Why OSC?
What We Do
The Oregon Startup Center, previously Oregon Technology Business Center (OTBC), serves many types of business startups in many sectors: technology, consumer products, food production, travel, and services—and companies located across the state including rural areas.
Our mission is to train, mentor, invest in, and help grow Oregon startups. We partner with local communities, angel investors, service providers, and economic development officials in Oregon and local government—all to benefit startup businesses. This effort creates innovations and community wealth and serves the economies, cultural needs, and aspirations of our communities.
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Acclaimed Programs
The Oregon Startup Center offers the highest-acclaimed startup mentoring in the state (according to a study by Portland State University), plus Oregon’s most advanced startup curriculum—our Virtual Incubation Program. Entrepreneurs work alongside other startups and small businesses that are experiencing similar challenges. Our companies always find ways to help each other through contacts and advice.
The Connections
The Oregon Startup Center provides access to potential partners, investors, co-founders, board members, and business service providers. Our mission is to assist startups of all types in customer discovery, financial literacy, investment readiness, and scaling for success.
2023 startup challenge winners
Emily Cadiz: Finnegan the Dragon
Emily Cadiz: Finnegan the Dragon
Emily Cadiz: Finnegan the Dragon
Emily is an accomplished musician, educator, and inclusive music specialist who believes children can and will meet their full potential when they have the right set of tools and resources available to them. She created Finnegan the Dragon with this in mind, leveraging her experience teaching music and working with special needs children to develop this distinctive character and one-of-a-kind learning game. A graduate of Columbia University in the City of New York, Emily holds graduate degrees in Education, Special Education, and Inclusive Music. After 15 years of direct classroom experience, Emily shifted to the world of virtual education which makes her well-suited to understand distance and virtual learning needs.
Elliot Kahn: HumanKind Homes
Emily Cadiz: Finnegan the Dragon
Emily Cadiz: Finnegan the Dragon
Homes, Reinvented
We are a design-build construction technology company creating a fully digital home design, manufacturing and construction process in order to provide affordable, sustainable, and healthy housing to all.
Better Homes For People
& The Planet
We believe that housing is a human right and that low-cost does not have to mean low-quality. By reimagining the entire design and construction process, we can reduce costs, allowing us to provide more affordable homes while investing in sustainable and healthy materials
Dr. Frank Lau: Keliomics
Emily Cadiz: Finnegan the Dragon
Mollie Huyck and Jamie Massie: My Fertility Lab:Navie
Keliomics aims to fully recapitulate the native physiology and pathophysiology of cancer. The company's microphysiological systems (MPS) use human-only tissues and cells to generate the most physiologically accurate models for experiments.
Mollie Huyck and Jamie Massie: My Fertility Lab:Navie
Mollie Huyck and Jamie Massie: My Fertility Lab:Navie
Mollie Huyck and Jamie Massie: My Fertility Lab:Navie
A comprehensive software platform designed to provide every person the tools and support necessary to successfully navigate their reproductive health and fertility journey.
Despite the advancements in the field of reproductive health in the past 40 years,
clinical care practices are antiquated, including treatment plan coordination on paper calendars.
Virtual care and patient support platforms for reproductive healthcare are more important than ever. It is important to consistently deliver high-quality, equitable, and professional virtual healthcare to the trust needed to partner with your care team while supporting your reproductive health and fertility journey.
David McFeeters-Krone: RUTE Foundation Systems
Mollie Huyck and Jamie Massie: My Fertility Lab:Navie
David McFeeters-Krone: RUTE Foundation Systems
RUTE provides elevated solar panel systems to farms allowing dual-use of the land.
Our Mission
Produce and deliver the most efficient, sustainable structural foundation systems for
the wind and solar industries; through hard work, and impeccable safety practices, we are vital in the effort to lower the cost of clean electricity and reduce CO2 emissions to our planet's atmosphere.
