This startup wants to be the Dropbox for ocean data

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With the backdrop of fish swimming by at the Seattle Aquarium, OneOcean Corp. CEO Don Pickering on Tuesday night took the wraps off his company’s debut product, an ambitious new file sharing service called ClipCard. In the works for more than two years, OneOcean’s cloud-based service is a bit like Dropbox, just for  the massive… Read More…

CloudSway raises $1.4M to boost collaboration around financial information

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As we’ve noted in the past, there’s no shortage of companies trying to make it easier for teams of employees to collaborate around various business tasks. (Examples in the Seattle area include Smartsheet.com (which just raised $26 million); Liquid Planner and recent TechStars grad Sandglaz). Now, a new Tacoma startup is getting in the game,… Read More…

Avanade buys cloud management startup Opstera

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Avanade is making another buy in the Seattle startup community, gobbling up cloud software startup Opstera in a deal of undisclosed size. The acquisition comes just 13 months after former Microsofties Paddy Srinivasan and Ranjith Ramakrishnan founded the cloud management upstart — a hot area in which Seattle’s Opscode and Portland’s Puppet Labs have each raised big investment… Read More…

After Symform stint, Matthew Schiltz takes charge at cloud startup Tier 3

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Seattle technology executive Matthew Schiltz has landed a new startup gig — just a week after he left cloud storage startup Symform. Schiltz’s new employer is Tier 3, an enterprise cloud management platform startup backed by Madrona Venture Group, Ignition, Intel Capital and others. Bellevue-based Tier 3, which raised $10 million last September, touted 100… Read More…

Startup Spotlight: BuildersCloud makes construction document sharing a breeze

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We first encountered BuildersCloud at GeekWire’s Startup Day last fall when 28-year-old co-founder Andrey Nokhrin took the first place prize in the Elevator Pitch competition. Well, the Bellevue startup continues to make headway, landing an investment from construction services giant McKinstry and attracting interest from other investors. Nokhrin actually knows the challenge of sharing building plans… Read More…

National Association of Realtors invests $3M in cloud storage startup Symform

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The venture capital arm of the National Association of Realtors today announced that it is investing $3 million in Symform, the Seattle cloud storage and data recovery startup founded by former Microsoft engineers Praerit Garg and Bassam Tabarra. Total funding now stands at $20 million, including the recent investment from Second Century Ventures as well… Read More…

Why did Amazon Instant Video keep going, while Netflix sputtered?

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Last month, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings separately took the stage at the Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas and touted the significance of Netflix as a proud customer of Amazon Web Services. Both suggested that the alliance symbolized the importance of how two companies — which compete head-to-head in streaming of… Read More…

Seattle cloud services startup 2nd Watch raises $4.2 million

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Madrona Venture Group is finishing the year with a bang, bankrolling a series of startup companies.  The latest is 2nd Watch, an Amazon Web Services premier partner and cloud services startup that just pulled in $4.2 million in funding. The 2nd Watch technology allows companies to operate more efficiently in the cloud, helping customers like… Read More…

Blue Box raises more cash, this time from David Frankel’s Founder Collective

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Jesse Proudman’s Blue Box has reeled in $800,000 in fresh capital, part of an oversubscribed venture capital round that the Seattle startup just closed. The cloud hosting company, founded by Proudman nine years ago, raised the new cash from Founder Collective. As a result of the funding, David Frankel of the New York-based seed fund has joined… Read More…