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Startup Ravel raises $8.2M to help solve clothing recycling’s spandex problem

Seattle startup Ravel isolates and removes elastane from blended fabrics to turn old clothes into reusable plastic pellets. A new $8.2 million seed round will allow the company to scale up from its local pilot plant to commercial operations and validate its tech with production partners. Read More

Portland startup Antfly raises $2M to streamline data infrastructure for AI agents

Antfly is the third Portland-based startup for CEO and co-founder James McDermott, who previously founded the customer data platform Lytics, which was acquired last year. Read More

Helion funding round grows to $500M amid uncertainty over fusion startup’s Microsoft timeline

Helion Energy added $35 million to its latest funding round, bringing the round to $500 million and its total war chest to more than $1.5 billion. The capital supports the fusion startup’s effort to power a Microsoft data center by 2028 despite timeline and technical skepticism. Read More

Seattle’s Nuance Labs raises $50M to give AI models human expression and nuance

Founded in early 2025 by former Apple PhD researchers Fangchang Ma, Edward Zhang, and Karren Yang, the research lab is developing a single “full-duplex” foundation model designed to process and generate conversational cues simultaneously. Read More

Temporal raises $550M, hits $12.55B valuation as agentic AI wave fuels massive growth

It caps a significant growth stretch for the Bellevue-based open-source platform, whose annualized revenue run rate recently surpassed $250 million — growing over 200% year-over-year. Read More

NLM Photonics adds key investors in quest to reduce the power needed to move data between chips

The Seattle startup’s materials sit on top of silicon chips and imprint data onto a beam of light using less power. Mitsubishi Chemical’s venture arm and Pangaea Ventures joined a $13 million round. Read More

Stoke Space's Nova second stage sitting in open area surrounded by buildings and trees

Stoke Space raises $1B to expand its footprint and upsize its fully reusable Nova rocket

Seattle-area startup targets early 2027 for first Pathfinder launch, with bigger Nova Block 2 due for 2029 debut. Read More

Startup takes on AI hallucinations with $25M and an HQ rooted in a small Washington town

Resect AI, an artificial intelligence startup led by a team of scientists and engineers in Washougal, Wash., launched out of stealth Thursday. Read More

NewDays brings its AI-driven dementia care platform to Nevada, expands seed round to $16M

Seattle startup NewDays raised $16 million to scale its combination of telehealth clinicians and an AI companion named Sunny for treating mild dementia. Early research shows the platform can help preserve cognitive function by up to 18 months, and the company is now expanding across six states. Read More

Homebuilding AI startup Digs raises $25.3M and partners with building products giant

Under the five-year agreement, Builders FirstSource will integrate Digs’ AI platform into its digital ecosystem, expanding tools for its 140,000 builder clients. Read More

Adaptive Biotech co-founder raises $15M for new startup to rethink how AI trains on science

Harlan Robins spent years as the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, helping build massive datasets to decode the human immune system. Read More

InduPro raises $77M, begins first human trial of cancer drug

Seattle biotech InduPro has raised $77 million and dosed its first patient in a Phase 1 trial of an experimental cancer drug, as the company advances its novel approach to targeting tumor cells. Read More

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