MotherDuck is peeking its head above water. The Seattle startup lifted the hood Tuesday on its data analytics system based on the open-source platform DuckDB. It also announced total funding of… Read More
James Gwertzman has always been a “tinkerer.” He has early memories of soldering together an AM radio kit with his dad. He dreamed as a kid about going into visual… Read More
Machine learning, data science and other computational methods are wielded by a growing number of biopharma startups to find new drug targets, design new therapeutics, and support their testing. Venture… Read More
Six Pacific Northwest startups made Silicon Valley venture capital titan Andreessen Horowitz’s new ranking of the 100 top consumer marketplaces. The highest ranked Pacific Northwest startup on the new Marketplace… Read More
Sujal Patel has seen a world-changing trend coming before. In 2001, in his mid-20s, he founded data storage technology company Isilon Systems in Seattle, correctly anticipating a massive increase in… Read More
In Seattle, the nation’s hottest housing market for 19 straight months, frustrated buyers are losing out to all-cash offers left and right, and real estate startup FlyHomes just raised a… Read More
Andreessen Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan loves him some online marketplaces. Jordan, the OfferUp and Airbnb investor and former eBay executive who spoke at the GeekWire 2016 Summit, is a big… Read More
How people get to a travel destination hasn’t changed much in recent decades, but where they stay once they arrive is transforming rapidly. Technology has given many people the ability… Read More
Jeff Jordan has worked with pretty much every type of technology company in his career. He is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He was previously CEO and then executive… Read More
Bellevue, Wash.-based OfferUp says it has closed a $119 million funding round, led by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. The round has been rumored for weeks, and it pushes the mobile marketplace… Read More
Accolade, a healthcare company led by Concur co-founders Raj Singh and Mike Hilton that helps people and companies navigate the healthcare system, announced Wednesday it raised more than $70 million in… Read More
How should startups navigate turbulent economic times? That was one of the questions posed to a panel of investors at the recent GeekWire Startup Day. With China’s economy slowing down, gas prices dropping,… Read More
It’s quite a compliment when one of the most prominent venture capital firms around calls you, “one of those 10x founders.” It’s also a lot of pressure. But Rahul Singh knows how… Read More
Amazon is working with some of the top startup programs and investors in the country on a new initiative called Amazon Launchpad, saying it wants to make it easier for fledgling companies to… Read More
Speaking of great profile pieces today, The New Yorker‘s May 18 edition features a super-lengthy profile piece on Marc Andreessen. You can read the whole thing online today. In the article, author… Read More
Could Marc Andreessen be the next major investor eyeballing the burgeoning legal marijuana market? Mayhaps. It came to our attention today that he was certainly retweeting a lot of comments about marijuana.… Read More
Rahul Singh spent eight years at Amazon working on key platform technologies that helped power Amazon Web Services through its early stages of growth. Singh, who started his career as… Read More
Grocery delivery service Instacart has raised a $44 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator President Sam Altman and Box CEO Aaron Levie — saying it will use the capital to fuel… Read More
Cyanogen’s plans to disrupt the mobile operating system market just became a little more legitimate. The Seattle-based company today announced a $22 million series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz… Read More
Andreessen Horowitz Partner Scott Weiss was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article talking about his firm’s interest in enterprise software-related companies. So, it’s not all that surprising to learn… Read More
It usually doesn’t happen this way. But Julep, the fast-growing Seattle cosmetics upstart, has gotten bigger as its metrics have improved. That’s a rare trait, and something that investors love to… Read More