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Funding

Zuper lands $13M to bolster software used by service businesses and their workers

Zuper, a Seattle startup that sells software to help service companies and their field workers, raised $13 million. Founded in… Read More

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AI2 spinout BirchAI lands $3.1M for healthcare customer support platform

A new spinout from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, BirchAI, has landed $3.1 million in seed funding for its… Read More

Tech vets land $4M to develop solar-powered robots that zap weeds and regenerate soil

New funding: Aigen, a startup developing solar-powered robots for weed control and soil regeneration, has raised $4 million in venture… Read More

Realtor.com operator Move leads $12M round for Seattle marketing startup Evocalize

Evocalize, a Seattle and Austin-based startup that helps brands with paid digital marketing, raised a $12 million Series A round… Read More

Vir to extend COVID-19 treatment approach to HIV, malaria with $50M from Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $40 million in equity investment and $10 million in grant funding to… Read More

Providence health-tech spinout DexCare raises $50M

Seattle health-tech startup DexCare, spun out of Providence’s digital innovation group, announced a $50 million funding round Thursday. Providence initially… Read More

Highspot raises $248M at $3.5B valuation as demand rises for software that helps salespeople

The news: Highspot raised another big round, this time reeling in $248 million as part of a Series F round.… Read More

Sibling founding team fuses tech and farm roots to land $2.2M for agriculture IoT startup

New funding: CODA Farm Technologies, an internet of things (IoT) agriculture startup with literal roots in Western Washington’s Skagit Valley,… Read More

Latest unicorn sighting in Seattle: SeekOut lands $115M to expand recruiting software

The news: Seattle-area startup SeekOut just landed an additional $115 million to propel its valuation past $1 billion, earning it… Read More

AskNicely lands $32M for customer experience software

Portland, Ore.-based startup AskNicely raised $32 million in a Series B round led by Kansas City, Mo.-based Five Elms Capital.… Read More

Pendulum raises $5.9M to help companies identify potentially harmful narratives online

The news: Seattle startup Pendulum announced a $5.9 million seed round. The tech: Pendulum’s software is used by corporate risk… Read More

Napster co-founder leads secretive Seattle startup that just raised $3.5M to ‘supercharge productivity’

The news: A group of experienced entrepreneurs and technologists have teamed up to lead a new Seattle startup that aims… Read More

Seattle investors back new startup Pictory that aims to automate short-form video production

The news: Pictory, a Seattle startup that helps content creators and marketers make short-form videos, raised a $2.1 million seed… Read More

Good Therapeutics lands $8M to develop protein drugs that work only where needed in the body

The news: Seattle startup Good Therapeutics has raised $8 million to advance its therapeutic proteins designed to operate only where… Read More

Curi Bio raises $10M for stem-cell based drug discovery platforms

Seattle-based startup Curi Bio has raised $10 million to advance its platforms for drug discovery, based on human stem cells.… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spinoff Modern Electron raising cash for heat-to-electricity tech

New funding: Modern Electron, a spinoff from Intellectual Ventures, is raising cash. A new filing with the U.S. Securities and… Read More

Biosensor startup Monod lands $6M and spins out of Univ. of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design

A new biotech startup has hatched from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design with $6 million in funding… Read More

Seattle VR startup Rec Room raises $145M, reaches $3.5B valuation

Rec Room, the Seattle-based development studio behind the fast-growing VR application Rec Room, has raised $145 million in new funding,… Read More

Seattle startup Tasso lands $100M for self-administered blood collection devices

Seattle-based Tasso, which makes devices for the self-collection of blood samples, has landed $100 million in funding. Tasso’s devices work… Read More

Rental property investment startup Arrived secures $100M in credit financing to fuel U.S. expansion

Arrived Homes, the Seattle startup that helps people invest in single-family rental properties, is taking on $100 million in new… Read More

Climate funding: Amazon makes more investments; Alaska Airlines and Bill Gates-led effort back aviation startup

The investments keep rolling in for climate tech companies, and Pacific Northwest tech companies are writing many of the checks.… Read More

Level rides ‘Great Resignation’ wave and lands $7M for credit service used by independent contractors

The news: Seattle startup Level raised $7 million to fuel growth of its flexible credit service used by independent contractors… Read More

Report: Life sciences sector is booming as companies swoop up lab space and raise gobs of cash

It’s hard for life sciences startups to find lab space, and there’s a good reason. The sector has been on… Read More

Hospitality vet launches Route Line in drive to provide better access to adventure travel vehicles

Seated in a customized Mercedes Sprinter van at a Seattle park on a recent sunny day, Johannes Ariens and his… Read More

Tune Therapeutics launches with $40M in funding, aims to fine-tune activity of genes in cells

A new biotech startup with operations in Seattle and Durham, N.C., has launched with $40 million in new funding and… Read More

StormSensor raises $10M for rain management tech amid severe flooding across the world

Record-setting rains this fall have created disasters around the globe. It drowned thousands of cows and livestock and cut off… Read More

Climate tech funding news: BattGenie works its magic; lithium refining startup gets Gates’ support

Here’s the latest funding news for climate tech startups across the Pacific Northwest. BattGenie The news: BattGenie — a startup… Read More

General Fusion lands $130M from Bezos and others as fusion energy sector keeps heating up

The news: The fusion energy field just keeps getting hotter. British Columbia’s General Fusion on Tuesday said that it has… Read More

Cannabis analytics startup Headset, led by Leafly founders, raises more cash

The news: Cannabis analytics company Headset on Tuesday announced that it raised $8.6 million in funding. That includes $3 million… Read More

Cloud governance software startup Corestack lands $30M

The news: Seattle-area startup CoreStack raised a $30 million Series B round led by Avatar Growth Capital. The gist: CoreStack sells “cloud… Read More

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