Articles about Venture capital – Page 48 of 67

Comr.se raises $780K to help brands sell products within social streams

Shopping cart technology isn’t exactly the newest innovation around. But one young Seattle startup seems to have struck the right… Read More

VC deal activity hits highest mark since dot-com boom

It may feel a little frothy out there in startup land. And a new report out from CB Insights shows… Read More

iSpot.tv raises $5M, looks to provide better advertising insights by analyzing 35,000 TV commercials

Sean Muller didn’t have to raise cash for his fast-growing Seattle area startup iSpot.tv. After all, the 15-person company —… Read More

Headwinds persist for VC funds: 56 funds raise $4.1 billion in Q3

U.S. venture capital funds had a bit more success raising money in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter,… Read More

Maveron-backed PotBelly fills tummy with spectacular IPO

Well, the sandwiches are delicious. But it’s not just meatball subs that’s getting Wall Street excited about PotBelly Sandwich Shop.… Read More

Chart: The top U.S. cities for venture capital in Q3

Just yesterday, I heard from a Seattle entrepreneur who said he was moving his startup company to San Francisco. It’s… Read More

Frazier Healthcare raises $377M venture fund, surpassing target

Frazier Healthcare has raised a $377 million fund, one of the largest in recent years by a Seattle venture firm.… Read More

Home improvement startup Porch.com is raising a huge financing round, lines up big-time backers

Last week on the GeekWire podcast, Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman explained how he wants to build a very big company… Read More

Report: Washington state looks to trim allocation for private equity

The Washington State Investment Board is looking to reduce its allocation in private equity, cutting the targets from 25 percent… Read More

Seattle VC firm Madrona has a new home, with more room to incubate startups

Since 1995, Tom Alberg and the rest of the crew at Seattle venture capital firm Madrona have bankrolled startups from… Read More

CyanogenMod raises $7M to build a customized Android experience, challenge Windows OS

What started as a side project 48 months ago for Steve Kondik has turned into a full-blown mission to build one… Read More

Nuiku raises $1.6M to build apps that act as voice-controlled virtual assistants

Sean Thompson was frustrated with how much time it took to work with a line-of-business system like Salesforce. This problem… Read More

Portland mobile app-tester AppThwack partners with CIA venture capital arm

You know your startup is doing something right when the CIA’s investment arm decides to invest some money into the… Read More

GoPro founder loves bootstrapping, excited to work with Google Glass

SAN FRANCISCO — While it may be getting easier to lock down VC funding, GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman… Read More

Vinod Khosla hates board meetings, says most VCs ‘add negative value’ to startups

SAN FRANCISCO — Vinod Khosla has had it with VCs. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the Sun Microsystems co-founder said… Read More

Naval Academy grads raise $3.3M for business intelligence startup Easy Metrics

Easy Metrics, a Seattle startup founded by U.S. Naval Academy grads Dean Dorcas and Dan Keto, has pulled in $3.3… Read More

Portland’s CPUsage raises $925K for high performance cloud computing platform

There’s no doubt that cloud computing has made life easier for thousands of businesses around the world. But sometimes setting… Read More

Cisco buys Ignition-backed flash storage startup Whiptail for $415M

Cisco today paid $415 million to acquire New Jersey-based Whiptail, an all-flash enterprise class storage startup bankrolled in part by… Read More

Versium raises $2.5M to help marketers crunch data that predicts customer behavior

Businesses today want to know as much as they can about their customers in order to better serve them. Often… Read More

Brandlive reels in $1.6M to help Internet retailers stream live video with shoppers

Portland-based Brandlive, a video social commerce platform designed to help make the retailer-customer relationship more personal, today announced a completion of a… Read More

A dozen things I’ve learned from Bill Gurley about investing and business

Editor’s note: Tren Griffin has created a list of a dozen things he’s learned from Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill… Read More

Front Desk reels in $1M to help business owners manage scheduling, admin

Front Desk, the Seattle startup that helps businesses manage scheduling and other administrative tasks, has raised an additional $1 million… Read More

Hey, startups: Pretty soon you’ll be able to talk about your fundraising efforts

The world changes for startups on September 23. How? On that date, thanks to the JOBS Act, it will become… Read More

Gratafy expands to L.A., raises $2.5M to help you send gifts to Facebook friends

Social gifting platform Gratafy was already helping its users in Seattle send specific food and drinks from local restaurants, bars and nightlife… Read More

Tagboard raises $2M to curate hashtags for brands

It’s been nearly 11 months since we first heard about Tagboard, the Redmond startup that curates social media content for… Read More

Optimum scores cash to intelligently reduce energy use in buildings

Optimum Energy is heating up with additional cash from one of the country’s largest utilities. Edison Energy, a subsidiary of… Read More

Seattle entrepreneur starts petition asking Steve Ballmer to create $500M startup fund

What’s Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer going to do next? That’s a question that folks around Seattle are wondering after the… Read More

Uh, oh! Down rounds on the rise

Things appear to be humming in the venture capital world. Returns are improving (though in many instances they are still… Read More

After adding more than 600 customers, Portland’s Jama lands $13M in first VC round

Portland-based Jama Software has reeled in $13 million in fresh funding, money that the enterprise software company plans to use… Read More

Lively raises $500,000, looks to connect music fans with high-quality concert bootlegs

Like many recording artists before it, a Seattle-born mobile app that allows music fans to download live recordings from artists… Read More