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Seattle-area VC firm Tola Capital raising a new $400M fund, filing shows

Tola Capital, a Seattle-area investment firm that backs enterprise software companies, is raising $400 million for its third fund, according… Read More

TLDR: Amazon ends warehouse worker bonuses & stock awards

Today’s featured stories Amazon criticized for ending warehouse bonuses and stock awards in shift to $15/hour wage Nintendo plans new… Read More

Campaign to diversify startup boards launched by Redfin, Madrona, Pioneer Square Labs and others

Real estate technology company Redfin and several prominent tech investment firms will encourage startups in their portfolios to recruit an… Read More

VC firms invest $21.8B in 1,958 companies during Q2 as part of ‘self-correction period’

U.S. venture capital investment activity is returning to steadier times. That’s one takeaway from the latest Venture Monitor from PitchBook… Read More

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Bill Gurley reunites with Zillow’s Spencer Rascoff to talk ‘insane curiosity’ and finding good leaders

Bill Gurley, the Benchmark venture capitalist who served for 10 years on the board of directors at Zillow Group, reunited… Read More

Startups and VCs join legal fight against Trump’s immigration ban, claiming ‘immediate harm’ to the innovation economy

Tech giants, like Amazon, Expedia, Google, and Microsoft, have thrown their considerable weight behind Washington state and Minnesota in a… Read More

VC investment activity dips in 2016, but still reaches $69B across 7,751 companies

Venture capital investment activity dipped last year from a record 2015, but returned to normal activity in 2016 and marked the… Read More

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Ignition leads $20M funding round for Accompany, an app that acts as a virtual chief of staff

Ignition Partners, the Bellevue, Wash.-based venture capital firm, has led the way on a new $20 million round of funding… Read More

Here are the top 10 universities graduating the most VC-backed entrepreneurs

Students across the country are headed back to school and many high school seniors are deciding which college or university… Read More

Will the real Bill Bryant please stand up? Seattle VC gets confused with gubernatorial candidate — a lot

Bill Bryant was talking with a close friend recently, whose mother is a lifelong Democrat. She told her daughter that… Read More

Working Geek: Madrona’s Tim Porter is on 10 boards — here’s how he keeps it together

Tim Porter is the guy on the other side of the table. He’s the decision-maker whom eager, nervous entrepreneurs pitch, hoping… Read More

Madrona bolsters team, names former Isilon president Bill Richter venture partner

Madrona Venture Group, the Seattle venture capital firm that raised a $300 million fund last year, continues to add horsepower… Read More

Ex-Amazon exec looks to disrupt healthcare at Providence Ventures, taps former Swype CEO as entrepreneur-in-residence

Over the past year, Providence Health & Services, a 159-year old not-for-profit Catholic health care provider, has quietly built a sophisticated… Read More

HelloTech raises $12.5M to help you say goodbye to all your home tech problems

Los Angeles-based HelloTech, which wants to be the Uber of tech support, has raised $12.5 million in a first round… Read More

The unicorn trend is backed by hundreds of VCs eager to discover the next big thing

Maybe you thought the kind of VC willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a $1 billion valuation was a rare… Read More

Is PayPal’s strong public market reception fueling interest in Stripe and Square?

On its first day of trading as a publicly held company, PayPal’s value soared to $50 billion following its spin-out… Read More

PushSpring raises $5M from Trilogy to help advertisers target users on mobile phones

PushSpring, a Seattle-based analytics company that helps mobile app developers target specific audiences, has raised $5 million in a first round of… Read More

Northwest companies raise nearly $1B in Q2, with angel-backed startups seeing higher valuations

Companies in the Northwest raised a total of $959.28 million in the second quarter, up 35 percent over the same… Read More

Ex-AOL CTO raises $1M for new cyber security startup Polyverse

Polyverse, a Kirkland-based company founded by former AOL CTO Alex Gounares, has raised $1 million in capital to help protect companies from large-scale data… Read More

U.S. venture capital funds raise $10.3 billion in Q2, a 27 percent increase over last year

Thank the unicorns. As more companies stay private longer, and are raising larger and larger rounds, the trend appears to be benefiting venture capital firms,… Read More

DocuSign tops off latest funding round with another $45M, bringing the total to $278M

Some of the more coveted U.S. tech companies have recently shown an insatiable thirst for capital, and given the times, it’s been easy… Read More

Electronic signature company DocuSign raises $233M in monster funding round

DocuSign, the company known for enabling electronic signatures online, has raised an impressive $233 million to continue fueling its plans for rapid… Read More

The Secret’s out: Anonymous social app is shutting down and returning capital to investors

After a wild 16 months, the Silicon Valley-based company that allowed people to share information anonymously is closing down. Secret’s founder David… Read More

China’s Alibaba reportedly investing $200M in Snapchat at a $15B valuation

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is reportedly interested in investing $200 million in Snapchat, which allows people to send photos knowing that… Read More

Mobile bill pay app Prism raises $2M to help you pay your bills on time

Prism, a three-year old startup, has raised $2 million over multiple rounds to help people pay their bills using a free… Read More

Flash sales leader Gilt Groupe raises $50M as it watches Zulily’s shares crash

Gilt Groupe may now have enough runway to hold off on an IPO until the public markets warm to flash sales companies… Read More

Redmond’s Vesiflo secures $650,000 for catheter alternative

Medical device maker Vesiflo has secured $650,000 in funding ahead of its commercial launch later this year. The Redmond-based company,… Read More

Zipwhip raises $5M for huge sales push as texting from landlines takes off

Zipwhip, the Seattle-based company that enables existing landline phones to send and receive text messages, has raised $5 million in… Read More

App Annie secures $55M to provide even more data about your apps

If you are a mobile developer, there’s a good chance you compulsively check App Annie to see how your app… Read More

Can Bend become the next Boulder? This venture capitalist thinks so, and here’s why

BEND, Ore. — Venture capitalist Dino Vendetti is buzzing through his adopted hometown of Bend — showing off attractions that… Read More

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