Articles about Venture capital – Page 26 of 69

New Seattle venture fund aims to invest $190M in blockchain startups and apps

A new venture fund is looking to invest a cryptocurrency equivalent of more than $190 million in blockchain apps and… Read More

Carewave Medical raising cash for pain relieving wearable, with support from big biotech names

Medical device company Carewave Medical is looking to raise $1 million to support its wearable pain relief technology, according to… Read More

Event technology startup eventcore raises $4.1M to fuel national expansion

Eventcore, a Seattle startup focused on event planning and management, has raised $4.1 million to grow on a national level.… Read More

Looking to spark Seattle’s startup ecosystem, Founder’s Co-op raises new venture fund

Founder’s Co-op, an early-stage venture capital firm that’s backed Seattle area startups such as Apptentive, Crowd Cow, LiveStories and… Read More

RealWear raises $17M for industrial augmented reality headgear

Vancouver, Wash.-based RealWear this week announced a $17 million Series A investment round led by Columbia Ventures Corporation. The company’s $2,000… Read More

Varsity Tutors raises another $50M to expand globally, accelerate growth in Seattle

Varsity Tutors, an education technology startup that combines live experts with an online and mobile platform for learners, today announced… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff talks about his investments in SpaceX and other ventures

Zillow Group has just reported an eye-popping $1 billion in annual revenue — but the Seattle-based real estate data company’s CEO,… Read More

TurboPatent lands $3.25M to help companies protect their inventions using automation

Seattle startup TurboPatent has raised $3.25 million to bolster its growing suite of automation tools for patents and intellectual property. TurboPatent focuses… Read More

Icertis raises $50M, looks to become the Salesforce of contract management

Samir Bodas, co-founder and CEO of Bellevue-based Icertis, thinks the contract-lifecycle management industry his company serves could become as large… Read More

Virtual reality startup Vreal lands $11.7M to build out VR game streaming platform

Seattle virtual reality startup Vreal has landed an $11.7 million Series A round to continue building out what it calls… Read More

Niche raises $6.6M, aims to be one of Pittsburgh’s ‘game-changing’ startups with school and neighborhood reviews

PITTSBURGH — To get Pittsburgh’s tech ecosystem on another level, the city’s startup scene could use more homegrown companies that… Read More

Seattle startup vet raises cash for stealthy AstrumU, looks to bring efficiency to higher education with machine learning

Adam Wray sees plenty of inefficiency in the $600 billion higher education arena. And the Seattle entrepreneur — who previously… Read More

Pulse Labs raises $2.5M from Madrona, Jeff Bezos, Techstars for voice app testing platform

As voice-enabled applications continue to proliferate everyday life, developers need a robust user testing platform — and Pulse Labs has… Read More

Wag raises $300M round from SoftBank as dog walking service takes on Rover

SoftBank is betting big on Wag. The Japanese tech giant this week announced a $300 million investment in the Los Angeles-based dog… Read More

How VCs think: Lessons for startup founders after our behind-the-scenes pitch day experience

Learn to tell your story; be confident but comfortable; and focus on a problem, not a solution. These are a… Read More

Pittsburgh forges a new future, remaking iconic steel town into a modern innovation factory

Decades before the NBA and Shark Tank, years before making his fortune in tech, Mark Cuban was a kid growing… Read More

Marijuana investment firm Privateer Holdings raises $60M, total funding eclipses $200M

Investors are seeing green when it comes to the future of the marijuana industry. Seattle-based marijuana investment firm Privateer Holdings… Read More

Shiftboard raises $11.5M for employee schedule management platform, 17 years after launching

More than 17 years after launching, Shiftboard today announced a $11.5 million Series A investment round. Founded in 2002, Shiftboard… Read More

Melinda Gates invests in $181M fund for women-led VC firm Aspect Ventures

Aspect Ventures today announced a new $181 million institutional fund that includes money from Melinda Gates, a vocal critic about… Read More

Integris raises another $1.5M for data privacy intelligence platform as GDPR deadline looms

With the General Data Protection Regulation law set to go into effect later this year, companies are scrambling to make… Read More

NurseGrid raises $5.7M for scheduling and staffing tech platform for nurses

Operating a hospital is no easy task, and at the moment, finding technology to help in that task is also… Read More

Pioneer Square Labs raises another $15M to fuel operations; studio has spun out 9 startups

Pioneer Square Labs has raised an additional $15 million to support the growth of its startup studio model that spun… Read More

JetClosing raises more cash to expand mobile-first real estate closing platform

JetClosing is finding traction with its mobile-first real estate closing platform. The Seattle startup just raised another $800,000 via a… Read More

Chart: Here are the U.S. states that attracted the most venture capital in Q4

Looking for venture capital? You better cruise the streets of San Francisco and the boulevards of Silicon Valley. California remains… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: We meet our ping-pong robot overlords, and a big shift in venture capital funding

It’s no average week for the tech world — in fact, this week marked the biggest tech event in the U.S.,… Read More

Venture capitalists poured $84 billion into startups in 2017, a massive tally not seen since the dot-com boom

Venture capitalists were busy in 2017, pouring $84 billion into 8,035 companies across the U.S. According to a new report… Read More

Stratos Genomics raises $20M to commercialize fast DNA sequencing technology

Faster, cheaper DNA sequencing technology has revolutionized medicine in the past ten years. The tech provides the backbone for breakthroughs… Read More

From cryptocurrency to IPOs, 6 venture capitalists make tech predictions for 2018

No one knows for sure what will happen in the technology world this year. But venture capitalists have their finger… Read More

Gene therapy startup Immusoft raises $3M, appoints new CEO as it approaches clinical trials

Immusoft is looking to get its gene therapy technology into clinical trials, and the Seattle startup announced Friday that it… Read More

Critical Informatics raises $1.1M to expand cybersecurity platform that blends human expertise and software

As cybersecurity breaches continue to pile up, a Seattle area startup says it knows what the problem is: too much… Read More