Articles about Venture capital – Page 50 of 70

Tech Moves: Skype exec departs Microsoft; Frazier Healthcare taps new VC; etc.

—Skype executive Mark Gillett is leaving Microsoft, taking a new position at private equity firm Silver Lake, reports Kara Swisher… Read More

Contrarian view: Entrepreneurs say lack of capital in Seattle is actually a healthy thing

There’s just not enough money floating around the Seattle startup ecosystem. You’ve heard the arguments before, listened to the debates… Read More

WhitePages CEO Alex Algard: Not having VCs will allow a ‘cleaner’ focus

It’s not everyday that a technology company is able to buy out its venture backers. But that’s what happened this… Read More

Seattle interactive design firm Blue Rooster raises $3M, taps Microsoft vet as VP

Blue Rooster, an interactive design firm based in Seattle, has raised $3 million in a Series A round from PFU… Read More

WhitePages buys out VC investors for $80 million

WhitePages is taking the unusual step of buying out its venture capital investors, paying $80 million to buy back shares… Read More

Kona Medical raises $10M to reduce high blood pressure for people in China

Kona Medical has raised $10 million in a Series D round from Morningside Group to bring its novel ultrasound technology to patients in… Read More

Startup advice from Concur CEO Steve Singh: Take the minimal amount of funding as possible

If you’re a startup founder looking to raise money, here’s some insight from Concur CEO Steve Singh: Take as little cash… Read More

Chart: NW startup companies that raised more than $1M in venture capital in Q3

Venture capital investing in the Northwest region — consisting of Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming — dipped during… Read More

Puralytics slurps up $4M to build out water purification technology

Puralytics, a startup developing water purification equipment, announced today that it has raised $4 million in a Series A round… Read More

Venture capitalists invest $8.1B in Q3, IPO market surges with 25 pricings

Venture capitalists continue to find solid opportunities, despite big regulatory changes that could eventually alter the way startup companies raise… Read More

Usermind raises $7.6M from Andreessen Horowitz to build software for enterprise business operations

Andreessen Horowitz Partner Scott Weiss was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article talking about his firm’s interest in enterprise… Read More

Seattle cloud startup Blue Box unpacks $1.5M in new funding

Blue Box, the Seattle cloud and hosting startup led by entrepreneur Jesse Proudman, has raised an additional $1.5 million in… Read More

Comr.se raises $780K to help brands sell products within social streams

Shopping cart technology isn’t exactly the newest innovation around. But one young Seattle startup seems to have struck the right… Read More

VC deal activity hits highest mark since dot-com boom

It may feel a little frothy out there in startup land. And a new report out from CB Insights shows… Read More

iSpot.tv raises $5M, looks to provide better advertising insights by analyzing 35,000 TV commercials

Sean Muller didn’t have to raise cash for his fast-growing Seattle area startup iSpot.tv. After all, the 15-person company —… Read More

Headwinds persist for VC funds: 56 funds raise $4.1 billion in Q3

U.S. venture capital funds had a bit more success raising money in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter,… Read More

Maveron-backed PotBelly fills tummy with spectacular IPO

Well, the sandwiches are delicious. But it’s not just meatball subs that’s getting Wall Street excited about PotBelly Sandwich Shop.… Read More

Chart: The top U.S. cities for venture capital in Q3

Just yesterday, I heard from a Seattle entrepreneur who said he was moving his startup company to San Francisco. It’s… Read More

Frazier Healthcare raises $377M venture fund, surpassing target

Frazier Healthcare has raised a $377 million fund, one of the largest in recent years by a Seattle venture firm.… Read More

Home improvement startup Porch.com is raising a huge financing round, lines up big-time backers

Last week on the GeekWire podcast, Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman explained how he wants to build a very big company… Read More

Report: Washington state looks to trim allocation for private equity

The Washington State Investment Board is looking to reduce its allocation in private equity, cutting the targets from 25 percent… Read More

Seattle VC firm Madrona has a new home, with more room to incubate startups

Since 1995, Tom Alberg and the rest of the crew at Seattle venture capital firm Madrona have bankrolled startups from… Read More

CyanogenMod raises $7M to build a customized Android experience, challenge Windows OS

What started as a side project 48 months ago for Steve Kondik has turned into a full-blown mission to build one… Read More

Nuiku raises $1.6M to build apps that act as voice-controlled virtual assistants

Sean Thompson was frustrated with how much time it took to work with a line-of-business system like Salesforce. This problem… Read More

Portland mobile app-tester AppThwack partners with CIA venture capital arm

You know your startup is doing something right when the CIA’s investment arm decides to invest some money into the… Read More

GoPro founder loves bootstrapping, excited to work with Google Glass

SAN FRANCISCO — While it may be getting easier to lock down VC funding, GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman… Read More

Vinod Khosla hates board meetings, says most VCs ‘add negative value’ to startups

SAN FRANCISCO — Vinod Khosla has had it with VCs. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the Sun Microsystems co-founder said… Read More

Naval Academy grads raise $3.3M for business intelligence startup Easy Metrics

Easy Metrics, a Seattle startup founded by U.S. Naval Academy grads Dean Dorcas and Dan Keto, has pulled in $3.3… Read More

Portland’s CPUsage raises $925K for high performance cloud computing platform

There’s no doubt that cloud computing has made life easier for thousands of businesses around the world. But sometimes setting… Read More

Cisco buys Ignition-backed flash storage startup Whiptail for $415M

Cisco today paid $415 million to acquire New Jersey-based Whiptail, an all-flash enterprise class storage startup bankrolled in part by… Read More