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Madrona

Jeff Bezos-backed home improvement marketplace Pro.com lands $14 million from Madrona, Maveron

Pro.com, the Seattle startup that’s looking to make it easier to find home improvement specialists, from plumbers and electricians to… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft exec and Healthcare.gov fixer Kurt DelBene joins Madrona; Cray names a familiar CTO; etc.

Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene spent the past several months helping to fix President Obama’s Healthcare.gov Web site, a hot-button issue… Read More

What bubble? Technology leaders see ‘bull market,’ not a bust in the making

Amazon has tripled in size over the past three years. Food delivery services are raking in the cash from investors. Zillow is… Read More

Jintronix raises more cash from Madrona to help patients rehab with Microsoft’s Kinect

Microsoft’s Kinect sensor isn’t just for playing games — it’s also being used to help physical therapy patients recover from… Read More

Ex-Amazon engineers raise $8.5M to help retailers set dynamic pricing

Boomerang Commerce, a Santa Clara, Calif. startup led by former Amazon.com engineers Guru Hariharan and Madhusudhan Rao, has raised $8.5… Read More

Tech Moves: Rosenthal returns to Madrona: Aronchick lands at Chef; and more

—David Rosenthal is returning to Madrona Venture Group. Rosenthal, a former investment banker at UBS and a member of The Wall… Read More

Ex-Amazon engineers raise $2.7M for lunch delivery startup Peachd from Maveron, Vulcan and Madrona

A new startup in Seattle just raised $2.75 million from some of the region’s top venture capital firms to do… Read More

Charts: The growth of venture capital in the Pacific NW

The Pacific Northwest may be home to Microsoft, Expedia and Amazon.com. But the region’s startup ecosystem is growing in size,… Read More

Video: Madrona’s Julie Sandler inspires teenagers with these 3 startup tips

Madrona Venture Group’s Julie Sandler inspired a crowd of 15,000 high school students earlier this year with her talk at… Read More

Location analytics startup Placed raises $10M to track your whereabouts

Smartphones today certainly can do more than just make a call or send a text — they also double as personal… Read More

Analysis: The exploding demand for computer science education, and why America needs to keep up

The chart above tells quite a story. That blue line — the one that looks like a hockey stick — shows how interest in… Read More

ExtraHop looks to build business analytics powerhouse, lands $41 million from early Splunk investor

ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein doesn’t think his business analytics startup is simply creating a great product. The pony-tailed entrepreneur —… Read More

Ex-Digg CEO raises $3.5M from Jeff Bezos, Andreessen Horowitz and others for Pro.com, giving you price estimates for home projects

There’s a new online home improvement startup in town, and this one comes with an experienced tech executive at the… Read More

Stealthy data center infrastructure startup Igneous Systems raises $23.6M series A from NEA, Madrona and others

Igneous Systems has been operating in stealth mode since the company was formed with a $3 million seed round last… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Geek of the Year

It’s time to kick off the voting in another key GeekWire Awards category — Geek of the Year. This is… Read More

Redfin co-founder and ex-CTO sue company, allege scheme to cancel shares as IPO nears

Redfin is facing a lawsuit in King County Superior Court from two of its earliest employees who allege that the… Read More

VC Julie Sandler tells teens: ‘We need more girls pursuing their entrepreneurial ideas’

With more than 15,000 energetic high school students surrounding her on stage at Key Arena, Julie Sandler offered up a simple… Read More

WeDay 2014: Pete Carroll and Seattle tech execs deliver empowerment message to kids

More than 15,000 energetic students from over 450 schools in Washington state packed an electric Key Arena on Friday for… Read More

Rover.com fetches $12M, plans to expand dog sitting marketplace

Online dog sitting marketplace Rover.com has a new best friend: Menlo Ventures. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm, an early… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: What is Seattle’s rightful place in the technology world?

Our guest on this week’s GeekWire Radio show is Matt McIlwain, managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture… Read More

Why this venture firm is helping 30 laid-off Zynga engineers find work

It’s only been one week since 30 Zynga Seattle employees were laid off, but one local venture capital firm is… Read More

Startup field trip: Seattle’s top female CEOs help 7th-grade girls learn about entrepreneurship

Inside the pink-laden walls of Julep’s office lobby, the high-pitched demands of seventh-grade girls fill the room. Julep CEO Jane… Read More

Evocalize raises $3M to help brands build more personal relationships with customers

With the advent of social media and other technology, brands can communicate with individual customers in more ways than ever.… Read More

Madrona’s McIlwain: The current tech boom has sizzle, but even more substance

Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain doesn’t think history is repeating itself when it comes to another technology bubble, even though… Read More

Madrona skips participating in Redfin’s $50M round, but remains biggest investor

In doing a review of the top VC deals of the year, I noticed something a little odd. In the… Read More

Techstars grad Shippable raises $2M to help developers ship code faster

Another Techstars Seattle graduate, another nice seed round. Following in the footsteps of fellow 2013 Techstars Seattle companies Everpath and… Read More

CenturyLink buys Tier 3, creates Cloud Development Center in Seattle area

Tier 3, a Bellevue cloud computing startup backed with $18.5 from Ignition, Madrona and Intel Ventures, has been sold to… Read More

2nd Watch lands $23 million, assists businesses with cloud migration to Amazon Web Services

It’s been a big day for venture capital financings in the Seattle area, from a small seed round for UW… Read More

Seeq raises $6 million, looks to help manufacturers mine industrial data

Steve Sliwa  previously founded Insitu, the maker of unmanned aircraft that sold to Boeing for a reported purchase price of… Read More

Battery-free wireless communication technology highlights UW computer science show

The impressive work coming out of University of Washington’s computer science department was on full display Wednesday evening inside the… Read More

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