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Startup ID Genomics launches nonprofit ARMADA to fight deadly antibiotic-resistant infections

Antibiotics are one of the most effective and useful medicines on the market today, but the more these treatments are… Read More

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Ex-Amazon employees venture out and start Wanderlust Society, a tool for planning better trips

A team of ex-Amazon employees, who honed their skills around recommendations on the tech giant’s personalization team, have set out… Read More

Chevron and Siemens venture arms invest $23M in industrial process data analytics platform Seeq

Seeq today announced a $23 million Series B round led by the Altira Group, a venture capital firm focused on… Read More

Tomorrow raises $4.2M for app that lets you create free legal wills and trusts

Tomorrow is well on its way to helping Americans handle long-term financial and legal decisions with a mobile app. The… Read More

Integris raises $10M to help companies meet GDPR and other security compliance mandates

Seattle startup Integris Software has raised another $10 million to help companies manage personal information data and meet compliance mandates… Read More

Presage Biosciences raises $6M for technology to test new cancer drugs, appoints new CEO

Cancer technology maker Presage Biosciences has raised $6 million and appointed a new CEO as it moves to support the… Read More

Fast-growing sales automation startup Outreach scoops up Big Fish Games space for new HQ

Outreach is moving to a new headquarters as the enterprise software startup has already outgrown its current digs in Seattle,… Read More

Optio3 raises $2.5M for enterprise IoT operations management software

Seattle startup Optio3 has raised $2.5 million for its enterprise IoT management software that helps real estate and transportation companies gain… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Two ‘podcast fiends’ with past startup success launch Banter to aid in audio discovery

Countless startups launch and flame out, but entrepreneurs Steve Krenzel and James Reggio have a few factors that tip in… Read More

Nohla Therapeutics raises another $11M to support leukemia treatment trials

Seattle startup Nohla Therapeutics has reeled in another $11 million to further develop its leukemia treatment. The spinout of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer… Read More

Report: Amazon and startup Xealth working on program to deliver medical supplies to patients

Amazon and Seattle startup Xealth are working on a pilot program that will let doctors ‘prescribe’ items for delivery to… Read More

Eventbase raises $6.5M for mobile event technology platform used by IBM, Microsoft, Cisco

News Brief: Vancouver, B.C.-based startup Eventbase today announced a $6.5 million investment round. Madrona Venture Group; BC Tech Fund; Kensington Capital;… Read More

As Twitter cracks down on fake followers, SparkToro launches free tool to measure influence more intelligently

Seattle entrepreneur Rand Fishkin thinks it’s “so darn frustrating” that brands still use the number of followers an account has… Read More

Tech journalist and Chairman Mom founder Sarah Lacy on the power of being polarizing

Sarah Lacy, a longtime tech journalist and columnist, knows the things she says can be controversial. Not that it’s stopped… Read More

VC dollars flow into Seattle startups at near-record levels as later-stage companies raise big rounds

Venture capital dollars are flowing into Seattle-area companies in near-record numbers, but most of the cash is going to more… Read More

Working Geek: Unearth co-founder Amy Hutchins on hiring women engineers and the rush of startup life

As chief technology officer for Unearth Technologies, Amy Hutchins thought it would be easy to get women to apply for… Read More

EndoGastric Solutions raises $30.5M to commercialize acid reflux treatment

News Brief: EndoGastric Solutions, a Seattle area biotechnology company, has raised $30.5 million to scale its commercial efforts. Existing investors… Read More

Female Founders Alliance unveils immersive ‘Ready Set Raise’ program to help women land startup investments

Female Founders Alliance is launching a program to help women entrepreneurs land early-stage startup investments, using input from female founders… Read More

Amazon HQ2 is still a mystery, but this real estate startup already plans to expand to the winning city

Bryan Copley remembers “the day that the last single-family residence in South Lake Union was bulldozed.” The CityBldr CEO has… Read More

With $57.5B invested so far in 2018, VC funding for U.S. startups reaching ‘unprecedented levels’

The amount of venture capital funding pouring into U.S. startups is on pace to reach levels unseen since the early… Read More

TLDR: Rumored Surface smartphone, Lime scooters in Uber app, dorm-style housing for adults

Today’s featured stories Windows Phone fans lobby Microsoft not to kill rumored Surface dual-screen device aka Andromeda With $335M in… Read More

High-tech agriculture startup Phytelligence raises another $10M, doubles employee count

Agriculture startup Phytelligence is getting another infusion of cash as it continues to grow. The company raised an additional $9.85… Read More

Naveen Jain and Viome test

Naveen Jain’s Viome raises another $5.5M, triples employee count as it ramps up wellness service

  Viome, the wellness startup founded by Seattle-based tech entrepreneur Naven Jain, has raised $5.5 million in a new round of… Read More

Ex-Peach execs launch tech-powered escrow startup Modus to make home closing less ‘painful’

Alex Day had already been chatting about getting into real estate with his colleague, Jai Sim, at the lunch delivery… Read More

Startup Spotlight: LifeID uses blockchain technology to build secure digital identities

Current tools for managing our digital identities are falling short — unless you enjoy maintaining a binder full of passwords… Read More

Working Geek: After decades at Microsoft, Tammy Savage applies big-picture thinking to startup that connects volunteers

When it came to volunteering, Tammy Savage wondered what prevented people from jumping in to help. Was it a failure… Read More

Mysterious Oregon startup Azevtec raises $8M for self-driving ‘zero-emission vehicle systems’

A furtive autonomous vehicle startup out of Bend, Ore. has raised $8 million from undisclosed investors. Azevtec confirmed the investment to GeekWire… Read More

Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner emerges at helm of secretive blockchain startup co-founded by former Myspace CTO

Former Microsoft COO Kevin Turner has taken the helm of Core Scientific, a stealthy new blockchain and artificial intelligence startup… Read More

Working Geek: From rap fans to immigrant families, Remitly’s Kevin Nakao taps customers for answers

One of Kevin Nakao’s earliest marketing gigs sent him on tour almost 30 years ago with Puff Daddy, Jodeci and Mary… Read More

Unify Square raises $10M to help businesses deploy Skype and Microsoft Teams

Unify Square has raised an additional $10 million to help fuel growth of its platform that helps clients manage Microsoft communication products like… Read More

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