Startup Spotlight: Monchilla looks to take on Quickbooks with new accounting service

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If you’ve ever taken an accounting course or have run your own business, you know that accounting is a huge pain.  Sadly, it’s a necessary evil for every business.  But Monchilla is looking to make it a a little more tolerable. The self-funded team of eleven has spent the past 2.5 years building an accounting platform… Read More…

Hotel tech startup Buuteeq checks in with $10 million from Madrona and Concur

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The top three executives at Buuteeq all grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley, attending Palo Alto High School in the late 80s. Forest Key, Adam Brownstein and Cameron Steele still have plenty of roots in that tech Mecca. But when it came time to raise their latest round of funding, they found all of… Read More…

Rich Barton, Nick Hanauer bankroll stealthy Front Desk

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Some entrepreneurial ideas are born in the lab. Jon Zimmerman’s latest entrepreneurial effort emerged at the Crossfit gym that he co-owns in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. Encountering paperwork challenges at the gym, Zimmerman figured there had to be a better way to streamline the daily activities that many small businesses encounter. Zimmerman joined with another former… Read More…

Concur posts $84.6M in revenue, swings to loss on TripIt buy

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Concur Technologies swung to a net loss during its second quarter largely due to its acquisition of TripIt. The Redmond maker of travel and entertainment expense management software reported a $2.6 million loss, which compared to net income of $6.7 million for same period last year. It posted revenue of $84.6 million for the quarter, a 16… Read More…