Articles about Venture capital – Page 53 of 70

Microsoft Courier vets score $15M from Andreessen Horowitz to expand beyond blockbuster iPad app Paper

FiftyThree, maker of the sketching and illustration app Paper, the Apple 2012 iPad App of the Year, has scored $15 million… Read More

Big data startup SpaceCurve lands $10 million

SpaceCurve, which is developing a big data platform that it says provides “instantaneous intelligence” for location-based services, commodities and other… Read More

Yabbly raises cash to help consumers get product advice, names Ben Huh and Andy Liu to advisory board

Yabbly, the Seattle startup that’s looking to help consumers get solid advice on consumer products, everything from smartphones to baby… Read More

A new marketplace: Nimia offers one-stop shop for managing and licensing professional video

Zach McIntosh was busy wrapping up another video production project for National Geographic when he first realized a big problem:… Read More

Report: Portland’s AppFog to be acquired by Savvis

Portland platform-as-a-service startup AppFog is set to be acquired by Savvis, the big co-location and data center operator that’s owned… Read More

Q&A: Madrona’s Julie Sandler on startups, women in tech and getting promoted at Seattle’s top VC firm

Venture capitalists tend to have sharp elbows and prickly demeanors. But Julie Sandler, who joined Madrona Venture Group two years… Read More

TalentWise spins off from Naveen Jain’s Inome with $25M from mysterious backer

TalentWise has spun off from Naveen Jain’s Inome in a $25 million financing round led by an undisclosed Seattle area… Read More

InternMatch raises $4M to connect college kids with hot employers

The market for talent continues to heat up, which means it is more important than ever for big and small… Read More

Optimum Energy heats up with $12.2M to intelligently adjust temperature settings in buildings

Optimum Energy, a Seattle startup whose software intelligently adjusts a building’s temperature in order to reduce energy consumption, has scored… Read More

Mobisante raises $4.2M for smartphone-based ultrasound imaging system

Mobisante, the Redmond-based company that makes ultrasound technology viewable on a smartphone or tablet, just pulled in $4.2 million in fresh… Read More

New startup Porch raises $6.25M, aiming to fix home-improvement market with ‘massive amount of data’

After operating under wraps for the past year, a new Seattle-based startup called Porch is making its presence known for… Read More

Q&A: Photo sharing upstart Linea raises $4 million to fix ‘broken photo libraries’

It’s 2013 — nearly 10 years after the founding of Flickr and more than a year after Facebook bought Instagram… Read More

Automating the acquihire: ExitRound plays matchmaker for startups with nowhere else to turn

It’s the hard truth of startups. Most new companies never make it. Jacob Mullins has seen this reality play out… Read More

The VC drain: Yes, we’re a big importer of capital too

At the Technology Alliance annual luncheon this week in downtown Seattle, industry leaders lamented the sad state of the educational… Read More

Ex-Insitu CEO takes flight with stealthy big data startup Seeq

Steve Sliwa, the former CEO of Insitu Group, the maker of unmanned aerial vehicles that was purchased by Boeing for… Read More

VC returns improve for 10-year horizon, but you’d still be better off investing on Wall Street

There’s certainly been some good news in the venture business in recent weeks, with Yahoo announcing its $1.1 billion deal… Read More

Fast-growing Solavei scores fresh cash, aims to top $100M in revenue

Solavei, which rewards customers for signing up friends, family and co-workers for its wireless service, has scored $2 million in fresh… Read More

Dave McClure’s 500 Startups backs online presentation upstart 9Slides

9Slides, the maker of online presentation software that syncs video with slides, has raised capital from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups… Read More

Ride sharing service Lyft zooms forward with $60M from Andreessen Horowitz

Lyft, the ride sharing service known for the distinctive pink mustaches that drivers attach to their vehicles, has raised $60… Read More

Bruce Montgomery biotech startup Cardeas Pharma raises $34 million

It has been a good week for the Seattle life sciences community. On Monday, Seattle genomics tool maker NanoString Technologies… Read More

Fast-growing HasOffers raises $9.4M, promises to keep ‘bootstrapper spirit’ alive

HasOffers built a pretty impressive business over the past four years, using the company’s revenue to fuel expansion as it… Read More

You did what? Why we chose debt over venture capital

If you’re an entrepreneur, there’s a good chance that many of your conversations — and a good chunk of your… Read More

Apptio raises $45 million at a hefty valuation, plans to accelerate ‘on all fronts’

Apptio is not playing small ball. Just 14 months after raising a $50 million venture round, Bellevue-based Apptio is back… Read More

Startup valuations remain strong, but ‘down rounds’ increase to 28% of all VC deals

It was a bit of a mixed message in the latest Entrepreneurs Report from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, as so-called “down… Read More

Heralded UW computer science professor scores $6.75M for GraphLab, looking to make better online recommendations

It was a major coup last summer when The University of Washington hooked computer science professor Carlos Guestrin, a leading data scientist… Read More

Former Microsoft CFO John Connors named to Midas List for top investors

John Connors, a venture capitalist at Bellevue-based Ignition Partners who previously served as CFO of Microsoft, was named to Forbes’ 2013… Read More

Frazier Healthcare raises $281M for latest venture fund

Seattle venture capital firm Frazier Healthcare has raised $281.8 million for its seventh fund, according to a SEC filing today.… Read More

Virtual assistant startup lands $16 million to help sales pros cultivate hot leads

A fast-growing Bellingham startup has landed $16 million in venture capital from Kennet Partners and named former NexTag president Mark Bradley… Read More

Silicon Valley VC Bill Gurley: NYC needs more ‘iconic’ tech companies like Seattle

I’ve been writing a lot in recent months about the technology communities in Seattle and New York City, pinpointing the… Read More

Tango Card raises $4.1M to shake up the gift card market

Tango Card, the Seattle startup that’s looking to upend the gift card industry, has pulled in an additional $4.1 million… Read More