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Funding

That’s a lot of groceries: Instacart reportedly raising more than $100M at $2B valuation

Instacart is in the process of raising more than $100 million in an investment round that will value the grocery… Read More

Uber closes giant $1.2B funding round, CEO vows company will be ‘more humble’

Uber has just raised another blockbuster $1.2 billion round of funding at a mammoth $40 billion valuation to power the… Read More

DocuSign raises $115 million, attracts cash from Japanese backers

DocuSign, the e-signature software company with operations in Seattle and San Francisco, announced today that three Japanese firms – NTT… Read More

News Brief

DocuSign lands strategic investment from Australian telco giant Telstra

Telstra, the largest telecommunications company in Australia, has made a strategic investment in e-signature company DocuSign, the two companies announced… Read More

Algorithmia raises $2.4M from Madrona and others to create marketplace for algorithms

Algorithmia, a Seattle-based startup that wants to build a marketplace for algorithms, has raised $2.4 million in a round of… Read More

Cardiac Insight lands $7M Series B led by Welch Allyn

Cardiac Insight has raised a $7 million Series B round, led by medical device manufacturer Welch Allyn, according to a… Read More

Seattle biotech firm Kineta raises $1.6 million to boost its battle against disease

Kineta, a Seattle-based biotech startup, has raised an investment round worth almost $1.6 million from existing investors in the company.… Read More

Box picks up $150M in funding, at $2.4B valuation, prior to IPO

Box, the cloud data storage company started by a pair of Mercer Island High School grads, has picked up an… Read More

Three mobile startup veterans raise $1.5M to provide cookie-like data for mobile apps

PushSpring has raised $1.5 million in capital to help mobile developers know their customers better so they can display more… Read More

Box reportedly seeking additional funding ahead of its IPO

Box, the online storage company started by a pair of Mercer Island High School graduates, is seeking additional funding from… Read More

Instacart’s $44M funding round raises the stakes in grocery delivery

Grocery delivery service Instacart has raised a $44 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator President Sam Altman and Box CEO… Read More

Hashplex lands $400,000 in funding to bring cloud-based bitcoin mining to the masses

HashPlex, a company that hosts Bitcoin mining equipment, announced today that it raised $400,000 in a seed round. The round… Read More

Placester closes $5.5M round for yet another online real estate idea

Here’s another spin on bringing the real estate industry online that could enable any agent to compete directly with the likes of Zillow or Redfin.… Read More

Volatility in VC land: Funding tumbles 14 percent in Q2

Venture Capital funding took a turn for the worse during the second quarter as deals and dollars slipped on a… Read More

Here’s how to score cash from Tony Conrad of True Ventures: Build a movement

As a member of the founding team at True Ventures, Tony Conrad has made a few odd bets. He bet… Read More

Fast-growing Solavei scores fresh cash, aims to top $100M in revenue

Solavei, which rewards customers for signing up friends, family and co-workers for its wireless service, has scored $2 million in fresh… Read More

Relaborate scores cash to help big brands figure out what to write about

Relaborate has raised more than $500,000 in a first round of funding, money that the Seattle startup will use to… Read More

Blaze Bioscience raises $8.5M to help surgeons pinpoint cancer cells with ‘tumor paint’

Seattle biotechnology startup Blaze Bioscience has raised $8.5 million to continue developing technologies that  are designed to help surgeons more… Read More

Seattle cloud startup Scope 5 raises $500,000 to track sustainability data

Seattle startup Scope 5 has scooped up $500,000 in angel financing, money that it will use to build out its… Read More

Gas Powered Games cancels Kickstarter for ‘Wildman’

Gas Powered Games unplugged its Kickstarter campaign for ‘WIldman‘ this afternoon with four days left and more than $500,000 to raise. We’ve… Read More

Startup tries new approach to dating: Let your avatars get to know each other first

Anomo is a new Seattle mobile startup that’s looking to solve an age-old dilemma: How do you find that special… Read More

This 10-year-old cable company just raised $1B (and no one really knows them)

I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of WaveDivision Holdings until this week when a longtime Seattle area PR veteran reached… Read More

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