The news: Maveron, a venture capital firm founded 24 years ago that invests in consumer-oriented startups, raised $225 million for its eighth fund. Why it matters: It’s one of the… Read More
When Pablo Casilimas gave his girlfriend, a travel nurse, a list of cities he would prefer to live in, he put Seattle near the top, lured by the city’s tech… Read More
New research published Monday quantifies the growing sense of caution among U.S. startup leaders, as economic turmoil creates concerns about cash, and causes some companies to scale back their hiring… Read More
The news: Seattle-based venture capital firm Flying Fish landed $70 million for its second fund to invest in more early-stage machine learning and artificial intelligence startups — both in its backyard… Read More
Goldman Sachs Asset Management will invest $325 million in iSpot.tv as the Seattle-area company loosens industry stalwart Nielsen’s longtime hold on the market for measuring TV ads across broadcast and… Read More
The venture capital firm Evok Innovations this week announced that it raised $150 million of a $300 million fund to invest in clean-tech in North America. The Vancouver, B.C. firm… Read More
Tola Capital, a Seattle-area investment firm that backs enterprise software companies, is raising $400 million for its third fund, according to a new SEC filing. Founded in 2010, Tola is… Read More
Tina Hoang-To put herself through college selling cars at Capitol Honda in San Jose, Calif. “I was very good at it,” notes the Santa Clara University grad. “I’ve been wheeling… Read More
Fabric, a Seattle-based e-commerce technology startup whose leadership team includes several former Amazon executives, announced a $140 million Series C funding round, led by SoftBank, at a valuation of about… Read More
Ed Fries is having a big week. His games-focused venture fund 1Up Ventures put money into two separate new gaming studios that debuted on Wednesday: Seattle’s Lost Lake Games and… Read More
As of this week, there are now more than 1,000 startup unicorns scattered across the globe — a group of privately-held companies valued at $1 billion or more. This is… Read More
The news: Unlock Venture Partners, a seed-stage firm that invests in Seattle and Los Angeles-based startups, raised a $60 million fund. The details: This is the second fund from Unlock,… Read More
The S&P 500 is down more than 10% since the beginning of the year, putting it into “correction” territory. The NASDAQ is down almost 15%, but the carnage among growth… Read More
Vulcan Capital, the venture capital group founded in 2003 as an internal division of Paul Allen’s Seattle-based Vulcan Inc. holding company, has been spun off into a standalone firm as… Read More
The University of Washington is an absolute research powerhouse, ranking fifth among U.S. universities in R&D expenditures. But even with more than $1 billion in research money flowing each year,… Read More
Why would Microsoft pay $68.7 billion for video-game giant Activision Blizzard? Hope Cochran, managing director at venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group in Seattle, is in a unique position to… Read More
Unicorn startups are everywhere these days. CB Insights’ unicorn tracker — keeping tabs on privately-held companies valued at $1 billion or more — is quickly approaching 1,000 companies. And earlier… Read More
So much of what happens in the startup world comes from serendipitous moments, random interactions that lead to fresh insights and new collaborations. And so much of that has traditionally… Read More
Eye-popping. Bonkers. Staggering. Those are just some of the words industry watchers are using to describe venture capital investment levels in 2021, a year which saw a record $330 billion… Read More
Birkan Uzun, a former software engineer at Amazon who joined Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group last year and was on a quest to summit the seven highest peaks on seven continents,… Read More
It’s a wild time in the venture world. Valuations, deal sizes, and investment funds have blown past records set in 2020. Many startups are raising two rounds within a year;… Read More
What is the metaverse? How far off is it? And will this represent a tectonic technological platform shift — along the lines of the internet and mobile revolutions — or… Read More
Seattle-area tech veterans Jim Brisimitzis and Kevin Ober are leading a new investment fund targeting startups that go through the 5G Open Innovation Lab, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup program. The 5G Open… Read More
When it comes to startups, Kirby Winfield has seen the highs, and he’s seen the lows. The longtime Seattleite spent nearly 20 years in various leadership positions at four companies… Read More
A nonprofit organization with Pacific Northwest ties has spun out its first venture capital fund totaling $60 million for investing in climate tech companies. The sector is working to strip… Read More
A summer of spreadsheets, researching startups and wrangling data might not sound like “school’s out,” but that’s exactly what four high school students experienced over the past few months analyzing… Read More
Eager investors keep coming. It’s the Amazon employee who has seen the company’s stock price rise steadily; the former venture capitalist who wants a crack at big financial returns in… Read More
Gillian Muessig isn’t angry about the gender gap in venture capital. She’s just done waiting around for change. “I have no more patience to be gracious, to let the status… Read More
Another day, another deal. Keeping up with the flurry of acquisitions, IPOs, SPACs and venture capital these days is no easy task. In fact, IPO dollar volume for 2021 has… Read More
New fund: MetaVC Partners is raising its first fund to invest in early-stage startups in the metamaterials space. Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold, the Intellectual Ventures founder and CEO, are… Read More
