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Seattle startup’s ‘Illuminating Piano’ gets big boost from TODAY show

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Seattle’s McCarthy Music, maker of the new Illuminating… Read More

Techstars Seattle grad Magicflix raises $500K for kid-friendly video platform

Magicflix, a Seattle-startup that provides a curated video service for kids with safe and age-appropriate content, has raised a $500,000 seed round. The… Read More

Palantir employee handbook: ‘Don’t Be An Asshole’ if you want to work at this secretive, CIA-backed company

At an event marking the opening of its new engineering office in Seattle last night, big data analytics company Palantir gave… Read More

Inside Palantir’s swanky Seattle launch event: Secretive big data company courts engineers

Palantir Technologies made its official entrance into the Seattle technology community last night with an upscale event in the Pioneer Square… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Algorithmia offers developers access to 800 algorithms from academic researchers

Algorithms are essential for many app developers, but they tend to be dispersed across obscure academic journals and are difficult to… Read More

Portland startup 38 Zeros raises $800K to help ‘smart buildings’ manage data delivery

Portland-based startup 38 Zeros has raised a $800,000 funding round to help fuel growth of its hardware/software solution that helps… Read More

China’s Alibaba reportedly investing $200M in Snapchat at a $15B valuation

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is reportedly interested in investing $200 million in Snapchat, which allows people to send photos knowing that… Read More

GeekWire at 4 years: How we’ve evolved, and what’s next in our startup adventure

Four years ago this week, we left our jobs at a big media company and launched GeekWire — determined to finally control our… Read More

Avalara adds support for Brazilian taxes with new acquisition

Avalara announced today that it’s adding support for Brazilian taxes to its global tax compliance platform thanks to its acquisition… Read More

Pro.com launches new app, giving home repair experts the ability to manage bids on the go

Pro.com has launched a new mobile app, which will help home improvement experts manage job requests on the go as traffic begins… Read More

Home security startup Korner raises cash to keep intruders at bay

After successfully raising $416,994 through an Indiegogo campaign last summer, Seattle home security startup Korner is back in the money.… Read More

Edtech platform startup Enlearn reveals first deal with education publisher

Enlearn, a Seattle nonprofit developing a platform for adapting and personalizing digital educational materials, has revealed its first commercial partner. Enlearn’s education… Read More

Cerevast tops off round with $1.4M more to end at $11.4M raised

Medical device company Cerevast Therapeutics has topped off a Series C funding round with an additional $1.4 million. Cerevast, based… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Pawzii aims to keep more animals alive by digitizing the pet licensing process

City-run animal shelters are notoriously underfunded, forcing organizations to euthanize animals they can’t afford to support. Pet licensing fees, which average… Read More

Seattle nonprofit Enlearn tackles thorny task: Personalize school with technology

One of the knottiest problems in applying technology to education is the holy grail of “personalization:” How to adjust and… Read More

Fast-growing startup Porch plans to move from its home in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood

Porch, the Seattle home improvement data startup, is looking for a new home capable of accommodating its booming staff — planning to… Read More

Mark Cuban: This tech bubble is worse than the tech bubble of 2000

Dot-com era startup founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban isn’t being polite about the state of tech industry investment. In… Read More

Seattle startup OfferUp reportedly looking to raise $60 million to $100 million

OfferUp — a Bellevue startup that helps people buy and sell everything from bed frames to bicycles to used cars —… Read More

Haiku Deck launches presentation subscription service powered by AI

Haiku Deck is launching a new cloud-based service that automatically creates presentations, fully designed and with appropriate graphics, from existing… Read More

Porch’s CFO leaves home improvement startup after little more than a year

Porch’s CFO Jeff Dossett has left the company after joining the Seattle home improvement a little more than a year ago.… Read More

Startups 101: Here is advice for founders raising an early stage round

DALLAS — They say knowledge is power, and that couldn’t be more true for entrepreneurs looking to raise their first… Read More

Nextdoor raises another $110M, claims presence in 35% of US neighborhoods

Neighborhood social network provider Nextdoor has raised another $110 million in funding. In a company blog post today, Nextdoor co-founder… Read More

Building Energy secures $300K to grow cloud-hosted energy management

Building Energy, a Portland-based company that helps manage energy efficiency in commercial buildings, says it’s secured $300,000 in growth funding… Read More

Glympse unveils new location sharing service, inks deals with Volkswagen and Peugeot

Glympse, the Seattle startup that allows users to share location information with selected individuals, today announced a new version of… Read More

Fashion magazine-retailer hybrid Need sees huge growth with innovative e-commerce model

DALLAS — Matt Alexander sat inside a London pub three years ago and started jotting down ideas on a piece… Read More

Tempered Networks raises $15M to help protect power plants and refineries from cyberattacks

Cyberattacks are causing havoc across a number of industries, with hackers exposing vulnerabilities everywhere they go. One of the worst… Read More

Legendary investor Chris Sacca ‘can’t wait’ for tech industry to crash

SAN FRANCISCO – While investors and industry insiders worry about a future tech industry crash, legendary angel investor Chris Sacca… Read More

Microsoft reportedly eyeing purchase of social news reader Prismatic, along with Apple and Yahoo

Microsoft is interested in expanding its recent acquisition spree by picking up social reader application Prismatic, a social reader application, according to… Read More

Happly raises $1.5M for kid-friendly Internet video, game and toy platform

Family-friendly media and technology startup Happly has raised $1.45 million, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.… Read More

Led by two brothers, this startup turns smartphones into microphones at events and big meetings

MESA, Ariz. — During a session on Thursday at Phoenix Startup Week, an investor advised entrepreneurs in the crowd that founders within the… Read More

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