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Mobile marketing startup Urban Airship raises $25M, reaches 2 trillion messages delivered

Mobile marketing startup Urban Airship today announced a $25 million investment round. Founded in 2009, the Portland-based company helps big… Read More

Commercial IoT provider Rigado raises $15M to roll out ‘edge-as-a-service’ tech

Rigado has raised a $15 million investment round to fuel growth of its commercial IoT technology products and services. Founded… Read More

Portland-area pet care startup Vetsource raises $50M from Bain Capital

News Brief: Gresham, Ore.-based Vetsource has raised a $50 million investment from Bain Capital. Founded in 2005, the company provides… Read More

Vacasa hires chief legal officer as vacation rental company prepares for IPO

Portland-based vacation rental company Vacasa today announced the hiring of Lisa Jurinka as its new chief legal officer in preparation for an… Read More

The Portland Incubator Experiment returns after 3 years with new startups and restructured model

Since 2009, the Portland Incubator Experiment has gone through multiple iterations but maintained a common goal: help founders build their… Read More

Zembula raises more cash to help marketers capture emails

Zembula has raised another round of investment to help marketers acquire more email addresses. The Portland startup just closed a… Read More

Trimble will pay $1.2B to acquire Portland-based Viewpoint Construction Software, including former Dexter + Chaney office in Seattle

Portland, Ore.-based Viewpoint Construction Software has agreed to be acquired by Silicon Valley-based giant Trimble for $1.2 billion in an all-cash… Read More

Monitoring continues to be a valuable part of the hybrid cloud, as Sensu raises $10M

Modern cloud deployments are a tough thing to keep a handle on, which is part of the reason why Portland’s… Read More

Fintech vet raises $2.5M for startup that gives you stock in a company for buying its products

Bumped wants kill two birds with one stone, helping companies build 1-to-1 relationships with customers while giving people an easier… Read More

TLDR: Walmart’s tech transformation, Seattle median home price climbs to $820K, a vegan burger that bleeds

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden slams Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg: “you should own your data”

PORTLAND – It’s been a rough few weeks for Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Senator Ron Wyden implied Friday… Read More

As funding nears $400M, Impossible Foods targets meat eaters with plant-based burger that ‘bleeds’

PORTLAND — Just a few minutes into his presentation at TechFestNW, David Lee could sense suspicion and uncertainty amongst the… Read More

Marketing startup Lytics raises $14M to help brands understand their customers with data

Lytics has raised more funding to fuel growth of its customer data marketing platform. The 6-year-old Portland startup today announced… Read More

Stackery raises $5.5 million to build out serverless monitoring product

Serverless computing is having a moment right now, but there’s still a lot of work to be done ensuring that… Read More

Jive co-founder unveils new startup, a SaaS tool designed to help managers

Two former Jive Software colleagues have teamed up to launch a new business-productivity service, betting that business managers are looking… Read More

Vacation rental company Vacasa doubles Portland office space, plans to hire 100 employees in 2018

Fresh off a $103 million investment round, vacation rental management company Vacasa is moving into a new 61,000 square-foot office… Read More

SheerID raises $18M Series B round to build out the verification layer for cloud services

Portland’s SheerID is trying to give web companies a secure and easy way to verify whether prospective customers belong to… Read More

Jama Software acquires Notion, a fellow Portland-based product-development tool maker

Portland’s Jama Software has snapped up some new business intelligence technology with the acquisition of Notion, in hopes of adding… Read More

Amazon is expanding in Portland, as the company signs lease for new space

AWS Elemental is set to increase its presence in Portland, signing a lease to take over space in a building… Read More

Streem raises $1.7M, brings augmented reality and streaming tech to home service professionals

A Portland startup wants to help home service professionals speed up their workflow and waste less time by using augmented… Read More

Facebook will build two new data centers in Eastern Oregon by 2021

Eastern Oregon is building quite the reputation as the home of the West Coast data center, and Facebook added to… Read More

Intel Capital invests in IOTAS, a Portland-based ‘smart apartment’ startup

IOTAS is raising more cash to build out its smart apartment technology platform. Intel Capital is the latest firm to… Read More

Portland’s Vault acquired by Acorns, which is now in the retirement-planning business

It’s not clear whether anybody involved in the deal will be able to retire after Acorns’ acquisition of Vault Monday,… Read More

This VC firm is raising a $20M fund to invest in startups with diverse founding teams

The numbers don’t lie — female founders face an uphill battle compared to their male counterparts when it comes to… Read More

Don’t call it a veggie burger: We tried the meatless yet ‘meaty’ Impossible Burger

I’ve always had an easy answer when asked what I’d choose for my last meal on this planet: a cheeseburger.… Read More

Portland’s SureID sells fingerprinting services business to Sterling Talent, plans to rebrand

After losing a federal contract earlier this year, SureID is now searching for a new identify, selling its namesake technology… Read More

Magic Leap vets raise $3.5M for new virtual reality prototyping platform Torch

Designing 3D concepts for virtual and augmented reality apps and programs can be a time-consuming process. Now two former Magic… Read More

Vacation rental company Vacasa raises $103M, takes on giants Airbnb and HomeAway with unique approach

Even a decade ago, finding and renting a vacation home online wasn’t always a smooth process. It was equally difficult… Read More

Portland’s Stackery releases management console for aspiring serverless developers

Serverless development is still a new concept among mainstream software developers, many of whom are still wrapping their heads around… Read More

Johnson & Johnson acquires subscription-based contact lens startup Sightbox

Only two months after raising a $2.4 million funding round, Sightbox has been acquired. The Portland-based startup just sold to… Read More