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Seattle angel investors launch ‘Flying Fish’ venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups

For the past few months, Flying Fish Venture Partners has been flying under the radar. The firm, founded by Seattle… Read More

Software development integration startup Tasktop raises $11.3M

Tasktop, a Vancouver B.C.-based startup that helps companies speed up their software development process, today announced a $11.3 million investment… Read More

Stealthy University of Washington spinout raises cash for non-invasive cancer-diagnosing liquid biopsy

University of Washington spinout Bellwether Bio isn’t disclosing much about its technology, but what it is sharing could be promising… Read More

Bill Gates-backed satellite antenna company Kymeta raises $73.5M, total funding nears $200M

Kymeta has raised its largest investment round to fuel development of the company’s satellite antenna technology. The Redmond, Wash.-based company recently… Read More

Cybersecurity startup Critical Informatics raises $3M, hires new CEO and announces plans for Seattle office

Cybersecurity startup Critical Informatics has been busy so far in 2017. The company Wednesday announced a flurry of moves, including… Read More

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region,… Read More

VC firms invest $16.5B into 1,797 startups in Q1 as investors return to ‘disciplined approach’

U.S. venture capitalists are returning back to rational dealmaking, according to what analysts say about new investment data from Q1… Read More

Data storage and analytics startup Qumulo raises another $30M, total funding up to $130M

Qumulo has spent the past five years building out its cloud-based platform that helps companies store and manage their data usage.… Read More

Ripl raises $3M to give small business owners ‘a marketing team in your pocket’

Ripl is raising more cash as the company sees more traction with its app that lets people create visual marketing content. The… Read More

Cloud-based enterprise contract management company Icertis scores $25M

Icertis, which helps large organizations such as 3M, Becton Dickinson, Cognizant, Daimler and Microsoft manage contracts, has landed a $25 million… Read More

‘Uber for car repair’ startup Wrench raises $4M for service that brings a mechanic to your vehicle

Investors like what they see in Wrench. The Seattle-based on-site car repair startup today announced a $4 million Series A round… Read More

Socedo raises another $1M for lead generation platform that analyzes social media activity

Socedo is raising more cash to build out its platform that helps companies target sales leads from social media activity. The Seattle… Read More

Appuri raises another $2M to help companies assess and predict customer behavior

It’s been a busy start to 2017 for Appuri. The Seattle-based startup just landed $2 million in funding from existing… Read More

SheerID reels in $2.9M to expand customer verification software platform

SheerID is having a good run. The startup, based in Eugene, Ore., makes software that helps companies verify the identity of… Read More

Venture capitalist William ‘Bing’ Gordon resigns from Amazon’s board after 14-year run

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers chief product officer William “Bing” Gordon, who has served on the Amazon board since 2003, when… Read More

Venture capital and private equity fundraising up globally, but a slowdown is likely, report finds

Venture capitalists — the folks who place dollars in emerging companies — are finding a good amount of fresh capital… Read More

Amazon Web Services cloud migration service 2nd Watch raises $19M

2nd Watch, which helps large organizations such as Crate & Barrel, Condé Nast, Coca-Cola North America and Lenovo build and… Read More

ResearchGate reports $52 million funding round, including cash from Bill Gates

Berlin-based ResearchGate, a LinkedIn-type site for scientists, today revealed that it has received $52.6 million from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and a… Read More

Initialized Capital leads $4M round for Privacy Labs startup that helps users ‘take control of their data’

Giri Sreenivas and Dirk Sigurdson already launched and sold one security company. Now they’ve raised a sizable seed investment round… Read More

Q&A: Former EagleView CEO Chris Barrow on launching a $150M venture fund in Seattle

When Bothell, Wash.-based EagleView Technology Corp. was acquired in 2015, EagleView CEO Chris Barrow wasn’t sure what he would do next.… Read More

‘Spotify for business’ startup Soundtrack Your Brand raises $22M, plans to grow Seattle-area office

A Spotify-backed company that gives businesses legal and data-driven background music is raising more cash to help expand its operations. Soundtrack… Read More

Top Silicon Valley VC firm Accel leads $15M round for Opal, a marketing collaboration startup based in Portland

Given its early-stage investments in companies like Facebook, Slack, and Dropbox, if your company raises money from Accel, it’s probably a… Read More

Students pitch everything from non-toxic pesticides to fashion startups at collegiate entrepreneurial contest TigerLaunch

A club at the University of Washington is ready to help launch the next big thing. Startup UW is a… Read More

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