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Rich Barton-backed career site Glassdoor picks up $70 million in funding

Glassdoor, the jobs and career site co-founded by former Zillow and Expedia CEO Rich Barton, just announced $70 million in… Read More

Money, money, money: VC dollars soar 40% in 2014 on back of big deals

The cash was flowing in 2014 to privately-held companies, but it was a case of the “rich getting richer.” While… Read More

After 9 years of bootstrapping, this Seattle startup just raised cash

Pipeline Deals didn’t need money for its first nine years, bootstrapping its way to success. It earned a coveted spot… Read More

TINYpulse raises $3.5M Series A round to fuel employee happiness survey platform

TINYpulse’s mission has been the same since day one: Help improve employee morale at companies worldwide. Now the Seattle-based startup is receiving a… Read More

Fast-growing grocery delivery startup Instacart reportedly raising $220M

Instacart, the grocery delivery service led by former Amazon.com engineer Apoorva Mehta, is raising $220 million in a huge financing… Read More

Cerevast raises $10M for ‘ClotBuster’ ultrasonic headframe device, a new therapy for stroke patients

Cerevast Therapeutics, a 5-year-old Redmond company that’s developing a novel approach for treating stroke patients with ultrasound, has raised $10 million… Read More

Front Desk raises $4M for business management software; Demandforce founders invest

Front Desk, a Seattle-based startup that helps businesses manage scheduling, payments, and other administrative tasks, has raised an additional $4… Read More

Elemental raises $14.5M from Australian telco giant Telstra, European broadcaster Sky

Portland-based Elemental Technologies today announced a $14.5 million Series D financing round led by Telstra, the largest telecommunications and information… Read More

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Redfin raises $70.9M to continue national real estate expansion

Redfin today announced $70.9 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle real estate brokerage will use to continue its national… Read More

Skytap lands $35 million to help companies build software faster

Skytap is flying high. The Seattle cloud computing startup today is announcing that it has raised $35 million in new… Read More

Utrip

Utrip lands $850K in financing, adds features and clients

Utrip, the Seattle-based travel planning platform, announced today that it has raised $850,000 in its second round of funding this… Read More

Bill Gates-backed Kymeta raises $20 million, CEO announces departure

Kymeta, which has been described as the next billion-dollar idea bankrolled by Bill Gates, has raised another $20 million in… Read More

Cloud lovers: Here’s why two Seattle VCs are so bullish on the future of IT

The technology industry is in constant motion occasionally undergoing tectonic shifts, altering the landscape and crowning new winners and losers.… Read More

Seattle VC firm Madrona debuts new incubator to be ‘systematic about building startups’

Coming up with a legitimate startup idea on a cocktail napkin is hard enough. But actually taking that sketch, quitting your day job,… Read More

Ford Davidson’s new startup Coolr scores $1.5 million to take on enterprise chat

Seattle entrepreneur Ford Davidson announced today he has raised $1.5 million for his new startup Coolr, three years after selling… Read More

Anonymous, passive career matchmaker Poachable raises $500K from Vulcan

Perhaps the third time’s a charm for Tom Leung and Ian Shafer. The co-founders of Poachable have raised another $500,000 for their service… Read More

Make money in your free time: Spare5 raises $3.25M from Madrona, Foundry, NEA for on-demand work platform

As a veteran entrepreneur and managing director of Madrona Venture Group, Greg Gottesman has seen his share of successful — and… Read More

That’s a lot of groceries: Instacart reportedly raising more than $100M at $2B valuation

Instacart is in the process of raising more than $100 million in an investment round that will value the grocery… Read More

Uber closes giant $1.2B funding round, CEO vows company will be ‘more humble’

Uber has just raised another blockbuster $1.2 billion round of funding at a mammoth $40 billion valuation to power the… Read More

Stealthy security startup Icebrg.io raises $2.5M from Madrona and other investors

Icebrg.io, a Seattle-based security startup, has raised $2.5 million in a round of seed funding led by Madrona Venture Group,… Read More

Blab raises $8.8M for social intelligence platform that predicts trending online conversations

Predicting the future has worked out well for Blab. The Seattle-based social intelligence startup announced today that it has raised… Read More

How President Obama’s 2008 campaign helped Socrata pivot, find startup success with open data

Socrata is growing like crazy. The Seattle startup, which develops cloud-based offerings for open data governments, has grown from 75 employees… Read More

Socrata scores big venture round to help governments operate more efficiently with data

Seattle startup Socrata is surging ahead after landing $30 million in fresh capital, according to an SEC filing. The filing… Read More

Aortica raises $7M to treat aorta disorders with 3D-printing technology

Aortica Corporation, a Kirkland-based medical device manufacturer, has raised a $7 million funding round that will help complete a FDA study… Read More

Ex-Microsoft GM Rahul Sood’s stealthy gaming startup raises $2.5M in a flash

As a former general manager of Microsoft Ventures, Rahul Sood met a lot of angel investors and venture capitalists. So, it… Read More

DocuSign names Samsung Ventures and other investors in $115M funding round

The DocuSign investment train just keeps on rolling. Today, the digital signature company announced that it received strategic investments from… Read More

WeMail raises $1M to make email happen at the speed of IM

WeMail, a Mercer Island-based startup, has raised $1 million in funding to change the way people use email on their… Read More

Startup vets Dan Shapiro and Tony Wright form Glowforge, raise cash for stealthy hardware project

Seattle startup veteran Dan Shapiro vowed after college that he’d never go into the software business, even though his dad… Read More

News Brief

Energy-saving chip maker Indice Semiconductor raises $6M, moves HQ to Oregon

Indice Semiconductor, a company that builds energy-saving chips, has raised $6 million in a round led by Pixelworks co-founder Allen Alley.… Read More

SheerID raises $2M to help retailers verify veterans, college students for special offers

SheerID, a Eugene, Ore.-based startup that develops verification technology for retailers, has raised $2 million in an over-subscribed round from existing angel… Read More

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