Articles about Venture capital – Page 7 of 69

Meet Seattle’s newest VC: This former car saleswoman and immigrant entrepreneur is on a mission to shake up the industry

Tina Hoang-To put herself through college selling cars at Capitol Honda in San Jose, Calif. “I was very good at… Read More

E-commerce startup Fabric, led by Amazon vets, raises $140M at $1.5B valuation to pursue ‘absurd’ market opportunity

Fabric, a Seattle-based e-commerce technology startup whose leadership team includes several former Amazon executives, announced a $140 million Series C… Read More

Xbox vet Ed Fries on blockchain, life as a venture capitalist and the run of extraordinary gaming deals

Ed Fries is having a big week. His games-focused venture fund 1Up Ventures put money into two separate new gaming… Read More

Have we hit peak unicorn?

As of this week, there are now more than 1,000 startup unicorns scattered across the globe — a group of… Read More

Unlock Venture Partners raises $60M for second fund, will invest in more Seattle and L.A. startups

The news: Unlock Venture Partners, a seed-stage firm that invests in Seattle and Los Angeles-based startups, raised a $60 million… Read More

The great startup reset: Why founders should prepare for lower valuations

The S&P 500 is down more than 10% since the beginning of the year, putting it into “correction” territory. The… Read More

Late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan spins off VC group with new name, broader investor base

Vulcan Capital, the venture capital group founded in 2003 as an internal division of Paul Allen’s Seattle-based Vulcan Inc. holding… Read More

Newly-formed Seattle VC firm aims to mine Univ. of Washington network for talent, innovation, money

The University of Washington is an absolute research powerhouse, ranking fifth among U.S. universities in R&D expenditures. But even with… Read More

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Microsoft’s Candy Crush: Madrona’s Hope Cochran, former King CFO, on $68.7B Activision deal

Why would Microsoft pay $68.7 billion for video-game giant Activision Blizzard? Hope Cochran, managing director at venture capital firm Madrona… Read More

Startups to watch: 13 venture capitalists offer their picks for the next Pacific Northwest unicorns

Unicorn startups are everywhere these days. CB Insights’ unicorn tracker — keeping tabs on privately-held companies valued at $1 billion… Read More

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NFTs, Metaverse, Web3, and new realities of startup investing, with Founders Co-op’s Aviel Ginzburg

So much of what happens in the startup world comes from serendipitous moments, random interactions that lead to fresh insights… Read More

The 2021 venture capital numbers are simply mind-boggling: Record investments recorded in Washington state

Eye-popping. Bonkers. Staggering. Those are just some of the words industry watchers are using to describe venture capital investment levels… Read More

Seattle venture capitalist dies in Oregon ski accident

Birkan Uzun, a former software engineer at Amazon who joined Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group last year and was on a… Read More

Frothy fundraising climate causes Madrona to raise $120M ‘extension fund’ for portfolio companies

It’s a wild time in the venture world. Valuations, deal sizes, and investment funds have blown past records set in… Read More

We asked seven venture capitalists if the metaverse is the next big thing or just a lot of hype

What is the metaverse? How far off is it? And will this represent a tectonic technological platform shift — along… Read More

New ‘rolling’ investment fund led by Seattle tech vets targets startups capitalizing on 5G

Seattle-area tech veterans Jim Brisimitzis and Kevin Ober are leading a new investment fund targeting startups that go through the 5G Open… Read More

How becoming a venture capitalist helped this Seattle startup vet turn his life around

When it comes to startups, Kirby Winfield has seen the highs, and he’s seen the lows. The longtime Seattleite spent… Read More

Climate investor Dawn Lippert on raising a $60M fund and what’s stoking demand for climate tech

A nonprofit organization with Pacific Northwest ties has spun out its first venture capital fund totaling $60 million for investing… Read More

These high schoolers spent their summer analyzing the GeekWire 200 — here’s what they found

A summer of spreadsheets, researching startups and wrangling data might not sound like “school’s out,” but that’s exactly what four… Read More

Can we innovate our way out of the climate crisis? Venture capitalists sound off on saving the Earth

Eager investors keep coming. It’s the Amazon employee who has seen the company’s stock price rise steadily; the former venture… Read More

Moz co-founder’s venture fund for women-led initiatives makes its first investment

Gillian Muessig isn’t angry about the gender gap in venture capital. She’s just done waiting around for change. “I have… Read More

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What’s the deal with all the deals? Why the market for IPOs, venture capital and acquisitions is red hot

Another day, another deal. Keeping up with the flurry of acquisitions, IPOs, SPACs and venture capital these days is no… Read More

Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold invest in new fund to back metamaterials tech startups

New fund: MetaVC Partners is raising its first fund to invest in early-stage startups in the metamaterials space. Bill Gates… Read More

Outreach lands $200 million, pushing valuation of sales software startup to $4.4 billion

Outreach just landed $200 million in venture capital that the 10-year-old software company will use to help more sales professionals close… Read More

Ex-Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn leaves venture capital post after 5 weeks on job

When Jeff Blackburn announced his retirement from Amazon in February after 22 years, the longtime Jeff Bezos lieutenant stressed that… Read More

Behavioral science startup 2Morrow raises $1.5M to grow digital therapeutic platform

New funding: 2Morrow, a Seattle-area startup that develops digital coaching software to help people reach health goals, has raised $1.5… Read More

Funding to Seattle-area startups hit new Q1 record with $1.6B invested — here were the top deals

The news: PitchBook and NVCA are out with their Q1 Venture Monitor. Investors continue to pour gobs of money into… Read More

Seeq lands $50M to grow manufacturing analytics software platform

New funding: Seattle startup Seeq raised $50 million in a Series C round. Seeq’s software: Founded in 2012, Seeq’s analytics… Read More

Seattle-area AI startup Darklight raises $5.1M to help companies automate cybersecurity tasks

New funding: Seattle-area startup Darklight raised a $5.1 million round. Investors listed on an SEC filing include Jay Lee of Agile… Read More

Seattle startup Common Room emerges from stealth mode with $52M in funding

The news: Common Room, a year-old startup based in Seattle, is coming out of stealth mode in a big way. The… Read More