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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

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invests in $25M round for Naveen Jain’s microbiome startup Viome

Viome, a wellness startup from entrepreneur Naveen Jain, has raised $25 million in funding from a crop of investors that… Read More

New unicorn in Seattle: Outreach raises massive $114M round, pushing valuation above $1 billion

Seattle has a new unicorn. Sales automation startup Outreach has reeled in a huge $114 million investment round that pushes… Read More

Seattle-based heart monitor maker Bardy Diagnostics raises $35.5M

Seattle-based medical device company Bardy Diagnostics today announced a $35.5 million funding round led by River Cities Capital Fund. The… Read More

More cash for Pacific Northwest startups: Founders’ Co-op raises $25M fund, its largest ever

More investment dollars are flowing into the Pacific Northwest startup ecosystem thanks to a new fund from Founders’ Co-op. The… Read More

Stripe for ID verification: Investors bet on new Madrona Venture Labs accelerator startup Vouched

Vouched, a Seattle startup using AI to verify people’s identities online, has joined the Madrona Venture Labs accelerator. The 3-month… 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

Apana raises $11M for IoT solution that helps Fortune 500 companies manage water use

Many building operators assume that losses from water mismanagement are just a cost of doing business. Matt Rose thinks otherwise. Rose… 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

Seattle startup Rodeo Therapeutics raises more cash for regenerative medicine treatments

Seattle-based startup Rodeo Therapeutics is raising more cash for its work on tissue repair and regeneration. The company has reeled… Read More

Navigating Cancer lands $12M, inks McKesson partnership to help doctors engage with patients

Seattle-based startup Navigating Cancer has raised $12 million for its digital platform that lets cancer doctors interact with their patients.… Read More

Should gender diversity on corporate boards be legally required? Women VCs, tech execs weigh in

Underrepresentation of women in leadership is often cited as a driving factor behind the broader tech industry’s gender balance issues.… Read More

Talkoot raises $1.6M to help Adidas, Under Armour and other big brands write product copy

Talkoot, a Portland-based startup that helps e-commerce companies create and manage website content, raised $1.65 million dollars in a round… Read More

Digital health startup Xealth lands $11M to help doctors prescribe pretty much anything but drugs

Is there big market for prescriptions beyond drugs? Several investors with deep experience in health are betting on it —… 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

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Politics and big tech, history of filmmaking, and a blockchain conference

The massive power of technology companies has been a hot topic among politicians. The most recent example was Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s… Read More

Seattle startup Igneous raises $25M to help companies manage their unstructured data

Seattle startup Igneous has reeled in a $25 million investment round to fuel growth of its software that helps companies… Read More

Madrona makes another healthcare bet, leads $5M round in clinical software startup Ovation.io

Ovation.io, which makes cloud-based software for medical testing labs, has raised a $5 million round led by Seattle-based Madrona Venture… Read More

Ex-NSA, Microsoft execs raise $3.5M for stealthy Seattle-area cybersecurity startup Cyemptive

Former executives from the National Security Agency, Microsoft, Hitachi, and other companies are behind a Seattle-area cybersecurity startup that just… Read More

Madrona leads $10M round for Knock, a CRM and communications service for apartment landlords

When it comes to communication with customers, many apartment landlords still rely only on phone and email to connect with… Read More

‘Parallel reality’ display technology startup Misapplied Sciences raises more cash

Misapplied Sciences, the Seattle-area company behind a screen that can show different things to multiple people at the same time,… Read More

Investor Heather Redman elected to lead board of Washington Technology Industry Association

Venture investor Heather Redman is the new chair of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), a business association and advocacy… Read More

Agriculture startup iUNU raises $7.5M to turn greenhouses into high-tech manufacturing plants

Seattle startup iUNU has raised more cash to expand its platform that uses technologies such as artificial intelligence and computer… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa Fund joins $28M round for CTRL-labs, makers of neural interface technology

CTRL-labs, the New York-based startup that is reimagining how the human brain can connect with machines, has closed another big… Read More

Marketing tech startup Lytics raises $35M to help companies learn more about individual customers

Lytics has raised more funding to help brands such as Nestlé, The Economist, Atlassian and others bolster their 1-to-1 customer marketing… Read More

Industrial augmented reality smart headwear maker RealWear raises another $5M

Vancouver, Wash.-based startup RealWear has raised another $5 million in a round from existing investor Columbia Ventures Corporation to expand its global… 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

Seattle indie game developer tinyBuild raises $15M, plans to grow using ‘dynamic structure’ strategy

tinyBuild, the Seattle-area indie game developer and publisher of titles such as Hello Neighbor and Rapture Rejects, has raised a… Read More

Surveys in Slack: Madrona leads $7M round in Polly, a Seattle startup that builds polling software

With millions of employees at thousands of companies now getting work done with collaboration software such as Slack and Microsoft… Read More

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