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San Francisco AI startup Nooks makes engineering push in Seattle

Nooks is nestling into Seattle. The San Francisco-based startup, which builds AI software for sales teams, is expanding its engineering… Read More

Startup Radar: Hiring and HR tools, dementia care, AI for financial advisors, and smart home lights

We’re back with Startup Radar, spotlighting another exciting cohort of Seattle-area founders at the helm of up-and-coming early stage companies.… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins Tola Capital; Amperity names CPO; Edelman exec joins Boeing

— Vahé Torossian has joined Seattle firm Tola Capital as a venture partner. Torossian was at Microsoft for more than… Read More

Why this enterprise software investor is bullish on AI — and how she’s assessing new startups

Sheila Gulati spent the past decade as managing director of Tola Capital immersed in cloud transformation, investing in cutting-edge enterprise… Read More

Tola Capital raises $230M for third fund to help Seattle firm back enterprise software startups

Seattle-based investment firm Tola Capital raised $230 million for its third fund that will provide capital for 25-to-30 early stage… Read More

Pacific Northwest startup funding activity is down 80% so far this year

The latest venture capital data highlights an ongoing slowdown as interest rates remain high and expenses are throttled. We compared… Read More

How 6 venture capitalists are thinking about 2023 — and their advice to startups

Venture capitalists are in the business of bets, writing checks to the people and ideas they believe are going to… Read More

Former Microsoft corporate vice president Phil Sorgen joins Tola Capital as venture partner

Phil Sorgen, a former Microsoft corporate vice president who was most recently chief revenue officer at RingCentral, is joining Seattle-area… Read More

Microsoft acquires Australia-based video creation platform Clipchamp, a startup with Seattle backing

Microsoft is acquiring Clipchamp, a Brisbane, Australia-based startup that makes a video creation and editing platform, the companies announced Tuesday.… Read More

Pulumi raises $15M in Series A funding, launches its SaaS multicloud app deployment service

It didn’t take long for the ex-Microsoft engineers behind Pulumi to prove their software development platform for multicloud computing was… Read More

(L to R): Charles Fitzgerald, Platformonomics; Frank Artale, Ignition Partners; Shelia Gulati, Tola Capital; S. "Soma" Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Tech Moves: Cambia Grove founder joins AWS as liaison to healthcare industry; VC Sheila Gulati joins Snapsheet board; etc.

Cambia Grove, a hub for healthcare startups and entrepreneurs, announced Wednesday that founder and executive director Nicole Bell is leaving… Read More

Ex-Microsoft manager raises $295M for growth stage venture fund targeting the future of enterprise software

Sheila Gulati is excited about the converging worlds of cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and now the former Microsoft… Read More

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