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Mindshare Medical launches AI cancer screening tech that can see data ‘beyond our perception’

You might think diagnosing cancer is easy: Someone either has a cancerous tumor or they don’t. In practice, it’s much… Read More

How Arlan Hamilton turned her hustle and grit into a minority-focused VC fund investing millions

Arlan Hamilton, founder of the venture capital fund Backstage Capital, says that she’s come out twice. First, as a lesbian,… Read More

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GeekWire 200 update: It’s the era of giant funding rounds, and Seattle-area startups are benefiting

It’s a good time to be raising venture capital in the Pacific Northwest, and startups on the GeekWire 200 are… Read More

Real estate investment platform CrowdStreet raises $8M to develop new products and services

Portland, Ore.-based CrowdStreet, the crowdfunding commercial real estate investment platform, has raised $8 million in a Series B funding round… Read More

DreamBox Learning raises $130M, adds former U.S. Education Secretary to board

DreamBox Learning, the Bellevue, Wash., maker of an adaptive K-8 math education platform, announced Tuesday that it has raised a… Read More

An inside look at Create33: Madrona’s new ‘founder center’ attempts to spark Seattle entrepreneurs

Micah Baldwin answers quickly when asked about the vision for Create33, a new “founder center” opening next month on the… Read More

Ignition’s John Connors: Seattle is becoming the most important tech market behind Silicon Valley

Seattle’s tech scene has a lot of mojo going on right now. That’s the word from John Connors, managing partner… Read More

RFP response automation software startup RFPIO raises $25M

RFPIO, a Beaverton, Ore.-based startup that develops request-for-proposal response automation software, has raised a $25 million funding round from K1… Read More

On-demand storage startup and WeWork partner Livible raises $16M to expand nationwide

Seattle-based startup Livible has raised an additional $16 million in funding to fuel a nationwide expansion of its storage service.… Read More

Artificial intelligence startup DefinedCrowd raises more cash

DefinedCrowd is raising more investment for its artificial intelligence training platform used by Fortune 500 enterprises across the world. The… Read More

Why this new Silicon Valley seed-stage VC firm thinks it can win — and why it’s focusing on Seattle

David Rosenthal knows about the dearth of early-stage financing options available to entrepreneurs in the Seattle region. The venture capitalist… Read More

Chevron and Siemens venture arms invest $23M in industrial process data analytics platform Seeq

Seeq today announced a $23 million Series B round led by the Altira Group, a venture capital firm focused on… Read More

Tomorrow raises $4.2M for app that lets you create free legal wills and trusts

Tomorrow is well on its way to helping Americans handle long-term financial and legal decisions with a mobile app. The… Read More

Integris raises $10M to help companies meet GDPR and other security compliance mandates

Seattle startup Integris Software has raised another $10 million to help companies manage personal information data and meet compliance mandates… Read More

Nohla Therapeutics raises another $11M to support leukemia treatment trials

Seattle startup Nohla Therapeutics has reeled in another $11 million to further develop its leukemia treatment. The spinout of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer… Read More

Eventbase raises $6.5M for mobile event technology platform used by IBM, Microsoft, Cisco

News Brief: Vancouver, B.C.-based startup Eventbase today announced a $6.5 million investment round. Madrona Venture Group; BC Tech Fund; Kensington Capital;… Read More

Wicket Labs raises more cash to build out audience insight platform for online video providers

Wicket Labs has raised more cash to help grow its technology that gives online video providers more data about their… Read More

VC dollars flow into Seattle startups at near-record levels as later-stage companies raise big rounds

Venture capital dollars are flowing into Seattle-area companies in near-record numbers, but most of the cash is going to more… Read More

EndoGastric Solutions raises $30.5M to commercialize acid reflux treatment

News Brief: EndoGastric Solutions, a Seattle area biotechnology company, has raised $30.5 million to scale its commercial efforts. Existing investors… Read More

With $57.5B invested so far in 2018, VC funding for U.S. startups reaching ‘unprecedented levels’

The amount of venture capital funding pouring into U.S. startups is on pace to reach levels unseen since the early… Read More

Garett Ochs

Otto Robotics rebrands as Vivid Robotics, wins $4.9M boost for food automation

The stealthy Seattle-based food automation venture formerly known as Otto Robotics has a new name: Vivid Robotics. It also has… Read More

Unify Square raises $10M to help businesses deploy Skype and Microsoft Teams

Unify Square has raised an additional $10 million to help fuel growth of its platform that helps clients manage Microsoft communication products like… Read More

Bumped raises $11.5M, lets users earn stock after buying company’s products

Another Portland startup is raising cash. This time it’s Bumped, the company that lets you own shares in a company… Read More

Smart gameball startup Play Impossible inks retail deal with Apple, partners with NFL players, raises cash

Play Impossible started with a simple thesis: the internet-of-things world had lost a sense of joy and fun. So its… Read More

Jama Software lands $200M from Insight and Madrona to fuel product development platform used by big-name companies

Jama Software, a Portland-based company that makes a product development platform used by companies including Qualcomm, SpaceX and Amazon Robotics,… Read More

Mobile marketing startup Urban Airship raises $25M, reaches 2 trillion messages delivered

Mobile marketing startup Urban Airship today announced a $25 million investment round. Founded in 2009, the Portland-based company helps big… Read More

Madrona reveals more details about its startup founder factory, taps ex-AWS manager as leader

Scott Jacobson knows Seattle’s tech ecosystem: its global corporations, top research institutions, and talented entrepreneurs. But the managing director at… Read More

Commercial IoT provider Rigado raises $15M to roll out ‘edge-as-a-service’ tech

Rigado has raised a $15 million investment round to fuel growth of its commercial IoT technology products and services. Founded… Read More

Data privacy startup Prifender raises $5M to help companies stay compliant

Data privacy continues to be top of mind for companies all around the world, particularly as laws such as the… Read More

Seattle Children’s spin-out MDMetrix raises seed funding for A/B testing system for doctors

Health technology startup MDMetrix has raised its first venture capital funds. The company raised just over $758,000 in seed funding,… Read More

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