Seattle-area financial tech company POSaBIT is raising a fresh round of funding to make it easier for cannabis companies and other cash-based businesses to process debit card payments. POSaBit builds… Read More
High-tech real estate brokerage Compass has a new mountain of cash to continue building out its technology platform and grow both its East and West Coast engineering hubs. Compass today… Read More
Seattle startup Deako raised $3.5 million to kick production of its “plug and play” smart light switches into high gear. Founded in 2015, Deako sells a modular light switch that… Read More
Icertis, welcome to the unicorn club. The Bellevue, Wash. contract management startup today announced a whopping $115 million investment, the second-largest funding round for a Seattle-area startup so far this… Read More
Procurify, a Vancouver, B.C. startup that makes cloud-based software to help companies manage their spending, raised $20 million to expand internationally and beef up sales and marketing. The Series B… Read More
Across industries, despite the tide of automation and artificial intelligence, most companies still employ humans to deal with customers for important interactions, whether that is through customer service, sales or… Read More
NextStep is raising more cash to build out its platform for recruiting and training healthcare workers and funneling them to employers. Coming off a $3.3 million round last year, the… Read More
Legwork, a Wenatchee, Wash. startup that builds marketing automation software specifically for dental practices, has raised $17 million in funding. Legwork’s software platform brings together marketing tools, data and patient… Read More
A cybersecurity startup that pairs software with analysts who review and investigate attacks raised $9.6 million to continue battling intrusions against companies of all sizes, as well as healthcare and… Read More
Another new Seattle startup has raised cash to fix problems in the complicated world of real estate. Showdigs raised a $3 million seed round to make life easier for property… Read More
A Spokane, Wash. startup just raised some serious cash to show companies how the threat of cyberattacks could impact their balance sheets. RiskLens, a company that makes cybersecurity software for… Read More
In just a matter of weeks, Microsoft went from a customer of Directly’s to an investor. The San Francisco-based company finds and compensates expert users of a product to help… Read More
Rover, the Seattle-based pet-sitting marketplace, is jumping into Latin America for the first time, investing in a leading pet startup. Rover is leading a $7 million funding round for DogHero,… Read More
Microsoft has invested in a startup based in Boston and Tel Aviv, Israel, that aims to make corporate payments more secure. M12, the Microsoft’s venture capital arm, led a $15… Read More
A little more than a year ago, Microsoft teamed up with San Francisco-based Databricks to help its cloud customers quickly parse large amounts of data. Today, Microsoft is Databricks’ newest… Read More
Fernish, the furniture rental startup from Los Angeles that recently expanded to Seattle, just got a big jolt of fresh cash to continue growing. Fernish landed a $30 million round… Read More
Pro.com — the Seattle startup that aims to transform the general contractor industry — had a pretty good 2018, and 2019 could be even bigger with expansion on the horizon… Read More
Niantic, the Google spinout that made the smash hit game Pokémon Go, has raised $245 million to continue building out the engine that powers its growing suite of augmented reality… Read More
Shyft Technologies, a Seattle startup that helps workers in the service and retail industries communicate and swap shifts, has raised $6.5 million. The Series A round was led by Ignition… Read More
Microsoft’s fingerprints are all over the Seattle and global tech ecosystems, and here’s the latest example: a venture capital fund run by an ex-Microsoft executive is now backed by the… Read More
Epic Games, creator of the wildly popular battle royale game Fortnite, has raised a massive $1.25 billion funding round, and Vulcan Capital is getting in on the action. The coalition… Read More
Amazon has made another smart home investment, this time backing a German smart thermostat company called tado. The $50 million round, announced this morning, also E.ON, Total Energy Ventures, Energy… Read More
Not only are homebuyers battling each other when looking for houses in today’s supercharged housing market, but there’s also the influence of the so-called iBuyer movement from companies like Zillow,… Read More
A new startup called NextStep Interactive has spun out of Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs and raised $3.15 million to help people who have been displaced by advances in… Read More
Shelf Engine has made some major changes since it was founded about two years ago. The Seattle startup began by providing technology to grocery stores to create more accurate orders… Read More
Delivery startup Postmates has raised a huge $300 million funding, pushing its valuation over $1 billion as it battles a bevy of competitors such as Amazon, DoorDash, Uber Eats and… Read More
Seattle is sometimes called the younger sibling of Silicon Valley when it comes to startups, and it’s true that Seattle’s startup scene has historically been smaller and more modest than… Read More
TwinStrand Biosciences, a spin-out of the University of Washington, is raising cash to commercialize DNA sequencing technology that it says can detect tiny genetic mutations invisible to current sequencers.… Read More
Biotech startup ApoGen, which is researching solutions to drug-resistant cancers, is moving into a new phase of development. The company announced Thursday that it has raised an additional $4 million… Read More
Slack has raised a whopping $427 million in a new funding round amid a strong challenge from Microsoft Teams in the competitive workplace productivity market. Slack said the round, led… Read More