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Startup turnaround specialist Matt Hulett on unlocking growth, and surviving turbulent times

Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week is Matt Hulett, a veteran of the Seattle tech community and the author… Read More

DigniFi, a tech platform for financing auto repairs, raises $14M to keep American drivers rolling

DigniFi, the Kirkland, Wash.-based tech platform that helps drivers finance auto repairs and services, has raised $14 million. The Series… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon vets raise $2.85M for multicloud management platform MontyCloud

New funding: Seattle-based MontyCloud brought in $2.85 million for its AI-driven software platform that helps companies work across multiple cloud… Read More

Stealthly startup Yor Labs raises cash for AI-powered handheld ultrasound system

New funding: Portland, Ore.-based startup Yor Labs raised $3.3 million to fund the development of a lightweight ultrasound system powered… Read More

Seattle-area startup Quantivate raises cash for risk and compliance platform

New funding: Woodinville, Wash.-based Quantivate, which sells software for risk management and compliance, raised an undisclosed amount of money. Lead… Read More

Extra cheese, please: Restaurant tech startup Picnic lands $5M for pizza robot

Seattle startup Picnic, which makes robots for the restaurant industry, raised $5 million in a seed round led by Creative… Read More

SheerID raises $64M to help marketers offer online deals to students, teachers, military members

Marketing verification startup SheerID just raised $64 million of fresh funding in a round led by CVC Growth Partners with… Read More

Former Jive execs raise $3M to bring ‘Karate Kid principle’ to management teams with Koan

Koan, a startup founded by former Jive Software executives, has raised $3 million to build software that helps business leaders… Read More

Sports Illustrated owner Maven raises $20M to power controversial publishing plans

Maven, the Seattle-based media company that purchased Sports Illustrated earlier this year, has raised $20 million and revealed more of… Read More

DocuSign releases list of high-profile investors, from tech execs to Tony Hawk and Jared Leto

The Seattle-born electronic signature company DocuSign released a list on Wednesday of some of the more prominent individual investors the company has picked… Read More

News Brief

Lighter Capital boosts capital base to $17M, plans to help more startups grow without venture capital

Lighter Capital, which specializes in revenue-based loans to small businesses, said that it has increased its capital base to $17… Read More

TalentWise spins off from Naveen Jain’s Inome with $25M from mysterious backer

TalentWise has spun off from Naveen Jain’s Inome in a $25 million financing round led by an undisclosed Seattle area… Read More

Turbine maker Hydrovolts on brink of liquidation, ex-CEO resigns from board

Hydrovolts, a Seattle startup that developed turbines to generate clean power from canals, is hemorrhaging cash and is on the brink… Read More

Seattle angel group Keiretsu Forum invests $20M in 34 startups in 2012

The Keiretsu Forum Northwest today announced that it invested $20.1 million in 34 companies last year, backing startups such as… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff sounds off on the JOBS Act, calls it a ‘step backwards’

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, also known as the JOBS Act, was signed into law by President Barack Obama… Read More

Optimism fades as venture capitalists head into 2012

Generally speaking, venture capitalists and startup CEOs are kind of half-glass-full kind of folks. But even these optimistic groups are… Read More

Lighter Capital’s Andy Sack has $500,000 burning a hole in his pocket

Ready, set, invest. By August 31, Lighter Capital will pump $500,000 into a new business no matter how awful the… Read More

Startup iTegris, hatched by two Microsoft vets, raises $4.6M

Stealth software startup iTegris, founded by former Microsoft VP Kurt Kolb and former Microsoft GM Tom Phillips, has raised more… Read More

SEC to review rules on how startups raise money

Guest Commentary: Breathtaking, front-page news in the Wall Street Journal this morning. Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro has… Read More