Pioneer Square Labs has raised a new investment fund, money that will add a much-needed injection of fresh capital into the Seattle startup ecosystem. A SEC filing from Friday reveals a $40.8 million… Read More
Seattle startup CityBldr is breaking new ground, boosted by fresh funding from undisclosed investors. The startup’s chief executive, Bryan Copley, isn’t commenting on the investment but SEC documents reveal CityBldr… Read More
Seeq, a Seattle-based startup that helps process manufacturing organizations better understand their data, is raising more cash. According to a new SEC filing, the company has raised $18.6 million of… Read More
Some of the world’s most influential business leaders want to repair the deep divisions in America by investing in entrepreneurship outside of traditional tech hubs like Silicon Valley and Seattle.… Read More
Madrona Venture Group is tapping into one of the most powerful and secretive trends in venture capital — recruiting a group of elite angel investors to join a “scout program” to… Read More
The numbers don’t lie — female founders face an uphill battle compared to their male counterparts when it comes to raising venture capital. The Women’s Venture Capital Fund wants to… Read More
Expedia announced a $26 million investment today in Alice, a technology company that helps hotels manage operations and communicate with guests. The investment makes Expedia a majority shareholder in the… Read More
Privateer Holdings is raising another big investment round to fuel rapid growth of its marijuana-related subsidiaries as more governments legalize the use of cannabis. The Seattle-based investment firm has reeled… Read More
Zillow Group is not only a leading online real estate portal, but now the company can call itself an investor, too. The Seattle-based online real estate powerhouse announced Wednesday that… Read More
Amazon stock briefly topped $1,000 per share for the first time early this morning, putting its market value at $478 billion or so. It has since dropped back below $1,000/share,… Read More
Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group is one of the investors in a $60 million series C round raised by Silicon Valley’s Branch. Playground Ventures, a fund created by Android founder Andy Rubin,… Read More
Crelate, a startup with offices in Bothell, Wash. and Bethesda, Md., has closed a $1.2 million investment round led by the Alliance of Angels. The startup, which makes software for… Read More
This event goes out to all the financial geeks! A few months ago, GeekWire reported that Voyager Capital’s Seattle office had brought on James Newell, a Seattle native who was fresh off eight years… Read More
Jobaline has secured $3.5 million in new funding to expand its bilingual marketplace for hourly jobs and grow its Kirkland, Wash. team. Returning investors Madrona Venture Group, Trilogy Equity Partners,… Read More
ReplyYes, a chat commerce startup that spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, has raised $6.5 million of a $9.3 million Series A round. CEO Dave Cotter confirmed the investment but… Read More
Drifter Entertainment, a Seattle startup founded by veterans of Microsoft HoloLens and Oculus, just announced $2.25 million in seed funding to continue developing video games in virtual reality. Signia Venture… Read More
After Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s company SoftBank acquired a majority stake in Sprint, he sought to merge the Kansas telecom provider with Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile. U.S. regulators put up a fight and Son… Read More
S2solutions just closed a $1 million investment round for software that supports Washington state’s booming cannabis industry. The cash came from private investors and the company founders. S2solutions plans to use… Read More
MOD Pizza chain has raised a fresh $42 million round, led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and PWP Growth Equity. Last year, MOD Pizza raised $40 million from PWP… Read More
Sarcos Robotics, a maker of industrial robots, has secured $10.5 million in funding from investors including Microsoft, Caterpillar Ventures, and GE Ventures. The company announced the funding today, and a… Read More
Seattle’s Alpine Immune Sciences says it has closed a $48 million Series A financing round, to fund the development of next-generation therapies that tweak the body’s immune system to fight… Read More
With capital markets under pressure, many venture capital firms are slowing down their investments — but that isn’t necessarily stopping them from fundraising. CB Insights and KPMG released their “Venture Pulse”… Read More
Amazon has made a “significant” investment in Luma, a company preparing to launch a “Surround WiFi” system for the home, as part of a $12.5 million Series A investment round led… Read More
There are a lot of things that can muck up a startup — bad hires, improper focus or expanding too quickly. But there’s one thing that alleviates much of the… Read More
Venture capital activity in the Pacific Northwest dipped more than 59 percent in Q4 of 2015, capping off what was otherwise a busy year for investors. VC data provider Pitchbook… Read More
Unify Square, a Bellevue-based startup that helps companies implement Skype for Business, has raised $4 million in funding to expand its existing network operations center in India. The eight-year-old company helps… Read More
Seattle’s Lighter Capital, which offers an alternative to venture capital and traditional bank loans, today announced a new $100 million fund that will be used to make 500 investments in… Read More
A week after announcing its closure, Seattle angel investment group Zino Society has found … an angel. The Keiretsu Forum Northwest announced today that it is acquiring the assets of Zino… Read More
After three years, Maana is emerging out of stealth mode. The company last week announced an $11 million funding round to fuel development of its big data search engine platform… Read More
A new Portland startup wants to be the highly-curated, more reliable version of Kickstarter — and now it has more funding to do so. Crowd Supply today announced a second… Read More