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Microsoft Ventures invests in mobile productivity startup Zula

Microsoft historically hasn’t spent much time investing in seed-stage startups. That’s part of the reason why today’s investment by Microsoft… Read More

Commentary: A lean startup approach to making booze

I worked at tech startups for the past 15 years — Drugstore, Allrecipes, nPost, and Blue Box Group to name… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Grayl’s reusable water cup filters your H2O like a french coffee press

What happens when you apply the filtering method used by a French press, but replace coffee with water? The answer… Read More

DocuSign co-founder Court Lorenzini now leading cooking-focused stealth startup CookBrite

Court Lorenzini, a longtime Seattle-area entrepreneur who co-founded DocuSign back in 2003, is now leading a stealth startup in the cooking… Read More

Meet the Seattle 10: These innovative startups are looking to change the world

Seattle is ripe with innovation. From aerospace to biotechnology to software to retail, startup companies in this moss-covered part of… Read More

CreativeLive lands $21.5M, looks to upend online learning with live broadcasts

CreativeLive co-founder Chase Jarvis is giving a tour of his company’s spartan offices — tucked in a former photo studio… Read More

Documents: Redfin raising $50M funding round in major new step for online real estate company

Seattle online real estate company Redfin appears to be on the cusp of announcing a huge financing round, corporate documents… Read More

Startup Spotlight: URGravity helps doctors, patients understand health device data to improve your well-being

After working in front of his computer all day long for decades in the tech industry, Ron Miller’s health wasn’t… Read More

Zulily boosts price range to $18 to $20 per share, signals strong demand for IPO

Fast-growing daily deal site Zulily is prepping for its initial public offering, with shares expected to price Thursday and begin… Read More

Airfare price tracker Yapta raises $2M, cuts corporate travel costs

Yapta has raised an additional $2 million in a series D funding round, led by Amadeus Ventures and supported by… Read More

A family connector? SquareHub unveils new content sharing feature for small groups

SquareHub co-founder Dave Cotter thinks families need a new type of social network — one that’s “elastic” enough to adapt… Read More

A dead end for WhichBus: Seattle transit app pulls plug

WhichBus, a mobile application that helped people find bus route around Seattle, has ceased operations. “After over a year and… Read More

Here’s the iPhone app supermodel Gisele Bündchen uses to organize her busy family life with star QB Tom Brady

Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen seems to have it all — extreme wealth; off-the-charts beauty; and a superstar quarterback for a husband… Read More

Startup Spotlight: PitchBook provides robust private equity market data for VC professionals

For nine years, John Gabbert led the team at a venture capital data provider called VentureSource. But while there, he saw… Read More

Startup Day Recap: Tips, lessons and real-world advice

Last month, I attended GeekWire’s Startup Day at the Showbox SODO in Seattle. Surrounded by some of the brightest entrepreneurial… Read More

Redfin looking to expand in Minneapolis

Redfin expanded in a big way earlier this year — announcing in February that it had opened for business in Houston,… Read More

Forget texts: Hotspot wants to help you meet up with friends

If you’re about to hit the bars tonight and want to invite a couple friends, you may send off a… Read More

Intellectual Ventures teams with SURF incubator, aims to teach startups about patents

Intellectual Ventures can be a lightning rod for controversy in the technology industry, but the company has found a receptive… Read More

Startup leaders not happy with securities administrator’s support of regulations that could ‘cripple’ startups

Seattle angel investor Dan Rosen has worked hard in recent months to shed light on the potentially damaging effects that proposed… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Forks offers instant ways to save money on food in a crowded coupon space

Juggernauts like Groupon and Living Social certainly have a strong presence in the digital coupon space. But one Seattle-based company… Read More

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Newsvine co-founder and CareerBuilder.com vet start BeLeave with $1M from Second Avenue Partners

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer is leading a $1 million financing round in a stealthy startup company that’s tentatively operating… Read More

It’s the end of the road for Optify: Assets sold, startup shuts doors

Optify, a Seattle maker of marketing software that laid off its staff and hit the wall in September, has sold… Read More

Preferling raises $100K to be friend-recommended, personalized version of Yelp

For Andrew Vest, using Yelp is often frustrating. While the platform can legitimately recommend highly-regarded companies, restaurants and other service-based… Read More

Storage startup Coho Data raises $25M from Ignition, Andreessen Horowitz

Coho Data, an integrated storage startup with offices in Vancouver, B.C. and Sunnyvale, Calif., has raised a $25 million venture… Read More

2nd Watch lands $23 million, assists businesses with cloud migration to Amazon Web Services

It’s been a big day for venture capital financings in the Seattle area, from a small seed round for UW… Read More

Demand Media domain spinoff ‘Rightside’ will be based in Seattle region

Kirkland, Wash., will be home to a new domain services company called Rightside Group after its spinoff from Santa Monica,… Read More

Zemanta names Todd Sawicki CEO, grabs $2M from Union Square Ventures, others

Zemanta has landed new cash and a new CEO. The company announced today that Seattle startup vet Todd Sawicki, who… Read More

UW spin out Qazzow scores $500,000, helps customers get questions answered on e-commerce sites

Qazzow, a spin out of the University of Washington founded by UW professors Andy Ko and Jake Wobbrock as well… Read More

Tacoma’s IID looks to help curb cyberattacks, secures $8M from Bessemer in first-ever financing

IID has been helping organizations mitigate cyberattacks for the past 17 years, building a 65-person company in Tacoma. Now, the… Read More

Seeq raises $6 million, looks to help manufacturers mine industrial data

Steve Sliwa  previously founded Insitu, the maker of unmanned aircraft that sold to Boeing for a reported purchase price of… Read More

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