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Profiles: These 8 women earned computer science degrees two decades ago — and here’s what happened next

Despite the increasing role that technology plays in our lives, a shrinking percentage of women have been seeking tech-related university degrees and… Read More

Frazier raises $525 million fund for corporate healthcare buyouts

Frazier Healthcare Partners has raised a $525 million buyout fund that the Seattle venture capital firm will use to purchase… Read More

DimensionalMechanics raises $4.7M for enterprise artificial intelligence platform

DimensionalMechanics is coming out of stealth mode and today announced a $4.7 million investment round to help build out its enterprise artificial… Read More

Seattle biotech investor Robert Nelsen named to Midas List of top performing VCs, propelled by early investment in Juno

Robert Nelsen may not be a household name in venture capital circles — certainly not the way that Reid Hoffman,… Read More

Greylock leads $16M round for on-demand trucking startup Convoy; Reid Hoffman joins board

Convoy already had an impressive list of investors. Now the young Seattle startup has even more high-profile backers that are investing… Read More

Shiftboard raises $4M for workforce management software platform

Shiftboard is raising cash to help accelerate sales of its workforce management software platform. The Seattle company today announced a… Read More

Company builders wanted: Can you find any Seattle investors on this list of the top 100 venture capitalists?

Seattle’s tech industry is flourishing. Amazon.com is booming, becoming one of the most dominant players in business. Dozens of Silicon… Read More

Menlo Ventures leads $14.5M round for Usermind, an enterprise business operations startup

Usermind is bringing on another top-tier investor as the Seattle startup continues to develop its enterprise business operations platform. The company today… Read More

CrowdStreet raises $3.5M for commercial real estate investment marketplace

CrowdStreet’s commercial real estate investment platform continues to find success and the Portland-based startup today announced a $3.5 million Series A… Read More

Commentary: The 5 things I learned from my first 100 days as a venture capitalist

Over the last 10 years, I had been doing — or should I say dabbling in — angel investing. With… Read More

Madrona Venture Labs adds entrepreneurial horsepower with formation of new advisory board

Madrona Venture Labs, the startup incubator operated by Seattle venture capital firm Madrona VentureGroup, has bolstered its slate of advisors… Read More

The number of venture capital firms has shrunk by 20 percent in the past 10 years

A new report released today shows the changing climate of the venture capital industry, and one of the most striking… Read More

Green angels: Clean tech investment leader predicts resurgence as group pumps $3.3M into startups in 2015

Angel investors of the Pacific Northwest collective Element 8, which focuses exclusively on early-stage clean tech companies, put nearly $3.3 million into 17… Read More

Slack looking to raise $150M to $300M for expansion and investment in integrated startups

Slack, the business messaging and workplace collaboration startup, is in talks to raise at least another $150 million in an up… Read More

Full memo: Madrona advises startups to take conservative approach in 2016, stresses ‘capital efficiency’ amid uncertain economic climate

Eight years ago, Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Sequoia held a private meeting with its portfolio companies offering key instructions… Read More

Northwest angel investment collective Keiretsu doles out $43.5M in 2015

The Keiretsu Forum Northwest announced today in a news release that its regional collective of angel investors poured $43.5 million into 57 companies… Read More

Tips from top investors: How startups can succeed in an uncertain economy

How should startups navigate turbulent economic times? That was one of the questions posed to a panel of investors at the recent… Read More

LiquidPlanner raises $2M to bolster online project management platform

LiquidPlanner is raising more cash to continue building its online project management platform. The Seattle startup just reeled in an… Read More

So many unicorns: New study suggests some billion-dollar companies may not be so magical

Unicorns — privately-held tech startups valued at more than $1 billion — are on the rise. However, a new study by Fenwick… Read More

Venture capital powerhouse DFJ Raises $350 million, plans to pump portion of funds into Seattle startups

Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has backed companies such as SpaceX, Twilio and Yammer, announced this… Read More

Ignition participates in $35M investment in ‘data wrangling’ company Trifacta

Ignition Partners, the Seattle-based venture capital firm known for its enterprise technology investments, rejoined Accel Partners and Greylock Partners and new investor Cathay Innovation… Read More

Study: Entrepreneurs with direct flight access to venture capital backers are more likely to succeed

A new study from MIT discovered that startups are more likely to succeed when their venture capital backers are connected to… Read More

Joylux raises cash for sonic technology that strengthens women’s pelvic muscles, boosts sexual health

For women who have had children, or who are simply getting older, it can be difficult to maintain sexual health. Of… Read More

Top angels pump $9M into Amperity, a new marketing startup from Derek Slager and Kabir Shahani of Appature

Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager already have one big success under their belts, selling Seattle-based healthcare marketing startup Appature to… Read More

Life without gas stations? On-demand car fueling startup Booster Fuels raises $9M, moves operations to Silicon Valley

Booster Fuels, which allows car owners to request a fueling truck to fill vehicles wherever they are parked, has raised… Read More

Investment data provider PitchBook raises $10M at $160M valuation

PitchBook, a Seattle-based startup that conducts research about investments, is raising an investment of its own. The 9-year-old company today announced… Read More

Moz raises $10M from Foundry Group at $120M valuation, CEO Sarah Bird looks to create ‘something lasting and meaningful’

Seattle-based Moz, a 12-year-old maker of marketing software, has landed $10 million in fresh funding that it will use to… Read More

GeekWire 200 January Update: New funding rounds fuel big growth at Pacific NW startups

New rounds of funding are sparking big growth at several Seattle- and Portland-area startups, leading to some sizable jumps in the January 2016 edition of… Read More

Portland’s Cedexis raises $22M for web performance analytics platform

Cedexis just raised a substantial investment round to continue helping companies deliver optimal end user experiences with websites, mobile apps and streaming… Read More

How this Seattle venture capitalist ended up being the subject of ESPN’s hilarious new ad campaign

As the CEO of Starwave in the early 1990s, former Microsoft and Apple executive Mike Slade helped start ESPN.com. So,… Read More