Rigado, a Portland company that provides wireless services for Internet of Things (IoT) companies, has secured $3.3 million in seed funding from Oregon Angel Fund, Rogue Ventures, and other investors.… Read More
During the years Joe Donahue spent running Microsoft’s cybersecurity threat detection team, he observed a recurring problem. The team helped Microsoft customers respond to cyber attacks, which often involved guesswork… Read More
Becoming a startup CEO was never an explicit career goal. I started PitchBook because of a simple and pure motivation — to solve a customer problem. At my previous employer,… Read More
The odds of surviving stage III Hodgkin’s lymphoma are about four-to-one. The odds of two people beating that cancer and going on to create a successful startup together are harder… Read More
Studies show that millennials value experiences over things and are willing to put their discretionary cash toward activities. Blok24 is banking on it. That coveted demographic is the target audience of the… Read More
One-on-one video streaming platform uZoom has acquired Creator Republic for an undisclosed sum. UZoom is a Seattle startup that connects viewers in remote locations with streamers on the ground so that they can… Read More
The process of landing meetings and pitching investors can be burdensome for time and resource-strapped startups. Brothers Ashfaq and Anil Mohammed wanted to come up with a solution to that… Read More
Here’s a wacky concept. Imagine you could give a microorganism, like yeast, specific instructions on what to produce during fermentation. Through the same process used to make beer or sourdough… Read More
Aravind Bala had been at Microsoft for nearly 15 years when he met Anoop Gupta, his manager on the Office Mix team. After working together for a couple of years,… Read More
When you think “enterprise software,” industry leaders like Oracle, Microsoft and SAP may come to mind, but Entomo may not be on that list. The Bellevue, Wash.-based startup wants to change that.… Read More
Rover is growing up fast and learning some new tricks along the way. The Seattle startup is rolling out its first national ad campaign today to promote its dog walking and… Read More
Before even graduating from the Techstars Seattle 2017 class, Stackery CEO Nate Taggart had a check in hand — and not just the $120,000 that startups get when they join the… Read More
It’s not an easy time to be in the e-commerce business. Tech titans, like Amazon and Walmart, are able to devote far more resources to their digital products than smaller… 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
Not everyone has the work ethic to be an entrepreneur — the long hours, the commitment, the need to focus on the long game. But Travis Stanley-Jones thinks one segment… 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
As Wisam Abdulla and his co-founders were building Canadian payroll startup Rise, they encountered a common complaint from customers again and again. Help with payroll was all well and good,… Read More
The Great Recession struck a major and lasting blow to entrepreneurship but the nation’s startup ecosystem appears to finally be recovering. That’s according to a new study from the Progressive… Read More
EveryMove, a Seattle startup that helps employers incentivize employee wellness, has been acquired by health-tracking company higi. Chicago-based higi announced the acquisition as part of a series B investment round led… Read More
Many tech companies wait until they grow into big corporations before thinking about corporate social responsibility. But MetaJure, a Seattle startup that provides software to help lawyers manage their documents and email, is starting… Read More
The idea for Seattle startup Valid8 came from a Ponzi scheme — but not in the way you might think. Tod McDonald was appointed Lead Forensic Accountant to investigate a… Read More
After witnessing his grandmother’s trying health scares caused by mismanaging her pills, Victor Lesau decided to put his engineering background to work. He and his friend Ivan Spogreev were kicking… Read More
Andrew Kinzer, Chief Product Officer of Seattle startup Outreach, is religious about time management. He sees time as the most valuable capital a person has and, in a startup, efficiently… Read More
Amy Nelson is in the midst of a career pivot. A former Wall Street lawyer, she and co-founder Kim Peltola are launching a business and going through their first round… Read More
Nate Taggart and Chase Douglas believe that server-less applications will become more popular than traditional apps over the next decade. What does that mean exactly? They foresee a shift from application… Read More
Mid-sized to enterprise-level companies rely on an increasingly wide array of software products to keep their businesses efficient. But, ironically, relying on a big pool of different SaaS applications can… Read More
Big companies are increasingly seeking out renewable energy to cope with carbon emissions caps and keep their budgets more stable, but those big transactions can be complicated and lengthy. So… Read More
Remitly has something to say about the current immigration climate in the United States. The Seattle startup, which makes it easy for immigrants to send money to their families back… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur Martin Tobias’s latest venture was inspired by his six-year-old. He and his daughter were visiting his brother, David Tobias, and his six-year-old in Los Angeles when the lightbulb went off.… Read More
AppZocial, a Seattle startup that builds native apps for “trusted communities,” like alumni groups, churches, and non-profits, just secured $1 million in angel financing. The majority of the cash will… Read More