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Novartis to buy Seattle biotech firm Chinook Therapeutics in $3.2B deal

Swiss biopharma giant Novartis announced Monday it plans to buy Seattle-based Chinook Therapeutics for $3.2 billion, marking another blockbuster acquisition… Read More

WebMD will pay $75M to acquire employee experience company Limeade

Limeade, the employee experience software company based in Bellevue, Wash., agreed to be acquired by WebMD Health Services, part of… Read More

Swedish drugmaker SOBI to acquire Seattle biotech company CTI BioPharma for $1.7B

CTI BioPharma, a Seattle-based publicly traded biotech company developing therapies for blood-related cancers, is set to be acquired in a… Read More

Sony to acquire Seattle-area game development firm Firewalk Studios from ProbablyMonsters

Sony announced Thursday that it will acquire Firewalk Studios from Bellevue, Wash.-based ProbablyMonsters. Financial terms were not disclosed. Firewalk is… Read More

T-Mobile to acquire Mint Mobile for $1.35B and tap into owner Ryan Reynolds’ marketing skills

Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier T-Mobile announced Wednesday that it is acquiring Ka’ena Corp., owner of the brands Mint Mobile and… Read More

Wildfire restoration startup DroneSeed creates parent brand, acquires California’s largest tree seed supplier

DroneSeed, a Seattle startup using technology to help restore forests scorched by wildfire, announced Tuesday that it is now operating… Read More

The Riveter adds new exec with acquisition of freelance work marketplace platform

The Riveter has a taken on another champion for working women with the acquisition of a marketplace platform originally geared… Read More

Apptio acquires cloud spend optimization startup Cloudwiry

Apptio, a Bellevue, Wash.-based IT spend management company, acquired Cloudwiry, an Austin, Texas-based startup founded in 2016 that helps companies… Read More

Seattle-area software services firm AFour Technologies acquired by ACL Digital

AFour Technologies, a Redmond, Wash.-based software engineering services company founded in 2007, was acquired by ACL Digital, another software services… Read More

Zillow acquires real estate marketing company VRX Media to boost listing services

Zillow Group announced Thursday that it acquired Milwaukee, Wis.-based marketing service VRX Media, a move that broadens its suite of… Read More

Seattle public sector bidding startup DemandStar acquired by GTY Technologies

Holdings company GTY Technologies acquired DemandStar, a Seattle startup that offers a public sector bidding marketplace. “We’ve had quite a… Read More

Social giving startup Give InKind acquired by gift card company Wolfe

Give InKind, a Tacoma, Wash.-based startup that helps people create giving platforms to support their friends and family, was acquired… Read More

Unified Women’s Healthcare acquires Seattle menopause health startup Gennev

Florida-based women’s health company Unified Women’s Healthcare announced Wednesday that it acquired Seattle startup Gennev for an undisclosed sum. Gennev,… Read More

ServiceNow to acquire Seattle data observability startup Era Software

Silicon Valley tech giant ServiceNow announced that it plans to acquire Era Software, a Seattle startup that helps developers manage… Read More

Real estate property management software giant RealPage to acquire Seattle startup Knock

Knock, a Seattle software startup that helps apartment property managers, will be acquired by RealPage, a real estate giant backed… Read More

Envoy acquires Worksphere, a Seattle startup that helps companies manage their workplace

Worksphere, the Seattle-based startup building a platform to manage hybrid workplace experiences, has been acquired by San Francisco-based competitor Envoy.… Read More

Seattle child care enrollment startup LegUp gets scooped up by Kinside

Pasadena, Calif.-based child care matching startup Kinside is acquiring LegUp, a Seattle-based child care enrollment startup. The two companies are… Read More

Seattle-area e-commerce startup InsightLeap acquired by software consultancy

InsightLeap, a Seattle-area startup that helps e-commerce retailers get a hold on their Amazon product data, sold its business to… Read More

Seattle development firm 47 Degrees acquired by Xebia

47 Degrees, a software development firm founded 12 years ago in Seattle, announced Tuesday that it has been acquired by… Read More

Seattle accounting software startup Lockstep to be acquired by The Sage Group

Lockstep, a Seattle-based startup that sells software used to automate the accounting of B2B purchases and payments, said Tuesday it… Read More

Remitly paying $80M to acquire Rewire, another digital remittance platform

Seattle-based digital remittance giant Remitly announced Tuesday it plans to acquire Rewire, an Israel-based company founded in 2015 that also… Read More

Seattle startup Legalpad acquired by payroll and compliance giant Deel

Legalpad, a Seattle startup that helps companies apply for visas on behalf of international talent, has been acquired by Deel,… Read More

Commsor acquires Caravel, a Techstars Seattle grad that analyzes customer feedback

Caravel, a conversational intelligence platform, has been acquired by Commsor, a New York-based company founded in 2019 that helps companies… Read More

Microsoft to acquire cyber threat analysis startup Miburo

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will acquire Miburo, a small company that helps customers detect and respond to foreign information… Read More

Funko acquires Mondo, a pop culture company with focus on records, posters and more

Everett, Wash.-based Funko, sellers of pop culture toys and collectibles, has acquired Mondo, an Austin-based company that makes vinyl records,… Read More

Industrial wearables maker RealWear acquires Genba and Seattle startup’s voice tech

RealWear, the Vancouver, Wash.-based maker of wearable assisted reality tech for industrial workers, has acquired Seattle-based Genba, whose software serves… Read More

Video chat startup Zipcan acquired by Teamwork Commerce spinout Hi Touch

Zipcan, a Bend, Ore.-based startup that helps companies embed video chat directly within their existing website or app, has been… Read More

Ookla acquires RootMetrics in Seattle wireless analytics deal

Two Seattle-area wireless metrics companies are joining forces. Ookla announced that it has acquired RootMetrics, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that provides… Read More

Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

There’s a lot of chatter these days about Web3 — a decentralized version of the internet that operates outside the… Read More

DreamBox Learning sells majority stake to private equity firm as annual revenue tops $100M

Seattle-area education technology company DreamBox Learning sold a majority stake to Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., a tech-focused Silicon Valley affiliate… Read More

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