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Good news for card-carrying potheads: Seattle startup raising funds so you don’t have to use cash

Seattle-area financial tech company POSaBIT is raising a fresh round of funding to make it easier for cannabis companies and… Read More

Fast-growing real estate heavyweight Compass raises $370M at $6.4B valuation

High-tech real estate brokerage Compass has a new mountain of cash to continue building out its technology platform and grow… Read More

Smart light switch startup Deako lands $3.5M to speed up production for homebuilders

Seattle startup Deako raised $3.5 million to kick production of its “plug and play” smart light switches into high gear.… Read More

Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round

Icertis, welcome to the unicorn club. The Bellevue, Wash. contract management startup today announced a whopping $115 million investment, the… Read More

Procurify raises $20M to help companies track organizational spending

Procurify, a Vancouver, B.C. startup that makes cloud-based software to help companies manage their spending, raised $20 million to expand… Read More

Highspot reels in $60M for AI-powered software used by Fortune 500 sales teams

Across industries, despite the tide of automation and artificial intelligence, most companies still employ humans to deal with customers for… Read More

NextStep raising more funds to train and place healthcare workers with companies that need them

NextStep is raising more cash to build out its platform for recruiting and training healthcare workers and funneling them to… Read More

Legwork, a maker of marketing automation software for dentists, raises $17M

Legwork, a Wenatchee, Wash. startup that builds marketing automation software specifically for dental practices, has raised $17 million in funding.… Read More

Seattle cybersecurity startup Critical Informatics raises $9.6M and changes name to CI Security

A cybersecurity startup that pairs software with analysts who review and investigate attacks raised $9.6 million to continue battling intrusions… Read More

Real estate startup Showdigs raises $3M to build and expand apartment showing marketplace

Another new Seattle startup has raised cash to fix problems in the complicated world of real estate. Showdigs raised a… Read More

RiskLens raises $20M to show companies how much cyberattacks could cost them

A Spokane, Wash. startup just raised some serious cash to show companies how the threat of cyberattacks could impact their… Read More

Microsoft’s M12 lays out investment strategy, aims to make the corporate VC community more ‘founder-friendly’

In just a matter of weeks, Microsoft went from a customer of Directly’s to an investor. The San Francisco-based company… Read More

Rover dips a paw into Latin America, backing Brazilian pet care startup DogHero in $7M round

Rover, the Seattle-based pet-sitting marketplace, is jumping into Latin America for the first time, investing in a leading pet startup.… Read More

Microsoft’s investment arm M12 leads $15M funding round for corporate payments startup nsKnox

Microsoft has invested in a startup based in Boston and Tel Aviv, Israel, that aims to make corporate payments more… Read More

Microsoft joins $250M funding round for ‘boring AI’ company Databricks

A little more than a year ago, Microsoft teamed up with San Francisco-based Databricks to help its cloud customers quickly… Read More

Key Amazon exec Jeff Wilke invests in furniture rental startup Fernish as part of $30M round

Fernish, the furniture rental startup from Los Angeles that recently expanded to Seattle, just got a big jolt of fresh… Read More

Pro.com lands Redfin as an investor and potential partner in $33M round as it aims to revolutionize general contracting

Pro.com — the Seattle startup that aims to transform the general contractor industry — had a pretty good 2018, and… Read More

Pokémon Go maker Niantic raises massive $245M funding round, company value approaches $4B

Niantic, the Google spinout that made the smash hit game Pokémon Go, has raised $245 million to continue building out… Read More

Shyft lands $6.5M to help retail and service workers easily swap schedules

Shyft Technologies, a Seattle startup that helps workers in the service and retail industries communicate and swap shifts, has raised… Read More

Microsoft connection: Capria fund, backed by Bill Gates, gets $20M from Paul Allen’s Vulcan

Microsoft’s fingerprints are all over the Seattle and global tech ecosystems, and here’s the latest example: a venture capital fund… Read More

Vulcan Capital invests in Fortnite creator Epic Games as part of epic $1.25B round

Epic Games, creator of the wildly popular battle royale game Fortnite, has raised a massive $1.25 billion funding round, and… Read More

Amazon invests in $50M funding round for German smart thermostat startup tado

Amazon has made another smart home investment, this time backing a German smart thermostat company called tado. The $50 million… Read More

Ribbon, backed by Trulia co-founder, raises $225M to be the ‘credit card swipe’ for real estate

Not only are homebuyers battling each other when looking for houses in today’s supercharged housing market, but there’s also the… Read More

NextStep Interactive raises $3M to help people displaced by AI and automation find healthcare jobs

A new startup called NextStep Interactive has spun out of Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs and raised $3.15 million… Read More

Shelf Engine raises $4.3M to help grocers battling Amazon save money on food orders

Shelf Engine has made some major changes since it was founded about two years ago. The Seattle startup began by… Read More

Postmates raises massive $300M round as CEO hints at 2019 IPO

Delivery startup Postmates has raised a huge $300 million funding, pushing its valuation over $1 billion as it battles a… Read More

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Funding trends reveal how Seattle startups are starting to rival their Silicon Valley counterparts

Seattle is sometimes called the younger sibling of Silicon Valley when it comes to startups, and it’s true that Seattle’s… Read More

University of Washington spin-out raising cash for more accurate DNA sequencing technology

TwinStrand Biosciences, a spin-out of the University of Washington, is raising cash to commercialize DNA sequencing technology that it… Read More

ApoGen raises additional $4M, adds three biotech vets in pursuit of better cancer treatment

Biotech startup ApoGen, which is researching solutions to drug-resistant cancers, is moving into a new phase of development. The company… Read More

Slack raises massive $427M round, valuation skyrockets to $7.1B as it battles Microsoft Teams

Slack has raised a whopping $427 million in a new funding round amid a strong challenge from Microsoft Teams in… Read More