Articles about Venture capital – Page 37 of 70

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

Vicis raises another $1.5M for high-tech football helmet that reduces brain trauma

Vicis continues to raise cash for its high-tech football helmet. Less than two months after raising $1.6 million, the Seattle-based… Read More

Spoken Communications lands $28M to bring cloud technologies to call centers

Fast-growing Spoken Communications has reeled in $28 million in fresh funding, money that the maker of cloud technologies for customer… Read More

Patent Navigation raises $2M to help lawyers automate the patent application process

Patent Navigation is raising cash to accelerate development of its software that helps lawyers prepare patent applications more efficiently. The Seattle… Read More

Legal advice startup Avvo raises $71.5M, plans to hire 80 this year

Avvo is on a roll. Just two weeks after the Seattle-based legal advice startup announced plans for a new downtown office,… Read More

Unicorn watch: There were 107 VC financing deals of $100M or more in the first half of 2015

We’ve been writing for some time about how the big private companies in technology just keep on getting bigger, landing… Read More

PicoBrew slurps up another $2.3M to build more beer-making machines

PicoBrew is raising more money to help fuel development of its beer makers. The Seattle-based startup just reeled in another… Read More

Bright.md raises $3.5M to help physicians provide remote care online in 2 minutes

Bright.md is raising cash to help you visit the doctor virtually. The Portland-based startup today announced a $3.5 million Series… Read More

This medical device startup just raised cash and is heading to Rwanda

After three months in Y Combinator, an oversubscribed financing round, and a large federal grant, Shift Labs is well on… Read More

Chart: U.S. venture capital financing surges 24 percent to $19 billion in Q2

It’s a good time to be raising cash in tech land. According to a report out today from Dow Jones… Read More

‘Uber for kids’ service HopSkipDrive raises $3.9M from Maveron, others

HopSkipDrive wants to be the Uber for kids, and now it has some funding to do so. The Los Angeles-based… Read More

Dr. Lee Hood’s scientific wellness startup Arivale raises $36M to improve health through genetics

A new startup in Seattle wants to be the Google or Microsoft of a new industry called scientific wellness, and now… Read More

Ignition raising new venture fund to support existing portfolio companies

Ignition Partners, the backer of companies such as Chef, Couchbase, Heroku and others, is raising a new annex fund to… Read More

Restaurant coupon app Forks raises cash to help people save money on food

Forks is raising cash to help you save some dough. The Seattle-based startup, which develops a restaurant coupon app for… Read More

We’re not smoking something: This marijuana startup is valued at half a billion dollars

We all know there’s a lot of money to be made in the pot business, especially in states like Washington… Read More

SEC filing: Ex-Microsoft manager raises $202M for enterprise software-focused venture fund

Tola Ventures co-founder Sheila Gulati is not saying much about her Seattle firm, with the former investment banker and ex-Microsoft… Read More

Electronic fleet tracking company Zonar Systems raises $50M, including cash from Daimler Trucks

Zonar Systems, a Seattle area company that provides electronic fleet inspection and tracking systems for public and private fleets, has scored… Read More

Northwest companies raise nearly $1B in Q2, with angel-backed startups seeing higher valuations

Companies in the Northwest raised a total of $959.28 million in the second quarter, up 35 percent over the same… Read More

U.S. venture capital funds raise $10.3 billion in Q2, a 27 percent increase over last year

Thank the unicorns. As more companies stay private longer, and are raising larger and larger rounds, the trend appears to be benefiting venture capital firms,… Read More

The IPO market reignited in Q2 for venture-backed companies, but M&A deals slowed to a 12-year low

There’s a lot of talk of unicorns these days — private companies that are raising piles of venture capital at… Read More

Washed up by 38? New study says it’s the ideal age to find funding for your startup

This is interesting news for those facing middle age: A new study is finding that the typical startup founder most likely to… Read More

Korner raises $1.5M to keep your home safe with a dongle and smartphone app

Seattle-based Korner has raised $1.5 million to help fuel marketing and production of its home security product. The funding round, part of… Read More

Office 365 migration service SkyKick raises $10M, rolls out new cloud management product

SkyKick, a Seattle-based company that helps businesses migrate to Office 365, has raised an additional $10 million in capital to… Read More