Portland Funding and Acquisitions

2013

May

Lucky Sort Acquired by Twitter

April

Treehouse Raises $7 Million

March

Globe Sherpa Raises $1.3 Million

February

Urban Airship Raises $25 Million

January

Puppet Labs Raises $30 Million

Janrain Raises $33 Million

Giftango Acquired by InComm

2012

December

Urban Airship Opens London Office

Tindie Raises $500,000

GetListed Acquired by SEOmoz

Urban Airship Acquires Tello and opens Palo Alto Office

October

Geoloqi Acquired by Esri

September

Portland Seed Fund Announces Third Class

  • www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2012/09/portland_seed_fund_announces_t.html
    • Brandlive: Visually engaging product communication for social commerce and remote collaboration.
    • bubL: Location-based social platform introducing mobile users to relevant people, advertising, commerce, and information nearby within their personal "bubble."
    • CoCollage: Social media combined with electronic signs.
    • InGrid Solutions: Streamlines the day-to-day business processes of construction trade contractors.
    • Mobilitus: Mobile commerce
    • Tellagence: Brand networking and analysis.
    • Vadio: Video distributed via radio stations.
    • Wikisway: Finding connections between people, places and things.

August

Kryptic Acquired by Surescripts

AppFog Acquires Nodester

July

Cloudability Raises $8.7 Million

June

CrowdCompass Acquired for $10 Million

Indow Windows Raises $1.3 Million

May

Elemental Technologies Raises $13 Million

April

Chirpify Raises $1.3 Million

March

Portland Seed Fund Announces Second Class

Feburary

SweetSpot Acquired for $8.5 Million

LuckySort Raises $500,000

Elevation Dock Raises $1.5 Million on Kickstarter

January

VendScreen Raises $12 Million

4-Tell Raises $1 Million

Vizify Raises $1.2 Million

Small Society Acquired by Walmart Labs

Elevation Dock Raises $500k on Kickstarter

2011

December

Crowd Compass Raises $1.3 Million

Jive Software IPO at $12 per Share

Upstart Labs Launches New Incubator

Agilyx Raises $25 Million

Cloudability Raises $1.1 Million

AthletePath Raises $300k

November

Keeping It Realtime Conference

Marshall Kirkpatrick Annouces Plexus Engine

Urban Airship Raises $15.1 Million

Meridian Raises $1 Million

New Relic Raises $15 Million

Puppet Labs Raises $8.5 Million

October

NetPayment Raises $1.1 Million

Startup Weekend Launches 14 New Ideas

  • 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

September

OpenSesame Raises $2 Million

August

Janrain Raises $15.5 Million

Cedexis Raises $6 Million

BankSimple Raises $10 Million and moves HQ to Portland

PHPFog Raises $8 Million

July

PIE Announces Formal Incubator Program

Geoloqi Raises $350k

Portland Seed Fund Announces First Class

  • www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/07/portland_seed_fund_to_unveil_i.html
  • siliconflorist.com/2011/07/19/portland-seed-fund-inaugural-funding-portfolio-class/
    • 4-Tell: Personalized product recommendations.
    • Audioname: Embeds audio recordings in digital signatures as a pronunciation guide. Won a $10,000 grant at the Bend Venture Conference last month.
    • Comic Rocket (formerly Zinofile): Digitizes comic book publishers' back catalogs.
    • Geoloqi: Tools for location tracking using smartphone GPS technology. Raised $300,000 in addition to the seed fund's backing.
    • Hively: Real-time customer product feedback and other marketing tools.
    • Homeschool Snowboarding: "Breathable" apparel for snowboarders.
    • LaunchSide: (Formerly InvestorInMe): Marketing tools to connect companies with customers. The startup's team abandoned its original concept, automated financial advice, after discovering regulatory obstacles.
    • Vizify: Collects various social media profiles in one place as an online introduction for job-seekers and others. Also participating in TechStars Seattle, but has committed to remain in Portland.

OSCON Conference

June

Act-On Raises $10 Million

RNA Networks Acquired by Dell

Open Source Bridge Conference

The Clymb Raises $2 Million

May

COLOURlovers Raises $1 Million

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

  • 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

Agilyx Raises $22 Million

Meridian Launches Powell's App

January

PHPFog Raises $1.8 Million

2010

December

eBay Acquires Critical Path

Powered (StepChange) acquired by Dachis Group

Amber Case speaks at TED

November

Urban Airship Raises $5.4 Million

October

CyborgCamp Conference and Hackathon

September

SweetSpot Raises Funding

Linus Torvalds Secures US Citizenship

Urban Airship Announces Partnership with Verizon

August

Instantiations Acquired by Google

Bill DeRouchey Joins BankSimple from Ziba Design

Adam DuVander Publishes Map Scripting 101

July

Puppet Labs Raises $5 Million

Jive Raises $30 Million

Elemental Technologies Raises $7.5 Million

June

Small Society Releases iPhone App for Democratic National Committee

April

EMME Raises $2.8 Million

March

ShopIgniter Raises $3 Million

ActiveTrak (formerly GadgetTrak) Raises Funding

SecondPorch Raises $1 Million

February

Urban Airship Raises $1.1 Million

ngmoco Raises $25 Million

January

Jive Acquires Boulder-based Filtrbox

Unthirsty Acquired

StepChange acquired by Powered

2009

December

JanRain Raises $3.25 Million

October

Jive Software Raises $12 Million

January

AboutUs Raises $5 Million

2008

July

Elemental Technologies Raises $7.1 Million

March

iovation Raises $15 Million

SplashCast Raises $4 Million

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

2007

December

MyStrands Raises $24 Million

November

iovation Raises $10 Million

August

Jive Raises $15 Million