Portland State University (PSU) is the largest university in Oregon, offering an extensive range of academic programs, including over 220 undergraduate and more than 100 graduate degrees across diverse fields such as Biomedical Informatics, Criminology, and Social Work. Located in the heart of Portland, PSU provides students with a vibrant campus life enriched by nearly 200 student organizations focused on various interests, including arts, advocacy, and community service. As a research university committed to sustainability, PSU conducts significant research aimed at environmental improvement. The institution also features the PSU Business Accelerator, which supports science and technology startups by providing affordable workspace, access to university resources, and networking opportunities with experienced mentors and investors. Tuition rates vary based on residency and specific programs, with financial aid options available for eligible students. The surrounding city of Portland enhances the experience with its lively atmosphere, characterized by coffee shops, restaurants, and access to nature trails.
For over a century, the University of Oregon (UO) has provided students with innovative academic programs. The large, main campus is located in Eugene, and other sites are available in Portland and Charleston (Oregon Institute of Marine Biology). The school even has the Pine Mountain Observatory in Central Oregon, operated by astronomers and UO physics students. UO’s academics offer hundreds of undergraduate and graduate degree programs including: Biochemistry, Business Administration, Interior Architecture, Marine Biology, and Music Education. It even has pre-professional programs in Clinical Laboratory Science, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Teacher Education, and Veterinary Medicine. Study abroad programs for academic credit are available as well. Admissions materials for the school can be submitted online along with the required application fee. Applications are evaluated based on academic potential, grades, standardized test scores, extracurricular activities, and other considerations. Financial aid is awarded to those who qualify to assist with tuition costs and other educational expenses. Tuition fees are discounted for Oregon residents. College life at UO is full of opportunities: Greek Life, student-run clubs and organizations, recreational activities, sports, and more. The school is also well known for its athletic teams, the Oregon Ducks, who compete in the PAC-12. The football team in particular has built a large fan base, and students can be found at the stadium every home game Saturday during the season. For exceptional academics in a traditional university setting located near the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, take a look at the University of Oregon.
Developer of medical devices designed to improve home patient monitoring. The company's devices aid in the diagnostic evaluation as well as monitoring of therapeutic interventions for multiple medical conditions including trauma, dehydration, and sepsis, enabling physicians to simplify home and critical care, prevent unnecessary acute visits, and improve emergency or critical care.
Inherent Targeting develops fluorescent contrast agents that target nerves to improve surgical outcomes. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Developer of quantum tunneling electronics designed to solve problems related to flat panel displays, sensors, and IoT. The company's technology utilizes amorphous metal electrodes to have uniform electric field control and eliminates semiconductors, relaxed design rules, and fundamentally faster conduction, enabling industries to ease the manufacturing process while improving switching speed.
Sears Scientific specializes in developing innovative scientific equipment designed to enhance the usability and accessibility of tools used in research. By streamlining processes in fields such as microscopy and vacuum sciences, the company enables researchers to concentrate more on scientific discovery rather than the complexities of their instrumentation. Through its focus on improving the ease-of-use of scientific technologies, Sears Scientific aims to facilitate advancements in research and support the scientific community.
Canopii is a greenhouse technology company providing turn-key farms integrated with cost-effective labor automation and energy management systems to support local and sustainable production of fresh produce.
Phosio serves the tech hardware industry with nano-imprintable high index optical materials for use in components such as Augmented Reality, OLED, micro-LED and more. Materials are only as good as they are manufacturable. We make transparent high refractive index, 1.6 < n < 2.4, solutions viable for mass production.
OmnEcoil Instruments, founded in 2016 and based in Portland, Oregon, specializes in developing an innovative device for prostate cancer detection and tissue sampling. This device enhances the diagnostic process by integrating MRI technology with tissue sampling, thereby eliminating the need for traditional ultrasound-guided biopsies. By providing a more efficient and accurate method for detecting prostate cancer, OmnEcoil Instruments aims to improve patient outcomes and streamline the diagnostic workflow for healthcare providers.
AI software tools for Wastewater Treatment
RocketML is a Super Fast Computational engine for Machine Learning.
Cloud services have become ubiquitous to all major 21st century economic activities. However, cloud services and technologies can be significantly more powerful than they are now. A persistent barrier to further advancement has been the lack of a large-scale and open cloud research platforms. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Chameleon project will provide such a large-scale platform to the open research community allowing them explore transformative concepts in deeply programmable cloud services, design, and core technologies. Chameleon will allow users to explore problems ranging from the creation of Software as a Service to kernel support for virtualization. This broad range of supported research includes many other areas such as developing Platforms as a Service, creating new and optimizing existing Infrastructure as a Service components, investigating software-defined networking, and optimizing virtualization technologies. The Chameleon testbed, will be deployed at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center and will consist of 650 multi-core cloud nodes, 5PB of total disk space, and leverage 100 Gbps connection between the sites. While a large part of the testbed will consist of homogenous hardware to support large-scale experiments, a portion of it will support heterogeneous units allowing experimentation with high-memory, large-disk, low-power, GPU, and co-processor units. The project will also leverage existing FutureGrid hardware at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center in its first year to provide a transition period for the existing FutureGrid community of experimental users. To support the broad range of experiments experiments described above, the project will support a graduated configuration system allowing full user configurability of the software stack, from provisioning of bare metal and network interconnects to delivery of fully functioning cloud environments. A special feature of Chameleon is that it provides for an exceptionally close integration of clouds and networks, which substantially enhances the capabilities of both. In addition, to facilitate experiments, Chameleon will support a set of services designed to meet researchers needs, including support for experimental management, reproducibility, and repositories of trace and workload data of production cloud workloads. The project is led by the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and partners from the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the Ohio State University, and University of Texas at San Antonio, comprising a highly qualified and experienced team. The team includes members from the NSF supported FutureGrid project and from the GENI community, both forerunners of the NSFCloud solicitation under which this project is funded. Chameleon will also form a set of partnerships with commercial and academic clouds, such as Rackspace, CERN and Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC), and will partner with other testbeds, notably GENI and INRIA's Grid'5000 testbed.
Stark Street Materials develops radiation shielding garments that protect the user from radiation. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
LuxNour Technologies manufactures precision equipment for the massive parallel transfer of micro-scale objects. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
RocketML is a Super Fast Computational engine for Machine Learning.
Grotthuss is a battery technology company that provides energy storage solutions. The company was headquartered in Happy Valley, Oregon.
FluxMagic is an electronics company based in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2019. The company specializes in the development of innovative magnetic devices tailored for renewable energy applications. Its systems employ powerful magnets arranged to facilitate energy transfer between moving components without physical contact, eliminating the need for lubricants or heat transfer fluids. This design not only enhances the longevity of the devices compared to traditional mechanical systems but also supports magneto-mechanical energy conversion for both industrial and consumer markets. By focusing on efficiency and sustainability, FluxMagic aims to contribute to the reduction of carbon emissions in energy use.
NexTC manufactures insulator and conductive oxide coatings for the energy and large area electronics markets. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon.
Miga Motor Company manufactures memory actuators that are ultra-lightweight and require no maintenance. The company was founded by Mark Gummin and is based in Silverton, Oregon.
Parisi Technologies develops impact-resistant composite materials for lucrative high-tech industries. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Skip Technology develops a battery for large-scale electrical storage. The company was founded in 2018 by Dr. Ben Brown and Dr. Brennan Gantner and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Oregon State University has always been a place with a purpose — making a positive difference in quality of life, natural resources and economic prosperity in Oregon and beyond. Through discovery, innovation and application, we are meeting challenges, solving problems and turning ideas into reality. Founded in 1868, Oregon State is the state’s Land Grant university and is one of only two universities in the U.S. to have Sea Grant, Space Grant and Sun Grant designations. Oregon State is also the only university in Oregon to hold both the Carnegie Foundation's top designation for research institutions and its prestigious Community Engagement classification. As Oregon’s leading public research university, with $263 million in external funding in the 2013 fiscal year, Oregon State’s impact reaches across the state and beyond. With 12 colleges, 15 Agricultural Experiment Stations, 35 county Extension offices, the Hatfield Marine Sciences Center in Newport and OSU-Cascades in Bend, Oregon State has a presence in every one of Oregon’s 36 counties, with a statewide economic footprint of $2.06 billion. Oregon State welcomes a diverse student body of over 26,000 students from across Oregon, all 50 states and more than 100 countries. They can choose from more than 200 undergraduate and more than 80 graduate degree programs,including over 30 degrees online offered through Oregon State Ecampus. Oregon State increasingly attracts high-achieving students, with nationally recognized programs in areas such as conservation biology, agricultural sciences, nuclear engineering, forestry, fisheries and wildlife management, community health, pharmacy and zoology.
Diatomix, Inc. is a technology company focused on manufacturing a bio-engineered air-purifying additive designed to enhance indoor air quality. Established in 2013 and based in Beaverton, Oregon, Diatomix's patented additive can be incorporated into various products, including paints, coatings, and portable purification devices. This innovative additive works by adsorbing and degrading airborne toxins and volatile organic compounds, effectively reducing harmful chemicals such as formaldehyde, benzene, toluene, and butanol. The company aims to provide a solution for the pollutants often emitted from common household items like laminate flooring, carpets, and cleaning supplies, thereby contributing to a healthier indoor environment.
Gadusol Laboratories is a biotech startup company that focuses on the compound gadusol. The company is based in Corvallis, Oregon in the R&D phase using patented synthetic biology methodology from Oregon State University to generate natural compounds of sunscreen found in marine life.
Gadusol Laboratories is a biotech startup company that focuses on the compound gadusol. The company is based in Corvallis, Oregon in the R&D phase using patented synthetic biology methodology from Oregon State University to generate natural compounds of sunscreen found in marine life.
Integrative Economics develops instrument designs for optical insect detection in agricultural settings. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
AI software tools for Wastewater Treatment
RocketML is a Super Fast Computational engine for Machine Learning.
Developer of process improvement technology designed to offer continuous improvement of specialty alloy production. The company's technology detects safety-critical events including side arcs, improves the arc distribution, and performs process monitoring of control systems, enabling clients to easily perform multi-physics computational modeling as well as develop other integrated measurement systems.
Portland State University (PSU) is the largest university in Oregon, offering an extensive range of academic programs, including over 220 undergraduate and more than 100 graduate degrees across diverse fields such as Biomedical Informatics, Criminology, and Social Work. Located in the heart of Portland, PSU provides students with a vibrant campus life enriched by nearly 200 student organizations focused on various interests, including arts, advocacy, and community service. As a research university committed to sustainability, PSU conducts significant research aimed at environmental improvement. The institution also features the PSU Business Accelerator, which supports science and technology startups by providing affordable workspace, access to university resources, and networking opportunities with experienced mentors and investors. Tuition rates vary based on residency and specific programs, with financial aid options available for eligible students. The surrounding city of Portland enhances the experience with its lively atmosphere, characterized by coffee shops, restaurants, and access to nature trails.
OmnEcoil Instruments, founded in 2016 and based in Portland, Oregon, specializes in developing an innovative device for prostate cancer detection and tissue sampling. This device enhances the diagnostic process by integrating MRI technology with tissue sampling, thereby eliminating the need for traditional ultrasound-guided biopsies. By providing a more efficient and accurate method for detecting prostate cancer, OmnEcoil Instruments aims to improve patient outcomes and streamline the diagnostic workflow for healthcare providers.
Gadusol Laboratories is a biotech startup company that focuses on the compound gadusol. The company is based in Corvallis, Oregon in the R&D phase using patented synthetic biology methodology from Oregon State University to generate natural compounds of sunscreen found in marine life.
Diatomix, Inc. is a technology company focused on manufacturing a bio-engineered air-purifying additive designed to enhance indoor air quality. Established in 2013 and based in Beaverton, Oregon, Diatomix's patented additive can be incorporated into various products, including paints, coatings, and portable purification devices. This innovative additive works by adsorbing and degrading airborne toxins and volatile organic compounds, effectively reducing harmful chemicals such as formaldehyde, benzene, toluene, and butanol. The company aims to provide a solution for the pollutants often emitted from common household items like laminate flooring, carpets, and cleaning supplies, thereby contributing to a healthier indoor environment.
Virridy, formerly known as SweetSense Inc., develops low-cost remote monitoring solutions for water, energy, and environmental projects on a global scale. The company’s remote sensors monitor various systems, including water pumps, latrines, and cookstoves, using cellular or satellite connectivity for real-time data analysis and reporting. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Virridy aims to enhance transparency, accountability, and cost-effectiveness in remote infrastructure projects, ultimately contributing to improved health and quality of life. The use of their technology enables users to access and analyze performance data online, facilitating better decision-making in the development sector.
IOTAS, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon-based company that specializes in home automation services specifically designed for apartment residents. Founded in 2014, IOTAS installs a range of smart devices, including outlets, switches, plugs, sensors, and hubs, to create a fully-connected smart home environment. The company offers a comprehensive automation platform that integrates these devices, allowing residents to control and automate lighting and appliances through a single application, voice commands, or scheduled triggers. This technology not only enhances the living experience for residents but also provides property developers with an efficient setup process to attract tenants and reduce utility and management costs. IOTAS aims to transform multifamily units into smart homes, benefiting both residents and property managers.
Madorra Their goal is empowering women to live fuller, healthier lives. Madorra is working towards changing the paradigm for treating vaginal dryness, by providing a medical device solution to a problem that has previously only been served by pharmaceuticals. They are focused on giving post-menopausal women and breast cancer survivors the power to choose the non-hormonal treatment option they want.
Developer of the novel, a bioabsorbable surgical clip designed to provide closure of the dura mater. The company's product allows neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons to provide a rapid and secure dural closure in a fraction of the time compared to the standard of care, enabling healthcare providers to realize substantial cost savings while reducing the time under anesthesia and ensuring better outcomes for patients.
Developer of process improvement technology designed to offer continuous improvement of specialty alloy production. The company's technology detects safety-critical events including side arcs, improves the arc distribution, and performs process monitoring of control systems, enabling clients to easily perform multi-physics computational modeling as well as develop other integrated measurement systems.
Virridy, formerly known as SweetSense Inc., develops low-cost remote monitoring solutions for water, energy, and environmental projects on a global scale. The company’s remote sensors monitor various systems, including water pumps, latrines, and cookstoves, using cellular or satellite connectivity for real-time data analysis and reporting. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Virridy aims to enhance transparency, accountability, and cost-effectiveness in remote infrastructure projects, ultimately contributing to improved health and quality of life. The use of their technology enables users to access and analyze performance data online, facilitating better decision-making in the development sector.
Imagaars offers software solutions for the automatic recognition of vector graphics in image sketches, automatic identification and visualization of CAD files, and automatic assessment of design activities. Imagaars is based in Portland, Oregon.
Developer of modular foundations intended for the renewable energy sectors. The company designs and manufactures lifecycle-efficient support structures in the wind and solar industries, providing energy performance certificates (EPCS) for safer, faster, higher-quality structures for wind and solar generation.
Madorra Their goal is empowering women to live fuller, healthier lives. Madorra is working towards changing the paradigm for treating vaginal dryness, by providing a medical device solution to a problem that has previously only been served by pharmaceuticals. They are focused on giving post-menopausal women and breast cancer survivors the power to choose the non-hormonal treatment option they want.
Gamma Therapeutics (GT) is an early stage biotechnology venture developing patented and patent-pending medical devices for cardiovascular disease risk assessment, surgical therapy and hemorrhage control based upon a single technology platform of human biocompatible clotting proteins. Gamma Therapeutics was incorporated in the State of Oregon in 2009 and launched as a biotechnology start-up in July, 2010. The founder, David H. Farrell, PhD, a 33-year researcher in coagulation, hemostasis and thrombosis research, is Chief Scientific Officer of Gamma Therapeutics and a Professor of Surgery in the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Department of Surgical Medicine. David F Eastman, MS, is the Chief Executive Officer with 35 years of life science and high technology marketing and executive management experience. The company was originally funded with a $1.56 M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to develop the GammaCoeur™ CVD Risk ELISA, a clinical diagnostic laboratory test for heart attack and stroke risk. GammaCoeur is CE Marked in the European Union, completed an initial clinical trial with 10,601 cardiac at risk patients at the University of Vermont, is sold in the U.S. as a Laboratory Developed Test (LBT) /Research Use Only (RUO) test by ZEUS Scientific and is awaiting final FDA clearance in the U.S. Gamma Therapeutics is headquartered in Portland, Oregon at the Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute (OTRADI) Business Incubator (OBI), 4640 SW Macadam Avenue, Portland, Oregon USA 97239.
IOTAS, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon-based company that specializes in home automation services specifically designed for apartment residents. Founded in 2014, IOTAS installs a range of smart devices, including outlets, switches, plugs, sensors, and hubs, to create a fully-connected smart home environment. The company offers a comprehensive automation platform that integrates these devices, allowing residents to control and automate lighting and appliances through a single application, voice commands, or scheduled triggers. This technology not only enhances the living experience for residents but also provides property developers with an efficient setup process to attract tenants and reduce utility and management costs. IOTAS aims to transform multifamily units into smart homes, benefiting both residents and property managers.
Nano3D Systems specializes in electrochemical metallization for high-tech applications. The company was founded in 2008 by Dr. Val Dubin and is headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon.
Developer of quantum tunneling electronics designed to solve problems related to flat panel displays, sensors, and IoT. The company's technology utilizes amorphous metal electrodes to have uniform electric field control and eliminates semiconductors, relaxed design rules, and fundamentally faster conduction, enabling industries to ease the manufacturing process while improving switching speed.
OnTo develops and patents advanced battery recycling innovations that yield high-quality electrode materials made from recycled batteries. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bend, Oregon.
Imagaars offers software solutions for the automatic recognition of vector graphics in image sketches, automatic identification and visualization of CAD files, and automatic assessment of design activities. Imagaars is based in Portland, Oregon.
Supramolecular chemistry, the study of the interactions between molecules, provides insight into the processes dictating the spontaneous assembly of discrete molecules in to well-ordered structures. SupraSensor Technologies is an Oregon company founded in 2012 to bring Nature’s own strategy of direct molecular identification to improve sensor technologies in agriculture and industry. Our vision is to develop a scalable, high growth business by applying our technology to solve unmet needs for detecting and directly monitoring critical molecular components in agriculture and industrial processes. These technologies are based on intellectual property coming out of fundamental research conducted at the University of Oregon and others worldwide.
The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) opens doors. They connect entrepreneurs to a network of peers and mentors, startup funding opportunities, and hands-on training. A nonprofit, membership-driven organization with a 23-year track record, OEN is the heart of their entrepreneurial community. Their mission is to drive innovation, facilitate job creation, and put Oregon on the map as a center for entrepreneurial excellence.
Developer of learning and education management software designed to remove roadblocks to knowledge and unlock human potential. The company's software uses artificial intelligence for text analysis, data science and skills management, enabling clients to act as performance multipliers that increase speed and accuracy, decrease cost and improve learning processes.
Developer of quantum tunneling electronics designed to solve problems related to flat panel displays, sensors, and IoT. The company's technology utilizes amorphous metal electrodes to have uniform electric field control and eliminates semiconductors, relaxed design rules, and fundamentally faster conduction, enabling industries to ease the manufacturing process while improving switching speed.
Virginia Investor Portfolio Project - Q4 2021 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MG-pIE-OQy6Bk3DyFqH2CA9_TWo7pA9rvn18zZxtgoA) MicroTech Instruments manufactures instruments for laser micromachining, coherent raman, multi-photon and terahertz imaging and spectroscopy applications. The company provides a wide range of equipment such as wire gride polarizers, polarization rotators, polyethylene lenses, and THz low pass filters. MicroTech Instruments was established in 1995 by Vladimir Kozlov in Eugene, Oregon.
Nano3D Systems specializes in electrochemical metallization for high-tech applications. The company was founded in 2008 by Dr. Val Dubin and is headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon.
Supramolecular chemistry, the study of the interactions between molecules, provides insight into the processes dictating the spontaneous assembly of discrete molecules in to well-ordered structures. SupraSensor Technologies is an Oregon company founded in 2012 to bring Nature’s own strategy of direct molecular identification to improve sensor technologies in agriculture and industry. Our vision is to develop a scalable, high growth business by applying our technology to solve unmet needs for detecting and directly monitoring critical molecular components in agriculture and industrial processes. These technologies are based on intellectual property coming out of fundamental research conducted at the University of Oregon and others worldwide.
CSD Nano, Inc. is a company based in Corvallis, Oregon, specializing in the development of MoreSun Solution, a nano-tech anti-reflective coating designed for the solar industry. Founded in 2009, CSD Nano not only creates this innovative coating but also manufactures the necessary hardware for its application. The company's anti-reflective coatings can be utilized across various sectors, including solar cover glass, concentrated solar applications, photovoltaic solar cells, building materials, auto glass, and other specialty applications. This versatility positions CSD Nano as a key player in advancing anti-reflective technologies in multiple industries.
Developer of learning and education management software designed to remove roadblocks to knowledge and unlock human potential. The company's software uses artificial intelligence for text analysis, data science and skills management, enabling clients to act as performance multipliers that increase speed and accuracy, decrease cost and improve learning processes.
Chemica Technologies is a privately-held technology development company incorporated in Oregon as a C-Corp in 2006. Through innovative surface and material chemistry they are creating novel materials that protect human health and help sustain their environment. They specialize in separation technology, chemical engineering, metal recovery, water remediation, and custom synthesis.
Inpria Corporation, founded in 2007 and based in Corvallis, Oregon, specializes in the design, development, and manufacture of EUV metal oxide photoresists. The company is recognized as a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography by utilizing inorganic photoresists and thin films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s innovative photo-condensed molecular oxides allow for the direct deposition of atomically smooth and dense metal oxide films from a solution, which can be photopatterned. This technology enhances performance while simplifying processing, supporting advancements in EUV lithography and addressing the growing demands of the semiconductor industry.
Cleverset was started by statistics expert Bruce D'Ambrosio, professor emeritus at Oregon State University. He got a grant from the National Science Foundation to track the behavior of satellites. He later hired CEO, Todd Humphrey, to help turn the project into a business.