The unicorn stampede in Seattle has screeched to a halt. During venture capital boom times in the midst of the pandemic, Seattle birthed a number of “unicorns,” a term defined… Read More
Almost two years after officially attaining “unicorn” status, Seattle startup Rec Room continues to expand the audience for its eponymous flagship app Rec Room, with new physical gift cards, a… Read More
Rec Room, the Seattle-based development studio behind the fast-growing VR application Rec Room, has raised $145 million in new funding, bringing its current valuation to $3.5 billion. This is Rec… Read More
The news: Karat, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, raised a $110 million Series C round at a $1.1 billion valuation. It’s the latest Seattle tech company to… Read More
Amperity is the latest company to join the Seattle region’s elusive club of unicorns, or privately held tech startups valued at more than $1 billion. The marketing startup just reeled… Read More
The Seattle startup ecosystem has a new unicorn. Zenoti just reeled in a $160 million Series D round to help supercharge its enterprise software product used by more than 12,000… Read More
Sonder, a tech-enabled hospitality company, is moving into Seattle. The San Francisco-based startup, which is part hotel and part apartment-style vacation rental, is now offering units at Solis, a modern… Read More
Outreach is putting more fuel in the tank. The Seattle startup, one of a handful of “unicorn” companies in the region, just raised a $50 million Series F investment round,… Read More
Seattle’s unicorns are boring. That was one funny takeaway from a panel last week hosted by TiE Seattle featuring executives from some of the region’s privately-held billion-dollar startups, also known… Read More
Launching a startup is no easy feat. Growing a small team of early employees and increasing revenue is even harder. Raising millions of venture capital dollars and reaching a $1… Read More
Eugenio Pace knows the stats. The rate of survival for most startups is not pretty. In fact, his first attempt at building a company failed. But the Auth0 story is… Read More
The pressure is on at Outreach. The Seattle startup took a break on Wednesday, hosting an open house party to christen its new headquarters overlooking Elliott Bay and celebrate a… Read More
Seattle has a new unicorn. Sales automation startup Outreach has reeled in a huge $114 million investment round that pushes its valuation to $1.1 billion, joining an elite club of… Read More
Can algorithms predict the next billion-dollar companies better than human venture capitalists? It seems possible, at least based on a formula created by CB Insights and The New York Times. Back… Read More
There are more unicorns in the startup world than ever before, but fewer are being birthed compared to years past. PitchBook released its 2017 Unicorn Report this week and the… Read More
Bellevue, Wash.-based OfferUp says it has closed a $119 million funding round, led by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. The round has been rumored for weeks, and it pushes the mobile marketplace… Read More
Team messaging and collaboration company Slack topped the first-ever “Cloud 100” listing published by Forbes today. The listing ranks private companies with a cloud connection — most of them through offering… Read More
Craigslist competitor OfferUp is set to raise $120 million in a round that would give the Bellevue, Wash.-based company a valuation of $1.2 billion, according to a report from the Wall… Read More
DocuSign, the company known for enabling electronic signatures online, has raised an impressive $233 million to continue fueling its plans for rapid growth and worldwide expansion. Today’s round — at almost a quarter… Read More