2.2 November 2.2.1 Keeping It Realtime Conference 2.2.2 Marshall Kirkpatrick Annouces Plexus Engine 2.2.3 Urban Airship Raises $15.1 Million 2.2.4 Meridian Raises $1 Million 2.2.5 New Relic Raises $15 Million 2.2.6 Puppet Labs Raises $8.5 Million 2.3 October 2.3.1 NetPayment Raises $1.1 Million 2.3.2 Startup Weekend Launches 14 New Ideas 2.3.3 Urban Airship Acquires SF-based SimpleGeo 2.4 September 2.4.1 OpenSesame Raises $2 Million 2.5 August 2.5.1 Janrain Raises $15.5 Million 2.5.2 Cedexis Raises $6 Million 2.5.3 BankSimple Raises $10 Million and moves HQ to Portland 2.5.4 PHPFog Raises $8 Million 2.6 July 2.6.1 PIE Announces Formal Incubator Program 2.6.2 Geoloqi Raises $350k 2.6.3 Portland Seed Fund Announces First Class 2.6.4 OSCON Conference 2.7 June 2.7.1 Act-On Raises $10 Million 2.7.2 RNA Networks Acquired by Dell 2.7.3 Open Source Bridge Conference 2.7.4 The Clymb Raises $2 Million 2.8 May 2.8.1 COLOURlovers Raises $1 Million 2.8.2 ShopIgniter Raises $8 Million 2.9 April 2.9.1 StartupWeekend Launches 11 New Startup Ideas 2.10 March 2.10.1 GigaPan Raises $1 Million 2.10.2 Agilyx Raises $22 Million 2.10.3 Meridian Launches Powell's App 2.11 January 2.11.1 PHPFog Raises $1.8 Million 3 2010 3.1 December 3.1.1 eBay Acquires Critical Path 3.1.2 Powered (StepChange) acquired by Dachis Group 3.1.3 Amber Case speaks at TED 3.2 November 3.2.1 Urban Airship Raises $5.4 Million 3.3 October 3.3.1 CyborgCamp Conference and Hackathon 3.4 September 3.4.1 SweetSpot Raises Funding 3.4.2 Linus Torvalds Secures US Citizenship 3.4.3 Urban Airship Announces Partnership with Verizon 3.5 August 3.5.1 Instantiations Acquired by Google 3.5.2 Bill DeRouchey Joins BankSimple from Ziba Design 3.5.3 Adam DuVander Publishes Map Scripting 101 3.6 July 3.6.1 Puppet Labs Raises $5 Million 3.6.2 Jive Raises $30 Million 3.6.3 Elemental Technologies Raises $7.5 Million 3.7 June 3.7.1 Small Society Releases iPhone App for Democratic National Committee 3.8 April 3.8.1 EMME Raises $2.8 Million 3.9 March 3.9.1 ShopIgniter Raises $3 Million 3.9.2 ActiveTrak (formerly GadgetTrak) Raises Funding 3.9.3 SecondPorch Raises $1 Million 3.10 February 3.10.1 Urban Airship Raises $1.1 Million 3.10.2 ngmoco Raises $25 Million 3.11 January 3.11.1 Jive Acquires Boulder-based Filtrbox 3.11.2 Unthirsty Acquired 3.11.3 StepChange acquired by Powered 4 2009 4.1 December 4.1.1 JanRain Raises $3.25 Million 4.2 October 4.2.1 Jive Software Raises $12 Million 4.3 January 4.3.1 AboutUs Raises $5 Million 5 2008 5.1 July 5.1.1 Elemental Technologies Raises $7.1 Million 5.2 March 5.2.1 iovation Raises $15 Million 5.2.2 SplashCast Raises $4 Million 6 2007 6.1 December 6.1.1 MyStrands Raises $24 Million 6.2 November 6.2.1 iovation Raises $10 Million 6.3 August 6.3.1 Jive Raises $15 Million 7 Comments

2012

Feburary

SweetSpot Acquired for $8.5 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2012/02/23/breaking-sweetspot-acquired-8-5-million/

LuckySort Raises $500,000

• http://siliconflorist.com/2012/02/20/add-successful-reed-entrepreneur-list-lucky-sort-lands-500000-funding/

Elevation Dock Raises $1.5 Million on Kickstarter

• http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hop/elevation-dock-the-best-dock-for-iphone
• http://siliconflorist.com/2012/02/11/aptly-named-elevation-iphone-dock-takes-kickstarter-1-million-heights/

January

VendScreen Raises $12 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2012/01/18/vendscreen-reinvents-vending-machine-android-lands-12-million-funding/
• http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2012/01/17/portland-startup-vendscreen-raises-12m.html

4-Tell Raises $1 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2012/01/11/foretold-portland-seed-fund-alum-4tell-snags-1-million/
• http://siliconflorist.com/2012/02/01/keiretsu-forum-investment-4tell-crowdcompass/
• http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2012/01/11/portland-startup-4-tell-closes-1m.html

Vizify Raises $1.2 Million

• http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/vizify-raises-1-2-million-to-help-you-make-a-great-first-impression-online/
• http://siliconflorist.com/2012/01/03/portland-seed-fund-techstars-seattle-alum-vizify-lands-1-2-million/

Small Society Acquired by Walmart Labs

• http://siliconflorist.com/2012/01/04/quintessential-portland-ios-shop-small-society-acquired-walmart-labs/
• http://www.semaphoria.com/smalmartlabs.html
• http://raven.me/2012/01/04/walmart/
• http://walmartlabs.blogspot.com/2012/01/small-is-new-big_04.html

Elevation Dock Raises $500k on Kickstarter

• http://siliconflorist.com/2012/01/04/500000-kickstarter-counting-elevation-iphone-dock-portland-casey-hopkins/

2011

December

Crowd Compass Raises $1.3 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/12/08/finding-funding-crowdcompass-lands-13-million-oregon-angel-fund-contributing/

Jive Software IPO at $12 per Share

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/12/12/rumor-jive-software-ipo-slated-tuesday-december-13/

Upstart Labs Launches New Incubator

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/12/20/upstart-labs-startup/

Agilyx Raises $25 Million

• http://www.finsmes.com/2011/12/agilyx-corporation-raises-25m-series-funding.html

Cloudability Raises $1.1 Million

• http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/morning_call/2011/12/cloudability-lands-11m-venture-round.html?page=all
• http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2011/12/two_pie_members_land_investmen.html
• http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/cloudability-raises-1-1m-to-help-businesses-manage-and-monitor-cloud-costs/

AthletePath Raises $300k

• http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2011/12/two_pie_members_land_investmen.html
• http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/print-edition/2012/01/06/athletepath-is-off-and-running.html

November

Keeping It Realtime Conference

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/10/25/interested-real-time-web-keeping-realtime-conference-nov-7-8/

Marshall Kirkpatrick Annouces Plexus Engine

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/11/11/marshall-kirkpatrick-writing-startups-anymore-building/

Urban Airship Raises $15.1 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/11/11/trick-urban-airship-secures-15-1-million-led-salesforce-verizon/

Meridian Raises $1 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/11/14/oregon-angel-fund-invests-local-mobile-meridian-lands-1-million-seed-funding/
• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/meridian_ready_to_take_on_world_with_map-based_app.php
• http://www.geekwire.com/2011/northwest-angel-groups-bankroll-portland-mobile-location-startup

New Relic Raises $15 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/11/16/startup-20-people-portland-15-million-funding-new-relic-hiring/

Puppet Labs Raises $8.5 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/11/29/puppet-labs-landed-85-million-funding-google-cisco-vmware-portland-investor/

October

NetPayment Raises $1.1 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/10/11/netpayment-nets-1-1-million-funding-led-intuit/

Startup Weekend Launches 14 New Ideas

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/10/18/startup-weekend-portland-launches-14-companies-wild/
  • Clear Memorial: Simplifying funeral planning (formerly Memorial Footprints)
  • Digischool.me: Aggregating all learning content across the Web to help you find the training and education you want at the level you need.
  • Good Works Now: Basecamp-ish and Highrise-esque service for nonprofit fundraising. CRM for small charities to recruit contributors.
  • Guru Signal: A bat signal to help folks find tech assistance from a network of local contractors. Trying to disrupt Geeksquad.
  • Hear Here: A RADAR for colleagues. Figure out who is where in your office using existing bluetooth and wifi technology.
  • Launch to Five: An interactive assessment system to analyze startup plans. Like a personality test for startups or, as OpenSesame’s Josh Blank put it, “Moneyball for businesses.”
  • MyGlobeDoc: Verifying trusted physicians for travelers who need medical care abroad.
  • Park it: Making monthly parking easy. Parking management for companies with open lots (like churches) to lease unused spaces to consumers.
  • Red Hot Tomato: Garden plot planning that provides planting management throughout the year and year-over-year.
  • Renters.com: Your source for renting anything and everything. (The team lead bought URL for six figures years ago. Now, he’s ready to do something with it—besides serving ads.)
  • Return Guru: Quick and easy receipt management coupled with price alerts. It’s like Shoeboxed or Tripit for personal shopping receipts.
  • Skill Hero: Nonprofit. Match skilled pre-screened professionals with volunteer opportunities. Verify volunteered time for corporations.
  • Tell it in 10: Weave photos together to share your visual history. How would you tell your story in 10 photos?
  • What’s Crowded: What if you tell the size of the crowd before you show up? Event, post office. Heat map via cell towers. Like What Spot Now

Urban Airship Acquires SF-based SimpleGeo

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/10/31/urban-airship-acquires-simplegeo-combining-push-notifications-geolocation-nonstop-flight/

September

OpenSesame Raises $2 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/09/12/opensesame-unlocks-2-million-funding/

August

Janrain Raises $15.5 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/08/03/dream-openid-alive-portland-janrain-lands-15-5-million-funding/

Cedexis Raises $6 Million

• http://www.geekwire.com/2011/portlandsportlands-cedexis-scores-cash-madrona-web-sites-boost-performance
• http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2011/08/cloud_computing_startup_cedexis_raises_6_million_i.html

BankSimple Raises $10 Million and moves HQ to Portland

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/08/11/banksimple-banks-10-million-additional-funding/
• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/08/24/banking-portland-banksimple-consolidates-offices-rose-city/

PHPFog Raises $8 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/08/15/php-fog-8-million-appfog/

July

PIE Announces Formal Incubator Program

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/07/06/pie-portland-incubator-experiment-side-project-startup/
• http://www.rennygleeson.com/2011/06/30/portland_incubator_experiement_pie-2-0/

Geoloqi Raises $350k

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/futuristic_location_platform_geoloqi_will_live_lan.php

Portland Seed Fund Announces First Class

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/07/19/portland-seed-fund-inaugural-funding-portfolio-class/
  • 4-Tell
  • AudioName
  • Geoloqi
  • Hively
  • InvestorInMe
  • Vizify
  • Homeschool Snowboarding

OSCON Conference

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/09/23/official-oscon-2011-held-portland-open-source/
• http://en.oreilly.com/oscon
• http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/proceedings

June

Act-On Raises $10 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/06/01/beaverton-startup-act-on-lands-10-million-funding-cloud-based-marketing-automation/

RNA Networks Acquired by Dell

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/06/20/portland-startup-rna-networks-acquired-dell/

Open Source Bridge Conference

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/06/22/open-source-bridge-party-mozilla-emma-hosting-cleaners/

The Clymb Raises $2 Million

• http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2011/06/29/the-clymb-obtains-2000000-series-a-funding/

May

COLOURlovers Raises $1 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/05/03/million-reasons-love-colourlovers-1-million-funding/

ShopIgniter Raises $8 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/05/25/facebook-storefront-shopigniter-secures-8-million-venture-funding/

April

StartupWeekend Launches 11 New Startup Ideas

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/04/06/startup-weekend-portland-iv-launches-11-startup-ideas/
  • Winner: AudioName acts as an audio avatar, giving people the correct pronunciation of your name in your voice
  • Biznab offers a super simple CRM targeted at contractors and other service industry folks
  • GoodPursuits makes supporting charities a clue-driven game
  • Grepic allows individuals and companies to tag Facebook photos, providing a more rich information set for viewers
  • KidInk makes it easy for kids and parents to share kids’ artwork online
  • MyReplayLive gives everyone a highlight reel by broadcasting amateur sporting events
  • Play Academy helps children and parents manage growth and development around math
  • SellHappLee allows powersellers to easily post items to eBay, Amazon, and other similar storefront sites
  • Skitterlist tells you what restaurants and bars you’ll like based on people with similar habits and interests
  • Spotzie allows you to rent out your driveway as a parking spot
  • Ulysses Pact enables you to enlist the help of friends and family in achieving your goals

March

GigaPan Raises $1 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/03/22/picture-funding-gigapan-systems-lands-1-million-angel/

Agilyx Raises $22 Million

• http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/01/agilyx-22-million-seriesb/

Meridian Launches Powell's App

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/03/22/iphone-meridian-app-lost-powells-books/

January

PHPFog Raises $1.8 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/01/11/portland-funding-cloudy-foggy-madrona-leads-18-million-investment-php-fog/

2010

December

eBay Acquires Critical Path

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/12/15/ebay-hits-buy-button-critical-path-joins-portland-mobile-development-scene/

Powered (StepChange) acquired by Dachis Group

• http://blog.stepchangegroup.com/2010/12/stepchange-is-now-a-part-of-dachis-group/
• http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/21/dachis-group-powered/
• http://siliconflorist.com/2011/01/05/dachis-group-30-million-funding-relates-portland-oregon/

Amber Case speaks at TED

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/12/13/cyborg-anthropology-interview-portland-amber-case-tedwomen/

November

Urban Airship Raises $5.4 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/11/03/urban-airship-lands-5-4-million-25000-square-feet-office-space/

October

CyborgCamp Conference and Hackathon

• http://portland.cyborgcamp.com/
• https://geoloqi.com/blog/2010/09/geosketching-cyborgs-are-mapping-portland/
• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/10/02/cyborg-sunday-hacking-open-government-data-cyborgcamp-portland-2010/
• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/09/30/expose-art-creativecares-beer-blog-cyborgcamp-gps-art-show/

September

SweetSpot Raises Funding

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/09/07/sweetspot-hits-um-secures-seed-funding-diabetes-data-services/

Linus Torvalds Secures US Citizenship

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/09/14/linus-torvalds-portland-open-source-guru-us-citizen/

Urban Airship Announces Partnership with Verizon

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/09/21/hear-urban-airship-partners-verizon-wireless-provide-push-notification-services-developers/
• http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/09/21/verizon-wireless-picks-urban-airship-for-push-notifications/

August

Instantiations Acquired by Google

• http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/google-instantiations/

Bill DeRouchey Joins BankSimple from Ziba Design

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/08/16/portlander-plans-revolutionize-banking-bill-derouchey-joins-banksimple/

Adam DuVander Publishes Map Scripting 101

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/08/17/paperbacking-portland-geogeeking-adam-duvander-releases-map-scripting-101/

July

Puppet Labs Raises $5 Million

• http://www.undertheradarblog.com/blog/puppet-labs-raises-8-5-million-and-still-has-time-for-coffee/
• http://puppetlabs.com/blog/company/vmware-google-and-cisco-invest-in-puppet-labs/
• http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/19/puppet-labs/

Jive Raises $30 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/07/21/jive-software-lands-additional-30-million-bringing-kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers-money-portland/

Elemental Technologies Raises $7.5 Million

• http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/newsroom/press-releases/elemental-technologies-secures-75-million-series-b-financing-leading-investo

June

Small Society Releases iPhone App for Democratic National Committee

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/06/24/kicking-ass-portland-small-society-urban-airship-democratic-national-committee-iphone-ipad-app/

April

EMME Raises $2.8 Million

• http://www.sustainablebusinessoregon.com/articles/2010/04/emme_raises_28_million_for_fresh_start_in_energy_management.html

March

ShopIgniter Raises $3 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/03/03/ignition-portland-shopigniter-secures-3-million-venture-capital-snags-ceo-lead-investor-madrona/

ActiveTrak (formerly GadgetTrak) Raises Funding

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/03/09/activetrak-gadgettrak-lands-funding-thief-nabbing-technology/

SecondPorch Raises $1 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/03/18/second-porch-finds-home-1-million-investment-oregon-angel-fund/

February

Urban Airship Raises $1.1 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/02/16/urban-airship-rapidly-ascends-11-million-funding/

ngmoco Raises $25 Million

• http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/22/ngmoco-25-million-series-c-buys-freeverse/
• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/02/25/memepdx-026-jive-software-ceo-dawn-foster-joins-meego-open-source-bridge-yahoo-twitter-ngmoco-raises-25-million/

January

Jive Acquires Boulder-based Filtrbox

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/01/07/portlandbased-jive-software-acquires-boulderbased-filtrbox/

Unthirsty Acquired

• http://siliconflorist.com/2010/01/22/raise-your-glass-to-more-acquisitions-portland-unthirsty-gets-acquired/
• https://twitter.com/#!/jasonglaspey/status/8044739695

StepChange acquired by Powered

• http://blog.stepchangegroup.com/2010/01/stepchange-has-powered-up/

2009

December

JanRain Raises $3.25 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2009/12/07/janrain-secures-3-25-million-series-a-funding/

October

Jive Software Raises $12 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2009/10/20/portland-jive-software-secures-12-million-venture-capital-sequoia/

January

AboutUs Raises $5 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2009/01/09/aboutus-secures-5-million-in-funding-and-they-could-be-hiring-soon-too/

2008

July

Elemental Technologies Raises $7.1 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2008/07/17/elemental-technologies-sparks-71-million-investment/

March

iovation Raises $15 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2008/03/27/iovation-secures-15-million/

SplashCast Raises $4 Million

http://siliconflorist.com/2008/03/20/splashcast-social-advertising-tees-up-4-million/

2007

December

MyStrands Raises $24 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2007/12/05/mystrands-lands-24-million-in-funding/

November

iovation Raises $10 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2007/11/08/iovation-lands-10-million-from-intel-capital/

August

Jive Raises $15 Million

• http://siliconflorist.com/2007/08/17/jive-software-secures-15-million-and-moves-blog-to-clearspace/

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