Articles about Funding – Page 4 of 49

Bezos-backed real estate startup Arrived raises $27M to help fuel new ‘stock market’ for rental properties

Arrived lets people buy fractional shares of single-family rental homes and vacation rentals for as little as $100. It’s pitched as an alternative way to gain exposure to real estate without taking on a full mortgage or managing a property. Read More

Seattle security startup Oleria lands $19M in latest funding round

Oleria, a Seattle-based cybersecurity startup that manages employee access to applications and data, raised $19 million in a new round… Read More

Upward, a Seattle fintech startup led by former Remitly execs, raises $8M and partners with Mastercard

Seattle startup Upward raised $8 million and announced a strategic partnership with Mastercard to make it faster and simpler for… Read More

Real estate startup Digs raises $5M to boost software platform for residential builders

Founded in 2022, Digs’ software helps residential homebuilders streamline various aspects of their workflows including document organization, communication, and other tasks. Read More

Seattle startup Accipiter Bio emerges with $12.7M and big pharma deals for AI-designed proteins

A Seattle biotech startup born from a Nobel laureate’s lab has landed $12.7 million and partnerships with pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Kite Pharma by using AI to design proteins that mount a multi-pronged attack on diseases. Read More

Seattle startup Hearvana raises $6M for AI-powered sound enhancement

The company was launched by University of Washington computer science researchers, including co-founder Shyam Gollakota, a renowned tech inventor and researcher. Read More

Seattle VC firm Founders’ Co-op raises $50M for new fund to back more Pacific Northwest founders

Founded in 2008, Founders’ Co-op was an early backer of billion-dollar companies such as Remitly, Outreach, and Auth0. Read More

Seattle startup TestSprite raises $6.7M to become ‘testing backbone’ for AI-generated code

In the era of AI-generated software, developers still need to make sure their code is clean. That’s where TestSprite wants to help. Read More

Tim Chen was deemed ‘too nerdy’ for venture capital. Now he runs one of the hottest startup funds in tech.

When Tim Chen tried to break into venture capital six years ago, multiple firms in Seattle turned him down. “Nobody wanted to hire me,” he recalled in an interview with GeekWire. “I was too technical, they said. Too nerdy.” Read More

Chainguard lands $280M to help scale cybersecurity startup’s open source software protections

The new funding comes just six months after a Series D round pulled in $356 million for the Kirkland, Wash.-based company. Read More

Seattle startup Hyphen AI raises $5M to automate cloud deployments with generative AI

Hyphen AI, a new Seattle-based startup using generative AI to help developers deploy cloud applications, raised $5 million in a… Read More

Outdoor sleeping gear maker Hest raises $2.7M as product line and partnerships drive growth

Hest continues to experience significant growth with a 50% increase in sales this year. The startup expects to turn an operating profit for the first time. Read More

Seattle startup Silkline raises $4M to expand AI tools for manufacturing supply chains

Founded in 2023, Silkline’s technology is designed to help reduce production delays by making it easier and more cost-effective to source materials from multiple suppliers. Read More

Omada, a new startup led by serial entrepreneur Pete Christothoulou, gives SMBs an ‘AI marketing team’

A new Seattle startup is betting that artificial intelligence can take marketing off the plate of small business owners. Omada.ai,… Read More

AI2 Incubator spinout Casium raises $5M to simplify work visa filings

Casium was launched by founder and CEO Priyanka Kulkarni, a former Microsoft scientist who wanted to fix a problem that she herself experienced while applying for an EB-1 visa. Read More

Seattle startup Brook.ai raises $28M to expand remote care platform

Brook.ai, a Seattle-based health technology startup that uses AI to help clinical teams to deliver remote care, announced a $28 million Series B round led by UMass Memorial Health and Morningside. Read More

New frontier for Seattle startups: Space, fusion, and battery companies buoy region’s VC activity

Companies developing rockets, fusion energy, and next-generation batteries account for a large share of total venture capital raised in the Seattle region over the past several months, according to GeekWire’s regularly updated fundings list. Read More

NewDays raises additional $4.5M for platform that uses generative AI to treat people with dementia

The startup offers telehealth visits with clinicians once or twice a month combined with frequent, personalized conversations with an AI companion called Sunny. Read More

Aarden AI emerges from stealth with $4M to help landowners navigate data center, clean energy deals

Seattle startup Aarden AI is coming out of stealth with $4 million and an AI platform to help landowners navigate deals from developers. Read More

Fresh off $30M round, Seattle startup Lumen Bioscience adds Microsoft vet Jeff Raikes to board

Seattle-based biotech startup Lumen Bioscience raised a $30 million Series C extension and announced several leadership updates. WestRiver Group led… Read More

Seattle tech vets Marco Matos and Kabir Shahani rethink marketing for big brands with new AI startup

Adora, a new Seattle-based marketing technology startup co-founded by former Pinterest executive Marco Matos and serial entrepreneur Kabir Shahani, emerged… Read More

Seattle startup Membrion raises $20M to deploy industrial wastewater treatment units

The company has raised $40 million since spinning out of the University of Washington in 2016. Read More

Seattle startup Temporal hits $2.5B valuation after $105M secondary round

Temporal, a developer tools startup based in Seattle, closed a $105 million secondary transaction led by GIC, pushing its valuation… Read More

Phaidra raises $50M to help AI data centers ‘run smarter, not just harder’ by boosting energy efficiency

Phaidra, a Seattle startup using artificial intelligence to make data center operations more energy efficient, announced $50 million in new funding. Read More

Opendoor co-founder brings Seattle-area startup Summation out of stealth with $35M in funding

Seattle-area startup Summation has come out of stealth with $35 million in funding from Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins, aiming to… Read More

Paid, a new AI agent billing startup led by Manny Medina, raises $21M seed from Lightspeed, FUSE, others

Manny Medina, co-founder and former CEO of Seattle sales company Outreach, is off and running on his new startup adventure… Read More

Seattle startup Actual AI raises $3.2M to build AI agents for engineering managers

AI coding tools are redefining software development and speeding up code generation. They are also creating new management hurdles. Actual… Read More

Inside Recompose, where the human composting startup is ready to grow its formula beyond Seattle

Five years after Washington became the first state to legalize natural organic reduction, 13 more states have approved the death care process. Recompose founder and CEO Katrina Spade is eyeing the chance to expand to other parts of the country and world. Read More

AI scheduling assistant Howie raises $6M, launches publicly with 1,000+ paying customers

Earlier this week I was on an email thread with someone trying to schedule a video call. “@Howie can arrange… Read More

Ranking cities by AI startup funding: Bay Area dominates, Seattle is No. 4

As investors continue to pour money into AI startups in the U.S., Seattle ranks fourth in the nation in AI… Read More