Articles about Venture capital – Page 37 of 69

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

PayRange raises $12M to install new payment technology in old vending machines

PayRange wants to help you buy items from a vending machine without cash or coins. The Portland-based startup today announced… Read More

Cadence Biomedical raises $1.2M to help people with disabilities restore walking ability

Cadence Biomedical, makers of the Kickstart medical device, today announced a $1.2 million Series B funding round. The seven-year-old Seattle-based… Read More

Auth0 secures $6.9M to help app developers simplify user logins

Bellevue-based Auth0 announced today that it has raised $6.9 million in funding. The startup provides a way for developers to easily set… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec Bob Muglia raises $45M for data warehousing startup Snowflake

Snowflake Computing announced today that it raised $45 million, with the company saying that it will use the funding to continue… Read More

Indix raises $15M to build out huge e-commerce product database trove

Indix has raised another $15 million to continue developing a platform that offers its clients information about millions of online products. The… Read More

Ex-Microsoft employees raise $2M for Appuri to help companies reduce customer churn

Seattle-based Appuri has raised $2 million in seed funding led by Divergent Ventures. Appuri collects customer usage data to predict when… Read More

Food industry vets pour $1.3M into Kitchenbowl recipe app as top chefs join platform

Kitchenbowl is raising some dough to help people cook. The Seattle-based startup has reeled in $1.3 million from angel investors like… Read More

UW spin-out Vicis raises $1.6M for high-tech football helmet that reduces brain trauma

Vicis is raising more money to help develop its high-tech football helmet. The Seattle-based startup, which spun out of the… Read More