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Inrix to acquire Portland startup Ride Report, which helps cities manage mobility programs

Transportation software company Inrix acquired Ride Report, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that helps city governments manage shared mobility fleets. Founded… Read More

This startup turns discarded crab shells into useful industrial chemicals

Green chemistry startup Tidal Vision has raised more than $20 million and last month announced the acquisition of one of… Read More

Construction software company Procore acquires Seattle mapping startup Unearth

Unearth Technologies, a Seattle startup that develops mapping software for the construction industry, announced Friday it was acquired by Procore… Read More

Seattle-area edtech company DreamBox Learning acquired by Discovery Education

DreamBox Learning, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that sells education technology software to K-12 schools, announced Tuesday it was acquired by… Read More

Amazon Web Services acquires Fig, a YC grad that boosts the command line for devs

Amazon Web Services has acquired Fig, a small San Francisco-based startup that helps developers be more efficient and collaborative while… Read More

Boundless acquires Bridge, combining two immigration-focused tech startups

Boundless Immigration, a Seattle startup that helps immigrants receive visas and citizenships in the U.S., acquired San Francisco-based immigration consulting… Read More

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

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