DocuSign, the maker of electronic signature technology, has raised $47.5 million in equity financing, according to a SEC filing released today. Terms of the deal and investment firms were not listed in the filing, though it did note that Mary Meeker is now serving as a director of the company. Meeker is the well-known Morgan… Read More…
Appature has been undergoing what CEO Kabir Shahani describes as a “pretty dramatic growth curve” in the past year, growing monthly recurring revenues more than 12X since raising its last round of funding. Now, the Seattle maker of online marketing software is putting a little more fuel in the tank. Existing investors Madrona Venture Group… Read More…
Forgame Tech, a Chinese developer of more than two dozen online games, including Ming Dynasty, Soul Guardians and Legend of Chaos, has raised an undisclosed round of capital from TA Associates, Ignition Capital Partners and Qiming Venture Partners. Forgame was founded in 2008, operating game development brands such as Feiyin and Jieyou, and a publishing platform… Read More…
In a deal of undisclosed size, Bellevue-based Spoken Communications today announced its acquisition of Seattle’s HyperQuality. These two companies should know each other very well. Not only do they share the same venture capital backer — Ignition Partners — but Spoken CEO Howard Lee previously founded HyperQuality. Both companies develop software used in customer support… Read More…
SEOMoz is one of the most transparent startups we’ve ever come across, with CEO Rand Fishkin openly discussing everything from revenues to challenges as an entrepreneur to problems raising venture capital financing. That’s why we were so intrigued to stumble upon this Web site, which features the company’s robot mascot and the words “top secret”… Read More…
Fast-growing social media startup Prosodic has nailed down $1.4 million in seed funding, money that the Seattle company will use to help media companies, publishers and other big brands target their Facebook posts to users when they are most likely to be online. The service also analyzes past Facebook page posts, and then makes predictions about… Read More…
TechStars will be looking to hatch companies in Seattle for the next three years, thanks in part to cash from some of the region’s leading venture capital firms. TechStars Seattle, the branch of the popular startup incubation program, has raised $1.5 million in new funding that will support up to 30 new companies over the… Read More…
SEOmoz CEO Rand Fishkin has been down this path before, as detailed in his extensive account of the company’s unsuccessful attempt to raise a large round of venture capital funding last year. But this time, with a different investor, the deal has actually closed. They’re so excited that they’ve created their own Internet memes about it…. Read More…
Visible Technologies is buying Cymfony in a deal that brings together two long-time players in the social media monitoring and analytics space, GeekWire has learned. As a result of the deal, Cymfony president Richard Pasewark will assume the CEO role of the combined company, relocating from Boston to Seattle where the company will be based. Meanwhile,… Read More…
Robert Wise has been named chief innovation officer at MTN Satellite Communications, charged with building up the company’s product and technical team in Seattle. Wise most recently served as an engineering vice president in HP’s public cloud computing business, and before that served as an executive at Seattle mobile music startup Melodeo and as a… Read More…
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