The Portland Development Commission seeds $30k each into six local spin-outs.

Six university spin-outs from the Oregon Health and Science University and Portland State University have received up to $30,000 from the Portland Development Commission (PDC) to help them get off the ground.

The funding comes through the PDC’s University Startup Commercialisation Grant Programme, launched earlier in the year, which looks to foster a stronger relationship between the institutions and Portland’s startup community.

The companies selected are as follows:

OHSU

  • Nzumbe, developing faster drug-screening to assist with therapy discovery.
  • Odyssey…