Startups – Page 37 of 285

As venture capital markets cool, startups consider debt and loans as alternative financing options

Minh Le has been busy. As a market manager for Silicon Valley Bank’s Washington and Western Canada region, he helps entrepreneurs… Read More

Tech Moves: VMware exec joins Darktrace; Zillow hires Twitter marketing leader; Oregon Venture Fund adds partner

— Seattle-area tech executive Denise Walter was appointed chief revenue officer at cybersecurity firm Darktrace. Walter will join the company… Read More

Market insights platform Klue acquires DoubleCheck Research

Klue, the Vancouver, B.C.-based startup that uses AI to aggregate and analyze company data, acquired DoubleCheck Research, a Massachusetts-based company… Read More

Membrion, a startup building ceramic membranes for wastewater treatment, raises $7M

Seattle startup Membrion raised $7 million to boost manufacturing of its ceramic membranes that treat wastewater. Spun out of the… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Lululemon chief joins Seattle startup; Microsoft AI ethics leader now at Google

— Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll, the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. D’Ambrosio-Correll joined home… Read More

Nest co-founder launches service to turn household food scraps into chicken feed for $33/month

Matt Rogers, a former Apple engineer and co-founder of Nest, is using his passion for climate challenges to fuel a… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

— Graham Sheldon, former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an… Read More

Esper lays off 21% of workforce due to ‘unpredictable business environment in 2023’

Seattle startup Esper laid off employees for the second time in seven months, cutting 21% of its workforce in the… Read More

Seattle beanless coffee startup Atomo initiates ‘strategic realignment’ 6 months after raising $40M

Seattle-based sustainable coffee maker Atomo says it is restructuring, just six months after raising $40 million in fresh funding. In… Read More

Ex-Apple engineers raise $7.5M for new Seattle data storage startup

A trio of former Apple engineers is leading a new data storage platform for developers building machine learning and artificial… Read More

Startup making sensors out of paper unveils eye-tracking sleep mask

Seattle-area sensor company Somalytics is showcasing a wearable mask that detects eye movement during sleep at the Consumer Electronics Show… Read More

Point72’s venture capital arm sees big opportunities in the Pacific Northwest

There’s a new player in town. Point72 Private Investments, the institutional private investments business of the global hedge fund led… Read More

PreAct, which sells near-field sensors for automakers, reels in $14M

PreAct, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that uses near-field sensors to help sense a vehicle’s surroundings and respond, raised $14 million… Read More

Samsung’s VC arm backs startup selling chips for 3D sensors in self-driving cars and robots

Seattle-area startup Lumotive landed $13 million to boost production of its semiconductor chips tailored for 3D sensors used in delivery… Read More

Tech Moves: Flexport hires Microsoft CVP; Avalara adds chief revenue officer; and more

— Teresa Carlson, a longtime tech executive who was most recently a corporate vice president at Microsoft, joined Flexport as… Read More

KKR-backed customer feedback company Alchemer acquires Seattle startup Apptentive

Alchemer, a Louisville, Colo.-based survey software platform, acquired Apptentive, a Seattle startup that helps mobile app-makers gather customer feedback. Terms of… Read More

SingleFile, a legal tech startup that helps companies manage state filings, lands $3.2M

Legal tech startup SingleFile raised an additional $3.2 million to fuel growth of its technology that acts as a registered… Read More

Tech Moves: Flexe CTO departs; Impinj names chief innovation officer; and more

— David Glick left his position as chief technology officer of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe. Glick spent nearly four years… Read More

Contract lifecycle management startup SirionLabs raises $25M

Contract lifecycle management startup SirionLabs raised an additional $25 million as part of its Series D funding, pushing total funding… Read More

How 6 venture capitalists are thinking about 2023 — and their advice to startups

Venture capitalists are in the business of bets, writing checks to the people and ideas they believe are going to… Read More

Digital health leaders share predictions on what to expect in 2023

Funding for digital health startups and initiatives soared during the pandemic as entrepreneurs and consumers increasingly embraced telehealth, remote monitoring,… Read More

The 10 biggest funding rounds for Pacific Northwest startups in 2022

Venture capitalists slowed investments this year in response to the cooling economy. But some startups were still able to secure… Read More

The 4-day work week is good for business, according to these Seattle startups

When Seattle startup Uplevel adopted a four-day week in January, it was betting on the fact that employees would get… Read More

The first 10 calls every life science entrepreneur should make

William Canestaro has nurtured a lot of startups. As managing director of Washington Research Foundation and WRF Capital, the foundation’s… Read More

Tech Moves: Meta exec joins AI startup, Lyell Immunopharma hires new CEO; and more

— Claudiu Bulai is now chief innovation officer at Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Quantarium. Bulai previously spent five years at Meta,… Read More

Congrats, it’s a startup! Husband-and-wife team’s new baby is Bubbe, a high-tech feeding bottle

Plenty of founders have been known to regard a new startup as their “baby.” Some are even influenced by a… Read More

Legal tech startup Lexion is using GPT-3 to help lawyers write summaries and suggest edits

Seattle legal tech startup Lexion is the latest company to take advantage of GPT-3, the language model from OpenAI that… Read More

Co-CEOs? After Salesforce shakeup, startup duos explain how they make the model work

For more than a decade, Todd Schwartz and Evan Richman have been sitting directly across from each other in the… Read More

Seattle cybersecurity startup that aims to protect machine learning-based code lands $13.5M

Protect AI, a Seattle startup that sells cybersecurity tech tailored to code that powers artificial intelligence and machine learning programs,… Read More

Tech Moves: Karat, Common Room, Aduro hire execs; longtime Microsoft cloud leader departs

— Karat, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, hired two new executives. Karat raised a $110 million Series C… Read More