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Seven companies walked away with checks totaling $665,000 from this year’s Bend Venture Conference.

A big winner from the two-day investment conference was Portland-based Photon Marine, which collected $235,000. The company won one of the conference investments under the impact category snagging $45,000 from the BVC Impact LLC. It also landed a $150,000 investment from Elevate Capital and its Innovation Gap Fund II and $40,000 from Portland Seed Fund.

Photon Marine is the latest company from Portland entrepreneur Marcelino Alvarez, who is working with co-founders Tara Russell, Nick Schoeps and Charles Steinback to build high-powered electric outboard motors for commercial boats.

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