Another out-of-town venture firm is looking at Seattle for new startup investments. Los Angeles-based Bonfire has backed three Seattle-area startups and more could be on the way. “It’s an incredible… Read More
Some venture capitalists say it’s business as usual for their investment plans in the aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank’s downfall. But analysts with PitchBook wrote in a report this week… Read More
The latest venture capital data highlights an ongoing slowdown as interest rates remain high and expenses are throttled. We compared year-over-year numbers from GeekWire’s fundings list and spoke to investors… Read More
A new report from PitchBook indicates that the international video game industry entered a period of contraction in 2022, but new opportunities for investment are opening in fields such as… Read More
Whether or not the economy is in recession is still up for debate. But the startup world is definitely in one. That’s one key point made by a panel of… Read More
Venture capitalists are in the business of bets, writing checks to the people and ideas they believe are going to impact the world. As part of an annual GeekWire tradition,… Read More
Pier 70 Ventures, a new healthcare-focused venture firm led by managing partners with deep expertise in nurturing startups, is placing an emphasis on funding diverse teams and women entrepreneurs. “We… Read More
A previously unknown Seattle startup, founded by semiconductor and technology industry veterans, says it has developed an energy-efficient chip capable of running advanced AI applications on lightweight, wireless augmented reality… Read More
Venture capitalists are slowing investments as the economy cools. But they are also sitting on a record amount of cash, ready to be deployed into up-and-coming startups. To get a… Read More
Navigating the future of work. Learning how to fight against burnout. Taking on cybersecurity threats. Gathering community. Connecting with old colleagues. Making new friends. The 2022 GeekWire Summit had it… Read More
Last year, venture capitalists went on a spending spree, funneling a dizzying amount of capital into startups with ambitious growth plans and large total addressable markets. But just a year… Read More
Bloccelerate, a Seattle-area venture capital firm that backs startups building blockchain-related technologies, is raising another fund. A new SEC filing reveals that the firm raised $20 million of a larger… Read More
Cap Hill Brands, a Seattle-based e-commerce company founded and run by industry veterans Jason LeeKeenan and Kevin Saliba, has raised more than $100 million in a Series B round led… Read More
A venture capital firm led by young partners who don’t have decades of investing experience might deter some entrepreneurs and investors. Fuse isn’t running into that problem. The Seattle venture… Read More
Back in 2018, GeekWire published a list of women investors based in the Pacific Northwest who were writing checks to help startups grow. A lot has changed in four years.… Read More
Legendary auction house Christie’s got a front-row seat to the NFT craze. In March 2021, the 256-year-old art merchant facilitated the sale of a collage of the first 5,000 pieces… Read More
The news: Latchel, a platform that facilitates maintenance requests from rental property tenants, raised $16.7 million. The product: Founded in 2016, the Seattle-area startup works mostly with landlords and property… Read More
Phaidra, a startup building artificial intelligence tools for industrial customers ranging from vaccine manufacturers to paper mills, raised $25 million. The startup, led by alum from Alphabet’s AI research hub… Read More
The latest update to the GeekWire 200 rankings shows four newcomers to the top 10 and several startups making big moves up the list. Our index ranks the Pacific Northwest’s… Read More
It’s getting harder for an early-stage company to find a buyer. The exit value for U.S. venture capital-backed startups in the second quarter was the lowest it’s been in more… Read More
Venture capital investments in the U.S. declined more than 23% to $62 billion in the second quarter, from $82 billion in the first quarter, according to a preview of the… Read More
Tech startups in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest raised less than $4 billion in funding in the first half of 2022, down 20% from more than $5 billion in the… Read More
Strive, which makes wearable tech for athletes, raised $6 million as part of a Series A funding round. The Seattle startup aims to help athletes better understand how and why… Read More
These days, it might be easier for early-stage startups to recruit top tech talent. That was one of a few silver linings related to the slowdown in the economy highlighted… Read More
A husband-and-wife duo and tech veteran are jumping into the crowded space of real estate investing with a startup that aims to simplify identifying and managing single-family rental properties. The… Read More
Seattle-based startup bttn, which aims to modernize the healthcare distribution marketplace, raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Tiger Global. The funding pushes the year-old company to… Read More
What the heck is going on in the economy, and how will the market gyrations impact startups and venture capital? The backdrop for these questions is dynamic and complex right… Read More
With fears of an economic hurricane approaching the U.S. economy, venture capitalists are advising tech companies to cut expenses and extend their cash runways as boom times come to a… Read More
Extend your cash runway. Do more with less. And get ready for the boom times to be over. Those are common threads embedded inside warning memos that venture capital firms… Read More
Bend, Ore.-based Cascade Seed Fund raised $10 million for its Cascade Seed Fund II. The firm will make about 25 investments of up to $250,000 in early-stage tech and consumer product startups… Read More