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Venture capital

Entrepreneur alleges that Benchmark stole his idea

Entrepreneurs sometimes fear pitching their ideas to investors out of concern that the business concepts will get stolen. There’s not… Read More

Ignition scares up another deal in San Fran, backs 19-year-old’s MinoMonsters

For the third time this week, Ignition Partners has pumped cash into a San Francisco Bay Area startup. This time,… Read More

Ignition backs Parse, another hot San Francisco startup

Another day, another investment by Ignition Partners in the Bay Area. The Bellevue venture capital firm, which earlier this week… Read More

Hey, we’re no Silicon Valley, but Seattle is rising as a tech hub

I am always interested in how national publications perceive Seattle’s technology community. After all, as long time journalists covering the… Read More

Ignition Partners leads $40 million round for Cloudera

Ignition Partners, Greylock, Accel, In-Q-Tel, Meritech Capital Partners and others are pumping $40 million into Cloudera, a Palo Alto, California-based maker… Read More

NanoString lands $20 million

NanoString Technologies, a maker of genomic analysis tools, has raised $20 million in venture capital financing in a deal led… Read More

Verizon, Salesforce lead $15.1M investment in Urban Airship

Investors including Verizon and Salesforce.com have invested $15.1 million in Urban Airship, a Portland company that provides behind-the-scenes services like… Read More

Yaletown Venture Partners sets up office in Seattle

Yaletown Venture Partners, a 9-year-old Vancouver, B.C.-based venture capital firm, is establishing a new office in Seattle under the direction… Read More

Jeff Bezos-backed Coffee & Power perks up with market for errands, lessons and other small jobs

Philip Rosedale, the former RealNetworks employee who is best known for creating the virtual world Second Life, is launching a… Read More

Seattle startup Beamit beams up $750,000, recruits Amazon employee Josh Hug

As a mentor at TechStars, Josh Hug got an inside peek at some of the cool technologies emerging inside the… Read More

Redfin’s Kelman considers new products, acquisitions: ‘It’s always good to have cash’

At the time of Redfin’s last venture capital round, CEO Glenn Kelman indicated that it would be the company’s last.… Read More

Online real estate brokerage Redfin scores $14 million

We heard rumblings last week that Redfin — the Seattle online real estate broker — was out looking for new… Read More

Paul Allen’s Vulcan leads $14M round in mobile ad company 4INFO

Vulcan Capital has been a bit quiet on the venture capital financing front lately. But that changed today with news… Read More

Navigating Cancer finds $3M, partners with clinics for new patient portals

Navigating Cancer, an online resource for patients who are dealing with various forms of cancer, has raised $3 million in… Read More

Venture capitalists see better returns, but dark clouds loom

The venture capital industry saw an improvement in returns during most time frames for the period ended in June, though… Read More

Startup Weekend grad Zaarly lands $14 million, names Meg Whitman to the board

Zaarly was started earlier this year at a Startup Weekend event in California. Today, the fast-growing upstart is announcing that… Read More

VisibleBrands lands $2 million for digital coupon service in supermarkets

VisibleBrands has been operating in stealth mode for the past few years, mysteriously building a new digital coupon service from the… Read More

BlueStacks raises cash to run Android apps on Windows PCs

BlueStacks wants to make it easier to get your Android apps, in full-screen mind you, on Windows PCs. And the… Read More

Rob Glaser returns to his roots, joins $24 million round for video delivery startup Qwilt

Rob Glaser helped pioneer the online video, founding RealNetworks in 1995 a mere 10 years before YouTube came into existence.… Read More

VC activity picks up in Seattle area: Here’s a look at the deals

Two very large venture capital deals helped bolster venture capital totals in Washington state during the third quarter. A $37… Read More

Traffic navigation startup Waze nets $30M from Inrix backer KPCB

People must really hate getting stuck in traffic. Waze, a Silicon Valley startup, just landed a whopping $30 million in… Read More

Take the Money and Run: An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital

[Editor’s note: Gerry Langeler of OVP Venture Partners shares an excerpt from his new book “Take the Money and Run:… Read More

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era

Venture capitalists are pumping massive amounts of capital into startup companies, fueled by the emergence of big shifts in mobile,… Read More

Holy cow! Apptio on pace to top $50 million in bookings this year

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta has been talking for some time now about building the next big enterprise software company in the… Read More

Inrix CEO: Seattle tech scene gets solid A (with one exception)

Inrix CEO Bryan Mistele knows just how hard it is to raise venture capital. Before the company grew to more… Read More

Aaron Levie

Box raises $81M as CEO looks to ‘out-innovate’ Microsoft

Box, the online cloud storage company that was started in Seattle in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, just… Read More

Venture capital fundraising waning, falls to 2003 levels

It’s not a great time to be raising a venture capital fund. A new report out this morning from Thomson Reuters… Read More

The inside story of how a Seattle angel investor discovered Swype

Guest commentary from Bill Bryant: I have been in the software business for more than 20 years now, spanning some… Read More

SpaceCurve lands in Seattle, raises cash to analyze data feeds

SpaceCurve founder J. Andrew Rogers has kept a pretty low profile since moving to Seattle from Silicon Valley 13 months… Read More

San Diego startup SweetLabs picks Seattle for new office

We’ve been writing a lot about California tech juggernauts establishing operations in Seattle, from Facebook to Salesforce.com to Zynga. But it… Read More

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