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Startup funding

Pokémon Go maker Niantic raises massive $245M funding round, company value approaches $4B

Niantic, the Google spinout that made the smash hit game Pokémon Go, has raised $245 million to continue building out… Read More

Shyft lands $6.5M to help retail and service workers easily swap schedules

Shyft Technologies, a Seattle startup that helps workers in the service and retail industries communicate and swap shifts, has raised… Read More

Microsoft connection: Capria fund, backed by Bill Gates, gets $20M from Paul Allen’s Vulcan

Microsoft’s fingerprints are all over the Seattle and global tech ecosystems, and here’s the latest example: a venture capital fund… Read More

Vulcan Capital invests in Fortnite creator Epic Games as part of epic $1.25B round

Epic Games, creator of the wildly popular battle royale game Fortnite, has raised a massive $1.25 billion funding round, and… Read More

Amazon invests in $50M funding round for German smart thermostat startup tado

Amazon has made another smart home investment, this time backing a German smart thermostat company called tado. The $50 million… Read More

Ribbon, backed by Trulia co-founder, raises $225M to be the ‘credit card swipe’ for real estate

Not only are homebuyers battling each other when looking for houses in today’s supercharged housing market, but there’s also the… Read More

NextStep Interactive raises $3M to help people displaced by AI and automation find healthcare jobs

A new startup called NextStep Interactive has spun out of Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs and raised $3.15 million… Read More

Shelf Engine raises $4.3M to help grocers battling Amazon save money on food orders

Shelf Engine has made some major changes since it was founded about two years ago. The Seattle startup began by… Read More

Postmates raises massive $300M round as CEO hints at 2019 IPO

Delivery startup Postmates has raised a huge $300 million funding, pushing its valuation over $1 billion as it battles a… Read More

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Funding trends reveal how Seattle startups are starting to rival their Silicon Valley counterparts

Seattle is sometimes called the younger sibling of Silicon Valley when it comes to startups, and it’s true that Seattle’s… Read More

University of Washington spin-out raising cash for more accurate DNA sequencing technology

  TwinStrand Biosciences, a spin-out of the University of Washington, is raising cash to commercialize DNA sequencing technology that it… Read More

ApoGen raises additional $4M, adds three biotech vets in pursuit of better cancer treatment

Biotech startup ApoGen, which is researching solutions to drug-resistant cancers, is moving into a new phase of development. The company… Read More

Slack raises massive $427M round, valuation skyrockets to $7.1B as it battles Microsoft Teams

Slack has raised a whopping $427 million in a new funding round amid a strong challenge from Microsoft Teams in… Read More

OfferUp is raising a ton of cash as it battles Craigslist, eBay, Facebook and others

OfferUp is raising a huge round of funding as the mobile marketplace continues to grow and battle a crowded field… Read More

Mindshare Medical launches AI cancer screening tech that can see data ‘beyond our perception’

You might think diagnosing cancer is easy: Someone either has a cancerous tumor or they don’t. In practice, it’s much… Read More

DreamBox Learning raises $130M, adds former U.S. Education Secretary to board

DreamBox Learning, the Bellevue, Wash., maker of an adaptive K-8 math education platform, announced Tuesday that it has raised a… Read More

Steth IO raises $1.23M to expand smartphone-based intelligent stethoscope to new markets

StratoScientific, the Seattle-based startup that makes the Steth IO smart stethoscope, has raised $1.23 million to expand the use of… Read More

Stealthy Carewave Medical raises cash for pain relief device using ‘Pulsed Heat Technology’

Carewave Medical, a stealth mode startup backed by big names in Seattle’s biotech industry, has raised just over $3 million… Read More

EndoGastric Solutions raises $30.5M to commercialize acid reflux treatment

News Brief: EndoGastric Solutions, a Seattle area biotechnology company, has raised $30.5 million to scale its commercial efforts. Existing investors… Read More

High-tech agriculture startup Phytelligence raises another $10M, doubles employee count

Agriculture startup Phytelligence is getting another infusion of cash as it continues to grow. The company raised an additional $9.85… Read More

Phase Genomics wins $1.5M grant to peer inside microorganisms’ DNA

University of Washington spin-out Phase Genomics is searching for the genetic code inside the billions of microorganisms that surround us… Read More

Startup Aminex Therapeutics raises $10M, begins clinical trials of immunotherapy treatment

Seattle startup Aminex Therapeutics announced $10 million in new funding Wednesday, alongside the first clinical trial of its immunotherapy drug.… Read More

Owl Insights raises cash for mental health treatment software platform

Portland, Ore., company Owl Insights has raised $2.2 million in new funding, GeekWire has learned. The additional funding brings the… Read More

Seattle Children’s spin-out MDMetrix raises seed funding for A/B testing system for doctors

Health technology startup MDMetrix has raised its first venture capital funds. The company raised just over $758,000 in seed funding,… Read More

FlyHomes raises $17M to purchase homes for buyers battling cash offers in hot housing markets

In Seattle, the nation’s hottest housing market for 19 straight months, frustrated buyers are losing out to all-cash offers left… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: An epic week for startup funding, and the Space Needle gets a makeover

Seattle startups raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in the past week alone — for businesses as varied as… Read More

TableSafe raising more cash to expand reach of its restaurant payment devices

TableSafe is upping its most recent funding round as it continues to spread its restaurant payments device around the country… Read More

Smart lighting startup Deako unveils plug-and-play lighting system for home-builders, raises $4M

Seattle smart lighting startup Deako has raised $4 million as it begins to roll out a new “modular” system designed… Read More

Tango Card raises $35M to modernize how companies send out digital rewards

Update, Tuesday morning: Tango Card has officially confirmed the funding. Story updated with comments from CEO David Leeds and more… Read More

Nohla Therapeutics raises $45M, gets new HQ as it moves novel leukemia treatment closer to market

Seattle startup Nohla Therapeutics has raised another huge funding round as it moves its novel leukemia treatment closer to being… Read More

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