Vancouver, Washington-based RealWear, a developer of helmet-mounted, wearable Android computers, has raised $80M in a Series B financing round, which included both equity and debt, and came from JPMorgan Chase & Co., Teradyne, Bose Ventures...

Seattle-based LevelTen Energy, LevelTen said on Monday that it has raised a new round of funding. LevelTen--which is an alumni of the Techstars accelerator programs--said it raised $20.5M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Prelud...

Seattle-based Boundless Immigration, a startup which helps immigrants apply for green cards and U.S. citizenship, has raised $7.8M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Foundry Ventures, and also included Trilogy Equity Partners, Pi...

Seattle-based Igneous, which helps enterprises with unstructured data management, announced Friday morning that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The funding was led by WestRiver Group, and also included prior investors Madron...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners has made an investment in climate risk analytics software developer Jupiter, $23M in a funding round announced on Monday by Jupiter. According to Jupiter, the Series B funding round came from...

M12, the venture capital arm of Microsoft, is the lead investor in SpyCloud, a startup which develops cybersecurity products used to prevent account takeovers, SpyCloud said this morning According to SpyCloud, it has has raised $21M more in...

Portland-based Lytics, a developer of marketing personalization software said this morning that it has raised $35M in a Series C investment round. The funding was led JMI Equity, and also included existing investors Comcast Ventures, Two Si...

Amazon is the lead investor in a big, $700M funding round for Rivian, a startup developing all electric pickup trucks and SUVs. Rivian announced on Friday that it had raised $700M for its development efforts, all led by Amazon, and also inc...

Amazon is the lead investor in a big, $700M funding round for Rivian, a startup developing all electric pickup trucks and SUVs. Rivian announced on Friday that it had raised $700M for its development efforts, all led by Amazon, and also inc...

Innovaccer, a developer of healthcare data sharing and digital health software, has raised $11M in a funding round, led by Microsoft's M12 venture capital investment arm. Innovaccer--based in India, but with its U.S. offices in San Francisc...

Sisters, Oregon-based Laird Superfood, a startup founded by surfer Laird Hamilton, has raised $32M in a funding round, the company said last month. The funding came from WeWork. The startup, led by CEO Paul Hodge, manufacturers coconut-base...

Mindstrong Health, a startup backed by Jeff Bezos which is developing technology it says can detect mental illness early to deliver preemptive care and improve outcomes, has raised $31M in an expanded Series B funding, the company said on T...

Seattle-based 3D laser printer maker Glowforge, which makes a device that allows users to laser cut and encrave a wide range of materials, has received an investment from craft retailing giant JOANN, the companies said on Thursday. The inve...

Seattle-based female co-working space operator The Riveter said this week that it has raise $15M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Alpha Edison, and Madrona Venture Group, plus such angels as Annie-Marie Slaughter (New Amer...

Web hosting and managed services provider DreamHost, which has an office in Portland, Oregon, announced on Tuesday morning that it has raised $18M via a credit facility with J.P. Morgan. According to the company, the credit line will help i...

Seattle-based SEngine Precision Medicine, a biotech startup developing targeted cancer drugs, said on Monday that it has raised $3M in funding, part of a bigger $8.2M funding effort by the firm. The funding was led by Bangarang Group, along...

Seattle-based SEngine Precision Medicine, a biotech startup developing targeted cancer drugs, said on Monday that it has raised $3M in funding, part of a bigger $8.2M funding effort by the firm. The funding was led by Bangarang Group, along...

Portland-based Vacasa has raised another $64M in funding, the company said on Thursday, boosting the company's total amount of funding to an astounding $207.5M. The startup, led by CEO and founder Eric Breon, said the funding was led by exi...

Vancouver, Washington-based Hubb, a developer of event management software, has raised $6.3M in a Series B funding, the company said on Tuesday. The funding was led by Five Elms Capital, and also included Oregon Venture Fund and Elevate Cap...

Redmond-based Microsoft is making an investment in Southeast Asia on-demand transportation Grab, the two companies said late Monday evening, in a deal where Grab will adopt Microsoft Azure as its "preferred cloud" platform. Size of the inve...

Seattle-based Lighter Capital is offering up a new bundle of tools and services for its startup clients, saying last week that it will be offering up everything from cloud hosting and HR tools to financial services, marketing and sales auto...

Spokane-babsed Stay Alfred, which operates a marketplace which helps connect travelers with luxury apartments, said Thursday that it has raised $47M more in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Nine Four Ventures. The company sa...

Seattle-based iSpot.TV said this week that it has raised $30M in a funding round, for its advertising measurement tools. The funding came from Insight Venture Partners and Madrona Venture Group. iSpot is led by founder and CEO Sean Muller. ...

Seattle-based Convoy, which operates an online marketplace for trucking operators, has raised $185M in a Series C funding, the company said last week. The funding was led by CapitalG, the growth equity arm of Google. The company says it has...

Microsoft is the lead investor in Silicon Valley-based Interana, via its venture fund, M12. According to Interna, a developer of software used to manage "event data" around customers and their actions, it also has "Microsoft Co-Sell" status...

Boeing has made an investment in Denver-based BridgeSat, a startup which is developing a network of satellite ground communications stations, the company said this week. BridgeSat says its ground stations are intended to communicate using o...

Bellevue, Washington- and Salt Lake City, Utah-based Sarcos Robotics, a developer of robotic systems aimed at creating real-life "Iron Man" suits for the military, announced this morning that it has raised $30M in a Series B funding. The fu...

Portland-based Twistlock, which develops cloud security software, said this week that it has raised $33M in a Series C funding round. The funding was led by Iconiq Capital, and also included YL Ventures, TenEleven, Rally Ventures, Polaris P...

Seattle-based Bulletproof 360, the company behind the Bulletproof Coffee brand, said this week that it raised $40M in a funding round, split between equity and debt. The funding was led by CAVU Venture Partners, and also included Trinity Ve...

Apeel Sciences, a startup which was founded in 2012 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has raised a big, $70M funding round, the company announced late Wednesday. Apeel, which is developing technology to increase the she...

Portland-based CrowdStreet, a startup which operates an online investment marketplace for commercial real estate, has raised $8M in a Series B funding, the company said Tuesday. The funding was led by Grotech Ventures, and also included Ra...

Beaverton, Oregon-based RFPIO, which develops software to help companies respond to Requests-For-Proposals (RFPs), has raised $25M in a funding round, the company announced on Tuesday. The funding came from K1 Investment Management. RFPIO...

Beddr, a startup developing products which use a connected device and your smartphone to help you improve your sleep which has an office in Seattle, has raised $5.6M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The funding wa...

Seattle-based Seeq, a developer of analytics software being applied to manufacturing and industrial internet-of-things (IoT), has raised $23M more in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Altira Group, and also included Chevron Technol...

Kirkland-based Overload Golf Ventures, a new venture investment firm focused on technology startups in the golf industry, said Monday that it has launched a $25M fund, and created a new called aboutGolf Global. According to Overload, aboutG...

Nurx, a startup which offers women online access to birth control prescriptions--which has its official mailing address in Beavrton, Oregon--said this week that it has raised $36M more in funding. The funding was led by Kleiner Perkins, and...

M12, Microsoft's venture capital investment fund (formerly known as Microsoft Ventures), is the lead investor in Cerebri AI, a startup developing machine learning software to help companies better understand customer behavior. Cerebri AI sa...

Portland-based Jama Software, which develops software to help with the product development process, has raised $200M in a funding round, as part of a growth equity funding, according to the company. The funding was led by Insight Venture Pa...

Portland-based Urban Airship, which develops real time notification software, has raised $25M more in a Series F funding, the company said on Thursday. The funding was led by Foundry Group, and also included True Ventures, August Capital, ...

Bellevue, Washington- and Tel Aviv, Israel-based Prifender, which develops enterprise software that revolves around automating privacy handling, has raised $5M in seed funding, the company said this week. The funding was led by Firstime VC,...

Bezos Expeditions, the venture fund of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has backed Silicon Valley-based Mindstrong Health, a developer of technology which monitors brain health through measuring brain function based on a user's interaction with s...

Seattle-based JetClosing, which develops real estate title and settlement software, has raised $20M in a Series A funding, the company said on Friday. According to JetClosing, the funding came from funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Pric...

Seattle-based Qumulo said this week that it has raised $93M more, in a Series D funding, for its cloud-based storage technology. The funding brings the company's total raised to more than $250M. The funding was led by BlackRock Private Equ...

Seattle-based Qumulo said this week that it has raised $93M more, in a Series D funding, for its cloud-based storage technology. The funding brings the company's total raised to more than $250M. The funding was led by BlackRock Private Equ...

OneLogin, a San Francisco-based company which develops unified access management software, says it will opening up a brand new, Redond development center as a result of a new funding round. The company said yesterday that it has raised $22....

Bellevue-based Bungie, which develops such popular videogames as Halo and Detiny, has raised $100M, as part of a strategic partnership with NetEase, according to the companies. NetEase is a big Chinese gaming and technology firm. Bungie is ...

Seattle- and Chicago-based FlyHomes, which operates a service to help home buyers maker cash offers for homes--in order to win bidding wars in very competitive markets--has raised $17M in a Series A funding, the company said last week. The ...

Grail, a startup backed by both Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, which is developing blood testing technology which uses DNA analysis to help in early detection of cancer, said this week that it has raised $300M more in funding. The funding came ...

Seattle-based dog-sitting marketplace Rover announced Thursday morning that it has raised $155M, split between a huge, $125M equity funding round for the company and $30M in a credit facility. The equity funding was led by T. Rowe Price Ass...

Seattle-based Mainstem, which is developing software to help with cannabis e-commerce, has raised $2.175M in a Series B funding round, the company said today. The funding was led by Merida Capital Partners, and also included Poseidon Asset ...

Seattle-based Tango Card, a provider of digital incentive and reward programs, has received $35M in a growth equity funding. The funding came from FTV Capital. According to Tango Card, the funding will go towards investment in its platform,...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group has raised a brand new, $300M investment fund--its seventh--as it continues to make investments in companies in the Pacific Northwest. According to Madrona, the new fund will continue to go to early stage...

Seattle-based Nohla Therapeutics, a developer of cell therapies for treating hematalogic malignacies and other disease, said on Tuesday that it has raised $45M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Fidelity Management and Research Co...

Bellevue-based Auth0, which develops identity management software, has raised $55M in a Series D funding, the company said on Tuesday. The funding was led by Sapphire Ventures, and also included World Innovation Lab, plus Bessemer Venture P...

Seattle-based Point B, which calls itself a combined "integrated management consulting, digital studio, venture investment, and real estate development firm", said on Wednesday that it has named Russell Stockdale to its board of directors. ...

Portland, Oregon-based Zembula, a developer of software to help marketers with better email capture, has raised $2.9M in a funding, the company disclosed on Tuesday. The funding came from the Portland Seed Fund, angel investor Jason Calacan...

Portland, Oregon-based Zembula, a developer of software to help marketers with better email capture, has raised $2.9M in a funding, the company disclosed on Tuesday. The funding came from the Portland Seed Fund, angel investor Jason Calacan...

Seattle-based XNOR.AI, which is developing artificial intelligence software designed to run on edge devices like phones, cameras, drones, and more, has raised $12M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, a...

ThoughtSpot, a developer of artificial intelligence-driven analkytics and search tools for the enterprise, said it will expand its research and development center in Seattle, after announcing a big funding round. ThoughtSpot said it has rai...

Seattle-based Upbound, a developer of a software platform that allows organizations to deploy their applications across multiple public and private cloud environments, said this week that it has raised $9M in a Series A funding. The funding...

Seattle-based SkyKick, a developer of cloud automation and management products, announced today that it has raised $40M in a funding round. The company said the funding came from insiders, including Navin Thukkaram, Tim Ferriss, Karl-Theodo...

Microsoft Ventures, the venture investment arm of Microsoft, said on Monday that it has renamed itself as M12. The name change came after some confusion between what Microsoft Ventures had been prior to Microsoft's formal venture investment...

Flying Fish, a brand new venture capital investment fund in Seattle, has raised $23M as part of an $80M fundraising effort, the firm disclosed this week. The firm is led by Partners Geoff Harris, Heather Redman, and Frank Chang. Harris was ...

The Washington State Investment Board (WSIB)-which invests the assets of public retirement plans in Washington State--is reportedly investing up to $350M in a new, $5 billion global growth fund from tier one Silicon Valley venture capital f...

Seattle-based Amazon.com has made a $22M investment in Indian unsecured lending service Capital Float, as an extension to an earlier, announced Series C funding, Capital Float said on Monday. Capital Float offers up unsecured consumer loans...

Seattle-based 3D laser printer make Glowforge has raised $10M in a new funding, the company said this morning. The new, $10M funding came from its prior investors True Ventures and Foundry Group. The two investors led the last funding round...

Portland, Oregon- and San Jose, California-based Green Bits, a startup focused on compliance for cannabis dispensaries and retailers, said this week that it has raised $17M in a Series A funding, led by Tiger Global, and also included Casa ...

Wilsonville, Oregon-based FLIR Systems has made an investment in DroneSense a developer of drone software for the public safety market, the two companies said this week. Size of the investment was not announced. DroneSense, based in Austin,...

Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs said this morning that it has launched a new, $80M venture capital fund, called PSL Ventures. According to Pioneer Square Labs, the new venture fund will invest in early stage technology companies across th...

AppOnBoard, a developer of a mobile technology platform aimed at helping app developers create app demos which has an office in Seattle, has raised $15M in a Series A funding, the company said today. The funding was led by Korea Investment ...

Seattle-based Frazier Healthcare Partners said on Tuesday that it has closed a $780M, growth buyout fund, Frazier Healthcare Growth Buyout Fund IX, L.P., which is its second buyout fund focused exclusively on profitable healthcare companies...

Bothell, Washington-based tinyBuild, a developer of videogames, has raised $3.75M in a funding round, which came from Makers Fund, the company said last week. tinyBuild builds games for Steam, Xbox One, PS4, 3DS, iOS, Google Play, and virtu...

Seattle-based Suplari, which is developing artificial intelligence-driven software aimed at the procurement market, has raised $10.3M in a Series A funding, the company said today. The funding was led by Shasta Ventures, and also included T...

Seattle-based MedBridge, which provides online professional education for occupational therapists, physical therapists, athletic trainers, and others, has received an investment from LLR Partners. Financial details of the investment were no...

Seattle-based Zipwhip, which develops two-way, business texting apps, said this afternoon that it has launched ZipWhip 2.0, the next version of its flagship software. According to the company, its new version specifically is geared at optim...

Portland-based Streem, a developer of augmented reality technology which is aimed at helping home services professionals connect with customers via video, has raised $2M more in seed funding, the company said today. The new funding came fro...

Fastdata.io, a company that is developing GPU-native software specifically aimed at real-tie stream processing--and which has an office in Seattle--has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company said on Tuesday afternoon. The funding w...

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries is aiming to raise just over $210M in funding, as part of an ongoing investment round, according to a regulatory filing from the company today. According to that filing, so far, Spaceflight has garnered ...

Boeing has made an investment in nanosatellite developer Myriota, which is developing technology designed to enable Internet-of-Things (IoT) networking via satellite. Myriota said it raised $15M in a Series A funding, which came from Main S...

Bellevue-based Apptio, the publicly held developer of IT business management software, said this week that it raised $125M in a convertible note offering. Apptio said those convertible senior notes are due in 2023. Apptio said those notes a...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group says it has added Sudip Chakrabarti as a new Partner at the firm. The venture capital investment firm said that Chakrabarti has experience in the enterprise and cloud-based company area. Chakrabarti was p...

Seattle-based The Riveter, which operates female focused coworking spaces, including two in Seattle, has raised $4.75M in a funding round, the company said on Monday. The first round of institutional funding was led by Madrona Venture Group...

Boeing has put its backing behind Fortem Technologies, a startup developing small, compact radar systems designed to detect airborne objects, as part of a $15M Series A funding for Fortem. Fortem announced on Thursday it has raised $15M in ...

Seattle-based Skilljar, which provides an online training software product that helps enterprises train their customers and partners, has raised $16.4M in a Series A funding, the company said on Thursday. The funding came from Mayfield and ...

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries has received an investment from The Space Alliance, the joint venture of Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio, as part of a larger, $150M funding effort, the company said this morning. According to the com...

Seattle-based Unearth, a developer of construction documentation software, aimed at large-scale commercial and civil construction projects, said on Monday that it has raised $3M in a funding round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group...

Bellevue-based venture investor Ignition Partners has added two new venture advisors to the firm, saying Friday that it has added Jim DuBois, the former CIO of Microsoft, and Satbir Khanuja, the former CEO of Datasphere as Venture Advisors....

Seattle-based venture capital investor Founders' Co-op has raised $10.7M in funding as it seeks to raise its fourth fund, targeted at $25M. According to a regulatory filing, so far, 57 investors have invested in the new fund. The new fund i...

Seattle-based TurboPatent, which is using artificial intelligence, combined with patent experts, to automatically general patents and drawings, has raised $3.25M in a funding round, the company disclosed on Thursday. The funding was led by ...

Seattle-based Icertis said on Thursday that it has raised $50M in a Series D funding round. The company--which develops contract lifecycle management (CLM) software--said the funding was led by Meritech Capital, and also included PSP Growth...

Spencer Rascoff, the CEO of Zillow is one of the angel investors in a new startup, Beauty By Design, a company offering up "hyper-personalized" beauty products based on a customer's skin. Beauty By Design said this morning that it raised $2...

Seattle-based Pulse Labs, which is developing software to understand how people interact with voice apps such as Alexa, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Amazon Alexa F...

One of the startups backed by Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners has just received a big new funding round. San Francisco-based Trifacta, a developer of "data wrangling" tools, has raised $48M in a new funding round, accordin...

Seattle-based digital media company Heyou Media, which was founded by actor and filmmaker Tom Skerritt, said it has raised new funding. Size of the new funding was not announced. According to Heyou Media, the investors include Bill Ruckels...

Memphis Meats, a Bill Gates-backed startup which is developing lab-grown, meat products--meat produced directly from animal cells, rather than by raising animals--has received an investment from Tyson Foods, the company said this week. Siz...

Seattle-based Igneous Systems, wich develops hybrid cloud backup and archive software, said this morning that it has raised $15M in its Series B funding. The funding came from Vulcan Capital and Orca Bay Capital. As part of the funding, Ste...

Seattle-based cannabis investment firm Privateer Holdings has raised $100M more as part of a Series C funding, the company said on Thursday, bringing the company's total funds raised to $200M. The private equity investor--which invests spec...

Portland-based Fleet, a developer of technology to help small and midsized businesses arrange shipping of products internationally, has raised $10M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The funding came from Lufthansa, the Germ...

Melinda Gates has made an investment into a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Aspect Ventures, as part of a new, $181M fund for the venture investment firm. According to Gates, in a statement from Aspect Ventures, she made the investment...

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Portland-based NurseGrid, a developer of healthcare scheduling and staffing software, said this week that it has raised $5.7M in a Series B funding. According to the company, the funding was led by Hatteras Venture Partners. NurseGrid devel...

Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs has raised $15M in funding to scale out its "startup studio" efforts, according to the company, in a round led by Foundry Group. According to Pioneer Square Labs, the funding also included its existing 12 v...

Seattle-based Usermind, which develops software used to improve customer engagement with businesses, said on Wednesday that it has raised $23.5M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Northgate Capital, and also included current...

Seattle-based LumaTax, a developer of sales tax compliance software for small businesses, has raised $3M in funding. The funding was led by Cowboy Ventures, and also included Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners and Vulcan Capital. Lum...

Seattle-based startup studio Pioneer Square Labs has just raised $40.7M in funding for its very first, venture capital fund, Pioneer Square Ventures Fund I, L.P., the company revealed in a regulatory filing over the holiday. Details on the ...

Microsoft Corp. has made a strategic investment in Silicon Valley-based biomedical information and data management software provider DNAnexus, as part of a $58M in a financing round, DNAnexus said this morning. The funding was led by Foresi...

Portland-based Streem, a startup using mobile, video streaming to help connect home services professionals with their customers, has raised $1.725M in a seed funding, the company said this week. Streem said the funding cam from GVR Fund, Fl...

Microsoft has made an investment in Silicon Valley-based Workboard, which develops strategy management software, via Microsoft Ventures this morning. Workboard said that both Microsoft Ventures and Floodgate have joined as new investors in ...

Microsoft has backed Contrast Security, a developer of application security software, Contrast Security said on Thursday. Size of the funding round was not announced. Contrast Security said it received a strategic funding from AXA Strategic...

Seattle-based Arzeda, which is focused on protein design, metabolic bioengineering, and related protein engineering technology, has raised $3.2M more in funding, bringing the round it announced in July to $15.2M, the company said on Tuesda...

Portland-based IOTAS, a developer of technology used for Internet-of-Things (IoT) networking in apartments, has raised a round of funding from Intel. The investment was announced earlier this month. The funding brings its total raised to $6...

Seattle-based Pixvana said on Monday that it raised $14M in a Series A funding round, for its efforts to deliver immersive video experiences. The startup, headed by CEO Forest Key, said the funding was led by Vulcan Capital, and also inclu...

Seattle-based venture investor Madrona Venture Group has named the winner of its annual "Madrona Prize", giving a team at UW developing a large-scale, crowdsourcing platform for behaviorial studies with the top prize. Madrona said the Labin...

Seattle-based financing provider Lighter Capital has launched a new fund, specifically targeted at third party software developers developing app for Intuit, and its popular QuickBooks platform, the company said on Monday. Lighter Capital s...

Seattle-based venture investor has seen an exit in its portfolio, with the acquisition of San Francisco-based Cloudmark. Cybersecurity software developer Proofpoint, which is also based in Silicon Valley, said it would pay $110M in cash for...

Bellevue-based flexible workspace provider ExtraSlice said on Thursday that it has raised $1M in a funding round, to help it with infrastructure and space expansion, plus sales and marketing. The new funding came from oth angel investors, a...

Seattle- and Menlo Park, California-based Frazier Healthcare Partners, which invests in life sciences companies, said on Wednesday that it has raised $419M in a new fund, Frazier Life Sciences IX, L.P.. The company said it exceeded its fund...

Seattle-based medical device startup LumiThera, which is developing medical devices to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), has raised $5.5M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by WaterStone Capital, and also included ...

Wonder Workshop, the developer of educational, robotic toys that help kids to learn programming skills--which is backed by Seattle's Madrona Ventures--has raised $41M more, in a Series C funding. The funding came from Tencent Holdings, Soft...

Seattle-based overseas remittance provider Remitly is raising a massive, $115M funding round, the company said today, in its Series D funding. According to Remitly, the round will be led by PayU, the fintech investment division of Naspers, ...

Seattle-based Drift, which operates an online, energy marketplace which connects energy users with renewable energy sources, has raised $7M in a funding round, the company disclosed this week. The company is backed by IA Ventures, First Rou...

August Home, the smart lock maker which is backed by Maveron, has been acquired by ASSA ABLOY. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. August was venture backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, Maveron, Qualc...

Portland-based Eclypsium, a startup which is developing technology that helps organizations defend their systems against firmware, hardware and supply chain attacks, has raised funding from Intel Capital for its efforts, Intel said on Thurs...

Seattle-based Hiya, a startup developing technology to battle unwanted phone calls to your mobile phone, has raised $18M in a funding round, the company said today. The company, started by startup veteran Alex Algard, said the funding was l...

Matt Bencke, the CEO and co-founder of Seattle-based MightyAI, has passed away after a short battle with pancreatic cancer, according to MightAI co-founder Daryn Nakhuda. Bencke, who was only recently diagnosed with cancer, was 45. Bencke l...

Portland-based Torch 3D has raised $3.5M for its augmented and virtual reality prototyping software, the company said Wednesday. The funding was led by The VR Fund and Silicon Valley Data Capital, and also included Seven Peaks Ventures, GVR...

Seattle-based LevelTen Energy, which develops a marketplace that helps corporation purchase renewable energy--through power purchase agreements (PPAs)--has raised $6.8M in a funding round, according to the company. The Series A funding came...

Portland-based Vacasa, which provides vacation rental management services, has pulled in a giant $103.5M funding round this morning, to help it grow its business. According to Vacasa, the Series B funding round was led by Riverwood Capital,...

Seattle-based Wicket Labs, a developer of analytics software for media companies, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, Divergent Ventures and angels. Wicket's software, Wicket Scorecard, provi...

Vulcan Capital, the venture capital arm of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is the lead investor in a provider of clean energy financing. CleanFund Commercial Capital, which offers commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) funding a...

Seattle-based real estate startup FlyHomes said Thursday that it has raised a total of $4M in funding, including $2M in a Series A equity funding, plus $2M in debt. The funding was led by Mark Vadon (Blue Nile, Zulily), and also included Pr...

Bellevue, Washington-based Bill4Time, a developer of cloud-based, time and billing software, has raised a round of funding from Alpine Investors, according to Alpine. Financial terms of that investment were not announced. As part of the fun...

Seattle-based EchoNous, a developer of miniaturized ultrasound devices, said today that it has raised another $35M in funding, from existing investors KKR. The funding comes on top of an earlier $35M the company receied from KKR in 2015. Ec...

Seattle-based 98point6, a startup developing personalized healthcare consultation, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up, said this week that it had raised $19.5M in a Series B funding round. Source of the funding was not announced. According ...

Seattle-based Heptio, a startup developing "container" software based on the open source Kubernetes package, said today that it has raised $25M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Lightspee...

SendinBlue, a French startup developing marketing software for small businesses, has raised $36M, to help it expand in Seattle and elsewhere. According to SendInBlue, the Series A funding was led by Partech Ventures. SendInBlue specifically...

Kirkland-based medical device maker Cardiac Insight said thsi week that it has raised $4.5M in a Series C-1 round of funding. As part of the funding, the company said it has added Clifford J. Stocks to its board of directors. Source of the...

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson has raised $9M in a funding round for a new, Seattle-based social media startup TraceMe, with Madrona Venture Group in the lead, with Bezos Expeditions, Joe Tsai (co-founder of Alibaba), Chad Hurley (co-f...

Seattle-based Taunt, a spinout of Pioneer Square Labs, says it has raised $1.75M in a seed funding round. The startup, led by Pioneer Square Labs' Ben Gilbert, said the funding was led by Foundry Group, and also included Vulcan Capital. Tau...

Snowflake Computing, which develops data warehouse technology for cloud computing which has offices in Bellevue, and is backed by Madrona Venture Group, said this morning that it has added Capital One Growth Ventures to its latest funding r...

SafeTrek, the developer of a personal safety app which calls the police for you with your information when you are scared, has raised $3.2M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The St. Louis startup said the round was led ...

Redmond-based MicroVision, which develops ultra-miniature laser displays, said this week it has raised $3.15M. The company said the funding came from an un-named, private investor, who is a current shareholder at the company. The company sa...

Seattle-based artificial intelligence software developer Amplero said on Tuesday that it has raised $17.5M in a Series B funding. The funding was co-led by Greycroft and Ignition Partners, and also included Wildcat Venture Partners, Seven P...

Open Listings, a venture-backed startup which helps people find, tour, and buy homes, said Wednesday that it had launched in Seattle. Open Listings has an online service which lets real estate buyers find, tour, and buy homes entirely onlin...

Bill Gates is backing a Silicon Valley startup, which is developing lab-grown meat, which--instead of being produced from animals--is grown directly from animal cells. According to San Francisco-based Memphis Meats, it raised $17M in a Ser...

ThoughtSpot, a developer of artificial intelligence analytics software which has one of its offices in Bellevue, said on Thursday that it has raised $60M in new funding. The funding came from LightSpeed Ventures, and also included Capital O...

Seattle-based IOpipe, a developer of software tools used for "serverless" application development, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, NEA, Underscore VC, and others. IOpipe's co-founder an...

Seattle-based GawkBox, which develops software and services to help live videogame streamers and other content creators collect "tips" from their viewers, has raised $3.7M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture ...

Seattle-based Pro.com, an online service which provides carpenters, electricians, and project managers, as well as subcontractors, for the home improvement projects of homeowners, has raised $10M in a funding round, the company said on Tues...

The Amazon Alexa Fund, the venture capital fund run by Amazon.com that invests in Alexa-related startups, is one of the backers in a new funding round for TrackR. TrackR, based in Santa Barbara, California, said on Wednesday that it had rai...

Seattle-based Azuqua said on Tuesday that it has raised $10.8M in a Series B funding, for its enterprise-focused, cloud connectivity software. The funding was led by Insight Venture Partners, and also included DFJ and Ignition Partners. Azu...

VIOME, a health testing startup co-founded by Naveen Jain of Intelius/InfoSpace, has raised $15M in a funding. VIOME, which says it is using artificial intelligence with health testing to help provide insights into personal health, said it ...

Two, Seattle area investors-Maveron Ventures and Madrona Venture Group have again put funding into mobile, on-demand gas fueling service Booster, as part of a $20M, Series B funding for Booster today. Booster said the new round came from Co...

Bill Gates is one of the backers of Impossible Foods, the developer of a burger which looks and tastes like a beef burger--but is actually vegetarian. Impossible Foods said today that it has raised $75M in a funding round, which was led by ...

Bingen, Wash.-based Kerrits Activewear, a designer, marketer, and distributor of apparel for the equestrian sports industry, has scored a strategic growth investment, the company said Monday. Financial details of the investment were not ann...

Seattle-based Cyrus Biotechnology, a biotechnology software developer focused on protein modeling and design, has raised $8M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Trinity Ventures, and also included Or...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron has re-upped its investment in smart lock maker August Home, as part of a new $25M Series C funding. August said this morning the round came from Bessemer Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, Maveron an...

Site1001, a startup developing software for facilities maintenance and management, which has its R&D center in Bend, Oregon, has raised $6M in a Series A funding, the company said on Tuesday. The funding came from prior investors, including...

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Portland, Oregon-based Sightbox, a startup which offers up a subscription service which combines an annual eye appointment with 12 months worth of contact lenses, has raised $2.4M in a funding round, the company disclosed last week. The fun...

Seattle-based Arzeda, a developer of computational, protein design and bioengineering tools, has raised $12M in a Series A funding, the company said last week. The funding was led by OS Fund, and also included Bioeconomy Capital, Sustainabl...

Seattle-based LiveStories, a startup which is making it easier for cities, counties, government agencies, and nonprofits to share civic data with the public, has raised $10M in a Series A funding round, which was led by Ignition Partners, a...

Bezos Expeditions, the venture capital investment fund of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has made an investment in Plenty. According to Plenty, it raised $200M in a Series B funding round on Wednesday. The funding was led by the SoftBank V...

Bothell-based water filtration startup HaloSource announced on Wednesday that it has raised $2.2M in a strategic funding round, to grow its products in the global market. Source of the new funding was not announced. According to HaloSource,...

Seattle-based Tomorrow, a startup which helps users create their own, free will and trust--and sells them life insurance--has raised $2.6M in a seed funding, and launched its services. The funding came from Maveron, CFSI, Echelon Capital, C...

Portland-based Bright.md, a developer of a virtual patient visit tool for the healthcare industry, has raised $8M in a Series B funding, the company announced on Monday. The funding was led by B Capital Group, and also included Seven Peaks ...

Seattle-based Redfin, along with Seattle's Madrona Venture Group and Pioneer Square Labs, is backing a new effort to spur diversity on the board of directors of startups, the company announced on Thursday. Redfin said the new #DiverseFromTh...

Seattle-based RiskLens, a developer of cyber-risk management software, has raised $5M in a Series A funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by Osage Venture Partners, and also included Paladin Capital Group, Dell Tech...

Seattle-based Rover.com, which operates a marketplace to connect pet owners with pet sitters and dog walkers, has raised $65M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Spark Capital, and also included Be...

Seattle-based venture capital investment firm Ignition Partners says that co-founder and Managing Partner Frank Artale has resigned from the firm, after allegations of inappropriate conduct. In a statement, Ignition said that it received ...

Seattle-based Zillow Group as made a $10M investment in mobile, home design app developer Hutch, the companies disclosed this morning, with Zillow's Spencer Rascoff joining Hutch's board. Hutch, which is based in Los Angeles, lets mobile us...

Corvallis, Oregon-based Inpria, a developer of technology used for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV), has raised $23.5M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Samsung Ventures and also included ALIAD (the investment arm of Air Li...

Seattle-based Matcherino, which operates a service to help gamers crowdfund their own tournaments, has raised $1.5M in funding, the company disclosed last week. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, and Seven Peak Ven...

Seattle-based startup JetClosing, which is developing a mobile-based service which automates all of the paperwork involved in residential real estate closing, has raised $2M more in funding, the company disclosed this week. The funding came...

Make.TV, a developer of cloud-based, live video acquisition software, said Thursday that it has set up an office in Seattle, after raising $8.5M in funding from Voyager Capital, Microsoft Ventures, and Vulcan Capital, along with Arnold Vent...

Seattle-based startup studio Pioneer Square Labs said on Thursday that it has named Julie Sandler as a Managing Director. Sandler is the lab's fourth director, joining Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert in running t...

Bellevue-based Auth0, a developer of identity management software, said on Tuesday that it has raised $30M in a Series C funding. The funding was led by Meritech Capital Partners, and also included Bessemer Venture Partners, Trinity Venture...

Seattle-based Textio, a developer of software tools to help create effective job listings, has raised $20M in a Series B funding round, the cmpany said on Wednesday. The funding was led by Scale Venture Partners, and also included Emergence...

Bellevue-based Pivotal Commware, a new, metamaterials spinout of Intellectual Ventures, said on Friday that it has raised $17M in an initial funding. The funding came from The Thermo Companies and DIG Investment, plus Bill Gates, Lux Capita...

Seattle-based Highspot, a developer of content optimization and analytics software used by sales and marketing teams to better engage with potential customers, has raised $15M in a Series B funding, the company said this morning. The fundin...

Seattle-based LabConnect, a provider of laboratory and support services for the biopharmaceuticals and medical device industries, has raised $24.5M in a Series A funding. The funding came from ABS Capital Partners, Pablo Capital, and BroadO...

Seattle-based scientific wellness startup Arivale has raised $13.6M in an ongoing funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm on Tuesday. Details on the funding--which has a target of just shy of $30.0M--have not yet been ...

Seattle-based Carena, which provides telemedicine services and technology to hospitals, has raised $6.0M in its latest funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the...

Two, Seattle-area investors, Maveron and Vulcan Capital, have backed a developer of virtual reality entertainment content and retail VR experience centers, Nomadic. Nomadic said this morning that it has raised $6M for its efforts to create ...

Change.org, an online site which lets users create petitions to lobby for change and causes, has received backing from Bill Gates, the company revealed last week. The company said it received more than $30M in venture capital funding from s...

Spin, a startup which has been ramping up its bike sharing service in Seattle, said on Thursday that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Grishin Robotics, and also included Exponent, CRCM, as well as Charli...

Seattle-based Outreach, which develops sales automation software, has raised $30M more in funding, according to the company. The funding was led by DFJ Growth, and also included Four Rivers Group, Mayfield, MHS Capital, Microsoft Ventures a...

Bellevue-based Echodyne, a developer of technology being used to provide radar to small vehicles like drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles, has raised $29M in a Series B funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by NE...

Seattle-based CreativeLive, which provides online, video-based classes on a range of subjects ranging from Adobe design software to commercial photograph, has raised $25M more in funding. The new funding was led by GSV Acceleration, and als...

Portland-based Zapproved, a developer of cloud-based, e-discovery software, has been acquired by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners. Financial details of the majority strategic investment were not announced. Vista Equity said Zap...

Microsoft, via its Microsoft Ventures investment arm, made two investments in artificial intelligence startups, the company announced last week. Microsoft Ventures invested in Agolo, a startup developing software to analyze and summarize th...

One day soon, driving through the Wenatchee Valley, instead of seeing workers wandering down the rows picking the region's famous apples--it might be a shiny, automated robot. A startup, which was originally funded by research from the Was...

Wilsonville, Oregon-based Kerr Avionics, a startup commercializing research from Oregon Tech to help pilots "see" through dense fog, has receveid $160,000 in an early stage investment from nonprofit startup support group Oregon BEST, the tw...

Seattle-based Wibotic, a developer of wireless power and battery products for the robotics industry, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, the company said this week. The funding came from Tsing Capital, and also included Comet Labs and...

Everfi, the developer of digital learning, financial literacy, and other products for the education and other markets which is backed by Jeff Bezos, has raised $190M in a new funding round. The funding was led by The Rise Fund, and also inc...

Seattle-based MPRICIA, a developer of healthcare quality scoring software, announced today that it has raised $4.6M in funding. The funding was led by equity crowdfunding site OurCrowd, along with an un-named, Seattle-based equity investor....

Twistlock, a startup developing cloud-based, container security software, has raised $17M in a Series B funding, the company announced today. Twistlock has an office in Portland, which it just opened in Q4. The funding was led by Polaris Pa...

Seattle-based VICIS, a University of Washington spinout which is developing better football helmets to prevent concussions in football players, has raised $8M in a convertible note funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. T...

Seattle-based M3 Biotechnology, a company which is developing small molecule therapeutics aimed at Alzheimer's treatment, has raised $1.4M in a Series B funding, the company said Monday. The funding came from Dolby Family Ventures and the A...

Microsoft Ventures, the venture capital arm of Microsoft is the lead investor in a "white hat" hacking firm called Synack, which announced a $21.25M Series C funding on Tuesday. The funding was led by Microsoft Ventures, and also included H...

Bellevue-based Mylio, a startup developing privacy focused, Internet mesh file systems, has raised $25M in cash from an undisclosed Chinese company, the company said last week. The company said the funding will go towards a joint venture an...

Branch, a Madrona-backed developer of "deep linking" technology that allows developers to directly link to specific functions within mobile apps from websites and mobile messaging, has raised $60M more in a Series C funding, the company dis...

Redmond, Washington-based satellite antenna technology developer Kymeta has raised $73.5M in new funding, from fifteen investors, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Names of the investors in the new round have not yet official...

Critical Informatics, a provider of managed cybersecurity services, has raised $3.25M in a Series A funding, the company announced on Wednesday. The funding was led by East Seattle Partners, led by Alan Frazier. According to the company, it...

Snowflake Computing, a startup which operates a cloud-based data warehouse service and just opened up a new office in Bellevue, has raised $100M in a funding round, specifically geared at expanding its presence at that new office. According...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron has just seen an early exit, via PetCoach, a website which had allowed veterinarians and other professionals provide answers to health and wellness questions to pet owners. Pet giant Petco said it acqu...

Seattle-based Qumulo, a developer of storage hardware designed to scale into the tens of billions of files, has raised $30M in funding, the company said on Tuesday. The funding was led by Northern Light Venture Capital, and also included un...

Seattle-, Denver-and New York-based LeafLink, a software developer focused on the cannabis e-commerce market, has raised $3M in a seed funding, the company said this week. The funding was led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, along with Casa Verde...

Seattle-based RBC Signals, which operates a network of satellite ground stations, which can be used to receive signals from satellites, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding. Source of the funding was not announced. RBC Signals is led by CEO C...

Bellevue-based Icertis, which develops enterprise contract management software, has raised $25M in a Series C funding, the company said today. The funding was led by B Capital Group, and also included Ignition Partners, Greycroft in partner...

Seattle-based Wrench, which offers up on-demand, on-site car repair services, has raised $4M in a Series A funding, the company announced this morning. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group. The company said it will use the funding to ...

Vantage Data Centers, a data center operator which has a small, 6MW data center in Quincy, Washington--but more extensive holdings in Silicon Valley--has been acquired by a consortium of investors. Vantage Data CEners said it has been acqui...

Seattle-based venture capital investment firm Madrona Venture Group announced on Monday that it has added two investment professionals to its team. Madrona said it has named Maria Karaivanova as a Principal, where she will focus on sourcing...

Microsoft Corp., via its vnture capital arm, Microsoft Ventures, has put its backing in a new round of funding for diabetes care management, digital health startup Livongo Health. Livongo announced today that it has raised $52.5M more in an...

Bill Gates is one of the investors in a funding round for Massachusetts-based Evolv Technology, which said on Wednesday that it has raised $18M in a Series B funding round. Evolv, which creates a software platform which integrated data from...

Joyme Capital, an investment fund which has its U.S. headquarters in Bellevue, but is a unit of Chinese company Joyme Group, said today that it has launched a new video game investment fund with partner Kee Ever Bright Technology. The fund ...

Seattle- and Park City, Utah-based Imagen Capital Partners has made an investment in Nimble, a developer of customer relationship management (CRM) software founded by Jon Ferrara, the creator of one of the original CRM software products, Go...

Microsoft, via its venture capital arm, Microsoft Ventures, has put its backing behind mobile business messaging software developer Layer. Layer announced late last week that it had raised $15M in a funding round, which was was led by Greyc...

Privacy Labs, a stealthy Bellevue-based startup working on consumer privacy, has raised $4M in a seed funding, according to multiple reports. The funding was led by Initialized Capital, and also included Lemnos Labs, Liquid 2 Ventures, Crun...

Microsoft Ventures is the lead investor in a startup, AirMap, which operates a service and provide software to help drones avoid restricted airspace. AirMap announced Thursday morning that it had raised $26M in a Series B funding, which was...

Portland-based Outdoor Project, a startup that operates an online site for outdoors enthusiasts, has raised $2M in a funding round, the company announced on Tuesday. The funding came from The Oregon Angel Fund, and also included the Cascade...

Seattle-based Utrip, a startup which is combining artificial intelligence and community feedback to offer up travel recommendations to its users, said Monday that it has it raised $4M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Plug ...

Portland-based Opal, a developer of enterprise collaboration software for brand marketers, has raised $15.5M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Accel, and also included Madrona Venture Group, Seven Peaks Ventures, and MMC Venture...

Seattle-based ReplyYes, a developer of a mobile messaging platform aimed at lifestyle brands, has raised $6.5M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, Cross Culture Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Muse Capital and ...

SafeRide Health, which provides transportation of patients to health care providers, has scored funding and backing of startup accelerator and investor Amplify.LA, and is planning to launch in Seattle and Portland. Size of the funding was...

Microsoft, is one of the investors in SnapRoute, a startup maintaining an open-source network stack for the data center market. SnapRoute, based in Silicon Valley, said it raised $25M in its Series A funding, which was led by Norwest Ventur...

Seattle-based virtual reality game maker Against Gravity, maker of the augmented reality/virtual reality title Rec Room, has raised $5M in a seed funding. The funding came from Sequoia, First Round Ventures, Acequia, Vulcan Capital, Maveron...

Seattle-based Suplari, a stealthy enterprise business optimization software developer, disclosed this week that it has raised $3.1M in a funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Amplify Partners. Suplar...

Portland-based VisCardia, a developer of implantable, heart failure treatment devices, has raised $12.5M in a Series B funding, the company said on Wednesday. The funding came from Kinetic Capital Partners. VisCardia said that, simultaneous...

CoolaData, a developer of business intelligence and behavioral analytics software which was founded in Israel, said today that it has raised $5.6M in a funding round, and set up its U.S. headquarters in Portland. The company said that it ha...

A new, nonprofit startup funding effort, the XXcelerate Fund, announced this week that it has launched and effort to fund female entrepreneurs. The new fund says it will make its first investment later this year, when it reaches its initial...

Seattle-based KenSci, a spinout of the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma, which is using machine learning for predicting population health costs and prescribe care to patients, has raised $8.5M in a Series A funding. The funding was led ...

Bothell, Washington-based Vioguard, which develops UV-sanitized keyboards, mice, and other products, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company said on Wednseday. The Series A funding came from Imagen Capital Partners. Vioguard says it ...

Microsoft made an investment in an Israeli cybersecurity company, Illusive Networks, which focuses on development of software to fool attackers looking to breach enterprise systems. Size of the Microsoft Ventures investment was not announce...

Seattle-based software developer Pavia Systems said today that it has raised $4M in a convertible funding round. The funding was led by Eileses Capital. Pavia Systems said the funding will go to accelerate deployment of its platform, which ...

Seattle-based Headset, which provides retail analytics for the legal cannabis business, said on Thursday morning that it has raised $2.5M in funding. The funding came from Hypur Ventures and Salveo Capital. Headset said it provides the cann...

Seattle-based Voyager Capital said this morning that it has named James Newell as a new Venture Partner at the firm. Newell was most recently at IVP in Silicon Valley, but will relocate back to Seattle as part of the hiring. Newell has been...

Microsoft Corp. is one of the big investors in a new round for customer relationship and sales management software developer InsideSales. InsideSales--which is one of the highly valued "unicorn" startups--said it raised $50M in a new growth...

Spokane, Washington-based Stay Alfred, a startup which connects consumers with short term rentals in such cities as Seattle, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Memphis, and beyond, has raised $15M in a Series A funding, according to a regulatory filin...

Seattle-based venture capital investor Madrona Venture Group said this morning that it has added S. "Soma" Somasegar as a new Managing Director at the firm. Somasegar has been a Venture Partner at the investment firm since November of 2015,...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners has chalked up another exit in its portfolio, after the acquisition this week of Unidesk by Citrix. Financial details of the buy, which was announced on Monday, have not been announced, hwoev...

Seattle-based Spare5, which had been operating a service to let users perform "microtasks" for others and earn money in their spare time, said on Tuesday that it has become Mighty AI--relaunching the company and focusing on tools, data, and...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the lead backers in a startup, Vir Biotechnology, which is developing cures, treatments, and preventions for challenging infectious diseases. Vir said Friday that it raised $150M in funding from...

Seattle-based Indi (Integrated Diagnostics) said on Friday that it has raised $6.1M in a financing round, for its development of a molecular diagnostic blood test which helps diagnose lung cancer. The Series C funding came from Baird Capita...

GRAIL, a startup that is backed by both Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, and which is developing blood testing technology for early stage cancer detection, is expecting to close a $1 billion, Series B funding, according to its founding investor. ...

PVP Biologics, a biopharmaceuticals firm which is developing treatments for celiac disease, has received $35M from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, the companies announced on Thursday. PVP Biologics has its research and development la...

Bellevue- and Salt Lake City-based Sarcos Robotics, which is developing robotic exoskeletons, announced today that it has had a second close of its Series A financing, bringing the round to $15.625M. The company the additional funding bring...

Seattle-based Drifter Entertainment, a startup developing virtual reality, e-sports games, announced today that it has raised $2.25M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Signia Venture Partners and also included Initialized Capit...

Seattle-based ApoGen Biotechnologies, a startup developing a new class of drugs for cancer therapy, has raised $7M in a Series A investment round. The funding came from Accelerator Corporation, AbbVie Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investment...

Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are among a long list of backers of a new, $1 billion clean technology investment firm, Breakthrough Energy, announced by Bill Gates this morning. According to Gates, the new firm is focused on finding affordable a...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners has joined in the latest funding round of one of its portfolio companies, SnapLogic, as part of a new, $40M Series F funding. SnapLogic said today that the Series F funding came from Vitruvia...

Seattle-based AxonVR, a developer of virtual reality "haptic" touch technology, said today that it has raised $5.8M in a seed funding round. AxonVR said the round was led by Chinese company NetEase, and also included Dawn Patrol Ventures an...

Accompany, which develops an app that acts as a "virtual chief of staff" for users, has raised $20M in a funding, and says it plans to expand its offices, including its office in Portland, as a result of the funding. The Silicon Valley star...

Seattle-based Blueprint Registry, which operates an online wedding registry for couples, has raised $1.45M in a seed funding, the company disclosed this week. The wedding registry ties virtual "blueprints" to games on the registry. Blueprin...

Portland-based Sightbox, a startup which offers up contact lenses and eye exams via subscription, has raised $1.8M in a funding round, the company said last week. The startup, led by Travis Rush, says it is bundling eye exams with an annual...

Tigard, Oregon-based Uplevel Systems, a provider of managed information technology (IT) services, has raised $1.2M in a funding round, the company said last week. Source of the funding was not announced. Uplevel Systems said the funding wil...

Bellevue-based OfferUp, which operates an online marketplace app for secondhand items, has added $11M to an already substantial funding round, the company disclosed Monday. The funding came from PayPal co-founder and former CTO Max Levchin....

Seattle-based venture investor Madrona is one of the backers of a new startup aiming at creating a lifestyle brand aimed at retired baby boomers. Renew, based in the Los Angeles area, said it raised $3M in a Series A funding, which came fro...

Seattle-based Heptio, founded by former Googlers Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, has raised $8.5M in a funding round, the company said Thursday morning. The Series A funding was led by Accel, and also included Madrona Venture Group. Heptio is ...

Seattle-based M87, which develops software to help improve the speed of access to the Internet for wireless carriers and app developers using a network of peer-to-peer devices, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company announced late t...

Portland-based Vacasa announced this morning that it has expanded its Series A funding to $40M. The additional funding came from Assurant. Vacasa devleops technology used for vacation rental management. The company founded and is led by CEO...

Seattle-based virtualization software provider Virtuozzo said this afternoon that it has named George Karidis as its new CEO. Karidis was most recently President, Cloud Technology Services at CompuCom, and also served as Chief Strategy Offi...

Redmond-based asteroid mining startup Planetary Resources has finalized its deal with the government of Luxembourg, which will net the company $27.75M in funding, the company said today. The company said the 25 million euro investment (roug...

Amazon.com has made an investment in Owlet Baby Care, a maker of a wearable sock for babies, which monitors their oxygen levels and heart rates and sends them to a smartphone, as part of a funding round today. Owlet said the funding came f...

Seattle-based Atlas Informatics, which develops search software which indexes and searches everything across a user's devices and apps, has raised $20.7M in a funding round. The funding came from Microsoft Corp., Nathan Myhrvold, and Aspect...

Bezos Expeditions, the venture arm of Jeff Bezos, is one of the investors in a big $116M funding round for Silicon Valley-based biotechnology developer UNITY Biotechnology. UNITY announced a funding this week, a Series B, which came from AR...

Bellevue-based venture capital investment firm Ignition Partners has named former Microsoft executive Bob Kelly as a Managing Partner at the company, the company announced this morning. Ignition said Kelly will be one of the firm's four par...

Microsoft Ventures is one of the backers in the latest round for Silicon Valley-based Paxata, a developer of data management software for the enterprise data analytics market. Paxata said Monday it raised $33.5M in funding, led by Intel Cap...

Seattle-based venture capital investor Madrona Venture Group said today that it has awarded a prize, the "Madrona Prize," to a team of graduate students from the University of Washington. According to Madrona, the prize--in its eleventh yea...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Nvoicepay, which develops payment automation software for the enterprise, announced on Wednesday that it has received $10M in a growth equity financing from Napier Park Financial Partners. Nvoicepay, which is led by ...

Mobile marketing software developer Leanplum, which is a graduate of Techstars Seattle, said on Tuesday that it raised $29M in a Series C funding. The funding was led by Canaan Partners, and also included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (K...

Seattle-based EnergySavvy, which develops cloud-based software to help utilities manage their demand response programs, has raised $14M in a new funding round, the company said this morning. The Series D funding was led by GXP Investments, ...

Seattle-based business texting software developer Zipwhip said on Monday that the company has raised $9M, in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Voyager Capital, and also included Microsoft Ventures, GCI and Inteliquent. The comp...

Seattle-based venture data provider PitchBook Data has been acquired by Morningstar, in a deal worth $225M, the companies announced this morning. PitchBook--which was founded an is led by John Gabbert--said that the company's executives, in...

Seattle-based CloudCoreo, a stealthy developer of cloud infrastructure and security management software, has raised $2.9M in a seed funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included ...

Venture capital investments for Q3 totaled $15 billion spread across 1800 companies, according to the inaugural report from Seattle data provider PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association. The report--the first for the two in a...

Portland-based consumer technology publisher Digital Trends said this morning that it has raised $10M in a secured line of credit, from JPMorgan Chase. According to the company, the new funding will help provide it with additional capital f...

Seattle-based pet sitting and dog walking marketplace Rover.com, which is led by Aaron Easterly, said this morning that it has raised $40M in its Series E funding round. The round was led by Foundry Group and Menlo Ventures, and also includ...

Seattle-based Remitly announced Friday morning that it has raised $38M in new financing, in a combination of equity and debt. The funding came from IFC and Silicon Valley Bank. The company did not break down the equity versus debt portion o...

Microsoft is the lead investor in a funding round for Aqua Security, a developer of security products for the "virtual container" market. According to Aqua Security, which is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, it received $9M in a Series A funding,...

Portland-based Bigleaf Networks, a developer of a WAN networking service which helps to automatically re-route, provide failover, and load-sharing of WAN traffic, has scored an investment round, the company said on Wednesday. Size of the fu...

Seattle-based Avalara announced this morning that it has raised $50M in new funding, for its tax compliance automation software. The funding came from Warburg Pincus, Sageview Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), and others, and ca...

Seatle-based financing data provider PitchBook has deposed Thomson Reuters as the official provider of venture capital and investment data for the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), and will supply all of the venture capital activ...

TrueFacet, an online retailer of used jewelry and watches, which had been part of TechStars Seattle, is directly benefiting from its links to Seattle with a new, $6M funding, which it announced this morning. TrueFacet--based in New York--sa...

Amazon.com is one of the backers of humaninterface and gesture control armband maker Thalmic Labs, in a $120M funding round, Thalmic said this morning. According to Thalmic, the Series B funding round came from Intel Capital, Amazon Alexa F...

The Cascadia CleanTech Alliance, which runs the Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator and Cascadia CleanTech Prize funding competition, said this week that it has awarded $25,000 in prizes--in conjunction with Oregon BEST--to a new set of firms as...

Kirkland-based gigabit fibre and broadband access services provider Wave said on Wednesday that it has raised $125M in a debt financing and acquired two companies. The company said the funding will go to help it accelerate fiber network con...

A new effort, Startup Rocket, is looking to offer up a new service to help startup founders validate their startup, accelerate growth, build their products, and land funding, in Seattle and elsewhere. Prota Ventures, which has offices in Ch...

Seattle-based LumaTax, a spinout of Pioneer Square Labs, has raised $2M in a funding round, the company said today. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners, and angels. LumaTx, led by Robert Shulte, develops small bu...

Redmond-based BrightVolt, which develops ultra-thin film, flexible batteries, announced this morning that it has raised $5M, as part of an ongoing Series B funding round. The initial funding came from New Science Ventures. BrightVolt, which...

Sarcos Robotics, a developer of robotic exoskeletons initially targeted at the industrial robotics space, has raised a funding round, from Caterpillar Ventures, GE Ventures, and Microsoft Corporation, the company said on Monday. Size of the...

Seattle-based LiveStories, a developer of data visualization software used by government and nonprofits to present data to the public, has raised $3M in a seed funding, the company said on Thursday. The funding came from True Ventures, Foun...

Portland-based IOTAS, a developer of "smart home" technology specifically geared to be installed for apartment renters, by building owners and developers, has raised $250,000 in a funding round, the company said on Friday. The funding came ...

Seattle-based OfferUp, which develops a mobile marketplace squarely aimed at unseating Craigslist in the local buying and selling niche, has raised $119M in a Series C-1 funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Warburg...

Portland-based eChemion, a startup which develops chemical treatment technology for tripling the battery life of renewable energy storage batteries, has received follow on funlding from Oregon BEST, according to the company. eChemion receiv...

Portland-based Cozy, which develops software to help property managers collect rent online, has raised $8.5M in a Series B funding, according to the company. The round was led by American Family Ventures, and also included Social Capital an...

Seattle-based revenue-based funding provider Lighter Capital anounced today that it has launched a new, $25 million fund, specifically to fund companies building software on the Salesforce AppExchange platform. According to Lighter Capital,...

Bellevue-based identity management software developer Auth0 says it has raised $15M in a Series B funding, according to the company. The funding was led by Trinity Ventures, and also included Bessemer Venture Partners, K9 Ventures and Silic...

Seattle-based Panopto, which develops a cloud-based, video training platform aimed at the enterprise, has raised $42.8M in new funding, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Sterling Partners, and also included a senior credit ...

Portland-based RADAR, a spinout of ID Experts, said today that it has launched as an independent company, and raised $6.2M in a Series A funding. The company, which is led by Mahmood Sher-Jan, says it is developing an incident response mana...

Amazon has made its biggest investment so far out of the Amazon Alexa Fund, to smart thermostat maker ecobee, the two said late Thursday afternoon. ecobee, which is based in Toronto, said it raised $35M in a funding, which came from the Ama...

Portland-based ID Experts, which provides cyber breach and identity protection services and software, has raised $27.5M in a funding round. The funding was led by Peloton Equity, and also included Trident Capital Cybersecurity, BlueCross Bl...

UpGuard, a developer of continuous, cyber risk monitoring software which has offices in Portland, says it has raised $17M in a Series B funding. Theround led by Pelion Venture Partners and Square Peg Capital, and also included Australian in...

Seattle-based Accolade, a provider of on-demand, healthcare concierge services which helps employees navigate the health care system, has raised $70M in a Series E funding, the company announced Thursday afternoon. The funding was led by An...

Mercer Island-based Zenoti, a developer of cloud-based software used to manage spas and salons, has raised $15M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Accel Partners. The startup, led by Su...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners has added a new venture partner, the company said yesterday, adding Nick Triantos in the company's Silicon Valley office. Ignition Partners said Triantos will work out of the firm's Los Altos...

Toronto-based Kepler Communications, a developer of microsatellite technology aimed at helping to power the connection of Internet-of-Things devices via satellite links, said today that it has raised $5M in a seed funding round. The startup...

Bellevue-based OfferUp is reportedly looking to raised $120M in a funding round, from private equity investor Warburg Pincus, according to reports. The new funding effort reportedly values OfferUp at around $1.2 billion. The funding effort ...

Seattle-based Glowforge, which is developing subtractive, laser-based 3D printers, has raised $22M in a Series B funding, the company said on Monday. The funding was led by Foundry Group an True Ventures. The funding comes on top of an earl...

PacketSled, which develops breach detection software, said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding, and is looking to hire and expand in Seattle. The company said the funding led by Keshif Ventures, and also included Blu V...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group has made another investment in teaching robot maker Wonder Workshop, the developers of the "Dash and Dot" learning robots, Wonder Workshop said Thursday. Wonder Workshop said it raised $20M in its Series ...

Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks has made an investment in a Silicon Valley software company, which is developing personalization software for the company. Takt, which develops personalization software to help consumer facing companies ...

Seattle-based Ignition Partners has made an investment in another company in the cyber security software space, Acalvio Technologies, as part of a funding round this week. Acalvio--based in Silicon Valley--said it raised $17M from Accel Ven...

Portland-based healthcare provider Cambia Health Solutions has made an investment in, MDsave, a startup offering up a marketplace for healthcare services, the company said this morning. Financial terms of the strategic investment were not d...

Portland-based Kimera Systems, a developer of artificial intelligence software for the connected device market, said today that it has received a round of angel funding. Size of the funding round was not announced. Investors in the round in...

Seattle-based Just Biotherapeutics has raised $14M in a Series A2 round, according to the company. The developer of protein therapeutics technology said the funding came from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck, Lilly Asia Ventures, and ...

A Silicon Valley venture capitalists--vacationing in Oregon--has died as a result of a kayaking accident, the VC's family and firm said today. Mark R. Templeton, a Managing Director at Los Altos-based Scientific Ventures, has passed away a...

Seattle-based Impinj, a developer of RFID chips and products, had its IPO this morning, seeling 4,800,000 shares of its common stock at $14.00 per share last night, and trading up around 23 percent in morning trading at around $17.27. The c...

Seattle-based Amplero, a developer of marketing tools to help gauge a customer's lifetime value, such as in the case of acquiring wireless customers, has raised $8M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Wildcat Venture Partners and...

Seattle-based ShareGrid, which operates an online, peer-to-peer marketplace which allows users to rent out their idle film and photo equipment, has raised $1M in a funding round, the company said today. The seed funding came from MHS Capita...

Seattle-based Shyft Technologies, a startup developing a shift-swapping, mobile app to help hourly workers swap shifts, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding, the company said this morning. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, Heather ...

Bellevue-based global, top level domain (gTLD) provider Donuts has made an investment in blockchain identity software provider Netki, as part of a seed round for Netki. Netki said that it raised $3.5M in the round, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventur...

Seattle-based Deako has raised $3.5M in a third funding round, for its smart, whole-home lighting systems, the company said last week. The company says it has now raised a total of $6.8M, within the last eight months. Source of the new fund...

Seattle-based startup uZoom, which is in the midst of developing a live streaming, mobile app, said today that it plans to launch its service this summer, beginning in Seattle, and eventually a launch in Rio De Janiero to coincide with the ...

Seattle-based Outreach, which develops software to help sales professionals meet their sales goals, has raised $17.5M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Trinity Ventures, and also included Microsoft Ventures, plus Mayfield, MHS C...

Seattle-based Wrench, which operates an on-demand services to help connect consumers with local, traveling car mechanics, has raised $1.2M in a funding, the company disclosed on Tuesday. Th funding came from Madrona Venture Group and Rudy G...

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, which helps companies launch satellite payloads into space, said today that it has raised $18M, as part of a $25M, Series B funding round. The funding was led by Mithril Capital Management, and also inc...

Seattle-based Alpine Immune Sciences, a startup developing protein-based immunotherapy products, has raised $48M in its Series A round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Orbimed Advisors, and also included Frazier Health...

Kirkland, Washington-based BitTitan, a developer of software which helps managed services providers sell cloud products, has raised $15M in the company's Series A--the company's first funding since being bootstrapped in 2007. According to t...

The country of Luxembourg said over the weekend that it has established a new, $227M fund, specifically to attract companies who are looking to mine asteroids to locate in the country. The country--which already has a relationship with Seat...

Portland-based Cloudability, which develops enterprise spend management software focused on cloud services tracking, has raised $24M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Foundry Group Select Fund. Cloudability's other backers inclu...

Seattle-based Qumulo, which develops network-attached-storage (NAS) software, said Friday that it has raised $32.5M in a Series C funding, bringing its total raised to $100M. The funding came from Allen & Company, Top Tier Capital Partners...

Microsoft said late Monday that it has launched a new, venture investment effort, Microsoft Ventures, which will help invest across its customers, partners, and the ecosystem. The new effort--being led by Peggy Johnson and Nagraj Kashyap--s...

Redmond-based asteroid mining company Planetary Resources has raised $21.1M in a Series A funding, the company announced this morning, which it says it will use towards launching a new, Earth observation business called Ceres. The funding c...

Seattle-based Bloomz, a startup which develops tools to help teachers communicate with parents, has raised $2.3M in a funding round, the company said today. The funding came from 8VC, ff Venture Capital, Founder's Co-op, CorrelationVC, Wise...

Seattle-based PicoBrew, the developer of an automated, home, beer brewing machine, has raised $10.6M more in an investment round, the company disclosed in a filing this week. The funding came from Spring Creek Investment Management, as well...

Microsoft is making a big investment in Pivotal, a Silicon Valley developer of Agile software, as part of a strategic investment that also included Ford Motor, the companies said today. Pivotal said it raised $253M in a Series C funding, wh...

Bellevue-based Donuts, the domain name registration and domain extension operator, has made a strategic investment in GeoFrenzy, a company developing infrastructure for defining and managing geofences. Financial terms of the deal were not d...

Bend, Oregon-based Onboard Dynamics, a developer of technology which converts natural gas into compressed national gas (CNG) for vehicles, has raised $3M in funding, the company said today. The funding came from the U.S. Department of Energ...

Seattle-based Remitly, which operates an online, money remittance service, has raised $38.5M in a Series C funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Stripes Group, and also included Vulcan Capital, along with DFJ, DN Ca...

Portland-based AbSci, a developer of a protein expression platform for use in biopharmaceuticals manufacturing, has raised $5.1M in a Series A funding, the company said today. The funding came from Phoenix Venture Partners (PVP). AbSci said...

Seattle-based Sirqul, which develops software to help connect Internet-of-Things via an extensive set of APIs, said this week that it has raised $3M more in additional, Series A funding. The funding came from Miteno USA Inc. The company say...

Seattle-based Human, a stealth-mode, audio technology company led by Ben Willis, said this week that it has raised $5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Fred Warren (formerly of Brentwood Associates), Kurt Beecher Dammeier (Sug...

A new, Seattle-based venture capital investment firm, Biomatics Capital Partners, has launched an effort to raise $150M in funding from limited partners, according to a regulatory filing from the company. The new fund's managing partners ar...

Venture capital investments in the Pacific Northwest rose in Q1, to $300.1M, invested across 33 deals, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based o...

Seattle-based Deako, a developer of "smart" light switches, disclosed a $1.8M funding round from angels today, saying it has now raised $3.3M in total funding. The startup, which was part of the YCombinator startup accelerator, is aiming it...

Portland-based Vacasa, a provider of technology-enabled, vacation rental management services, said Tuesday morning that it had raised $35M in a Series A funding round. The funding as led by Level Equity. Vacasa was founded in 2009 by Eric B...

Portland-based Fleet, a startup developing a marketplace for international logistics, said today that it has raised $4M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Hunt Technology Ventures, and also included Placid Ventures, David S. Hu...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron has launched an effort to raise $100M fund, the Maveron Equity Partners VI fund, according to a regulator filing from the firm filed on Monday. The firm has not yet taken any initial investors into the...

Bellevue-based startup LendingRobot launched a new mobile app today, which it says is designed to track portfolio performance across peer lending sites Lending Club, Prosper and Funding Circle. The startup, which says it is backed by $3M in...

Kirkland-based Polyverse, a developer of cybersecurity software, said today that it has raised $2M more in a funding round. The funding came from SpringRock Ventures, as well as existing investors. Polyverse said it is developing a software...

Seattle-based ICEBRG has raised $10M for its stealth mode, enterprise network security efforts, the company said today. According to the company, the Series A funding round was led by Pelion Venture Partners, and also included Madrona Ventu...

Bellevue-based DimensionalMechanics, a developer of enterprise, artificial intelligence tools, has raised $4.7M in a Series A funding round, the company said last week. The funding came from angels, including Seattle investor Kent L. Johnso...

Seattle-based investor Ignition Partners has put additional backing behind endpoint protection and cybersecurity software developer Bromium, as part of a big $40M funding round. Bromium--based in Silicon Valley--develops endpoint protection...

Seattle-based healthcare investor Frazier Healthcare Partners says it has closed a new, $525M fund, focused on investing in growth and buyout opportunities in the lower, middle market. According to Frazier, the fund its is first in the segm...

Microsoft is one of the lead investors in container software developer Mesosphere, in a big funding round announced by Mesosphere today. According to Mesosphere, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) led a $73.5M, series C funding ...

Seattle-based Convoy, a developer of an on-demand marketplace for local and regional trucking services, has raised $16M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Greylock Partners. As part of the funding, ...

Seattle-based Shiftboard, a developer of cloud-based workforce management software, said today that it has raised $4M in a funding round. The funding was led by Voyager Capital, and also included Arnold Venture Group. Erik Benson of Voyager...

Seattle-based fast casual pizza chain MOD Pizza has raised $32M in funding, the company said this morning, from private equity investor PWP Growth Equity. PWP, which is managed by Perella Weinberg Partners, is an existing investor in the co...

Seattle-based Usermind, which develops business orchestration software, said it has raised $14.5M in a Series B funding this morning. The funding was led by Menlo Ventures, and also included Andreessen Horowitz and CRV. The company says it ...

Portland-based real estate crowdfunding site CrowdStreet announced this morning that it has raised $3.5M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Rally Ventures, and also included Green Visor Capital, Seven Peaks Ventures and Portland ...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Labs, the startup accelerator backed by Madrona Venture Group and led by Mike Fridgen, said today that it has named a new advisory board, its "Friends of Labs", to help it with its efforts. The new board includ...

Bellevue-based Icertis, a developer of cloud-based, contract lifecycle management software, has raised $15M in a Series B, according to the company today. The funding was led by Ignition Partners, and also included Greycroft Partners and Fi...

Portland-based Zembula, which says it is developing a rich interactive content platform for enterprise marketers, has raised $1.1M in a seed funding, the company said last night in San Francisco. The funding came from Launch Fund, Seven Pea...

Seattle-based LabConnect which provides laboratory and support services for the biopharmaceutical, medical device and contract research industry, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said Wednesday. The funding came from BroadOak ...

Corvallis, Oregon-based Inpria, a developer of semiconductor manufacturing technology, has scored a funding round from Air Liquide Venture Capital (ALIAD), Samsung Venture Investment Corporation and Intel Capital, plus Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (TO...

Yakima, Washington-based VitalWare, a provider of software for revenue cycle management for healthcare providers, has received a round of growth investment from F-Prime Capital Partners, the companies said on Thursday. Size of the funding w...

Mercer Island-based software developer Finagraph has received ian investment from Moody's Corporation, Moody's said yesterday, in a deal which Moody's said will help broaden its offering in the credit risk area. Finagraph develops financial...

Bend, Oregon-based Cairn, which operates an online subscription box service aimed at outdoor enthusiasts, has raised $1.7M in a funding. The funding came from individual investors, including Brian Splay of Bonobos/Trunk Club, Rick Dalzell (...

Seattle-based Koverse a developer of big data analytics software, said today that it has received a strategic investment from Credit Suisse Asset Management. Size of that investment was not disclosed. Koverse, let by Jon Matsuo, develops bi...

Mercer Island-based MetaBrite, a startup developing business intelligence technology and tools, has raised $8.6M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this morning. The funding is part of an ongoing $10.25M funding effort, according...

Seattle-based Tenacity, a developer of software used for workforce retention and productivity management in call centers, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round, the company announced today. The funding was led by Health Tech Capital, and...

Spokane, Washington-based energy and sustainability management service provider Ecova said this morning that it has made an investment in TROVE, a developer of predictive data analysis software for the energy and utility market. Financial t...

Seattle-based Amperity announced Friday that it has raised $9M in a Series A funding, which will go towards development of what it says is a "data-first" application for marketing. The startup, led by Kabir Shahani, said the funding was led...

Seattle-based venture investor Vulcan Capital has put its backing behind non-volatile memory maker Avalanche Technology, in a $23M funding round. Avalanche--which is based in Silicon Valley--said that the funds came from Thomvest Ventures, ...

Portland-based ID Experts, a provider of services to those in the healthcare and medical industry to help in responding to data breaches, has raised $5M in additional Series A funding, the company said last week. The funding came from BlueC...

A new study, released by the National Venture Capital Association, has tallied up funding in 2015 and found that the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan area is now number six in the nation in terms of venture investments. The study, which...

Seattle-based Booster Fuels, which operates an on-demand, fuel delivery service for filling up your tank with gas, has raised $9M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Maveron, and also included Madrona Venture Group, Version ...

Seattle-based investor Madrona Venture Group has joined in a new funding round for app deep linking technology provider Branch Metrics, Branch said on Wednesday. Branch said it raised $35M in a Series B funding, which was led by Founders Fu...

Portland-based Kannact, a developer of a cloud-based, real-time, blood glucose monitoring platform, has raised $2.9M in a funding round, the company disclosed Wednesday. The funding came from angel investors. Kannact offers up a glucometer ...

Seattle-based PitchBook Data, which provides information and analysis on private company financings, has raised $10M in a Series B funding, the company said today. The funding came from Morningstar, an existing investor in the company. Pitc...

Seattle-based Moz, the developer of search engine optimization and other search tools, has raised $10M--all of it from Foundry Group--the company announced Tuesday. According to the company, the Series C round was entirely funded by Foundry...

Microsoft has snagged Nagraj Kashyap, the former head of Qualcomm's venture investment arm, as part of Microsoft Ventures, in a win for Microsoft's investment efforts. Kashyap had been head of Qualcomm Ventures for the last 12 years. Micros...

Portland-based Cedexis, a developer of Internet traffic measurement and optimization technology, said this morning that it has raised $22M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Ginko Ventures, and also included Foxconn, Nokia Growth...

Portland-based Puppet Labs, the developer of IT automation software led by Luke Kanies, said today that it has raised $22M in a venture debt round. The credit facility came from Silicon Valley Bank. According to Puppet Labs, the funding wil...

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Bellevue-based Envelop VR, the developer of virtual reality software, has raised additional funding in its Series A round, bringing the total raised in the funding to $5.5M. The company said the funding came from GV Investment. The company ...

Seattle-based Socedo, which develops automated lead discovery tools for social media, has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding, the company disclosed on Monday. The funding came from Vulcan Capital, Divergent Ventures, and angels. Soccedo is ...

Both Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have made an investment this morning in a developer of cancer detection technology, GRAIL, according to life sciences equipment maker Illumina. GRAIL, which has spun out of Illumina, raised $100M in Series A f...

Redmond-based satellite antenna technology developer Kymeta has raised $62M in a Series D funding. Kymeta said the funding included Bill Gates, Lux Capital, Kresge Foundation and Osage University Partners, as well as undisclosed strategic p...

Seattle-based venture capital investor Madrona Venture Group said Friday that it has hired on Bill Richter, the former President of Isilon, as a new Venture Partner at the firm. Madrona said Richter will help the company help identify new ...

Bellevue, Washington-based wireless charging technology developer Ossia, led by Hatem Zeine, has received a strategic investment from connector maker Molex, the two announced this morning. Size of the investment was not disclosed. Ossia dev...

Portland-based Clinicient, which develops software to help manage physical therapy practices, including billing for physical therapy and other practice management, has raised $5M in a debt funding, according to a regulatory filing by the co...

Ride service Lyft, which provides its on-demand, ride service in Seattle, Portland, and elsewhere around the region, has raised $1 billion in a new funding round, from General Motors, Kingom Holding Company, Janus Capital Management, Rakute...

Seattle-based Matcherino, an online crowdfunding startup focused on eSports, said today that it has raised $1.25M in a funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Vulcan Capital and angels. Matcherino, whc...

Seattle-based Textio, a developer of machine learning and natural language processing software used to help companies more quickly fill open jobs, has raised $8M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Emergence capital, and also incl...

Portland-based Janrain, the developer of customer identity management software led by Larry Drebes, said Wednesday that it has raised $27M in a Series D funding round. The funding was led by HighBar PArtners, and also included Millennium Te...

Seattle-based Amazon.com is the lead investor in an Indian, on-demand home service startup's approximately $23M Series B funding. Housejoy, which provides on-demand, home services in India, said it has raised $23M in a round led by Amazon.c...

Seattle-based Pixvana, a new startup developing Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) video processing tools, has raised $6M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and...

Seattle-based Mazlo, a startup which provides personalized coaching to help people with their personal development and growth, has raised $10M in a funding round, according to the company. The company, founded by Tim Kilgallon and Sharon Ro...

Seattle-based MetricStory, a developer of software for automatically generating Google Analytics reports, has raised $1.4M in a series seed funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates the funding is a part of...

Two area investors--Microsoft, and Ignition Partners--have joined in a funding round from a developer of software for big data integration. Silicon Valley-based SnapLogic said today that it has added $37.5M in a funding round, which was led...

Seattle-based venture investor Madrona Venture Group has turned its sights North, and has backed Canadian startup Eventbase in a $6M funding round. Eventbase, which is based in Vancouver, Canada, develops mobile apps for events. The compan...

Redmond-based medical products developer EndoGastric Solutions, which is developing therapies for treating gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), has raised $50M in a fudning round, the company said last week. The funding came from CRG (fo...

Seattle-based department store Nordstrom has put some money into startup Shoes Of Prey, which operates an online service which lets women order highly customized shoes and footwear, via its cloud software. Shoes Of Prey said it raised $15M...

Seattle-based Sensoro, a developer of iBeacon sensors, has raised $10M in a funding round. The funding came from Nokia Growth Partners (NPG), New World Development Company Limited and Mandra Capital. Sensoro says it has a Bluetooth beacon ...

Seattle-based Lighter Capital, which provides revenue-based financing to startups and other businesses, has unveiled a new $100M investment fund. The company said the new fund will go towards approximately 500 investments in SaaS, tech serv...

Portland-based Mirador, a developer of cloud-based software to help financial institutions with offering lending to small businesses, has raised $7M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Core Innovation Capital, and also includ...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based SureID, which develops identity management and screening technology and services, said Thursday that it has closed on a capital raise from Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group L.P. The company said the funding came ...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group said this morning that it has added longtime Microsoft veteran S. "Soma" Somasegar as the company's newest Venture Partner. Somasegar was most recently Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division a...

Earnest, a fintech startup which is backed by Maveron, which offers up student loan refinancing, personal loans, and other services, said today that it has raised $275M in financing. The funding included $75M in a Series B equity financing,...

Can some clever software help to reduce hiring bias in the technology industry? In an industry which has been wringing its hands over what some say is a strongly biased industry against women and minorities, a new startup Unitive, has just...

Seattle-based venture investor Madrona Venture Group said Thursday that it has named longtime Seattle startup veteran Mike Fridgen to head up its Madrona Venture Labs startup studio. Fridgen was the founder of Farecast and Decide, and also ...

Bellevue-based OfferUp, which develops an app and service which helps buyers and sellers find each other through highly visuals ads, has raised a total of $90M in funding, from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, Tiger Global, T. Rowe P...

Seattle-based venture investor Madrona Venture Group has re-upped its investment in smart, running shorts maker Lumo Bodytech. Lumo--whose "wearable" shorts include a sensor to monitor the stride, cadence, form, and other biometric informat...

Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs, the startup studio founded by Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert, has closed on its $12.5M funding round, according to lead investor Foundry Group. The funding had already been ann...

Seattle-based SignalSense, a developer of network security and intelligence tools aimed at detecting both targeted attacks and insider threats, said late Thursday morning that it has raised $4.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led...

Bellevue-based Envelop VR, a developer of immersive, virtual reality software aimed at the enterprise, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group. Envelop VR is led by Bob ...

Seattle-based Outreach, which develops sales software aimed at helping salespeople with their sales communications, has raised $9.2M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Mayfield, and also included M...

Seattle-based Convoy, a new startup which is looking to use technology to streamline the business of trucking, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, the company said today. The funding came from Bezos Expeditions, Marc Benioff (Salesfor...

Voke VR, a developer of a virtual reality streaming technology with a major presence in in Pullman, Washington, has scored an investment from the NBA's Sacramento Kings, the Sacramento Kings announced this morning. Terms of the strategic in...

Seattle investor Geoff Entress has made a personal investment in a developer of employee onboarding software, Allay, according to details on a funding from the San Francisco company. The company announced $3.4M in a seed funding round, whic...

Seattle-based Pyramid Analytics, a developer of business inteligence software, has raised $30M in a equity funding, according to the company. The funding came from Viola Private Equity and Sequoia Capital. Pyramid Analytics says it offers u...

Seattle-based AppSheet, which develops software to help users easily create mobile apps from any spreadsheet, without programming, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from New enterprise Assocaites. AppSheet, which is...

Venture capital investments in Washington and Oregon totaled $440.8M in Q3, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association's MoneyTree report, which was released last night. Washingt...

Seattle-based Faira, a new startup focused on real estate transaction technology, said this week that it has raised $1.365M in a funding round. According to Faira, the funding came from international investors Pessoa and Partners Tech 10 Lt...

Seattle-based venture investment firm Maveron is the backers this week of a new startup, looking to help consumers deal with bad customer service. Service, which says it helps consumers work with businesses to broker a solution to unsatisfa...

DocuSign, the developer of electronic signature software which got its start in Seattle, said Thursday that it has added Deutsche Telekom as a strategic investor in the company, bumping its total funding to more than $525M. The funding came...

Portland-based Energy Storage Systems has raised $3.2M in a Series A funding round, for the company's battery storage technology, the company said Wednesday. The funding said the funding came from Pangaea, Element 8, and angels. Energy Stor...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Opus Agency, the company behind such showcase corporate events as Amazon's AWS re:invent, has scored a private equity investment from Fan Creek Capital, the company announced Tuesday. Size of the funding was not disc...

Can you truly get a delicious cheeseburger made, not from beef and cheese, but from plants? Bill Gates has put his backing behind a startup that thinks it can. Impossible Foods, which says it is using plants to make the "best meats and chee...

Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs, a new "startup studio", announced this morning that it has raised $12.5M in funding, to help spawn more startups in the Pacific Northwest. According to Pioneer Square Labs, the funding was led by Foundry G...

Eugene, Oregon-based SheerID, a startup developing technology to help companies verify eligibility of customers for certain discounts and programs, said today that it has raised $5.3M in a funding round. The funding was led by Voyager Capit...

Seattle-based BDEX, which operates an online data exchange aimed at marketers and others who use online consumer data, said today that it has raised $1.7M in a seed financing round. The company said the funding came from angels, and closed ...

Seattle-based Joylux, a developer of a LED-based medical device aimed at helping treat pelvic-floor disorders, disclosed Thursday that it has raised $3M for the company. Source of the funding was not announced. Joy Lux is led by Collette Co...

Bellevue-based venture investor Ignition Partners has funded another Silicon Valley-based, enterprise software developer, StreamSets. According to San Francisco-based StreamSets, it has raised $12.5M in a Series A funding. The funding was l...

Bellevue-based big data analytics software developer Atigeo has raised a round of growth funding for the company, according to the company, worth $18.4M. The strategic part of the funding came from Ascension Ventures. Amount of funding from...

Seattle-based Fitcode, a startup developing software to help women better figure out how fashions might fit them while shopping online, has raised $1.8M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The startup, led by Rian Buckley, sa...

Seattle-based Skilljar, a startup developing software to help organizations with online training and product learning, has raised $2.6M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Trilogy Equity Partners, and also included Innovations E...

Seattle-based Vulcan Capital, Paul Allen's venture capital investment arm, has backed a subscription food and delivery service in San Francisco, called Sun Basket. Sun Basket delivers weekly GMO-free, gluten free, paleo, organic, and vegete...

HelloTech an in-home IT and technology help service founded by former RealNetworks executive Richard Wolpert, has raised $12.5M in a new funding round, led by Seattle's Madrona Venture Partners. The funding also included Upfront Ventures, C...

Seattle-based AnswerDash, a developer of software which allows web developers to add contextual help to their websites, has raised $2.9M in a seed funding. The funding came from Voyager Capital. The funding was led by Bill McAleer at Voyage...

Seattle-based DevOps automation software developer Chef> has raised $40M in a Series E funding, the company announced today, from DFJ Growth, Millennium Technology Value Partners, as well as Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Draper Fisher Ju...

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer--who is no stranger to controversy--is in a new push to help improve the lot of the new generation of part time, on-demand workers. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times this morning, Hanauer and...

Bellevue-based medical device developer Kona Medical has raised $10M in funding, via a convertible debt round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Details on the funding have not yet been announced. The funds look to be pa...

Seattle-based Area360, the developer of mobile location technology, said today that it has raised $3.5M in a Series A funding, and set up shop in Seattle. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group. The startup--which was started in New Z...

Seattle-based mobile remittance service Remitly reported Tuesday that it has raised $12M in a line of credit, as it says it is seeing "record growth" in its service. The company--which is led by Matt Oppenheimer--said the line of credit com...

Seattle-based lending and financing provider Lighter Capital said today that it has funded Hyper Martial Arts, a lifestyle brand which offers up online training and other materials, plus apparel, to marital arts enthusiasts. Lighter Capital...

Bellevue-based DreamBox Learning, the developer of adaptive learning software for the K-8 market, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Owl Ventures, and also included Tao Capital Partners. Tory Pa...

Seattle-based Amazon.com says it has made two new investments today out of its Alexa Fund, its $100M fund for human voice startups. Amazon said it invested in Musaic, a developer of high resolution, wireless HiFi systems, and Rachio, a deve...

HelloTech, a new startup founded by former RealNetworks Chief Strategy Officer Richard Wolpert, has raised $10M in a Series A funding from Seattle investor Madrona, according to reports. The startup, which is developing an on-demand, in-hom...

Seattle-based Modumetal, which is developing nanolaminated metals aimed at protecting metal parts against corrosion, said Tuesday that it has raised a round of financing. Size of the funding was not announced by Modumetal, however, the rou...

Bellevue-based venture investor Ignition Partners is continuing its investments in enterprise software, as part of a new funding for Silicon Valley's BlueData. BlueData said this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series C funding, which ...

Seattle-based Spare5, which develops and iPhone app to help businesses tap into a crowdsourced network of human beings to help with small, difficult to automate tasks, has raised $10M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Foundry Gro...

Techstars Seattle grad TrueFacet, whicho perates an online luxury jewelry marketplace, disclosed Friday that it has raised $2.7M in a funding from Seattle investor Maveron. The funding also included Social Leverage and Founders' Co-op. True...

Seattle-based Navigating Cancer, which develops web-based software power the patient portals of cancer programs, has raised $10M in a funding round. The funding was led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, along with ORIX Healthcare Capi...

Seattle-based lunch delivery service Peach said this morning that it has raised $8M more in funding, and is expanding its service to Boston and Washington, D.C. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Vulcan Capital....

Seattle-based Optimum Energy, the provider of energy optimization services, has raised another $10M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. The funding looks to be part of an ongoing, $20.28M fundraising effort by the c...

Portland-based Provata Health, a developer of workplace wellness programs, said Wednesday that it has raised $1.4M in funding, via a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Th...

Bend, Oregon-based G5, the developer of digital marketing software for the property management industry, said Wednesday that it has raised $76M in a private equity funding. The funding came from Peak Equity Partners. G5 is led by Dan Hobin....

Portland-based Tyfone, which develops digital security software and hardware, has raised $6.6M in a Series C funding. The funding was led by RPX Corp, as well as In-Q-Tel, and Steve Pawlowski (Micron Technologies, Intel), along with General...

Portland-based cloud spend monitoring service Cloudability has raised around $5.9M in an ongoing funding round, part of a $12.0M funding effort by the company, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have...

Portland-based ImpactFlow, a startup which helps nonprofits and businesses connect around fundraising events, has raised $5.7M in a seed funding round. The funding came from un-named, individual investors. ImpactFlow is led by tyler Foreman...

Bellevue-based Unify Square, which provides implementation support for Microsoft's Skype for Business, has raised $4M in equity funding, plus an additonal $7M in a credit line. According to Unify Square, the $4M is the final close of its $1...

Seattle-based Patent Navigation, a startup developing tools to help attorneys with preparing patent applications, said Wednesday that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Voyager Capital. As part of the funding,...

Seattle-based Yapta, the provider of travel price tracking software, has raised $1.78M more in funding, the company revealed last week in a regulatory filing. Source of the funding was not announced. Yapta is led by James Filsinger. Yapta, ...

Seattle-based PicMonkey, which develops a web-based, photo editing app, has raised $41M in a big funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from private equity investor Spectrum Equity. PicMonkk, which is led by Jonathan S...

Seattle-based Avvo, the online marketplace for legal services led and founded by Mark Britton, said Tuesday that it has raised $71.5M in a financing round. The funding was led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), and also included Vulcan...

Seattle-based PushSpring, which provides mobile audience data to marketers, said today that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round . The funding was led by Trilogy Equity Partners. As part of the funding, Trilogy's Cole Brodman joins...

Portland-based Nacho Cove, which develops mobile apps that include email, calender, and contact management, said last week that it has raised a seed funding round. The funding came from angel investors. Nacho Cove says it is developing a mo...

Portland-based Bright.md announced this morning that it has raised $3.5M in a funding round, to go towards its healthcare software-as-a-service. Bright.md said the Series A funding came from the Oregon Angel Fund, and also included Seven Pe...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron is one of the backers of a new startup, which is looking to bring the on-demand model of Uber to the world of kids. HopSkipDrive said Tuesday that it has raised $3.9M in a seed funding, which included ...

Seattle-based angel investment group Keiretsu Capital has closed a $6.05M, angel co-investment fund, which it says it will invest in early stage technology companies. The investment fund--which is joined at the hip with the Keiretsu Forum a...

Seattle-based Intelius has received $31M in a senior credit facility from Monroe Capital, Monroe said today, as part of the acquisition of Intelius by H.I.G. Capital. Financial terms of the credit facility were not announced. The acquisitio...

Seattle-based Arivale, a new startup founded by genomics pioneer Leroy Hood, said late Monday evening that it has raised $36M in a Series B funding. The funding came from ARCH Venture Partners, Polaris Partners, as well as Maveron. Arivale ...

Seattle-based Zonar Systems, a developer of telematics services and technology for the trucking and transportation industry, has scored $50M in a funding round, the company disclosed Wednesday. The funding came from Daimler Trucks North Ame...

Seattle-based Forks, which develops a location-based, restaurant coupon app for iOS, says it has scored a round of funding. The funding came from Northwest Capital Consulting. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Forks deve...

Seattle-based Unikrn, a new startup led by former Microsoft Ventures' GM Rahul Sood, has raised $7M in a funding round, to focus on legal wagering on video games. The Series A funding came from Binary Capital, Mark Cuban, Advancit Capital, ...

Seattle-based SkyKick, which develops cloud IT management software, said today that it has raised $10M more in a funding round, and also launched a new set of applications. The Series B funding round came from its current investors, includi...

Seattle-based Indix, which operates a giant database of product information used by e-commerce, retail, brands, and other customers, has raised $15M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Nokia Growth Partners, Nexus Venture Partners ...

Seattle-based Auth0, a developer of software aimed at making identity authorization easier for developers, said today that it has raised $6.875M more in funding. The funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners and K9 Ventures, both existing...

Seattle-based Appuri, which is developing a platform which uses big data to help product teams measure and understand churn and retention, has raised $2.0M in a seed funding, the company said Tuesday. The funding was led by Divergent Capita...

Seattle-based venture investor Madrona said Thursday that it has closed on its sixth fund, Madrona Venture Fund VI, at $300M. Madrona said the round was oversubscribed. The new fund brings the company's total under management to nearly $1.3...

Seattle-based Carena, a startup that provides telemedicine services to hospital systems, said this morning that it has raised $13.3M in a funding round. The funding came from Cambia Health Solutions, McKesson Ventures, Catholic Health Initi...

Seattle-based Ottemo, a startup developing e-commerce software, has raised $650,000, as part of an ongoing $1.9M funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The company is led by Gavin Smith. Ottemo says it is devel...

Seattle-based AutoGraph announced today that it has raised $2.7M in a funding round, which came from Voyager Capital and the Alliance of Angels. The startup, which is led by Henry Lawson, develops mobile personalization software and technol...

Electronic signature developer DocuSign has added new, strategic funding on top of an earlier, $233M funding the company announced earlier this week. According to DocuSign, it has raised additional funding in its Series F funding from Dell ...

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners said Thursday that it has raised $200M in its newest fund, Ignition Venture Partners VI, and will target investments in enterprise software startups. The company said the fund was significantly oversubscribe...

Kirkland-based Wave has raised a huge, $130M funding round to help expand its Gigabit Ethernet fiber network, the company said this morning. According to Wave, the funding came in the form of a corporate bond sale, which was led by Deutsche...

Maana, a startup developing big data search engine tools which has and office in Bellevue, said Wednesday that it has raised $14M in funding for its efforts, from Chevron Technology Ventures, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures, Frost Data C...

Seattle-based Glowforge, which is developing 3D laser printers for the consumer market, said today that it has raised $9M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Foundry Group, True Ventures, as well as angels Bre Pettis and Jenn...

Bellevue-based iSpot.tv, a provider of service which help advertisers correlate TV campaigns with effectiveness of their ads, has raised $21.9M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Insight Venture Partners, and also included ...

Tallwave, a company which helps startups commercialize and take their technology to market, said today that it has set up shop in Portland, to tap into the region's growing startup and technology ecosystem. The firm--which got its start in ...

Portland-based streaming video and music technology developer Vadio said this morning that it has raised $7.5M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Marker LLC. As part of the funding, Vadio said it has named Yair Landau, former Pres...

DocuSign, the electronic signature software developer which was founded in Seattle, has raised a huge, $233M funding round, the company announced today. The company--now based in San Francisco, but which continues to have a big Seattle pres...

Seattle-based Transpose, a developer of information management software aimed at helping to automatically organize data and notes, has raised $1.4M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The funding came from Founders' Co-op, ...

Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechonlogies, a developer of high throughput genetic sequencing technology, said Wednesday that it has raised $195M in a funding round. The company said the funding came from Matrix Capital Management, and also inc...

Seattle-based investor Madrona Venture Group has re-upped in a Silicon Valley-based developer of robotic, programmable toys. According to Wonder Workshop this morning, it has raised $6.9M in funding, in a round which was led by Wi Harper Gr...

Seattle-based Outreach, a developer of sales automation software, disclosed today that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. Name of investors in the round were not announced. Outreach, which is led by Manny Medina, automates sales ema...

Washington and Oregon had a total of $341.0M in venture investments in Q1 of 2015, as venture deals in the region slowed significantly in the quarter, compared with Q4, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Assoc...

Seattle-based Poachable, a startup developing an online, anonymous job and talent marketplace, has raised another $750,000 in funding, the company said this morning. The funding came from Vulcan Capital, Dawn Lepore (Drugstore.com), and oth...

Portland-based Crowd Supply, an online crowdfunding marketplace focused on projects developed by engineers and designers, disclosed last week that it has raised $585,000 in a seed funding round. The funding came from Portland Seed Fund, SOS...

Seattle-based Privateer Holdings, the Founders Fund-backed private equity firm which is looking to invest in legal cannabis startups, has close its $75M, Series B funding round, the company said today. The company said it has now raised $82...

Seattle-based investor Founder's Co-op announced this morning that it has raised a new, $20M fund, the company's third fund, aimed at seed stage startups in the Pacific Northwest. The firm said it now has over 100 individual and institution...

Portland-based Lumen Learning announced Wednesday that it has raised $2.5M in a funding round, from the Oregon Angel Fund, Portland Seed Fund, the Seattle Alliance of Angels, plus Ray Henderson, Dave Mills, and Tom Rubin. Lumen Learning dev...

Portland-based Jama Software, which develops cloud-based tools for managing software development, has raised $20M in a new funding round. The funding came from Updata Partners, along with Trinity Ventures, Madrona Venture Group and the Oreg...

Bellevue-based Ignition Venture Partners is looking to raise $200M in a new fund, the venture investment firm's sixth, in a new effort disclosed in a regulatory filing by the firm. The filing says that the company has yet to receive any com...

Seattle-based Cyanogen, the developer of the open source, alternative build of the Android operating system, said this morning that it has raised $80M in a new, Series C funding--bringing the company's total raised to a whopping $110M. The ...

Seattle-based pet sitting marketplace Rover.com has raised $25M in a new funding round, in a funding led by Technology Crossover Ventures. According to the company, the company's existing investors, including Foundry Group, Madrona Venture...

Seattle-based money transfer and remittance startup Remitly said this morning that it has raised $12.5M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by DFJ, and also included DN CApital, QED Investors, and Trilogy Equity Partners. As p...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made in investment in a German biopharmaceuticals company, as part of its efforts to support vaccine development, the foundation said this week. According to the foundation, it invested $52M in CureVa...

Kirkland-based Cardiac Dimensions, which is developing a mitral repair device used for treating heart failure, said this morning that it has now raised $43M in its latest funding round. The total comes thanks to a $15.2M tranche of funding....

Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, the space startup which helps deliver small satellites into space, said today that it has raised $20M in a Series B funding. The company, which is headed by Jason Andrews, said the new funding was led b...

Seattle-based MOD Pizza said Thursday that it has raised $40M in a private equity funding, from PWP Growth Equity and its existing shareholders. The Seattle-based make-your-own pizza chain said it will use the funding to support national ex...

Portland-based Building Energy, which provides cloud-based software for managing the energy efficiency of buildings, has raised $300,000 in growth funding, from Seattle's Lighter Capital. According to the company, the funds go towards expan...

Seattle-based Tempered Networks, a developer of secure networking products for the connected device market, said today that it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Ignition Partners, and also included IDG Vent...

Seattle-based venture investor Vulcan Capital, Paul Allen's investment firm, has backed the founder of Second Life in another virtual world venture. High Fidelity disclosed this week that it has raised $11M in a new funding round, led by Vu...

Seattle-based PlayFab has reportedly raised $7.4M in a funding round, according a report. The funding came from Benchmark Capital, along with Madrona Venture Group, Startup Capital Ventures, and angels. The company, led by James Gwertzmann,...

Homeowners in Portland will soon be able to submit their homes online for a near-instant sale, thanks to the expansion plans of a Silicon Valley startup. Opendoor, a San Francisco startup, operates an online real estate marketplace, which a...

Bellevue-based Unify Square, a provider of software and services built around Microsoft's Lync and Skype software, said this morning that it has raised $8.2M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Microsoft, as well as angels from Yah...

Portland-based Urban Airship said Friday that it has raised $21M, bringing its total raised to $67.6M. The new, Series D funding came from August Capital, Foundry Group, Franklin Park Associates, QuestMark Partners, True Ventures and Verizo...

Bellevue-based K2, which develops business application software, has raised $100M in a massive funding round, from private equity firm Francisco Partners. The company, which is led by Adriaan van Wyk, said the strategic funding will go towa...

Seattle-based APImetrics, which develops application programming interface (API) monitoring software, said Tuesday that it has raised $500,000 in a seed funding round. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures. According to APImetrics, the...

Seattle-based Lighthouse eDiscovery, which provides electronic discovery products to law firms, said this week that it has raised a round of private equity funding from Spire Capital. Lighthouse disclosed elsewhere that the round was worth ...

Portland-based ActionSprout, which develops tools for nonprofits who need to manage their Facebook social media outreach, has raised $1.7M in a funding round, the company said Thursday. The funding was led by the Oregon Angel Fund, and also...

Seattle-based online humor site Cheezburger said Wednesday that it has raised $2.74M in funding, bringing the company's total raised to just under $40M. The startup--led by Ben Huh--said the new funding came from Madrona Venture Group, Aval...

Seattle-based Qumulo said this morning that it has raised $40M in a Series B funding round, for the company's data storage as-yet-unannounced data storage technology. The funding came from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Highland C...

Portland-based Zapproved said Monday that it has raised $15M in an investment round, which was led by K1 Investment Management. The company develops a set of cloud-based, e-discovery and compliance software. Zapproved was founded in 2008, a...

Seattle-based operating system developer Cyanogen, which develops an alternative Android operating system outside of the control of Google, is set to receive $70M from Microsoft, as part of a larger funding round, according to a report. ...

Seattle-based venture capital investor Madrona Venture Group has turned to an Amazon veteran to help the firm with executive recruiting. According to Madrona, it has hired on Kerry Van Voris as Director of Talent at the investor. She most ...

Portland-based Clinicient, which provides outsource billing and other services to the outpatient, rehabilitation business, has scored $7M in debt, the company said this week. The debt funding came from Silicon Valley Bank. The company said ...

Seattle-based TUNE, the mobile marketing company behind HasOffers, said today that it has raised $27M in a funding round. The funding was led by Icon ventures, and also included Accel and Performance Equity Management (PEM). TUNE said it cu...

Seattle-based Koru said this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding round, which was led by Maveron and also included City Lights Capital, Trilogy Equity Partners, as well as Battery Ventures and First Round Capital. Koru offe...

Do you wish you could get text message on that old landline? Seattle's latest funded company, Zipwhip, does just that, using the cloud to make it so your landline phone can be used to send and receive text messages. Zipwhip said Tuesday tha...

Bryan Hale, one of the first employees of CHEF, the IT automation software startup once known as Opscode, has returned to investment firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson as an Executive-in-Residence. Hale--who resides in Seattle--had been part of ...

The Alliance of Angels, which is one of the most active angel investment groups in Pacific Northwest startups, said today that it has raised $5.3M in a new, investment fund, which it says is targeted at $10M. The startup investment group sa...

Seattle-based Porch.com said this morning that it has raised $65M, in the company's Series B financing round. The funding was led by Valor Equity Partners, and also included Lowe's Companies, Founders Fund, Battery Ventures, Panorama Point ...

Seattle-based Distelli announced this morning that it has raised $2.8M, to go toward sthe company's infrastructure automation software. The funding was led by Andreessen Horowitz. As par tof the funding, Andreessen's Scott Weiss joins the c...

Redmond-based food recycling equipment developer WISErg has raised another $700,000 in its Series B funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. The funding brings its total raised so far in that round to $6.4M. WI...

Bellevue-based NoSQL database developer Basho Technologies announced this morning that it has raised $25M in a funding round, a Series G funding for the company. Basho said the funding was led by Georgetown Partners. The company said the fu...

One of the newest, venture backed startups in Seattle and said Thursday that it has received its first, institutional investment--the twist? This startup isn't working so much on Seattle's typical technology, e-commerce, software, or biotec...

Boston-based industrial robot maker Rethink Robotics--which is backed by Bezos Expeditions, said this week that it has raised $26.6M in a Series D funding. Bezos continues to be a backer in the company. Rethink's new funding was led by GE V...

Seattle-based GraphLab said today that it has changed its name to Dato, and raised $18.5M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Vulcan Capital, and also included Opus Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and Madrona Ventu...

Seattle-based Blue Box, the OpenStack-based cloud hosting provider led by Matthew Schiltz, said this morning that it has raised $14M in its Series B financing round. The company said additional investors in the round include Voyager Capital...

Seattle-based TinyPulse, which operates a service which helps companies better measure the happiness of their employees through weekly surveys, has raised $3.5M in a funding round, the company said last week. The funding came from Baseline ...

Data center operator T5 Data Centers, a nationwide data center operator, has raised $55.5M to build out a new facility in the Portland area, according to commercial lending company CIT Group. CIT Group said that T5@Portland is planning to b...

Bellevue-based Echodyne said late last week that it has scored $15M in an initial funding round, which came from Bill Gates and Madrona Venture Group. The funding also included Vulcan Capital, Lux Capital, The Kresge Foundation, and others....

Portland-based Elemental Technologies announced this morning that it has raised $14.5M in a Series D financing round, led by Australian telecommunications firm Telstra. European entertainment firm Sky, along with General Catalyst Partners, ...

Portland-based FolioMetrix, a developer of mutual fund asset management software, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company said Wednesday. The funding came from Grail Partners. FolioMetrix was co-founded by Greg Rutherford and Jerry M...

Seattle-based Skytap has raised $35M in an investment round, led by Insight Venture Partners, the company announced this morning. The funding also included the company's existing investors, which include OpenView Venture Partners, Ignition ...

Seattle-based online real estate brokerage Redfin said this morning that it has raised a $70.9M funding round, as it continues to expand out the number of markets it serves. Redfin said the funding was led by Wellington Management Company, ...

Redmond-based Kymeta has raised $20M in a financing round, and has shuffled its CEO, the company said earlier this week. Kymeta said the investment came from existing investors, including Bill Gates and lux Capital. Kymeta has appointed Nat...

Seattle-based Utrip said today that it has raised $850,000 in a funding round, to go towards the company's personalized travel planning services. Source of the funding was not announced. Utrip is led by Gilad bernstein. Utrip says it is dev...

NRGindependence, a new startup spun out of Oregon State University, has scored commercialization funding from Oregon BEST, the commercialization organization created by the Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, Portland S...

Seattle-based Icebrg.io, a startup founded by former Microsoft Security veterans William Peteroy and Josh Carlson, said last week that it has raised $2.5M in a seed financing round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also inc...

Seattle-based Blab, a developer of predictive analytics software aimed at social conversations, said this morning that it has raised $8.8M in a funding round, the initial close on an ongoing $11.6M funding for the company. The Series B Pref...

Seattle-based cloud data software developer Socrata said this morning that it has raised $30M in a venture funding, the company's Series C. The new funding was led by Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures), and also included existing inv...

Portland-based Mirador Financial, a developer of small business lending services, disclosed this morning that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Collaborative Fund, Crosslink Capital, Vesta Corp and Wicklow Cap...

Electronic signature software developer DocuSign, which has major operations in Portland, has added three big strategic investors to its latest funding round, the company said Thursday. DocuSign said that Samsung Ventures, the Singapore Eco...

Uversity, the educational analytics startup backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said Wednesday that it has raised additional funding, bringing the company's total raised to $11.4M. Exact size of the funding round was not disclose...

Ben Huh, the head of Seattle-based Cheezburger Ntework, is one of the investors backing a new service, HONK, an Uber-like smartphone powered, on-demand service for roadside assistance. Honk said this morning that it has raised $1.8M in a se...

Seattle- and Bangalore, India-based seed investment firm Unitas Seed Fund said today that it has raised $4M in funding from 16, Indian investors, plus additional funding in an affiliated offshore venture fund from Bill Gates, Steve Singh, ...

Seattle-based VICIS, the University of Washington spinout which is developing a new football helmet designed to reduce the probability of concussions, has won $500,000 as part of a competition sponsored by the NFL, GE, and Under Armour. Acc...

Indice Semiconductor, a developer of mixed signal power circuits, has raised $6M in a funding round, and moved its headquarters to Tualatin, Oregon. According to the company, the new funding was led by Pixelworks co-founder and former CEO A...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron has put more money into a provider of class notes and other educational resources for high school and college students. Course Hero, which is based in Silicon Valley, said Wednesday that it has raised ...

Bainbridge Island, Washington-based Avalara has scored a huge, $100M financing round, from private equity investor Warburg Pincus. Avalara announced the deal Monday, saying the funding will go towards growth, including international expansi...

Seattle-based Highspot, a developer of a cloud-based, sales software product, said Friday morning that it has raised $9.6M in a Series A financing round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group. Tim Porter of Madrona joins the company...

Seattle-based Shippable, which is developing continuous integration and delivery software for hot "container" software market, said this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Grou...

Jeff Hussey, the founder of F5 Networks, has taken the helm of Seattle-based Tempered Networks, the company said this morning, as part of a relaunch of the company. Tempered Networks--which was previously known as Asguard Networks--said tha...

Portland-based Vadio said Monday that it has raised $2M in a funding round. Vadio develops technology which matches up online music videos with online music streaming services, ad is led by Bryce Clemmer. The funding comes from a long list ...

Seattle-based Limeade, a developer of software which helps employers improve the health of their employees, has raised $25M in a fudning round. The funding was led by Oak HC/FT Partners. TVC Capital also participated in the funding. Limeade...

Portland-based mobile notification infrastructure developer Urban Airship said today that it has raised $12.1M more in a Series D financing round, from the company's existing investors. The company said the new funding came from True Ventu...

Portland-based Lytics, which develops digital marketing and targeting tools, said today that it has raised $7M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Comcast Ventures, and also included Rembrandt Venture Partners and Voyager Capital, ...

Seattle-based business software developer Acumatica said today that it has raised $13.3M in a new funding round, from MYOB, Runa Capital, Almaz Capital, and Visma. MYOB, which is an Australian software maker, takes a seat on Acumatica's boa...

Think it's hard to raise money for your startup? Well, apparently, you ought to be thinking about combining your passion for cold beer and startups, and Kickstarter. Portland-nbased GrowlerWerks has so far scored $230,000 for its project to...

Seattle-based Blue Box, which provides OpenStack cloud hosting services, has raised $10M in a Series B funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by an un-named, strategic investor, and also included Voyager Capital and Fo...

Seattle-based solar energy financing company OneEnergy Renewables has raised $5M in a Series B funding round, led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF), according to the company. The funding also included Seattle cleantech angel group Element 8...

Seattle-based 2nd Watch, which develops cloud migration services to enterprises, said today that it has raised $10M in additional venture funding. The funds came from Top Tier Capital Partners, along with Madrona Venture Group and Columbia ...

Seattle-based Volometrix, a developer of employee benchmarking and analytics tools, said today that it has raised $12M in a funding round. The funding came from Split Rock Partners and Shasta Ventures. Split Rock's Jim Simons joins the comp...

Seattle-based Azuqua, a developer of a platform to help build business applications using different cloud services, said today that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Ignition Venture Partners. According to Azuau...

Seattle-based Azuqua, a developer of a platform to help build business applications using different cloud services, said today that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Ignition Venture Partners. According to Azuau...

Kirkland-based medical device developer Cardiac Dimensions said this morning that it has raised $8.5M in a financing round. The funding came from Arboretum Ventures, along with M.H. Carnegie & Co. and Lumira Capital. The funding is part of ...

DocuSign, the electronic signature company which has major operations in Seattle, said Monday that it has raised $115M in a new investment round. The funding came from Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Recruit Holdings Co., and Nippon Telegrap...

Portland-based Opal Labs said Friday that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Madrona Ventures. Opal is a developer of collaborative planning software aimed at brand and social marketing teams. The company is led...

Seattle-based Datappraise, a developer of database and report production software for commercial real estate appraisers, said this week that it has scored a round of investment. The funding came from commercial real estate advisory service ...

The home remodeling and design site market looks to be heating up today, as one of the competitors to local startup Porch said it has raised a big, $165M funding round. Silicon Valley's Houzz, which offers up an online guide to home remodel...

Seattle-based Context Relevant announced Thursday that it has raised $13.5M in a Series B-1 funding round, for the company's data science and analytics applications. The funding came from Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Forma...

Seattle-based POW, which makes gloves for snowboarders, said Wednesday that it has raised $2.5M in a venture funding round. The funding came from Columbia Pacific Advisors. POW has been around since 2002, and is behind the brands POW Gloves...

Seattle-based Apptentive, a developer of mobile customer feedback tools, said late Wednesday that it has raised $5.3M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from SurveyMonkey and Origin Ventures, along with Founders Co-op and Golden ...

Seattle-based home project quote site Pro.com has raised $14M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning, to go towards the company's site for helping consumers figure out the costs of house improvement projects. The funding was l...

Portland-based CrowdStreet, a crowdfundings startup which has created a marketplace to connect investors with real estate deals, has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Green Visor Capita...

Seattle-based Porch, the online site which lets users take a peek at their neighbor's home improvement projects, said today that it has now raised $33M in funding--including a big, $27.6M funding Series A funding earlier this year. The star...

Seattle-based Auth0, a developer of APIs and software for helping manage app authentication and authorization, has raised $2.4M in a funding round. The funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners, and also included K9 Ventures, Portland See...

Kirkland-based traffic information provider Inrix has sold a ten percent stake in the company to Porsche Automobil Holdings SE, the company which manages the Porsche family's investment holdings, in a deal worth $54M. Porsche--which also ow...

Seattle-based venture investor Madrona Venture Group said this week that it has named former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene as a Venture Partner. DelBene had been President of Microsoft's Office division, and most recently had been adviso...

FlightCar, a peer-to-peer car sharing company which lets people rent out their cars from the airport when they are away, said this morning that it is expanding to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), which will be the company's fourt...

Seattle-based Venuelabs, a developer of marketing analytics software specifically designed for restaurants and retailers with physical locations, has raised a round of funding from Salesforce.com, the company said Monday. Size of the minori...

ARCH Venture Partners, which maintains an office in Seattle, said last week that it closed on $400M in subscriptions for its eighth venture fund, ARCH Venture Fund VIII. The company said the fund was originally targeted at $250M. ARCH said ...

Kirkland, Washington-based PaperShare, a developer of content distribution and marketing software, has been acquired by San Bruno, California-based Dynamic Signal, according to the firms. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Dynam...

Seattle-based Bizible, which develops Salesforce marketing analytics software, said this morning that it has raised $8M in a new venture capital funding round. The funding was led by Scale Venture Partners. According to the company, it wil...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners is backing portfolio company Xamarin in a third funding round, as part of a big, $54M funding. Xamarin said today that it has raised $54M in its Series C funding, for its cross development to...

Port Orchard, Washington-based MyYearLook said today that it has launched a new, online web application which helps people create photo albums with friends and families. The startup--led by Julie Doran--said its new web application helps it...

Seattle-based PlayFab, a startup which handles back end operations for game studios, said today that it has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from angels, including Jason Kapalka (PopCap), Scott Banister (IronPort), Lar...

Seattle-based Algorithmia, which operates an online marketplace for software algorithms, said this morning that it has raised $2.4M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, and also included Rakuten Ventures, De...

Portland-based Vadio, the developer of music video streaming technology headed by Bryce Clemmer, said Thursday that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Ed Wilson, former President of NBC Enterprises; Robin Richa...

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has just made a late stage bet on a developer of mobile security software. According to Lookout, a Bay Area mobile security software company, Bezos Expeditions has joined a number of new investors--including T....

Portland-based mobile payment firm Payrange said today that it has raised $2.75M in a funding round, with investors such as Nyca Partners, Google Ventures, Jared Leto, Hans Morris, Jonathan Weiner, Anil Aggarwal, Barbara Coroan, and Phil Na...

Liberty Lake-based Telect, which manufactures copper, fiber, power, and rack network infrastructure equipment, has spun out and funded its own iPad startup, Weckey, the company said today, to take on the "reception-less" lobby. According to...

Seattle-based biopharamceuticals developer Juno Therapeutics said this morning that it has raised $134M in a Series B funding. The funding came from ten public mutual funds and other healthcare-focused funds. Names of those exact investors ...

Seattle-based Anomo, the latest startup from James Sun, recently raised $800,000 in a convertible debt funding, according to the company. The funding came from Maveron, Lee Zehrer (Kiss.com) and Amit Mital (Symantec). Anomo is developing a ...

Seattle-based SkyKick, a developer of tools to help companies migrate to Microsoft Office 365, said yesterday that it has raised $3M in an investment round. The funding said the funding will go towards international expansion, plus hiring. ...

Seattle-based Cardiac Insight, the University of Washington spinoff which is developing wearable sensors in the cardiology area, has raised $7M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Welch Allyn, WRF Capital, and other investors. Welc...

Redmond-based Sensoria, which develops socks, t-shirts, and bras which are embedded with wearable sensors, has raised a Series A funding round from Reply SpA, the company said last week. Sensoria said that Reply SpA will gain a twenty perce...

Venture capital investments in the Pacific Northwest rose to $408.7M in Q2 of 2014, according to the numbers released last night by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association in their quarterly Money Tree report. ...

Portland-based DesignMedix, a developer of dual-action drugs which help combat drug resistance, has raised $1.5M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding came from the Portland Seed Fund, Bellingham Angels, Oregon Angel Fun...

Bend, Oregon-based Manzama, a developer of business intelligence and filtering tools, disclosed today that it has raised $1.3M in a new funding round. The funding was led by Gold Bench Capital, and also included Seven Peaks and Cascade Ange...

An Amazon.com veteran has just scored $8.5M in a funding round for his startup, Boomerang Commerce, to take on his old employer, Amazon.com -- with help from Madrona Venture Group, along with Trinity Ventures. The startup, led by Guru Harih...

DocuSign, the developer of digital signature software and technology which has major operations in Seattle, said late Monday that it has raised a strategic investment from Visa. Size and details of the investment were not announced. DocuSig...

Seattle-based Peachd disclosed this week that it has raised $2.7M in a funding round. The funding came from Maveron, Vulcan Capital, and Madrona Ventures. Peachd's service offers up local lunch delivery offers via text, with limited time de...

Arlington, Washington-based Microgreen Polymers, which makes recycled plastic bottles into insulating coffee cups, disclosed Wednesday that it has raised $17M more in funding. According to a regulatory filing by the company, the funding wa...

Seattle-based EnergySavvy, which develops cloud-based software to help utilities run and manage their energy efficiency programs, has closed out its latest funding round at $8.25M, the company said today. The company--led by Aaron Goldfeder...

One of the portfolio companies for Seattle-based Ignition Partners, Couchbase, has just upped its total venture funding to a cool $115M. According to Couchbase, which is based in Silicon Valley, it raised $60M in a Series E funding, led by ...

Seattle-based Stratos Genomics has received a strategic investment from Roche, the two announced today, to support the development of Stratos' DNA sequencing technology. Size of the investment was not announced. Stratos is led by Allan Step...

Remond-based WISErg, the developer of equipment to automatically recycle food scraps into organic fertilizer, said Wednesday that it has raised $5M in a Series B funding round. The startup, which is led by Larry LeSueur, helps recycle food ...

Portland-based MobileRQ, which develops contextual, mobile marketing software, said today that it has raised $1.3M in a funding round, bring its total raised in its latest round to a $2.0M. The funding came from Verizon Ventures, Coremix Ca...

Vessel, a new startup founded by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, has scored funding from Bezos Expeditions, as well as Benchmark Capital and Greylock Partners. The startup--which its investors say is made up of a team from Hulu, Amazon, and Ne...

Portland-based Puppet Labs, which develops IT automation software, said this morning that it has raised $40M more in a new investment round. The funding came from Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Triangle Venture Ca...

Microsoft and American Family Insurance said yesterday that the two are launching a new, business accelerator in Seattle, focused on home automation. According to the two, the new Microsoft Ventures Accelerator will focus on startups lookin...

Seattle-based Illumagear, a developer of hardhat worn safety lights for the construction industry, disclosed today that it has raised $1.25M in a startup financing round. The company said it is focused on improving safety in high-risk envir...

Seattle-based HashPlex, a provider of hosting of Bitcoin mining software, said last week that it has raised $400,000 in a seed funding round. The funding came from Barry Silbert (Bitcoin Opportunity Corp.) and Jason Prado (Plannr). HashPlex...

Seattle-based Glypmse is announcing this morning that it has raised an additional, $12M in funding, to go towards the company's location sharing tools. According to Glympse, the Series C round came from UMC Capital, Verizon Ventures and add...

Portland-based TG Card Solutions, which allows employers to pay their employees using prepaid Visa cards, has raised $1.8M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Mosaik Partners. TFG is aiming at helping employers of the unbanke...

Seattle-based SourceClear, a developer of software tools aimed at improving security, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding. The funding came from angels, including Justin Somaini (Box.com); Frank J. Marshall (Cisco Systems); Amos Michelson (K...

Seattle-based HasOffers said today that it has invested in MobileAds, a developer of mobile advertising creation tools. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. HasOffers said the investment is its first, strategic investment i...

Seattle-based Dwellable, which develops mobile apps to help consumers find and book vacation rentals, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The company said the funding was led by Maveron and Version One Ventures, and also included Spence...

Seattle-bsaed Placed, a developer of mobile ad and location analytics software, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, and also included prior investor Madrona Venture Group....

TurnKey Vacation Rentals, a startup which manages the entire rental process for owners of vacation rental properties, has roped in a few Seattle angel investors in a round it announced this morning. The Texas company said that Rich Barton (...

Beaverton, Oregon-based NVoicePay has raised $1.25M in a funding, the company has disclosed. Details on the funding have not been announced. nVoicePay provides an online service for helping businesses to handle invoicing and other parts of ...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners has re-upped its investment in travel planning site Hipmunk, as part of a $20M, Series C financing. The new funding round was led by Oak Investment Partners, and also included Institutional V...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners is the lead investor in a San Francisco-based, data integration software tools provider, Trifacta. Trifacta said this morning that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round, which was le...

Seattle-based ExtraHop has raised a big, $41M funding round, a Series C for the developer of enterprise IT analysis products, the company said this morning. According to ExtraHop, the new round was led by Technology Crossover Ventures, and ...

Seattle-based Farmstr disclosed Tuesday that it has raised $1.3M in a funding round from local angels. The startup, led by Janelle Maiocco, offers up a marketplace of local farm goods, like turkeys, beef, honey, vegetables, and more, direct...

Portland-based nuclear power technology devleoper NuScale Power announced today that it has inked a deal with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where it will receive up to $217M in funding for development of its products. According to Nu...

Kirkland-based Jobaline, which operates an online marketplace to help people find hourly jobs, said today that it has raised $7M in a Series B funding round. According to the startup, which is led by Luis J. Salazar, the funding was led by ...

Microsoft Ventures, the venture investment and accelerator arm of Microsoft, is in a big push in India, saying today that it has graduated seventeen startups from its Accelerator Program in India, and also launched a new initiative aimed at...

Seattle-based Amazon.com has backed a Chinese food delivery service, Yummy77, to the tune of $20M, as the company has increasingly been looking towards an expansion into grocery delivery. Yummy77 offers up food delivery in Shanghai. The inv...

Seattle-based Context Relevant, which develops big data analytics software, has raised $21M more in a venture funding round, the company said this morning. Context Relevant said the Series B funding was led by Formatoin 8, and also included...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron is the lead investor today for an investment in do-it-yourself (DIY) craft delivery service DarbySmart. DarbySmart announced this morning that it has raised $6.3M in a funding round for its monthly del...

Seattle continues to prove itself the center of the world of online real estate startups, with the launch of Pro.com, a new site which lets homeowners figure out the price of home services for the various projects on their home improvement ...

Seattle-based LiquidPlanner, a developer of online project management software, said today that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding round, which came from growth equity investor TVC Capital. According to LiquidPLanner, the round of fund...

Smore, which develops online software to help businesses create professional looking, online promotional landing pages and websites, has raised $1.7M in a funding round from Founder's Co-op, the company said today. The company--which was pa...

Seattle-based Igneous Systems, a stealth mode company founded by a trio of Isilon Systems vets, said today that it has raised $23.6M in a Series A funding round. The startup, led by Kiran Bhageshpur, said the funding was led by New Enterpri...

Bellevue-based Smartsheet, the developer of business collaboration tools, announced this morning that it has raised $35M more in funding. The funding was led by Sutter Hill Ventures, and also included Insight Venture Partners and Madrona Ve...

Bellevue-based real estate startup FLIPT has emerged out of stealth mode, and is taking on Zillow's property value algorithm, the Zillow Score--calling the fellow Seattle startup a "fixer-upper". FLIPT, which is led by Andrey Nokhrin, said ...

Seattle- and Boston-based Vhoto, a new startup developing software which filters through a user's videos to find "amazing photos", launched today, saying it has raised $2.4M in seed funding. The company said the funding came from Atlas Vent...

Seattle-based EnergySavvy, the developer of cloud-based, energy efficiency software, has raised $7M in a new funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Prelude Ventures, Pivotal Investments, and others. EnergySavvy su...

Seattle-based Concur has acquired a larger stake in Indian online travel site Cleartrip, according to reports today, and has bought out fellow investors Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Financial terms of the deal wer...

Seattle-based Indi, a developer of molecular diagnostics technology, said today that it has raised a total of $47.25M in a combination of equity and debt. The funding included $30.25M in a Series B equity fnding, and $17M in debt financing....

Seattle-based PayScale, the online cloud service which lets both job seekers and companies track salary and compensation at employers, has raised $100M in a funding, round, the company said Thursday. The funding came from an affiliate of Wa...

Seattle-based Juno Therapeutics announced this morning that it has raised $176M in a series A funding round, for its cancer immunotherapy efforts. According to the company, the funding came primarily from ARCH Venture Partners and the Alask...

Woodinville, Washington-based VirtualQube, a provider of customized, cloud implementation services for businesses, said this morning that it has raised $250,000 in a debt-based, growth funding round. The funding came from Lighter Capital. T...

Portland-based Viewpoint Construction Software, a developer of software for the construction industry, said today that it has received a major growth equity investment from Bain Capital. Financial details of the investment were not disclose...

Ali and Hadi Partovi--the tech moguls with close ties to Seattle, who have invested in such companies as Zappos and Airbnb--have put their dollars behind a new startup developing hardware aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence. Accor...

ReadyPulse, the developer of social content marketing software which spun out of Bellevue's Moxie Software two years ago, has raised $2M in a Series A funding round, the company said this week. The company--which now says it is headquartere...

Kirkland-based Cardiac Dimensions, which develops minimally invasive devices for treating heart failure, said today that it has raised $20M in a funding round. The funding was led by M. H. Carnegie & Co. and Lumira Capital, along with other...

Seattle-based Avvo, which operates an online legal marketplace, has raised $37.5M in a Series D funding, the company said this morning. The new funding was led by Coatue Management, and also included Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, and Ign...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Act-On Software, which develops marketing automation software for small and mid sized businesses, is announcing this morning that it has raised $42M in a venture financing round. The funding comes from Technology Cro...

Seattle-based Julep Beauty, an online beauty brand, said today that it has raised $30M in a Series C funding round. The funding came from Azure Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Altimeter Capital, along with Andreessen Horowitz and Maveron...

Seattle-based Founder's Co-op, the investment fund of Andy Sack, Chris DeVore, and Rudy Gadre, is looking to raise up to $25M for a new fund, called Founder's Co-Op III, according to a regulatory filing from the investment firm. The filing ...

San Francisco-based dinner delivery service Munchery said this morning that it has raised $28M in a funding round, and is looking to use those funds to expand its service to Seattle and beyond. The startup--which runs its own kitchens to de...

Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies has raised $105M in a Series D financing round, which all came from Viking Global Investors. The biotechnology company is working on sequencing technology being targeted at cancer immunotherapy. The co...

Renton, Washington-based software maker Parallels has gained a strategic investment from technology reseller Ingram Micro, the two said this morning, as part of a deal where Parallels' cloud services software will be used for a new "Cloud M...

Barcelona, Spain-based Scytl, a developer of online voting technology, said today that it has received $40M in a funding round, all from Vulcan Capital. Scytl said the funding came from Vulcan's new, Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund....

Seattle-based Tango Card, which develops an online platform for providing employees with rewards in the form of digital gift cards, has raised $3.3M more, part of an ongoing, $3.5M funding round. The funding was disclosed in a regulatory fi...

Seattle-based Flowboard, which develops mobile presentation apps for the iPad, has raised $750,000 in a funding round, the company said this week. The company said the funding came from several angel investors. As part of the investment, Vi...

Seattle-based Indix, a developer of a cloud-based, database of product information, said today that it has raised $8.5M as part of an ongoing, $9M Series A-1 financing round. The round was led by Avalon Ventures and Nexus venture Partners. ...

Seattle-based FlexMinder, which develops cloud software for automating healthcare reimbursement, has raised $1.2M in a funding round, the company said Tuesday. The funding came from Rudy Gadre, Founders Co-op, AOA, WRF Capital and Walt Wins...

Seattle-based biopharmaceuticals developer KinDex Pharmaceuticals has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Polaris Partners. KinDex is specifically targeting Type 2 diabetes, using molecules which modulate regulatory net...

Seattle-based Simply Measured, the developer of social analytics software, said this morning that it has raised $20M more in funding. The Series C funding round was led by Trinity Ventures, and also included Bessemer Venture Partners, Four ...

Seattle-based startup accelerator program Techstars Seattle, which is headed by Andy Sack, said this morning that it has opened up applications for its next class. The program--which has run in Seattle for the past four years--offers up to ...

Bellevue-based Tipbit said today that it has raised $4M in its Series A funding, to go towards its mobile email applications. The funding round was led by Ignition partners. Tipbit is led by Gord Mangione, a former Microsoft executive who p...

Seattle-based online dog sitting marketplace Rover.com announce dthis morning that it has raised $12M in a Series C funding round. The funding was led by Menlo Ventures, and also included prior investors Madrona Venture Group, FOundry Group...

Bellevue-based ComputeNext, which operates an online marketplace to help companies find cloud services, has raised $4M in a funding round. Source of the investment was not announced. ComputeNext is led by Sundar Kannan, who previously was a...

Seattle-based venture investment firm Maveron is one of the returning investors in New York-bsaed General Assembly, which conducts classes on web development, Photoshop, Javascript, digital marketing, and other technical topics. General Ass...

Seattle-based Ravenna Solutions, a developer of software to manage admissions paperwork from private schools, has raised $850,000, the company disclosed today. The funding came from the Alliance of Angels. Ravenna Solutions develops softwar...

Want to give your kids a head start in learning some software programming skills? Seattle-based venture capital fund Madrona has just backed a maker of robotic toys, which is aiming at teaching software techniques to kids as young as five ...

Portland-based Clinicient, a provider of outsourced billing and revenue cycle management for the outpatient, physical therapy and rehabilitation business, has raised $15M in a Series C funding, the company said today. The funding came from ...

DocuSign, the provider of cloud-based, electronic signature software which was founded and has major operations in Seattle, has raised $85M in a new funding round. Source of the new funding was not announced. DocuSign said it would use the ...

Portland-based Little Bird, which is led by Marshall Kirkpatrick, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.7M in a Seed financing round, for its efforts in helping find social influencers and track emerging news. The company said the funding will...

Seattle-based DocuSign is in the process of raising a huge, $100M funding round, according to a report Thursday, which would add the company to the ranks of the billion dollar valuation club. The WSJ report--citing people "familiar with the...

Bainbridge Island-based Avalara, the developer of software which helps merchants keep track of the huge myriad of tax rules and rates around the country for sales taxes, has raised a big, $30M funding round, the company said Wednesday. Aval...

Askem, a startup developing social apps to let users ask their friends and others for personal advice, has scored some funding from Microsoft, via Microsoft Ventures. Size of the funding round was not announced. According to Microsoft Ventu...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron has re-upped its investment in mobile payment provider PayNearMe, joining in a new, $20M funding for the startup. PayNearMe provides a service to let customers pay in cash at 7-Eleven, ACE Cash Expre...

Seattle-based software developer Skytap, which develops cloud-based, test automation software, said Tuesday that it has raised $6.45M more in an extension of its Series C funding. The company said the new funding came from existing investor...

Redmond-based Microsoft is investing $15M in location-based check-in app developer Foursquare, as part of a deal to gain access to Foursquare's big database of business and other locations. Foursquare said the investment came as part of a l...

Watchup, a developer of a video news aggregation app for the iPad, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a funding round, including funding from Microsoft Ventures. The Silicon Valley startup, which is based in Menlo Park, California,...

Seattle-based investor Broadmark Capital has backed a company which provides professionally designed, color newsletters to elementary and middle schools. According to Broadmark, NewsCrafted--based in Los Angeles--has raised $1.1M as part of...

Seattle-based angel investment group Northwest Energy Angels said Thursday that it has relaunched itself as Element 8. The group said the name better reflects "who we are and where we're going". The group said, in particular, that it sees l...

Seattle-based Oscilla Power, a developer of technology being aimed at wave energy gathering, disclosed this week that it has raised $1.7M in a funding round. Source of the funding was not announced. Oscilla Power was co-founded by Rahul She...

Kirkland-based VisibleBrands announced this morning that it has raised approximately $2.3M, in a Series B funding round, to go towards regional expansion of its platform. The company--which provides in-store, digital coupon technology and k...

Seattle-based Lively, a startup which lets consumers download records of live music directly from musicians, has raised $2M in a funding around, according to a regulatory filing by the company today. Investors included Second Avenue Partner...

Portland-based ShopIgniter, the social marketing software developer headed by Matt Compton, has raised $1.5M in a new funding round. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group and Trinity Ventures, both of which are existing investors in t...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners has re-upped its investment in Silicon Valley payments API provider WePay, as part of a new round for that company. According to WePay, it raised $15M in a Series C funding, which was led by ...

Seattle-based Evocalize, a developer of an online platform to help brands gather information from their customers via surveys and other tools, said it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round today. The funding came from Madrona Venture G...

Seattle-based Porch.com, the online site focused on home improvement information, has inked a big strategic deal today with Lowe's, according to the companies this morning. The deal also includes an investment from Lowe's. Size of that inve...

Portland-based OpenSesame, which offers up online, professional training aimed at businesses, has raised $8M in a new funding round. The investment was led by Partech Ventures. As part of the funding, Partech's Nicholas El Baze join's OpenS...

Seattle-based PlaceFull, which develops an online scheduling and booking service for kid's birthday parties, classes, weddings, and other events, has raised $1.1M in an angel funding round, the company disclosed this week. The funding inclu...

Vidible, a provider of a programmatic video advertising marketplace, has raised $3.35M in a funding round, the company confirmed this week. The company--which has operations in Seattle--said the funding was led by Greycroft Partners, and ID...

Seattle-based Remitly has raised $5.5M more in a new, Series A funding round, the company disclosed today. The new funding is led by QED Investors, and also includes prior backers Trilogy Partnership, Founders CoOp, Bezos Expeditions, and ...

Portland-based OnTheGo Platforms, which is in the midst of developing gesture recognition software for Google Glass, has raised $700,000 in an angel investment funding, according to the company. The fund came from Foundry Group via FG Angel...

Seattle-based ResolutionTube said Thursday that it has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round, for a new, video-based customer service software platform. The company said the funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included David C...

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Seattle-based online math education software developer DreamBox Learning said this morning that it has raised $14.5M more in a Series A1 funding. The funding was led by Reed Hastings, the CEO of NetFlix, via his Chartered School Growth Fund...

Seattle-based Qazzow, the software startup which is developing question-and-answer software for e-commerce sites and web application providers, said today that it has raised $2.4M in a Series A financing round. The funding comes only a mont...

Seattle-based Koru, which operates an online site to help recent college graduates, disclosed that it has raised $4.35M in a funding round. The company was formerly known as Kairos. The funding--which was disclosed in a regulatory filing in...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron has scored an exit at one of its portfolio firms, Lemon, as the mobile wallet developer was acquired today by Lifelock. Maveron was the lead investor in Lemon's Series A round in June of 2012. LifeLock...

Paul Allen's invest firm, Vulcan Capital, has backed online car buying site TrueCar, the startup said today, saying it has raised $30M from Vulcan as part of the firm's new growth equity fund. TrueCar--which is based in Southern California-...

Seattle-based Shippable said today that it has raised $2.05M in a seed funding round. The Techstars Seattle company said the funding came from Founders Co-Op, Divergent Ventures, Vulcan Capital, Madrona Venture Group, and angels. Shippable'...

Seattle-based Clarity Health Services, which provides healthcare care coordination services and technology, said Monday that it has raised $6.6M in a funding round. The round was led by Columbia Pacific Advisors' Opportunity Fund. The compa...

Seattle-based Opscode, the developer of enterprise, IT automation tools, has renamed itself Chef, and raised $32M more in funding, the company said this morning. According to Chef, the Series D funding round was led by Scale Venture Partner...

Seattle-based Juno Therapeutics has raised an astounding, $120M in a Series A funding round today, to go towards the launch of a new company to develop immunotherapies for cancer. The startup--spun out of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...

Seattle-based Wire Labs, a developer of mobile messaging apps, said today that it has raised $1.8M for the company. The funding came from Vulcan Capital, Spencer Rascoff (Zillow), Erik Blachford (Expedia), Owen Van Natta (Facebook), Rudy Ga...

Seattle-based Everpath, which is developing a service and software to help instructors deliver their own, online lessons, has raised $950,000 in seed funding, the company disclosed Tuesday. The company said the funding came from Geoff Entre...

Microsoft said today that it has made an investment in Zula, a developer of mobile, team communications and collaboration tools. Financial details of the investment were not announced. Zula's software provided threaded conversation and othe...

creativeLIVE, the online video education site focused on everything from photography to software, said today that it has raised $21.5M in a Series B funding. The company--which is split between San Francisco and Seattle--said the funding wa...

Seattle-based online real estate brokerage Redfin has raised $50M in a new financing round, which came from Tiger Global Management, T. Rowe Price, Greylock Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Vulcan Capital, Globespan Capital Partners and T...

Seattle-based Yapta, the provider of airplane fare tracking technology, said today that it has raised $2M as part of its Series D funding round. According to Yapta, the new funding was led by Amadeus, a provider of technology for the trave...

Portland-based Househappy, which operates a photo-focused, online real estate site that helps people browse through properties in a visual way, has raised $1.5M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by led ...

Microsoft Ventures said this week that it is backing the developer of an online, search and discovery site focused on online college degrees and education, Ranku. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. Ranku, which is based i...

Tacoma-based IID, a developer of a cyber-security service that helps enterprises and government agencies to share cyber-incident data in real time, has raised $8M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners. The s...

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners has made another investment--albeit, outside of the region--in software-defined, flash storage appliance developer Coho Data. Ignition lead a $25M, series B funding for COho Data, whose appliances and softwa...

Zemanta, a developer of content discovery software used by publishers and blogs to distribute and expose their content to new readers, has appointed Seattle startup veteran Todd Sawicki as its CEO. The company also announced $2M in new fund...

Seattle-based 2nd Watch announced this morning that it has raised $23M in a growth financing round, to go towards its service for building, deploying, and managing Amazon Web Services-based enterprise operations. The company said the fundin...

Seattle-based Seeq Corporation said today that it has raised $6M in a funding to help take industrial process data and turn it into useful information. According to the company, the Series A funding was led by Second Avenue Partners, and al...

Seattle-based CENTRI Technology announced today that it has raised $13M, in a Series C funding round. The company--which develops mobile bandwidth optimization and management products for mobile network operators--said the funding came from...

Seattle-based Immune Design announced this morning that it is raising up to $49M in a Series C funding round, split between an immediate investment of $32.5M upfront and an additional $16.5M in the near future, depending on program progress...

Seattle-based Tableau Software has backed a developer of data analysis and parsing tools, as part of a strategic partnership. Silicon Valley-based Paxata said today that it has raised $8M in a Series B funding, led by Accel Partners, and wh...

Bellevue-based venture capital investor Ignition Partners has re-upped in malware protection developer Bromium. Bromium--which is based in Silicon Valley--said it raised $40M in its Series C funding, which was led by Meritech Capital Partne...

Seattle-based WhitePages revealed yesterday that it has bought out its existing, venture investors, paying $80M to buy its shares back from investors Technology Crossover Ventures and Providence Equity. The company said it used cash from pr...

Bellevue-based EDUonGo, which develops an online service to help educators create online courses, handle grading assignments, and more, disclosed that it has raised $530,000 in an angel funding round. The funding came from Circulus Eduation...

Bellevue-based Kona Medical, the developer of ultrasound devices for treating kidney issues, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series D investment. The funding was led by Morningside Group, an investor focused on China, which is the r...

Venture capital totals for Washington and Oregon totaled around $136.68M, according to the latest MoneyTree Venture Capital Report numbers released by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters l...

Cascade Angels, a new angel investment group based in Bend, Oregon, disclosed this week that it has launched to help fund companies in Oregon's entrepreneurial ecosystem. The angel group said it will invest in companies from anywhere in Ore...

Seattle-based Usermind, a stealthy developer of enterprise software, disclosed today that it has raised $7.6M in a funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Charles River Ventures and SV Angel. The company's...

Cozy, a startup developing online services to streamline rent payments, has raised $5M in a series A funding, and is expanding in Portland. According to the company, the Series A funding came from General Catalyst Partners, and also include...

Microsoft is backing SkyGiraffe, the Israeli developer of mobile software for the enterprise, SkyGiraffe announced today. According to SkyGiraffe, it received a strategic investment from Microsoft Ventures, to help extend enterprise systems...

Embarke, a developer of email optimization tools for marketers--and a graduate of the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, the Seattle-based affiliate of TechStars incubating cloud-based apps--has raised $1.25M in a seed funding round. ...

Bellevue-based iSpot.tv, which provides a competitive benchmarking service that analyzes television commercials for ad agencies and broadcasters, has raised $5M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group and TL Ventu...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron has had a big exit today, with the IPO of Illinois-based Potbelly Sandwich Works. PotBelly began trading this morning on the NASDAQ Global Market, as PBPB. Maveron had first invested in PotBelly back i...

John Ludwig, former Founding Partner of Ignition Partners, announced Monday that he has left the firm, to begin the "next phase of my professional life". Ludwig had been at Ignition Partners for more than 13 years. Ludwig said that the move...

Newly launched, Seattle home improvement information site Porch is in the midst of a big fundraising round, looking to raised $27.7M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company last week. That filing says that the company ha...

Bill Gates has made an investment in Varentecm, a developer of electric grid monitoring and control hardware, as part of an $8M, Series B funding. According to Varentec, that funding included both Bill Gates and Khosla Ventures, and will go...

Local travel angel Spencer Rascoff (Zillow) is heading to the ski slopes with his latest investment, online ski and snowboarding ticketing site Liftopia. Rascoff was among a large number of angels and other investors who contributed to a $5...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners is the lead investor in big data, cloud startup BlueData, BlueData said today. The Series B funding was worth $15M, and also included Atlantic Bridge Ventures, Intel Capital, Amplify Partner...

Seattle-based Indi Molecular, a developer of synthetic replacements for antibodies, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The round was led by Interwest Partners, along with angels. The company--which has licensed technology from the Sc...

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners has bolstered another developer of mobile software, StrongLoop. The funding round was worth $8M. StrongLoop is based in San Mateo, California. As part of the Series A round, Ignition Partner's Nick Sturiale ...

A new, Seattle-based startup, Nuiku, said this morning that it has received $1.6M in a seed funding round, and has launched its mobile apps to help streamline the life of sales professionals. The startup, headed by Sean Thompson, said today...

Seattle-based Concur has made another investment out of its Perfect Trip Fund, saying this morning that it has made an investment in Visage Mobile, a developer of software-as-a-service, enterprise travel management tools. Size of the invest...

Portland-based app testing technology developer AppThwack has just announced funding from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community and the CIA, the company said this morning. AppThwack did not disclose the exact terms...

Portland-based MobileRQ, the developer of software for the travel and hospitality industry, has raised $800,000 in a funding round from Verizon Investments, the venture investment arm of Verizon, the company said this week. MobileRQ said th...

Redmond-based Versium has raised $2.5M in a funding round, for its predictive analytics technology, the firm said Tuesday. The new funding came from TiE Angels SEattle, along with other investors. Versium, which is led by Chris Matty, devel...

Portland-based brandlive, which develops a platform for promoting online product demonstration events, has raised $1.6M in a funding round, the company said Monday. The funding was led by the Oregon Angel Fund. BrandLive also reported at ac...

A pile of local, travel industry angels--plus local venture investor Maveron-- are backing a new, Silicon Valley travel marketplace. Vacation Listing Service announced this morning has raised $5M in a seed funding round, to help launch its ...

Seattle-based Socrata, a developer of software to help citizens access information from government, and help make government data easier to access, said today that it has scored an investment from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and...

Bellevue-based intellectual property licensing firm Intellectual Ventures has spun out a third company, saying yesterday that it has launched Evolv, a new startup focused on security imaging. Evolv is based in Boston. According to Intellect...

If you're at all connected into social media, you're very familiar with hashtags--those keywords, indicated by #hashtag--used by users to indicate different topics. A new, Seattle startup, Tagboard, is looking to make it easier to track and...

Former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky has just made his first investment as a venture capitalist, in Silicon Valley vehicle fleet management startup Local Motion. Local Motion has raised $6M in a funding from Andreessen Horowitz. Sinof...

Seattle-based Optimum Energy announced this morning that it has raised additional financing in its recent funding round. Size of the new funding was not announced. The new funding came from Edison Energy, which is a subsidiary of Edison Int...

Former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky, who had been President of Microsoft's Windows efforts, has joined venture capital investor Andreessen Horowitz, Sinofsky announced last night. Sinofsky, at one time, had been considered a top choi...

Kirkland-based medical device firm Tissue Regeneration Systems has raised $4.6M in a funding round, the firm disclosed this week. The company said the funding came from Venture Investors. The company makes skeleton reconstruction implants u...

Seattle-based Lively, a developer of mobile music applications, has raised $500,000 in a seed funding. The company said the funding came from Second Avenue Partners, as well as angels. Lively develops a mobile app to help users capture and ...

A number of local, Seattle area travel angels have backed a new startup focused on the vacation rental marketplace. TurnKey Vacation Rentals said Wednesday that it has raised $1.5M in funding, for the company's software to help manage vacat...

Portland-based Lytics, a developer of personalized, customer targeting software, has raised $2.2M in a seed funding round. The round came from Rembrandt Venture Partners, and also included Voyager Capital. Lytics said it is developing tools...

It's been fairly quiet over the border in Vancouver, Canada, for funding lately. At least, until today. Vancouver-based HootSuite, which develops social media management tools, said this afternoon that it has raised $165M US in what it says...

Seattle-based Exo Labs, the developer of a microscope which can connect directly to your iPad has now raised $2.0M in its latest funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The funding was a Series A. Exo Labs directly send...

Portland-based social e-commerce service Chirpify announced this morning that it has now raised $6M in its Series funding round, which it will use to expand its social commerce platform. The company said it raised an additional, $4M in the ...

Seattle-based online dog sitting marketplace Rover.com has raised $3.5M, in a funding round led by pet retailer Petco. According to Rover.com, the partnership with Petco will extend its services to Petco's pet community, with Petco promotin...

Bellevue-based Concur has made investments in two companies, the software company said today, out of the company's $150M Concur Perfect Trip Fund. According to Concur, the company invested in StayNTouch, a developer of cloud-based software ...

Seattle-based Trover, which operates a social travel photography sharing service, has raised $2.5M in a new funding round this morning from Concur. According to Trover, the funding came via Concur's Perfect Trip Fund, and also included prio...

How can you use the principles of startup acceleration and entrepreneurship to help make the world better? Portland-based startup accelerator and investment fund NW Social Venture Fund's mission is just that: to help support philanthropic e...

Seattle-based Yapta, which operates an online airfare price tracking service, has raised $4.2M in a Series D funding round, the firm disclosed today. The funding came from Concur's Perfect Trip Fund. Yapta recently launched a new product, F...

A brand new, Seattle angel investment group, TiE Angels Group Seattle, has formed focused on early stage funding for startup in the Pacific Northwest, the group said this morning. The new group was formed by TiE Seattle, the group which foc...

Kirkland-based Minetta Brook, a company developing big data software, has raised $1.25M in a round of funding, led by a new Seattle angel investment group, the TiE Angels Group Seattle. Minetta Brook also received an investment from Naya Ve...

Washington and Oregon saw a total of $222.8M in investments in Q2, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, which was released this evening. Those totals were above Q1, wh...

Seattle-based Vamo, a stealthy trip planning and travel startup headed by former Facebook Seattle executive Ari Steinberg, has raised $1.6M in a funding round. Investors in the round included U2's Bono, SV Angel, Adam D'Angelo (Quora), Spen...

Seattle-based Meldium has raised $1M in a seed funding round, to go towards its software--used to automatically log users into web-based apps without using a username or password. According to Meldium, the funding came from Draper Associate...

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners is continuing its trend of investing in software developers--mostly outside of Seattle--with its latest funding, of Xamarin. Xamarin, which is based in San Francisco, said it has raised $16M in a Series B ro...

Seattle-based Context Relevant has announced $7M in a Series A funding round, to help spread its predictive analytics software across the market. The startup, headed by Stephen Purpura, said that the funding round came from Madrona Venture ...

A new study of the number of venture capital deals per-capita has found that the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area is among the top ten markets in the country for venture capital deals. The new report from The Atlantic, found that Seattle-...

Seattle-based PetHub, which makes software and tags for tracking lost pets, has raised $1.7M in a funding round, the company revealed this week. Source of the funding was not disclosed. PetHub's software works with Near Field Communications...