Articles about Venture capital – Page 54 of 70

VoloMetrix raises $3.3M to help determine how workers spend their days

VoloMetrix has raised $3.3 million in series A financing, money that the Seattle startup will use to continue developing an… Read More

Tech Moves: Changes at SEOmoz; Polaris picks CEO-in-residence; Microvision names CFO; etc.

Jamie Steven has stepped down as chief marketing officer at SEOmoz, taking on the same role at Speedtest.net operator Ookla. “I’ve… Read More

Washington vs. Oregon: Here are the VC deals from Q1

Last week, we reported on the new CB Insights VC report, noting that Oregon had overtaken Washington in terms of quarterly… Read More

Startup valuations rise even as VCs don’t get as many exits

Valuations at startup companies continue to increase, even though venture capitalists aren’t cashing out on deals as frequently as they’d… Read More

BeatBio gets $2.5M for new ‘super fuel’ that boosts pumping power of heart muscles

BeatBio, a Seattle life sciences startup led by former Vulcan Capital managing director Michael Kranda and former VieVax CTO Gregory… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Remitly announces free money transfers to the Philippines

Seattle startup Remitly just announced pricing for its new international money-transfer service to the Philippines, and customers are probably going… Read More

Adapx lands $3 million to help remote workers more easily capture data

Adapx has raised an additional $3 million in venture capital, money that the Seattle startup will use to continue to… Read More

VC investing tanks in Washington, overtaken by Oregon for first time since 1993

I’ve been covering the venture capital beat for nearly 15 years in the Pacific Northwest, through good times and bad.… Read More

AudienceScience scores cash, names former PopCap exec as CFO

AudienceScience has raised additional capital and named former PopCap Games executive Bob Chamberlain to the role of chief financial officer.… Read More

Online education startup Treehouse raises $7M to teach geeks new tech skills

Online education startup Treehouse has raised $7 million in fresh funding from Kaplan, Social + Capital Partnership and others. The money… Read More

Donuts raises more cash in quest to control hundreds of domain name extensions

Donuts appears to have a pretty big appetite for fresh cash. The Bellevue startup, which emerged last year with more than $100… Read More

Chart: Venture capital fundraising off to a ‘slow start’

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to those who follow the industry. Venture capital funds are having a harder time… Read More

After series of pivots, Haiku Deck scores $3 million to make presentation tools fun

Haiku Deck has reeled in $3 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle startup will use to continue to… Read More

Ignition Partners raises $150M fund, opens new Silicon Valley office

It’s a new era for Ignition Partners. The Bellevue venture capital firm has a new fund, new offices and a… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec lands $4.5M to help make life easier for product managers

We’ve been wondering what former Microsoft vice president Sanjay Parthasarathy has been building ever since we discovered his startup, Indix, 18 months… Read More

Welcome to the Northwest (where startups are cheaper than the Valley)

I got a call last week from a Bay Area venture capitalist who was gathering intel on the Pacific Northwest,… Read More

Maveron to plant a seed each month, unveils plan to sprout early-stage consumer startups

Maveron struck gold a few years ago when it provided the initial seed funding to a young e-commerce startup by… Read More

Yes, it really is harder to land that series A round from VCs

A lot has been made about the so-called “series A crunch” — the idea that it is increasingly challenging for… Read More

Theraclone raises $14M to ID rare human antibodies that could be used to fight disease

Seattle biotechnology company Theraclone Sciences has raised an additional $8 million in equity financing and $6 million in debt, bringing… Read More

No more coupon clipping: This startup wants to transform how we shop for groceries

For years, savvy shoppers have turned to the newspaper to find the best deals at the local grocery store. But… Read More

Q&A: Seattle super angel Geoff Entress talks valuations, missed deals and why the state should support startups

Seattle angel investor Geoff Entress has backed about 100 startup companies over the years, from social media powerhouses like HootSuite… Read More

Kleiner Perkins says VC fund performance is weak, and they’re going to fix it

Here’s a sign of the changing winds in the venture capital business. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon… Read More

Avado lands $1M to transform healthcare in the same way Mint upended personal finance

Avado has reeled in $1 million in seed funding, money that the company will use to continue to eradicate paper-based inefficiencies… Read More

Andreessen Horowitz, Jay-Z’s VC firm invest $10M in cosmetics startup Julep

Julep founder Jane Park pauses near the end of our interview, and just lays it out straight when it comes… Read More

Seattle super angels sink cash in shopping app Zoomingo

Some of Seattle’s top angel investors are tossing their support behind Zoomingo, the mobile shopping application developed by serial entrepreneur… Read More

Blaze Bioscience raises $8.5M to help surgeons pinpoint cancer cells with ‘tumor paint’

Seattle biotechnology startup Blaze Bioscience has raised $8.5 million to continue developing technologies that are designed to help surgeons more… Read More

Startup nightmares: Help, my VC won’t re-invest

I recently met with two very experienced CEO’s who ran into the one of the most challenging startup situations: their… Read More

This startup just raised $1M for an algorithm to help employers fill engineering jobs

Everywhere you go in the tech industry these days companies are struggling to find smart engineers, designers and developers. Enter… Read More

Madrona backs Mobilewalla, team relocates to Seattle

Mobile analytics startup Mobilewalla has raised $4 million in new funding, including a cash infusion from Madrona Venture Group and… Read More

Startup valuations remained red hot in 2012, but are things cooling?

Even though venture capital investing fell last year on a national basis, it still remained a good time to raise… Read More