Seattle entrepreneur Jonathan Sposato has a time-tested rule in business, drawing from his experience of owning and operating bars. If you create a place for men, only men will show… Read More
The business media hasn’t been kind to venture capital funds in recent weeks. When the nation’s most active deal maker stands trial for sex discrimination, the entrepreneurial community takes notice.… Read More
SaaS Capital, an investment firm that specializes in providing debt financing to companies that create software-as-a-service products, has raised $58 million and expanded its footprint in the Pacific Northwest with… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – While investors and industry insiders worry about a future tech industry crash, legendary angel investor Chris Sacca is ready for the bottom to fall out of the… Read More
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — For some early-stage startups, landing investment is crucial for growth and scale. But before you meet with a potential investor, there are several things to keep in mind that… Read More
Editor’s Note: GeekWire has partnered with UP Global and Chase to cover four Startup Week events around the country, starting with the Tampa Bay Startup Week from Feb. 2-6. GeekWire… Read More
Unless you’re a Wall Street expert, it’s not easy to figure out the best stock option investment strategies. That’s where Quantcha wants to help. Earlier this month, the Redmond-based startup launched its Options… Read More
Microsoft historically hasn’t spent much time investing in seed-stage startups. That’s part of the reason why today’s investment by Microsoft Ventures — the newly-formed unit that consolidated startup-oriented programs such… Read More
Seattle angel investor Dan Rosen has worked hard in recent months to shed light on the potentially damaging effects that proposed regulations in the JOBS Act could have on startups, pointing… Read More
It may feel a little frothy out there in startup land. And a new report out from CB Insights shows just what’s going on. Venture capital deal activity continued to… Read More
Today is the first day it becomes legally permissible for startups and emerging companies to advertise their offerings. Or to tweet that they are raising money. Or to generally solicit for… Read More
Tableau Software is expected to go public tonight on the New York Stock Exchange, a significant milestone for the 10-year-old maker of data visualization products. Demand appears to be very… Read More
(Editor’s note: Chris DeVore gave the keynote speech at Thursday night’s GeekWire Awards. These are his prepared remarks, with full video of the talk above). I want to talk to… Read More
John Connors, a venture capitalist at Bellevue-based Ignition Partners who previously served as CFO of Microsoft, was named to Forbes’ 2013 Midas List that honors tech’s top investors. Connors has made… Read More
Maveron, the Seattle venture capital firm led by Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz and former investment banker Dan Levitan, has joined with Union Square Ventures, Google Ventures and Clayton Christensen’s Rose Park… Read More
Angel investors historically have placed bets at the earliest stages of a company’s formation, oftentimes when the business is nothing more than an idea on the back of a napkin.… Read More
A lot has been made about the so-called “series A crunch” — the idea that it is increasingly challenging for early-stage companies to continue to raise financing as they move… Read More
Here’s a sign of the changing winds in the venture capital business. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, recently told a group of… Read More
It’s a tough time for many in the venture business, with many firms struggling to raise new funds. But don’t tell that to Boris Wertz, the Vancouver, B.C.-based super angel… Read More
We’ve heard the complaints loud and clear that the Pacific Northwest simply needs more money flowing into early-stage startups. Well, Boris Wertz wants to do something about it. The Vancouver,… Read More
Seattle’s Lighter Capital, which offers an alternative to venture capital and traditional bank loans, today announced three new investments in startups based in Dallas, Minneapolis and the Seattle area. It… Read More
Over the last ten years, more than $43 billion was invested in 7,200+ Internet-related companies, according to the PWC MoneyTree report. Fifty percent of those companies will disappear within the… Read More
There’s been a lot of chatter in recent months about the “broken” model for venture capital, highlighted by a blistering report last month from the Kauffman Foundation which found that… Read More
The Alliance of Angels — a 15-year-old Seattle angel investment organization that boasts more than 60 members — is spinning off from its longtime non-profit parent organization, the Technology Alliance.… Read More
As early as next week, we may know whether Congress will change US securities laws to permit startups to sell stock to the general public over the internet. You know… Read More
Over the past three days, GeekWire Chief Business Officer Rebecca Lovell and I both have moderated panels about the state of angel financing in Seattle. The discussions have been lively,… Read More
The Northwest Energy Angels, a 50-person angel investment group, said today that its members invested more than $880,000 in nine clean tech startups last year. Of course, that’s a drop in… Read More
We’ve been talking a lot about the startup ecosystem in Seattle and what needs to happen to make the region an even better place for entrepreneurs. Given that discussion on… Read More
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, who has quickly become one of the most influential Silicon Valley venture capitalists, made some waves last month when he declared that there’s no bubble in… Read More
We’ve been writing a lot about some of the frothy conditions in the tech market. And the bubble talk was highlighted today when money-losing online radio service Pandora went public with… Read More
