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New site ‘Capital & Growth’ aims to be the ‘Stack Overflow for startup marketing’

Jasper Kuria’s story will resonate with many startup founders. He spent several years in engineering and program management at Microsoft… Read More

Wireless tech company Rigado raises $3M to expand overseas and grow IoT product line

Rigado, a Portland company that provides wireless services for Internet of Things (IoT) companies, has secured $3.3 million in seed… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Microsoft cybersecurity vets launch Seklarity to help companies understand hacking risk

During the years Joe Donahue spent running Microsoft’s cybersecurity threat detection team, he observed a recurring problem. The team helped… Read More

Pizza, soda, Oreos and breathing: 7 key lessons I learned in the startup trenches

Becoming a startup CEO was never an explicit career goal. I started PitchBook because of a simple and pure motivation… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Cancer survivors join forces for social video startup Splainers

The odds of surviving stage III Hodgkin’s lymphoma are about four-to-one. The odds of two people beating that cancer and… Read More

Blok24 is building a spontaneity marketplace, connecting people with local businesses for activities happening now

Studies show that millennials value experiences over things and are willing to put their discretionary cash toward activities. Blok24 is banking on… Read More

Video streaming marketplace uZoom acquires Creator Republic

One-on-one video streaming platform uZoom has acquired Creator Republic for an undisclosed sum. UZoom is a Seattle startup that connects viewers in remote… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Waccal’s platform helps startups validate their products and find investors

The process of landing meetings and pitching investors can be burdensome for time and resource-strapped startups. Brothers Ashfaq and Anil… Read More

Startup Spotlight: This biotech company uses fermentation to produce custom compounds

Here’s a wacky concept. Imagine you could give a microorganism, like yeast, specific instructions on what to produce during fermentation.… Read More

Working Geek: Why Aravind Bala left a lead engineer role at Microsoft to launch Nextio

Aravind Bala had been at Microsoft for nearly 15 years when he met Anoop Gupta, his manager on the Office… Read More

Entomo raises $2.5M to put its enterprise channel management software on the map

When you think “enterprise software,” industry leaders like Oracle, Microsoft and SAP may come to mind, but Entomo may not be on… Read More

Fast-moving Rover launches national ad campaign starring man’s best friend

Rover is growing up fast and learning some new tricks along the way. The Seattle startup is rolling out its… Read More

Techstars grad Stackery raises cash from Voyager, aiming to disrupt DevOps cloud infrastructure market with serverless toolset

Before even graduating from the Techstars Seattle 2017 class, Stackery CEO Nate Taggart had a check in hand — and not… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Swym wants to help e-commerce companies better compete with Amazon

It’s not an easy time to be in the e-commerce business. Tech titans, like Amazon and Walmart, are able to… Read More

Madrona invests in $60M funding round for Silicon Valley ‘deep linking’ startup Branch

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group is one of the investors in a $60 million series C round raised by Silicon Valley’s… Read More

On the front lines of tech: Bunker Labs ready to help veterans move from military service to startups

Not everyone has the work ethic to be an entrepreneur — the long hours, the commitment, the need to focus… Read More

Recruiting software startup Crelate raises cash to boost marketing and development

Crelate, a startup with offices in Bothell, Wash. and Bethesda, Md., has closed a $1.2 million investment round led by… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Hazel wants to help managers be better leaders using software

As Wisam Abdulla and his co-founders were building Canadian payroll startup Rise, they encountered a common complaint from customers again… Read More

Study: Startup ecosystems across the country are bouncing back — but there’s more work to be done

The Great Recession struck a major and lasting blow to entrepreneurship but the nation’s startup ecosystem appears to finally be… Read More

Seattle wellness tracking startup EveryMove acquired by personal health scanning company higi

EveryMove, a Seattle startup that helps employers incentivize employee wellness, has been acquired by health-tracking company higi. Chicago-based higi announced the… Read More

How this legal software startup used its funding round to support legal aid under Trump budget cuts

Many tech companies wait until they grow into big corporations before thinking about corporate social responsibility. But MetaJure, a Seattle startup that provides… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Valid8 takes the complexity out of analyzing financial records

The idea for Seattle startup Valid8 came from a Ponzi scheme — but not in the way you might think.… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CuePath Innovation’s IoT device helps seniors stay on top of medications

After witnessing his grandmother’s trying health scares caused by mismanaging her pills, Victor Lesau decided to put his engineering background… Read More

Working Geek: What Outreach CPO Andrew Kinzer thinks startups can learn from racecar drivers

Andrew Kinzer, Chief Product Officer of Seattle startup Outreach, is religious about time management. He sees time as the most… Read More

Co-working space for women The Riveter is launching in Seattle to build community and challenge ‘bro-working’

Amy Nelson is in the midst of a career pivot. A former Wall Street lawyer, she and co-founder Kim Peltola… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Stackery envisions a server-less future with ‘functions-as-a-service’ platform

Nate Taggart and Chase Douglas believe that server-less applications will become more popular than traditional apps over the next decade. What… Read More

Startup Spotlight: VendorHawk makes software for the new world of SaaS

Mid-sized to enterprise-level companies rely on an increasingly wide array of software products to keep their businesses efficient. But, ironically,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: LevelTen Energy makes it easier for corporations to buy clean power

Big companies are increasingly seeking out renewable energy to cope with carbon emissions caps and keep their budgets more stable,… Read More

Remitly launches social media campaign highlighting immigrant stories in the face of Trump’s crackdown

Remitly has something to say about the current immigration climate in the United States. The Seattle startup, which makes it… Read More

Seattle entrepreneur Martin Tobias ditches startups and cannabis in favor of trees and bourbon

Seattle entrepreneur Martin Tobias’s latest venture was inspired by his six-year-old. He and his daughter were visiting his brother, David… Read More

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