Articles about Venture capital – Page 37 of 67

The mighty Madrona: Why one VC firm is so critical to Seattle (and why that’s a little scary)

Look across Seattle’s startup landscape, and you’ll see a commonality. Like the tree it takes its name from, Madrona Venture… Read More

Portland’s Jama Software raises $20M to help companies with product development

Portland-based Jama Software today announced that it has raised a $20 million round to fuel development of its platform that… Read More

Ignition looking to raise $200 million venture capital fund

Ignition, the Bellevue venture capital firm led by former Microsoft executives Frank Artale and John Connors as well as Silicon… Read More

Android OS-maker Cyanogen raises $80M from Twitter, Qualcomm, Rupert Murdoch

Cyanogen Inc., the Android OS-maker with offices in Palo Alto and Seattle, today announced an $80 million Series C funding round… Read More

Rover raises $25M for dog sitting marketplace, will expand to more cities

Rover.com, the Seattle-based startup that connects dog owners with people to care for their pooches, today announced a $25 million… Read More

Healthentic raises almost $4M to boost healthcare analytics

Healthentic, a Seattle-based health tech startup, announced today that it received $3.75 million in its latest round of equity financing.… Read More

Remitly raises $12.5M to help immigrants send money to friends, family abroad

Sending money to friends and family abroad can be inefficient and expensive. Seattle-based startup Remitly has created a tool that… Read More

‘Paper’ app maker FiftyThree raises $30M to fuel development of new iPad productivity tool

FiftyThree has already developed an “App of the Year.” It built hardware that garnered 4 and 5-star reviews on Amazon. And just this month, the company’s… Read More

Spaceflight raises $19M to help launch micro-satellites through innovative ‘ride share’ program

Spaceflight Industries, which helps the U.S. government, Planet Labs and other customers launch small satellites on larger space transportation vehicles,… Read More

Home security startup Korner raises cash to keep intruders at bay

After successfully raising $416,994 through an Indiegogo campaign last summer, Seattle home security startup Korner is back in the money.… Read More

Mark Cuban: This tech bubble is worse than the tech bubble of 2000

Dot-com era startup founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban isn’t being polite about the state of tech industry investment. In… Read More

Seattle startup OfferUp reportedly looking to raise $60 million to $100 million

OfferUp — a Bellevue startup that helps people buy and sell everything from bed frames to bicycles to used cars —… Read More

SaaS Capital raises $58 million fund, establishes outpost in Seattle

SaaS Capital, an investment firm that specializes in providing debt financing to companies that create software-as-a-service products, has raised $58… Read More

Tempered Networks raises $15M to help protect power plants and refineries from cyberattacks

Cyberattacks are causing havoc across a number of industries, with hackers exposing vulnerabilities everywhere they go. One of the worst… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Cartogram raises cash for interactive indoor maps

Online maps allow you to track so much today — restaurants in certain neighborhoods, locations of supermarkets or the closest… Read More

Gaming startup PlayFab raises $7.4M from Benchmark, Madrona and others

PlayFab, a Seattle-based company that provides game developers with back-end services for their online games, announced today that it raised… Read More

Unify Square raises $8.2M, partners with Microsoft to boost tools for Lync

Unify Square, a Bellevue-based company that provides software, services and support for Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business, announced today… Read More

Mobile startup Urban Airship lands $9 million, names new execs

Urban Airship, the Portland startup that helps companies like Red Bull, Alaska Airlines, TMZ and Rhapsody deliver push notifications to… Read More

Software maker K2 raises more than $100M to help businesses build custom applications

K2 may not be the best known software company in the Seattle area. In fact, most people hearing the name probably… Read More

StratoScientific lands $550K in first round of funding

The startup train just keeps rolling for StratoScientific, a Seattle-based company founded by 16-year-old CEO Suman Mulumudi and his father Mahesh… Read More

APImetrics raises cash to help track and monitor Web applications

APImetrics, a Seattle startup that helps developers track the performance of Web services from LinkedIn, Amazon, Facebook and others, has… Read More

Stasys Medical lands Series A to help trauma patients with blood clot dysfunction

Stasys Medical, a startup spun out of research done at the University of Washington, has raised a Series A funding… Read More

Lighthouse eDiscovery raises $30M to help lawyers save time by automatically sifting through piles of legal docs

Lighthouse eDiscovery started 20 years ago, copying and scanning paper-based legal documents so they could be searched electronically. The Seattle… Read More

ActionSprout raises cash to help non-profits connect with supporters on Facebook

ActionSprout, which helps non-profit organizations better engage with supporters on Facebook, has raised $1.7 million from Oregon Angel Fund, Bellingham Angel… Read More

Element 8 members invest record $5.7M in clean tech for 2014

Element 8 announced today that its members invested more than $5.7 million in 14 companies during 2014. That amount of… Read More

Stealthy enterprise data storage startup Qumulo raises $40M, adds Isilon founder to board

Hang around the Qumulo office long enough, and you’ll certainly see someone whizzing by on a Razor scooter. The two-wheelers… Read More

How to raise startup money: Focus on tapping ‘intellectual capital’ first

Editor’s Note: GeekWire has partnered with UP Global and Chase to cover four Startup Week events around the country, starting… Read More

Zapproved raises $15M to help legal departments manage, analyze data

For the past five years, Monica Enand has built a successful business selling legal software to Fortune 500 companies. But now… Read More

Top Seattle VCs: Bootstrap first, then come to us

There are plenty of headlines these days about eye-popping rounds of venture funding for tech startups. But a group of… Read More

Fast-growing mobile marketing analytics startup Tune scores $27M, plans to hire 100 employees

Tune, which bootstrapped its way to success during its first four years, continues to reel in outside financing to fuel… Read More