Articles about Venture capital – Page 69 of 70

Marketfish nabs $4.5 million, names chief privacy officer

Marketfish, a Seattle startup which operates an online marketplace for email marketing lists, has reeled in $4.5 million in new… Read More

Venture capitalists upbeat about Microsoft’s massive $8.5 billion buyout of Skype

Microsoft has been fairly quiet on the M&A front over the past 18 months, a fact that has not been… Read More

Meet Rob Ward: A Silicon Valley venture capitalist who loves what’s going on in Seattle

At the Seattle 2.0 Awards last night, venture capitalist Mark Suster said that Seattle needs to encourage “foreign direct investment”… Read More

Discovery Bay Games scores $12M to create a new class of iPad accessories

Discovery Bay Games CEO Craig Olson didn’t expect to raise $12 million when he set out on the fundraising trail… Read More

Q&A: Straight-talking VC Mark Suster challenges entrepreneurs to think big

Mark Suster is a bit of an oddity in the venture capital business — a straight-talking, no-nonsense former entrepreneur who… Read More

Jeff Bezos goes nuclear, backs B.C. startup’s plan to create safe nuclear power

What is it with Seattle area billionaires and their love of nuclear power? Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder touted the… Read More

Millionaires to double in Washington, but will that spark angel investment?

Seattle’s high-tech industry has minted thousands of millionaires over the years as companies such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, Isilon Systems and… Read More

Avalara scores $14 million to automate sales tax collection, sets goal for $100 million in revenue

Collecting sales tax can be a real pain for merchants. But Avalara wants to make that process, well, a little… Read More

Maveron, Ram Shriram, Hugh Crean and others invest $6 million in Decide.com

Some of the top venture capital firms and angel investors in Seattle and Silicon Valley are tossing their financial muscle… Read More

Seattle venture capitalists remain optimistic even as dollar volumes slump

I was chatting with a Seattle venture capitalist this week about the state of early-stage investing in the region. His… Read More

California dreaming: Ignition backs another startup with ties outside the region

One of the interesting trends in the venture capital business around these parts over the past few months has been… Read More

Seattle social commerce startup Lockerz scores massive $30 million round

Last week, Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt told GeekWire that we’d have to “stay tuned” for news about the company’s future… Read More

Chart: Money flows to the top of the class in venture capital

Some may say that the venture capital model is broken. But that’s not stopping money from flowing into the coffers… Read More

Two Days in Silicon Valley: An inside look at 23 startups from Dave McClure’s Demo Days

I’ve been thinking a lot about passion lately — passion for ideas, teams, the shared pursuit of common goals. More… Read More

Matt McIlwain has the Midas Touch, but no one else does in Seattle

Is Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain a modern day Midas? Some people think so. The Seattle venture capitalist — an… Read More

Smart-grid software company Calico Energy raises cash from Point B

Calico Energy Services, a Bellevue software company whose technologies are used to help residential and business customers reduce energy costs,… Read More

ReliOn scores $6M, looks to become first profitable fuel cell maker

Fuel cell maker ReliOn has scored an additional $6 million in financing from existing investors, money that will be used… Read More

Ex-Expedia CEO Blachford joins Technology Crossover Ventures

Former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford has been named a venture partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital… Read More

Ad analytics startup Mpire changes gears (again) and raises cash

It seems that Mpire has had nearly as many lives as a cat. The company started in 2005 as a… Read More

Good news, bad news: M&A activity slows, but momentum grows for IPOs

IPOs are on the way up, but M&A deals are coming down. That’ the portrait in a new report released… Read More

Cloud database startup Xeround scores cash

Xeround, which moves SQL databases to the cloud, has raised an additional, $4 million in debt financing, according to a… Read More

Social media monitoring startup Visible Technologies raises $6 million

Visible Technologies has raised an additional $6 million, money that CEO Kelly Pennock said will help the heavily-funded company accelerate… Read More

Z2Live CEO David Bluhm on latest $2.5 million round: It’s not about the money, it’s the ‘chemistry’

Last week, we told you about some of the heavy hitters from the Seattle tech community lining up behind fast-growing… Read More

Physware raises cash, but keeps quiet on the details

Physware, a company created by University of Washington electrical engineering professor Vikram Jandhyala, has raised $6.9 million in funding, according… Read More

Inside look at VC performance: Top and bottom five in Washington state

It’s been a rough few years for venture capitalists, with the IPO market in the tank and venture returns slumping.… Read More

OwnZones raises $500,000 to help media companies charge for digital content

Media companies everywhere — from TV stations to newspapers to book publishers — are trying to figure out how to… Read More

Ed Fries, Bill Bryant join board of profitable social gaming startup Z2Live

Z2Live, maker of the popular Trade Nations game for the iPhone and iPad, has scored a new round of funding… Read More

Exclusive: Finsphere scores $1.75M, looks to become mobile ID system for the Web

Identity theft is a nasty societal problem, growing worse by the amount of data available online. But a Bellevue startup… Read More

Ignition backs Topsy, a real-time search engine

Ignition Partners, the Bellevue venture capital firm, continues to plow cash into Bay Area startup companies. The latest to benefit… Read More

Ignition Partners, Madrona back Tier 3 with $8.5 million

Two of the Seattle area’s best-known venture capital firms have joined forces to back Tier 3, a five-year-old Seattle company… Read More