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Vulcan Capital opens first international office in Singapore to invest $100M in Southeast Asia startups

Vulcan Capital, the invest arm of the late Paul Allen, opened its first international office in Singapore to invest in… Read More

Making OKRs OK: Ally raises $8M for software to help companies meet objectives and key results

A Seattle startup has raised $8 million to fuel its quest to help companies stay on track and hit their… Read More

Modular smart-home startup Blokable raises $23M, plans new California manufacturing facility

Blokable, the Seattle-based startup aiming to transform how housing is developed, raised $23 million to expand its manufacturing capabilities as… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Windows 95 Weekend, exploring supernovas, and more

— Do you remember where you were and what you were doing in 1995? Television was dominated by ER, Seinfeld,… Read More

In a field of giants, Seattle startup Flyhomes raises $141M in debt and equity to disrupt home-buying

Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is reloading its war chest with $141 million in new funding to carve out a… Read More

MediaPartners raises $5.6M to help companies prevent workplace harassment, violence, bias

A Seattle-area company that sells training videos to help improve workplace environments has raised more cash from investors. MediaPartners reeled… Read More

This little known Seattle startup just raised $25M to grow its ‘mobile infrastructure as a service’ tech

Jim Xiao learned about building enterprise platforms at Microsoft China. An executive role at a wireless company taught him about… Read More

Healthcare IT software maker Medstreaming raises cash to help hospitals and researchers analyze data

Medstreaming is raising investment to help hospitals and researchers analyze their data with artificial intelligence. The Redmond, Wash.-based healthcare IT… Read More

Commercial real estate marketing tech startup Remarkably raises more cash to meet early demand

Remarkably is raising more cash to meet early demand for its technology that helps apartment rental building owners, managers, investors,… Read More

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

Portland Seed Fund raises $13.9M for third fund, looks to invest in more early-stage startups

Portland Seed Fund has raised its largest fund yet as the firm looks to invest in more startups up 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

Medical device startup Sterifre nabs $8M to launch sterilization technology

Sterifre Medical raised an $8 million round to fuel development of products that rapidly disinfect healthcare devices, bringing the startup’s… 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

Industrial IoT startup Balena raises $14M to help developers build edge computing apps

As more companies deploy fleets of IoT devices, Seattle startup Balena is helping them manage their edge computing needs. The… Read More

Analysis: Seattle startup fundings rise in Q2, spurred by big rounds for Outreach, Auth0, others

Seattle and the Pacific Northwest are bucking national trends for startup funding. The flow of venture capital dollars to U.S.… 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

Veteran Seattle entrepreneurs raise cash for secretive advanced analytics startup Lamda

Brian Lent and David Bluhm are teaming up again on another startup. The veteran Seattle entrepreneurs who previously sold Medio… Read More

Amperity raises $50M to take on Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle and others with its customer data platform

With tech giants such as Adobe, Salesforce, and Oracle entering the ring, Seattle startup Amperity is raising more investment dollars… Read More

Remitly raises $135M and inks $85M credit line to grow remittance service, launch new products

TransferWise. WorldRemit. And now Remitly. Seattle-based Remitly announced a $220 million cash infusion late Tuesday, becoming the third mobile remittance… Read More

Techstars Seattle grad raises cash to record meetings and build a ‘personal memory bank’ for users

A Techstars Seattle grad that wants to create a “personal cloud-based memory bank” for its users has the attention of… Read More

RealWear raises $80M from Teradyne, Qualcomm, others for industrial augmented reality headset

The concept of an augmented reality heads-up display didn’t quite catch on with consumers when Google Glass debuted six years… Read More

This Seattle startup helps direct-to-consumer brands ‘take a page from Amazon’s playbook’

Be like Amazon. That’s the mantra for SoundCommerce, a new Seattle startup which just raised $6.8 million to help online… 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

Techstars Seattle leader Chris DeVore to step down, will focus on Founders’ Co-op venture capital firm

After nearly five years leading Techstars Seattle as managing director, Chris DeVore is stepping down on July 1. In an… Read More

Women’s clothing rental service Armoire raises more cash, moves into new HQ with retail space

Armoire is growing. The high-tech clothing rental startup just reeled in more cash to complete a $3.9 million seed round… Read More

Maveron partner Elise Hebb offers tips on running meetings and where she gets her best ideas

Having now raised more than $1.1 billion for venture capital investments over the course of her career, Elise Hebb remembers… Read More

Techstars grad Adaptilab raises $1.8M to help companies hire machine learning talent

Machine learning engineers are in high demand. There was a 344 percent jump in the number of ML-related job postings… Read More

Early LendingClub investor leads $10.5M round for small-dollar loan provider Possible Finance

Possible Finance is on a roll. The Seattle startup that provides small-dollar loans is rapidly growing its business and has… 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

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