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Calling entrepreneurs, scientists, coders: New ‘Hacker House’ opens near UW’s Startup Hall

If you’re an entrepreneur, scientist, coder, maker, or innovator that wants to live in a likeminded community near the University of… Read More

Area360 raises $3.5M for mobile location tech platform, relocates HQ from New Zealand to Seattle

For Chris Smith, what started as a simple trip to the zoo has turned into a fast-growing startup that just… Read More

Uber for big deliveries: Ghostruck expands to 12 cities after pilot in Seattle

Ghostruck is expanding after a 10-month pilot in Seattle. The startup, which helps those who need big items delivered, is… Read More

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Simply Measured acquires Inside Social, as two Seattle social media data startups join forces

Simply Measured, a quickly growing social media analytics startup, announced on Tuesday it has acquired its first company, a fellow Seattle startup… Read More

After 18 years, Allrecipes reinvents itself as ‘food-centric social network’

Fresh off its 18th birthday, Seattle-based Allrecipes.com is going through its largest makeover yet, aiming to reinvent itself as a “food-centric… Read More

Money transfer startup Remitly lands $12M line of credit, doubles its Seattle office space

Remitly has new digs and more funding to help continue building out its money transfer platform. The Seattle-based startup today announced… Read More

Kickstarter-born startup PebbleBee is all grown up now, seeking $2M from outside investors

PebbleBee first took off with a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014 to launch its device that helps you keep track of anything from keys… Read More

The power of Amazon: A single Facebook post was all this startup needed to take off

To Amazon, it was just another Facebook post. It went up at 2:01 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon: “The Petzi Treat… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Simply recommends events, curates content based on your interests

The tech world has no shortage of recommendation apps and websites like Yelp or TripAdvisor, but Simply hopes its personalized, curated platform can set it… Read More

The unicorn trend is backed by hundreds of VCs eager to discover the next big thing

Maybe you thought the kind of VC willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a $1 billion valuation was a rare… Read More

Bill Gates-backed Hampton Creek can’t call eggless spread ‘mayo’ anymore, FDA says

Hampton Creek’s mayonnaise alternative called “Just Mayo” will potentially have to change its name and labeling after the Food and Drug… Read More

Spare5 raises $10M to help smartphone owners make money in their free time

Spare5 seems to have struck a chord with its platform that pays people to spend their spare time performing short… Read More

Modumetal raises more cash from Founders Fund to transform the way metal is made

Modumetal wants to transform the way metal is engineered and now it has more capital in the bank to do so. The… Read More

‘Google Maps on steroids’: Cartogram raises $325K for indoor mapping platform

Editor’s note: This story was updated to reflect that Steve Kondik is a board member, not an investor, in Cartogram. … Read More

Techstars Seattle grad TrueFacet raises $2.7M from Maveron, others for online jewelry marketplace

TrueFacet, a New York-based startup that hosts an online marketplace for luxury jewelry, today announced a $2.7 million funding round… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Provata Health helps employees get healthy with results-based wellness program

Dozens of employee wellness startups have emerged in the past decade as companies become more enlightened about the value of… Read More

Navigating Cancer raises $10M, plans to double headcount as hospitals work to connect with patients

Health portal startup Navigating Cancer has raised another $10 million as the Seattle company continues to grow and offer more… Read More

Former Apple exec Valeria Cole launches anti-aging beauty startup Teadora

Valeria Cole once traveled the world running marketing for Apple’s Latin American division. Now, the former technology executive is more… Read More

Portland real estate startup HouseHappy raises more cash, taps new CEO

Househappy has a new CEO and fresh funding to help continue development of its real estate listings portal. The Portland… Read More

Stylyze raises $890,000 to help you shop for matching home decor

Stylyze announced on Tuesday it has raised a seed round of $890,000 as the company gets ready to launch a… Read More

Peach raises $8M to deliver lunch, will expand service to Boston and Washington D.C.

Peach has nailed down a successful formula for delivering lunch to office workers in places like Seattle and San Diego. Now, the… Read More

EnergySavvy raises $3.5 million, debuts service to connect utilities with offline customers

EnergySavvy has built cloud-based software to help utilities encourage customers to adopt energy-saving habits since it was founded in 2008,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: PupPod helps dogs ‘reach their intellectual potential’ with Internet-connected toy

The Internet of Things is transforming analog to digital all around us. There’s the connected car, the connected house … could… Read More

Heads up, Portland: Join GeekWire at the PDX Tech Crawl After Party next week

Attention Portland entrepreneurs, geeks, and everyone in between: Team GeekWire is headed to PDX. We are hitting the road next week… Read More

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Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies includes some surprising tech startups

Tune and Act-On Software managed to stay on Inc.’s prestigious list of the top 500 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.… Read More

Amazon invests in fashion site that shows you where to buy what celebrities are wearing

Amazon has joined the investor list for Clique Media, the Los Angeles startup best known for fashion shopping site Who… Read More

Pavia Systems raises $3M to help transportation departments speed up inspection process

Pavia Systems, a 10-year-old Seattle startup, has raised a $3 million funding round to help continue building out its platform that… Read More

Optimum Energy raises $10M, developing new tools to reduce energy use in buildings

Optimum Energy has reeled in another $10 million in funding as the company keeps expanding its software lineup to help businesses… Read More

Startup raises $9M for high-tech coffee it says will make you thinner and smarter, without the jitters

Bulletproof CEO Dave Asprey says he got the idea for his high-tech coffee from a “little old woman” he met in Tibet… Read More

Sonu Aggarwal

Unify Square raises another $4M from Microsoft, others to help businesses utilize Skype

Unify Square, a Bellevue-based startup that helps companies implement Skype for Business, has reeled in another $4 million in funding.… Read More

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