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Venture capital

ShopIgniter raises another $1.5M to help brands sell on Facebook

ShopIgniter, a four-year-old startup that helps brands market products through social media, has raised an additional $1.5 million from its… Read More

VC dollars surge in NW, propelled by huge $120M deal

Propelled by a massive financing round in upstart Seattle biotechnology company Juno Therapeutics, venture capital investments in the Pacific Northwest… Read More

Evocalize raises $3M to help brands build more personal relationships with customers

With the advent of social media and other technology, brands can communicate with individual customers in more ways than ever.… Read More

Madrona’s McIlwain: The current tech boom has sizzle, but even more substance

Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain doesn’t think history is repeating itself when it comes to another technology bubble, even though… Read More

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla rips 60 Minutes, says ‘Cleantech Crash’ story uses ‘Benghazi-style reporting’

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. In a 2,111-word missive,… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos backs cancer research startup Juno Therapeutics

Juno Therapeutics, a new Seattle startup that’s trying to eliminate cancer from the human body, raised a hefty $120 million… Read More

The rich get richer: VC dollars concentrate in top funds

Well, it’s the same old story in the venture capital business. The dominant big funds keep gaining momentum, while the… Read More

Genomics startup ActX raises $1.9M in seed round

ActX, a Seattle startup that is developing technologies to make patient genomic data more useful in medical practice, has raised… Read More

Chart: Here’s where VCs invested in the Pacific NW

It was a solid year for venture capital investing in Oregon and Washington as investors pumped a total of $1.18… Read More

PlaceFull raises $1.1M to help gyms, wineries and other event spaces with booking and scheduling

Ryan Hamlin started PlaceFull two years ago with the goal of helping people find awesome party or meeting spaces in… Read More

Bezos-backed money transfer startup Remitly lands $5.5M

Seattle money transfer startup Remitly continues to reel in cash, most recently scoring a $5.5 million series A deal led… Read More

Rival IQ raises $860,000 to help marketers keep tabs on competitors

Want to track every move of your competitors, while gaining insights about your own business? Rival IQ wants to help,… Read More

OnTheGo raises cash to bring gesture recognition to smart glasses

OnTheGo wants to make smart glasses even smarter. And the five-person Portland startup has secured $700,000 in fresh capital to… Read More

Bezos-backed Doxo raises $3.5M to help you pay bills online

Seattle startup Doxo has raised $3.5 million in fresh funding, money that it will use to enhance its online bill paying… Read More

Deals of the Year: The top 28 venture capital investments we tracked in 2013

Venture capital investing in Washington state started out with a whimper in 2013, but it is ending with a bang.… Read More

Maveron joins the billion-dollar club, one of 10 VC firms to generate big returns in 2013

Venture capital is a high-risk, high-reward game where the funds at the top tend to grab the lion’s share of… Read More

Optimistic VCs and startup CEOs expect even better things ahead in 2014

It’s been a pretty good year in the startup community, with the IPO market heating up and plenty of dollars… Read More

Andreessen Horowitz leads $22M series B round for mobile OS-maker Cyanogen

Cyanogen’s plans to disrupt the mobile operating system market just became a little more legitimate. The Seattle-based company today announced… Read More

TechStars grad ResolutionTube raises $1.5M to change how technicians fix machines

In what’s becoming a common occurrence, another TechStars Seattle 2013 team is raising a seed round. The latest is ResolutionTube,… Read More

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, VC John Doerr invest $14.5M in DreamBox Learning

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, venture capitalist John Doerr and two undisclosed Seattle education philanthropists are investing $14.5 million in DreamBox… Read More

UW spin-out Qazzow scores $2.4M to bolster customer service on e-commerce sites

Qazzow, a spin-out from the University of Washington’s Information School, has landed $2.4 million in series A financing in a… Read More

Onvia co-founder raises $4.35M for Koru, helping college grads find impactful jobs

We’ve certainly seen a lot of activity in the online education arena in recent months, including large financing rounds for… Read More

Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital invests $30M in car-buying advisor TrueCar.com

Paul Allen’s investment arm Vulcan Capital today announced it is investing $30 million in TrueCar.com, an eight-year-old company that has… Read More

UIEvolution scores $8M to more safely connect drivers to mobile apps

UIEvolution has been around the block a few times, founded 13 years ago, acquired in 2004 by Square Enix and… Read More

Medical coordination software provider Clarity Health Services raises $6.6M

Clarity Health Services, a Seattle-based company that builds software for medical care coordination, has raised a $6.6 million round from Columbia… Read More

Techstars grad Shippable raises $2M to help developers ship code faster

Another Techstars Seattle graduate, another nice seed round. Following in the footsteps of fellow 2013 Techstars Seattle companies Everpath and… Read More

Fast-growing IT automation startup Opscode raises $32M, changes name to Chef

Seattle entrepreneur Barry Crist likes to say that the best time to raise money is when you don’t really need… Read More

Seattle VCs pick their deal of the year, and it’s a no-brainer

Well, we could see this one coming. The Evergreen Venture Capital Association, the group that represents the Seattle venture capital… Read More

It’s getting easier to raise $100M: Mega-financings increase 50% in 2013

Earlier this week, we covered the massive $120 million series A financing round for Seattle biotechnology upstart Juno Therapeutices, one… Read More

VMware vets raise cash for stealthy cloud startup Nurego, grab support from Paul Maritz

A new Seattle area cloud computing startup called Nurego just scored $2 million in fresh funding with support from some… Read More

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