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Moving faster than planned, AI drug developer Accipiter Bio quietly tops up seed round with $10.5M

Seattle biotech startup Accipiter Bio has raised an additional $10.5 million from existing investors to accelerate its work on AI-designed, multi-target protein therapeutics. Fueled by faster-than-expected progress, the company plans to use the new capital to expand its team and double its roster of clinical-stage drug candidates, with a growing focus on immunology. Read More

Dopl raises $6.3M to bring remote robotic ultrasounds to rural patients as it pursues FDA clearance

Dopl is pursuing FDA clearance for its platform, which pairs off-the-shelf ultrasound probes with commercially available robots. The system facilitates communication between a remotely based ultrasound technician (or sonographer) and the robot. Read More

The code AI forgot: logcat.ai raises $2.55M to put agents to work on device operating systems

Seattle startup logcat.ai has raised $2.55 million in pre-seed funding to build AI agents for debugging and developing device operating systems. Founded by two former Esper engineers, the company is going after the low-level Android and Linux software inside phones, vehicles, and other connected devices. Read More

Augmodo raises $21M to push its spatial AI beyond just retail toward the broader physical workforce

Customer demand is pulling the Seattle startup’s technology into warehouses, facility maintenance, delivery, and other parts of the physical workforce. Read More

KredosAI raises $7M, led by BMW’s venture arm, to use AI to help companies collect late payments

KredosAI, an Issaquah startup founded by former T-Mobile executives, raised $7 million led by BMW i Ventures for its AI platform that helps companies collect overdue payments while keeping customers. The round brings its total funding to a little over $10 million. Read More

Gradial raises $65M as startup sees rapid growth around agentic tools for enterprise marketing

Gradial says it’s raised over $110 million in the past 16 months, calling it “a testament to the rapid growth” it’s seen across its business. Read More

Devplan raises $2.5M to take on the product coordination work that AI coding is leaving behind

Devplan, a Seattle startup building software to coordinate product and engineering work, is emerging from stealth with $2.5 million in seed funding led by AI2 Incubator. Read More

Seattle biotech heavy-hitters emerge from stealth with $46M for next-gen migraine treatments

Vedana Therapeutics emerged from stealth with a $46M Series A. Led by local biotech veterans, the Seattle startup is developing next-gen, at-home migraine injections. Read More

Selling sunshine from Seattle: Solius raises $23M to launch new at-home light-therapy device

Founded in 2013, Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based Solius Labs received FDA clearance for its $2,995 Solius Pro, a device which calculates and delivers a personalized dose of UVB light. Read More

With $54M and a SpaceX playbook, Seattle’s Endurance races to tap deep-sea volcanic power

With $54M and a SpaceX playbook, Seattle’s Endurance races to tap deep-sea volcanic power Read More

Ex-Icertis executives raise $7.5M for Rivvun, a startup that recovers lost corporate cash

Two former executives from enterprise software giant Icertis have teamed up to launch a new Seattle startup aimed at a multi-trillion-dollar corporate headache. Read More

Find it, fix it: Seattle startup Emphere raises $2.1M to automate software vulnerability patching

Emphere, a Seattle startup that emerged from the AI2 Incubator, raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding to automatically fix vulnerabilities found in popular open-source distributions, catering to software companies that sell to regulated industries. Read More

Helion hits $15.5B valuation with $465M in new cash as it aims to commercialize fusion this decade

Helion is chasing the highly ambitious goal of becoming the first company to commercialize fusion energy. They already have a high-stakes agreement to supply power to a Microsoft data center by 2028 and have broken ground on a power plant. Read More

‘Biometrics for things’: Alitheon raises $8M to expand its optical AI tech to ID physical objects

The Bellevue startup’s funding will accelerate its FeaturePrint technology, which uses optical AI to create a unique digital “fingerprint” for physical objects — no barcodes, tags, or labels required. Read More

Version One Ventures raises fresh capital for early bets on AI, robotics and deep tech

The firm announced that it closed Version One Fund V, a $78 million fund focused on pre-seed and seed investments, along with Opportunities Fund III, a $30 million fund designed to make follow-on investments in its most promising portfolio companies. Read More

CodeIntegrity raises $5M to put permanent guardrails on unpredictable AI agents

While companies rush to deploy autonomous AI tools, CodeIntegrity has raised new funding to build runtime guardrails needed to keep unpredictable models from leaking sensitive enterprise data. The startup’s co-founders recently relocated from the Seattle area to San Francisco. Read More

Cowboy Space raises $275M as it seeks 40-60 employees for new satellite and rocket hub in Seattle

Of its 41 open positions, 18 are based in Seattle, spanning roles in avionics, mechanical engineering, spacecraft design, and software. Read More

Anduril lands $5B as defense giant builds autonomous warship operation in Seattle

Anduril, which has established operations along the Lake Washington Ship Canal, said the financing will fuel aggressive investments in manufacturing capacity, R&D and infrastructure needed to produce advanced defense systems. Read More

Early Amazon engineer and serial founders raise $15M to keep AI agents in the loop

As AI agents move from writing code to joining the team, Seattle-based SageOx has raised $15 million to ensure they don’t get left out of the conversation. Read More

Moment Energy lands $40M to scale EV battery repurposing at planned Texas gigafactory

With a fresh $40 million investment and plans for a massive Texas gigafactory, Moment Energy is turning the end-of-life for EV batteries into a 30-year infrastructure play. Read More

Data centers at sea: Panthalassa nets $140M led by Peter Thiel for wave-powered AI

By combining massive floating power generators with onsite AI hardware, Panthalassa turns the ocean into a self-sustaining computing powerhouse — all without needing a single mile of underwater power cables. Read More

Seattle’s Sniffies lands $100M investment from Match Group in major bet on sex-positive tech

Sniffies, a Seattle-based meetup platform for gay, bisexual and sexually curious men, has landed a $100 million investment from Match… Read More

Iridius, led by Microsoft and AWS vets, raises $8.6M to crack AI’s regulatory compliance bottleneck

Seattle startup Iridius, founded by former Microsoft and AWS leaders, is building software that embeds regulatory compliance into AI systems as they run. Accenture is both an investor and a strategic partner. Read More

Flush with cash: Washington startup lands up to $500M to deploy facilities treating sewage, dairy waste

Wastewater treatment startup Sedron Technologies – a company that once served Bill Gates a glass of water purified from sewage – is being acquired by Ara Partners. The firm is investing up to $500 million in Sedron to facilitate the deployment of its sewage and manure cleaning technologies. Read More

Humanly raises $25M to put AI to work for job seekers, not just the companies hiring them

The company, which has built AI-powered interviewing tools for employers, is using its new funding to reposition itself, as CEO Prem Kumar says, to not just give recruiters tools to find candidates, but deliver pre-vetted, ready-to-hire job seekers on demand. Read More

Startup launched by former AWS energy team emerges with $7M to help solve data center power crunch

Founded by former AWS energy leaders, British Columbia-based Soma Energy emerged from stealth with $7 million and tech to optimize the power grid for data centers and utilities. Read More

Orbital AI: Seattle-area startup Starcloud hits $1.1B valuation to build space-based data centers

Redmond, Wash., startup Starcloud has raised $170 million and hit a $1.1 billion valuation building solar-powered data centers that operate in space. Read More

Aetheon raises $1.2M to translate lived experiences into job-ready skills

The startup. os building what it calls a “skills operating system” aimed at helping workers translate their real-world experience into language employers can use. Read More

Portland cybersecurity startup Eclypsium raises $25M to secure AI infrastructure

Founded in 2017 by former security engineers at Intel, Eclypsium serves private and public sector customers. It scans the hardware and firmware of laptops, servers, network devices, and AI infrastructure for vulnerabilities that sit below the operating system. Read More

Cybersecurity startup Native, led by AWS vets with roots in Seattle, comes out of stealth with $42M

The company lets teams define security policies once and automatically enforce them across platforms like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Read More