Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Foundations, the Seattle-based startup community that launched last year, is doubling its physical space in Capitol Hill and is exploring an expansion in Bellevue, just east of Seattle. This wasn’t the plan when longtime entrepreneur and investor Aviel Ginzburg founded Foundations in a bid to support early stage founders. But that’s part of the point.
Today, new analysis by MIT Technology Review provides an unprecedented and comprehensive look at how much energy the AI industry uses—down to a single query—to trace where its carbon footprint stands now, and where it’s headed, as AI barrels towards billions of daily users.
The ad-supported web — particularly text-based sites — is going to fare considerably worse. In fact, the most substantive pushback to my defense of advertising was in my own excerpt: most ad-supported content is already terrible, thanks to the bad incentives both Zuckerman and Andreessen bemoaned, and the impossible economics enabled by zero marginal cost content generation and consumption.
Caduceus Capital Partners’ leadership of this round will help Reperio bring its proven model of convenient at-home preventive screenings with instant results and seamless on-demand virtual care nationwide. By launching innovative new partnerships with employers and health plans, Reperio will help more Americans get vital preventive health care at a crucial time, as provider access has plummeted and existing virtual health and at-home testing solutions have failed to bridge the gap. While many incumbents in the industry have attempted to retrofit older business models through methods like mergers and acquisitions to meet current consumer demands, Reperio offers consumers an unparalleled experience built from the ground up with convenience and advances in AI at the core.
The latest modernisation project, part of the PDX Next initiative, reimagines the airport experience, blending technology with architectural design. Central to this transformation is the installation of Renkus-Heinz’s Iconyx Compact ICC12/3 loudspeakers, which deliver audio clarity while integrating into the airport’s aesthetic.
Heyday Canning Co., a Portland-based startup producing canned food to “reinvent the canned food aisle for today’s home cook,” has launched a seasoned bean line called Perfectly Seasoned Beans.
Join Xcelerate Women, OEN, Latino Founders, and the Metro Region Innovation Hub for Capital Literacy for Women Entrepreneurs—an event created to help women founders get clear, confident, and connected when it comes to raising capital.
Exterro, a global leader in unified data risk management solutions, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking Exterro Partner Network (ExPN). This transformative, global, strategic program redefines how organizations tackle complex data challenges by reimagining the partner ecosystem, creating unrivaled revenue opportunities and establishing a new paradigm for customer success.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson on May 20 took exception to The Wall Street Journal making Big Pink the latest symbol of Portland’s decline. The 42-story U.S. Bancorp Tower on Southwest 5th Avenue at West Burnside Street went on sale this week, as first reported by The Oregonian, after hemorrhaging tenants for the past few years. The Journal piled on in Monday’s paper with a story headlined “A Fire Sale of Portland’s Largest Office Tower Shows How Far the City Has Fallen.”
The Oregon Senate on Tuesday in a 23-6 vote passed House Bill 2698, which would create a state goal to increase homeownership rates to 65% by 2030 – followed by an additional 1.65% for the next five, 10 and 15 years. It also mandates the Oregon Housing and Community Services Department create a dashboard tracking progress on homeownership rates across the state that include race and ethnicity data.
Reperio, started in 2020, is a biometric testing and management company that aims to make it easier for people to monitor their health before a major medical condition develops. The company sends home screening kits to people that have FDA-approved devices that are connected to a proprietary app. Customers can connect to a clinician immediately following the screening and get health insights.
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