Articles about Venture capital – Page 68 of 70

Atossa raises $6.6M to roll out a ‘Pap test for breast cancer’

Atossa Genetics, which is developing testing technologies to detect the presence of breast cancer, has raised $6.6 million in new… Read More

Ignition continues blistering pace, backs stealthy Bromium

Ignition Partners certainly is busy these days. For the third time this week, the Bellevue venture capital firm has invested… Read More

Venture capitalists: We desperately need more IPOs

We’ve seen a number of high-profile initial public offerings in recent weeks — including the debuts of LinkedIn and Pandora… Read More

Running late for a meeting? Glympse attracts $7.5M to help mobile phone users share locations with friends

There’s no shortage of applications that help mobile phone users share their physical locations. Even so, Glympse — a Redmond… Read More

Posse on Facebook? Sir Mix-A-Lot debuts social media game with Seattle’s Giant Thinkwell

Sir Mix-A-Lot is rolling with a new posse. The iconic hip-hop artist and entrepreneur has hooked up with Seattle startup Giant… Read More

Ignition, Accel pump $11M into cloud startup ScaleXtreme

Ignition Partners and Accel Partners have invested $11 million in ScaleXtreme, a Palo Alto, California-based cloud computing startup. As a… Read More

San Francisco entrepreneur finds a home in Seattle, raises $1 million for Tango Card

As a co-founder of San Francisco telecommunications company FiberTower, David Leeds was responsible for raising hundreds of millions of dollars… Read More

Fresh off Rockefeller Center win, Optimum Energy lands $5M

Optimum Energy, whose software is used to reduce energy consumption in buildings, has raised $5 million in new financing. Total… Read More

SinglePoint raises $1 million, names VC Tom Huseby chairman

Mobile advertising company SinglePoint has raised $1 million in new financing and named veteran venture capitalist Tom Huseby to the… Read More

Maveron’s counterintuitive bet: House parties to sell women’s handbags

Maveron likes to place bets on new consumer-oriented startups. Those range from sandwich shops (Potbelly) to pet insurance (Trupanion). Now, the… Read More

Bubble 2.0: The infographic

We’ve been writing a lot about some of the frothy conditions in the tech market. And the bubble talk was highlighted… Read More

EquaShip takes on UPS and FedEx, raises $900,000

EquaShip has raised $900,000 in startup financing, money that the Seattle startup will use to roll out a new shipping… Read More

Balance raises $1.2 million, looks to take on Mint.com with real-life bookkeepers

Crosslink Capital and Seattle angel investors Geoff Entress, Michael Buhrmann and others have invested $1.2 million in Balance Financial, a… Read More

Room 77 checks in with $10.5M

We’ve seen a lot of activity in the online travel space recently, including new cash for Seattle startup Buuteeq and… Read More

Stratos Genomics raises $2.2 million for DNA sequencer

Stratos Genomics said today that it has raised an additional $2.1 million from existing shareholders. The money, which follows a… Read More

In wake of Airbnb financing frenzy, Seattle super angels pump $3.5M into Buuteeq

San Francisco’s Airbnb reportedly just raised $100 million at a whopping $1 billion valuation, with high-profile backers like Ashton Kutcher… Read More

A Hubble Telescope for the immune system: Seattle’s Adaptive TCR raises $5.8M

Adaptive TCR, a Seattle company that’s attempting to profile and measure the body’s immune system, has raised $5.8 million in… Read More

IPO filing reveals Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s stake in Groupon

Groupon’s growth rate over the past two years has been absolutely insane. Consider this: The daily deal site had just… Read More

Act-On Software scores $10M from Trinity, Voyager and others

With revenue expected to grow by 300 percent this year, Act-On Software has raised $10 million in financing from Trinity… Read More

ValueAppeal raises cash to help homeowners cut property tax bills

It took just three weeks for ValueAppeal founder Charlie Walsh to attract financing for his startup company. I guess that’s… Read More

Polaris Venture Partners closes Seattle office, says market ‘never developed’

When Polaris Venture Partners arrived in Seattle 15 years ago, the Boston-based firm thought the market had plenty of promise.… Read More

Trilogy, Madrona back stealthy mobile security startup Mobilisafe

Two of Seattle’s top venture capital firms are tossing their support behind Mobilisafe, a stealthy Bellevue startup led by former… Read More

Team of nerds brings 100 Mbps ‘super broadband’ to Seattle

Spectrum Networks co-founder John van Oppen likes to describe his team as a group of nerds who thrive on speed.… Read More

Accelerator Corp. hatches Oncofactor, a new Seattle cancer research startup

Accelerator Corp. has backed its 12th startup, a cancer research company that’s attempting to disrupt signaling pathways between tumors and the… Read More

Startup iTegris, hatched by two Microsoft vets, raises $4.6M

Stealth software startup iTegris, founded by former Microsoft VP Kurt Kolb and former Microsoft GM Tom Phillips, has raised more… Read More

Digital pen software maker Adapx inks $5 million round

Adapx, whose software powers digital pen technologies so workers can easily collect data in the field, has scored a $5… Read More

Benaroya backs smart grid software startup Calico Energy

Calico Energy has developed technologies to help residential and business customers reduce energy costs, a proposition that’s winning the Bellevue company… Read More

Venture capital returns rebound as IPOs come back

Returns at venture capital firms improved across most time horizons during the fourth quarter of last year, driven by a… Read More

Old relationships pay off: Divergent sees big return on $327M Pliant buy

Divergent Ventures, a small Seattle venture capital firm, saw a big payoff today when Milipitas, California data storage drive company… Read More

Billing Revolution rings up $6.6 million, powers mobile payments for Zynga and others

The mobile phone is turning into a mobile purchasing device. And Billing Revolution wants to help lead that charge. The… Read More