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PreAct Technologies

Semiconductors / Hardware · Portland, OR

PreAct Technologies is a Portland, Oregon-based developer of near-field flash LiDAR sensors, offering the world's first software-definable flash LiDAR technology for automotive and industrial safety applications. The company debuted a new line of LiDAR sensors at CES in January 2024.

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Portland's tech nickname comes from Intel's massive Oregon manufacturing presence, but Tektronix — an electronics and test-equipment company — was there first, decades earlier, and helped seed the engineering culture Intel later built on. Oregon Health & Science University anchors a health-tech side that runs alongside software and cleantech in the Willamette Valley.

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