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Silicon Florist 🌹 Nike Knights give $1B, Oregon gubernatorial startup stats 🕵️♂️ (opens the original)
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Week ending Sep 25, 2026 – Oregon startup news (opens the original)
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Leading the week: Phil and Penny Knight's $1B gift to build a new Knight College of Engineering at the University of Oregon — which, fun fact, walks straight into the territory the state system carved out for Oregon State a century ago, so consider this the moment that rivalry got a very expensive new chapter (with Jensen Huang's OSU gifts as the friendly counterweight). Then Rapta closed an $8M round for its manufacturing intelligence platform, and what caught my eye wasn't the number — it was
Silicon Florist 🌹 Antfly raises $2M, Pitch Latino 🎤 (opens the original)
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Week ending Sep 18, 2026 – Oregon startup news (opens the original)
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Portland startups have a long, storied history of engineers building tools for other engineers—from Tektronix oscilloscopes to Puppet. This week, we look at how that open-source builder tradition is roaring back with a fresh $2M round for AI agent infrastructure, alongside major hardware and clean energy headlines across the state.In this episode, we cover Agility Robotics unveiling their new Digit 5 humanoid robot, PIE alum James McDermott raising $2M for AntFly (led by HeavyBit), Mazama Energy
Silicon Florist 🌹 A VC who says the quiet part out loud, YC alum Revoy hires in Portland 🚚 (opens the original)
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