Articles about Venture capital – Page 36 of 69

Haiku Deck raises cash, names Rand Fishkin and Russell Benaroya to board

Haiku Deck, the Seattle startup that’s creating an alternative to PowerPoint, has raised some fresh capital and appointed to key… Read More

Q&A: Madrona’s Tom Alberg on the changing winds of venture capital, tech bubbles and bankrolling a young Jeff Bezos

Tom Alberg did not have grand ambitions when he co-founded Madrona Venture Group with a few high-powered business buddies 20… Read More

Venture capital investments slump 9% in Washington state, talk of slowdown increases

Venture capital investments in Washington state tumbled during the third quarter, falling to $374.5 million as investors bankrolled 30 deals.… Read More

Glamhive raises cash for fashion platform that rewards users who share outfits

Glamhive, a two-year-old Seattle startup that rewards fashionistas with gift cards for sharing their favorite outfits online, has raised $946,000 in investment… Read More

Gratafy raises $4.3M to meet growing demand from restaurants, bars for gift giving platform

Gratafy continues to grow and the Seattle startup is raising more investment money to help meet demand. The three-year-old company, which… Read More

Praesidio raises another $3.1M to help banks, credit unions with cybersecurity solution

Praesidio just raised more funding to help banks and credit unions manage their cybersecurity technology. The Seattle-based startup has reeled… Read More

Deutsche Telekom invests in DocuSign, bringing total capital raised to $525M

DocuSign’s amazing appetite for capital does not appear to be waning. The electronic signature powerhouse, with operations in Seattle and… Read More

500 Startups co-founder Dave McClure: 90 percent of VCs are going to look like idiots in 10 years

Venture capitalist Dave McClure takes an unusual approach to startup investing, spreading smaller bets over a lot of startups instead of… Read More

Top Seattle investors raise $12.5M for new ‘startup studio’ Pioneer Square Labs

Geoff Entress has an impressive resume. The former securities lawyer and financial analyst is a venture partner at Voyager Capital… Read More

‘Uber for deliveries’ Dolly raises $8M to help people move big items, launches in Seattle

After helping people deliver more than 30,000 items in Chicago over the past year, Dolly is raising more investment money… Read More

Life science investment group Accelerator Corp. completes $62.8M in funding for biotech startups

Seattle-based Accelerator Corp. will be looking to spend a ton of money on biotech startups soon, but not only in the… Read More

SheerID raises $5.3M to help retailers verify customers who qualify for special offers

SheerID, a Eugene, Ore.-based startup that develops verification technology for retailers, has raised a $5.3 million round to help scale the company’s… Read More

Ex-Amazon exec looks to disrupt healthcare at Providence Ventures, taps former Swype CEO as entrepreneur-in-residence

Over the past year, Providence Health & Services, a 159-year old not-for-profit Catholic health care provider, has quietly built a sophisticated… Read More

Fashion model raises $1.8M for Fitcode to change how women shop for jeans online

For women, it’s not always easy to find a perfect pair of jeans online, and now one Kirkland, Wash.-based startup wants to help. Founded last year,… Read More

Research: Tech IPOs hit lowest point since 2008 as Seattle region keeps waiting for first of 2015

Here’s a silver lining for all those Seattle-area investors still waiting for the region’s first tech IPO of the year… Read More

Ignition Partners backs a new cloud startup, while IBM acquires one already in its portfolio

Ignition Partners announced some changes to its investment portfolio on Thursday, as the Bellevue-based venture capital firm saw IBM scoop up… Read More

Chef raises $40M to expand globally, meet growing demand for IT automation technology

Demand for Chef’s technology is increasing exponentially, and now the Seattle company is raising its largest funding round yet to help support… Read More

Area360 raises $3.5M for mobile location tech platform, relocates HQ from New Zealand to Seattle

For Chris Smith, what started as a simple trip to the zoo has turned into a fast-growing startup that just… Read More

Cozy raises $3.4M from Slack co-founder, others for property rental management platform

Cozy is raising more money to help fuel development of its property rental management platform. The Portland-based startup has raised… Read More

Spare5 raises $10M to help smartphone owners make money in their free time

Spare5 seems to have struck a chord with its platform that pays people to spend their spare time performing short… Read More

Modumetal raises more cash from Founders Fund to transform the way metal is made

Modumetal wants to transform the way metal is engineered and now it has more capital in the bank to do so. The… Read More

‘Google Maps on steroids’: Cartogram raises $325K for indoor mapping platform

Editor’s note: This story was updated to reflect that Steve Kondik is a board member, not an investor, in Cartogram. … Read More

Techstars Seattle grad TrueFacet raises $2.7M from Maveron, others for online jewelry marketplace

TrueFacet, a New York-based startup that hosts an online marketplace for luxury jewelry, today announced a $2.7 million funding round… Read More

As tech stocks take a dive, prominent investor Bill Gurley warns this could be ‘an inflection point’

It’s been a tough week to be a technology investor, as virtually every giant across the industry has taken a hit.… Read More

Peach raises $8M to deliver lunch, will expand service to Boston and Washington D.C.

Peach has nailed down a successful formula for delivering lunch to office workers in places like Seattle and San Diego. Now, the… Read More

Pavia Systems raises $3M to help transportation departments speed up inspection process

Pavia Systems, a 10-year-old Seattle startup, has raised a $3 million funding round to help continue building out its platform that… Read More

Unify Square raises another $4M from Microsoft, others to help businesses utilize Skype

Unify Square, a Bellevue-based startup that helps companies implement Skype for Business, has reeled in another $4 million in funding.… Read More

ImpactFlow raises $5.7M to simplify how companies, employees donate to non-profits

ImpactFlow wants to help non-profits and businesses work together more effectively, and now it has a good chunk of funding to… Read More

Portland cloud computing management startup Cloudability raising more cash

Portland-based Cloudability is set to raise a large round of fresh cash, according to a pair of SEC filings. First… Read More

Advice: 3 ways to meet startup investors

For entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital, getting investor introductions is a key first step towards achieving fundraising success. A well-prepared… Read More