BEND, OR – October 19, 2018 – Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO) hosted the 15th Annual Bend Venture Conference (BVC) to a sold-out crowd at the Tower Theatre in Downtown Bend. Over the past two days, 14 companies presented their ideas to 600 attendees in hopes of gaining investments from prominent funds. Of those 14 finalists, half of them walked away with funding totaling $1,807,500 in both investments and cash prizes. Side investment deals are still being finalized...

Cascadian Group's Principal, Jason M. Moyer, manages BVC's growth-stage investment process.

Read more here: bendvc.edcoinfo.com

​Odds of founding a unicorn:
0.000002584%
 
Lifetime odds of dying from local meteorite, asteroid, or comet impact:
0.0000625%
 
You are 24.18 X more likely to be killed by an asteroid.