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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

Fred Hutch leaders raise $10M for new AI startup aiming to expedite drug discovery

The Seattle-based biotech company aims to make new drug discovery faster and cheaper by using AI to simulate the results from hypothetical lab tests. Read More

‘Commerce is entering the agentic era’: Envive raises $15M to build AI agents for online retailers

Envive, a Seattle-based startup that builds AI agents for online retailers, raised $15 million in a Series A round led… Read More

Seattle startup raises $2.5M to analyze retail worker conversations using AI and microphones

Ethosphere, a new Seattle startup building voice AI for retail operations, raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led by… Read More

Ex-Apple PhDs raise $10M, choose Seattle to build an AI foundation model that understands emotion

One of the more intriguing aspects of Nuance Labs is that the nascent startup with big dreams decided to build in Seattle. Read More

Agtech startup launched by brothers in rural Washington raises cash to grow its irrigation tech

FarmHQ, an agtech startup based in rural Burlington, Wash., has raised $500,000 from investors to grow its irrigation technology business,… Read More

Orchard Robotics, an agtech startup using AI to solve farming’s data problem, raises $22M

Orchard Robotics, an agtech startup using artificial intelligence to deliver precise data on farm operations, has raised $22 million from… Read More

ID verification startup Vouched raises $17M as it builds AI tools for ‘new future of identity’

Vouched, the Seattle startup that uses AI to help companies verify identity, raised $17 million in new funding. The Series… Read More

Amazon and Google alums land $7M to build a personal AI therapist for people with dementia

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

Grin and gadget: Can a startup’s $120 electric flosser finally change my dental habits?

I’ve been told by dentists and dental hygienists for the better part of my life that I could do a… Read More

How a frustrated salon owner sparked a pivot to 911 call centers for this Seattle software startup

From searching your files to scheduling haircuts to supporting emergency response — it’s been a heck of an entrepreneurial journey… Read More

EV charging startup Electric Era raising fresh cash amid industry headwinds

Seattle startup Electric Era is raising more cash to fund its DC fast-charging systems that include giant batteries to help… Read More

After public ask for funding, B.C.’s General Fusion lands $22M from investors

More than three months after announcing layoffs and issuing a public letter asking for money, General Fusion today shared that… Read More

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