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Funding

PicoBrew raises $10.6M to fuel production of at-home beer-making machines

Seattle’s geekiest beer-making company is raising more money. PicoBrew has reeled in a $10.6 million investment round led by Spring… Read More

Domain registry Donuts invests in geofence management firm GeoFrenzy, launching ‘Donuts Labs’ initiative

Donuts, the Bellevue, Wash.-based domain registry that controls extensions like .cash, .email and many more, is looking to back companies innovating… Read More

Cardiac Insight closes $2.5M funding round to identify heart problems in young athletes

Cardiac Insight is preparing for the launch of its CardeaScreen technology, and the company has raised $2.5 million to help spur… Read More

Versium raising $1.7M to bring predictive marketing and analytics to new users

We all generate a lot of online data everyday, but to get the full picture of a person’s life, you have… Read More

Fexy Media lands $6M to grow its portfolio of millennial-focused food brands

Fexy Media, a Mercer Island-based company focused on acquiring millennial-minded food brands, just secured $6 million in funding, according to… Read More

HTC launches $100M Vive X program to accelerate growth of virtual reality startups

If virtual reality fails, it won’t be for lack of funding. HTC announced a $100 million fund and accelerator program to… Read More

Seattle startup looks to extinguish cigarette smoking, raises $500,000 for SmartQuit smoking cessation app

Helping people to quit smoking can result in a huge benefit for employers. Not only are users healthier and more… Read More

Sirqul raises another $3M as it expands IoT solutions to China

Sirqul, the Seattle startup focused in part on improving the Internet of Things, is looking to expand its services in… Read More

Discuss.io raises $1.4M round, led by Unilever Ventures, to build up webcam focus group platform

Getting feedback on a new branding choice or potential product is an important step for companies before embarking on a… Read More

TableSafe looks to change how diners pay for meals, raises cash for tableside credit card readers

Having a stranger take your credit card into a back room to scan it would be a weird practice for… Read More

Siren

Dating app Siren, where women make first move, lands $500k in funding, providing alternative to Tinder, Match and others

Siren, the Seattle-based dating app that lets women make the first move, has raised $500,000 of a planned $750,000 seed round. The… Read More

Front Desk raises additional $1M from Wave Maker Partners, preparing for next phase of growth

Front Desk, the Seattle startup that makes management, payment, and scheduling software used by a wide range of businesses, has raised an additional… Read More

Menlo Ventures leads $14.5M round for Usermind, an enterprise business operations startup

Usermind is bringing on another top-tier investor as the Seattle startup continues to develop its enterprise business operations platform. The company today… Read More

VR sports and music startup Voke raises $12.5M from Intel Capital, Sacramento Kings, A&E and others

Voke, a virtual reality technology company that specializes in live streams of sports and music events, has raised $12.5 million… Read More

Paul Allen bankrolls 611 teacher projects in Washington state in celebrity ‘flash funding’ initiative

Hundreds of schools in Washington state — 329 of them, to be exact — are in for a surprise. Microsoft co-founder… Read More

Alibaba raising $4 billion for acquisitions — or possibly to buy back Yahoo’s stake

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant and Amazon rival, is seeking a loan of as much as $4 billion from at… Read More

Northwest angel investment collective Keiretsu doles out $43.5M in 2015

The Keiretsu Forum Northwest announced today in a news release that its regional collective of angel investors poured $43.5 million into 57 companies… Read More

LiquidPlanner raises $2M to bolster online project management platform

LiquidPlanner is raising more cash to continue building its online project management platform. The Seattle startup just reeled in an… Read More

Poached Jobs restaurant employment site raises $2.25 million in funding

Poached Jobs, a Portland, Ore.-based job board and hiring platform for bars and restaurants, has raised $2.25 million in funding, roughly two-thirds… Read More

Alibaba leads Magic Leap’s new $793.5M funding round at $4.5 billion valuation

Magic Leap hasn’t released a consumer version of its augmented reality tech. It hasn’t released a developer unit. It hasn’t… Read More

GeekWire 200 January Update: New funding rounds fuel big growth at Pacific NW startups

New rounds of funding are sparking big growth at several Seattle- and Portland-area startups, leading to some sizable jumps in the January 2016 edition of… Read More

For founders: This survey will test how ‘fundable’ your startup is

If you’re a startup founder looking to raise some money for your company, there’s a new test available that may… Read More

Magic Leap looks to enter unicorn territory before it even reveals first product

Mysterious augmented reality startup Magic Leap is looking to raise $827 million in a Series C funding round, according to… Read More

Volt Athletics raises another $1M to continue growing online fitness training platform

Volt Athletics is raising more money to fuel growth of its online fitness training platform. The Seattle-based startup has reeled in… Read More

C-Labs raises $2.7 million to give greater insights into automated industrial equipment

C-Labs has raised $2.7 million as the industrial-grade software company begins to expand and really scale its business. Founded in 2009,… Read More

Frazier Healthcare raises $262M for therapeutics-focused venture fund

Frazier Healthcare has raised $262 million for its latest life sciences venture fund that will back early stage therapeutics companies,… Read More

Cybersecurity startup SignalSense raises $4.5M with a ‘DVR’ for network attacks

Seattle-based cybersecurity startup SignalSense just raised $4.5 million, bolstering its efforts to curb a growing security problem facing organizations ranging from Costco… Read More

Convoy raises $2.5M from Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, others for new on-demand trucking startup

A new Seattle startup has raised $2.5 million from an impressive group of investors to change how shippers connect with… Read More

Filing: Planetary Resources raises $12M as prospects look up for asteroid mining business

Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources has raised $12 million in funding, according to an SEC filing on Wednesday. The company, which is backed… Read More

Pyramid Analytics raises $30M to boost its business-intelligence platform

Pyramid Analytics, a business-intelligence technology company with U.S. operations in Bellevue, Wash., has raised an additional $30 million in funding from… Read More

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