Articles about Venture capital – Page 62 of 70

Tixie raises cash, helps music fans win free concert tickets

At the Hacker News Meetup earlier this week, I bumped into Seattle entrepreneur Forest Gibson who is working on a… Read More

Social purpose corporations: Good business can now do good

We all know that entrepreneurs and investors in startups hope to make money. Conveniently, the traditional corporate form allows that. … Read More

Amazon.com has altered the VC business as we know it

One could argue that Amazon.com has had more impact on the startup community than nearly any corporate venture capital fund,… Read More

BigDoor closes $5M, touts new ‘gamified rewards program’

There’s so much content clutter on the Web these days that it can be tough for online publishers to keep… Read More

Charts: IPOs on the upswing, but M&A deals take a fall

It’s a bit hard to judge the state of the venture-backed exit market these days. And two reports out today… Read More

Exclusive: The inside details on EMC’s $36M purchase of Likewise Software

Few details were available last week when EMC purchased Likewise Software. Now, GeekWire has learned that EMC’s Isilon unit paid $36.6… Read More

The JOBS Act means different things to different people in the startup community

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act cleared its final legislative hurdle today. It is now on its way to… Read More

Cash-rich tech giants have $300 billion to spend: Is a new wave of tech M&A coming?

Could we see a new wave of technology-related mergers and acquisitions? Well, that’s one possible scenario given that the top… Read More

Ignition leads $19.5 million investment in Seattle’s Opscode

Opscode has raised $19.5 million in venture capital financing, the second large funding round in a Seattle area business-to-business software… Read More

Sequoia Capital, angels invest in Seattle financial advice startup FutureAdvisor

FutureAdvisor co-founder Bo Lu could have built his startup company in Silicon Valley, and he certainly felt the pressure to… Read More

EMC’s Isilon division buys storage software company Likewise

The Isilon Storage Division of EMC Corp. is expanding its footprint in its own backyard, gobbling up Bellevue software storage… Read More

Apptio raises $50M in new funding, led by T. Rowe Price

Apptio, moving further down the path toward a possible IPO, today announced a $50 million funding round led by T.… Read More

Hyperlocal news platform DataSphere raises $8 million

DataSphere Technologies already helps power the hyperlocal news sites for TV stations owned by Fisher Communications, Gannett, Meredith and others.… Read More

Database startup Drawn to Scale inks new financing deal

Drawn to Scale, a two-year-old Seattle startup developing a new database called Spire, has raised a round of funding from RTP… Read More

Angel mind meld: What early-stage investors really want

What’s it like inside the mind of an angel? I got to peer into that mysterious — yet all important… Read More

Report: Valuations double for early-stage startup companies

Here’s some evidence that the venture capital market is red hot, perhaps too much so at least when it comes… Read More

Stealth startup CrowdStrike wants to obliterate security threats, raises $26M

George Kurtz has a deep affinity for Seattle, previously working as a consultant at Microsoft and raising cash for his… Read More

Buuteeq checks in with $2 million in funding to expand hotel marketing platform

Buuteeq has reeled in an addition $2 million in capital from a long list of angel investors in Seattle and… Read More

Meet the 9 startups bankrolled by the Northwest Energy Angels

The Northwest Energy Angels, a 50-person angel investment group, said today that its members invested more than $880,000 in nine clean… Read More

Seattle ranks 4th in startup density, 2nd in valuations

As I noted last month, Seattle appears to be losing a bit of momentum when it comes to venture capital… Read More

Divergent Ventures racks up a ‘big exit’ with sale of FlashSoft

Seattle venture capital firm Divergent Ventures is celebrating today as SanDisk Corp. announced the purchase of FlashSoft, a Sunnyvale, Calif.… Read More

nFluence Media raises $3M, touts dealBoard app for mobile offers

nFluence Media is taking the wraps off its stealthy service today, showcasing for the first time a new mobile offering… Read More

As Voyager Capital embarks on its 15th year, co-founder Enrique Godreau departs

Enrique Godreau has weathered the ups and downs of the Seattle venture capital business for the past 15 years, with… Read More

University of Washington to hatch startup incubator today

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee earlier this week laid out an economic plan for Washington state that included ideas on how… Read More

Spoken Communications dials up $11 million in funding

Spoken Communications, a 7-year-old Bellevue company led by former HyperQuality and PhotoWorks CEO Howard Lee, has raised $11.5 million in… Read More

Maker of the fastest espresso machine in the world perks up with $6.5 million in funding

Now here’s an entrepreneurial story that’s perfectly brewed for Seattle. Concordia Coffee Systems on Monday announced that it raised $6.5… Read More

Enough, already! The ‘Shit People Say’ meme comes to the venture capital business

Is the whole “Shit People Say” meme getting out of control? We’ve already witnessed the “Shit Seattle People Say When… Read More

Angel group sees record activity in 2011

Venture capital investments in Washington state took a negative turn last year, falling 16 percent to $540 million. But while… Read More

Andreessen Horowitz and Bain raise big venture capital funds

Earlier this month, we reported on how some of the biggest venture capital firms just keep getting bigger as more… Read More

Venuelabs raises cash to help brick-and-mortar retailers track storefront performance

In this digital era, there’s certainly no shortage of customer feedback when it comes to the interactions at brick-and-mortar retail… Read More