There’s a new online home improvement startup in town, and this one comes with an experienced tech executive at the helm and some serious deep-pocketed investors. Former Digg CEO Matt… Read More
Igneous Systems has been operating in stealth mode since the company was formed with a $3 million seed round last fall. And not much is going to change now that… Read More
It’s time to kick off the voting in another key GeekWire Awards category — Geek of the Year. This is a special award, designed to recognize not just technical prowess… Read More
Redfin is facing a lawsuit in King County Superior Court from two of its earliest employees who allege that the Seattle online real estate company is attempting to wipe out… Read More
With more than 15,000 energetic high school students surrounding her on stage at Key Arena, Julie Sandler offered up a simple question: How many of you have ever had an idea to… Read More
More than 15,000 energetic students from over 450 schools in Washington state packed an electric Key Arena on Friday for We Day Seattle, an event co-sponsored by Microsoft that celebrates… Read More
Online dog sitting marketplace Rover.com has a new best friend: Menlo Ventures. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm, an early backer of Fab.com, Uber and Tumblr, is leading a $12… Read More
Our guest on this week’s GeekWire Radio show is Matt McIlwain, managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group and a mainstay of the Pacific Northwest tech community.… Read More
It’s only been one week since 30 Zynga Seattle employees were laid off, but one local venture capital firm is already trying to help get the engineers back on their… Read More
Inside the pink-laden walls of Julep’s office lobby, the high-pitched demands of seventh-grade girls fill the room. Julep CEO Jane Park stands in front of a flatscreen, showing off her… Read More
With the advent of social media and other technology, brands can communicate with individual customers in more ways than ever. However, one problem is that they either don’t have the tools… Read More
Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain doesn’t think history is repeating itself when it comes to another technology bubble, even though the market for initial public offerings continues to remain red… Read More
In doing a review of the top VC deals of the year, I noticed something a little odd. In the press release about Redfin’s big $50 million funding round, one… Read More
Another Techstars Seattle graduate, another nice seed round. Following in the footsteps of fellow 2013 Techstars Seattle companies Everpath and Wire, today Shippable announced a $2 million seed round led… Read More
Tier 3, a Bellevue cloud computing startup backed with $18.5 from Ignition, Madrona and Intel Ventures, has been sold to CenturyLink. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, though… Read More
It’s been a big day for venture capital financings in the Seattle area, from a small seed round for UW spin out Qazzow to $8 million for Tacoma cyberattack tracker… Read More
Steve Sliwa previously founded Insitu, the maker of unmanned aircraft that sold to Boeing for a reported purchase price of $400 million five years ago. Now, Sliwa is back in… Read More
The impressive work coming out of University of Washington’s computer science department was on full display Wednesday evening inside the Paul G. Allen Center. As part of the University of Washington’s… Read More
—Mixpo, the six-year-old online video advertising startup, has named former Razorfish and aQuantive executive Jeff Lanctot as CEO. He replaces founder Anupam Gupta, who will remain on the board of… Read More
It’s turning into an epic dog fight. DogVacay today announced that it has secured $15 million in fresh funding, money that the Santa Monica, California company plans to use to… Read More
Kirkland startup Jobaline has closed out its series A funding round, with an additional $2.8 million in funding from Madrona Venture Group; Seattle super angel Rudy Gadre and others. That… Read More
Sean Muller didn’t have to raise cash for his fast-growing Seattle area startup iSpot.tv. After all, the 15-person company — which measures thousands of TV commercials and provides competitive intelligence… Read More
U.S. venture capital funds had a bit more success raising money in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter, despite big shifts in government regulations that are changing the… Read More
AdReady is getting a new home. The Seattle online advertising startup — founded seven years ago by Aaron Finn and bankrolled by the likes of Madrona, Khosla Ventures and Bain Capital… Read More
Since 1995, Tom Alberg and the rest of the crew at Seattle venture capital firm Madrona have bankrolled startups from some nondescript offices at 1000 2nd Avenue. But that will… Read More
eBay is buying Seattle startup Decide.com, gobbling up the online shopping research service that predicted whether prices were going up or down on consumer electronics, housewares and other products. As… Read More
Cheezburger is adding a little more beef to its executive ranks. The six-year-old Seattle online humor company, best known for its I Can Has Cheezburger cat photo site, today announced… Read More
Last week, we shared the news with you that Optify, the Seattle maker of marketing software, had hit the wall and laid off most of its employees. We reached out… Read More
What’s up at Optify? From what we’re hearing, the company is on its last legs. Multiple sources informed us on Friday that the company — a maker of inbound marketing… Read More
Portland-based Jama Software has reeled in $13 million in fresh funding, money that the enterprise software company plans to use to help more companies develop products efficiently. It marks the… Read More