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Tech Moves: Sea.citi adds board members; another Microsoft vet joins Magic...
From left: Anna Boone, Janice Dearlove and Maria Karaivanova. (Sea.citi Photos) — Sea.citi, an organization that works to connect tech sector employees with civic life, announced three new board...
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5G Open Innovation Lab names 15 startups in third cohort, with tech serving...
A third cohort of companies has been selected to take part in the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab), a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup program funded by T-Mobile, Microsoft, NASA and others. The lab...
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Visualping raises $2M to help users track website changes — and find open...
Serge Salager, CEO and founder of Visualping. (Visualping Photo) New funding: Visualping, a web monitoring service that emails users when online sites change their content, has raised $2 million in...
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Seattle stem cell startup Curi Bio raises $6M
Curi Bio Chief Business Officer Elliot Fisher and CEO Michael Cho. (Curi Bio Photos) New funding: Curi Bio raised $6 million to further develop its human stem cell-based platforms for drug discovery....
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Seattle real estate startup Modus hit with cease-and-desist order by...
Modus CEO Alexander Day; co-founder Jai Sim; and Abbas Guvenilir. (Modus Photo) Seattle startup Modus is facing a cease-and-desist order from the Washington state insurance commissioner for allegedly...
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Bottomless raises $4.5M as Seattle startup grows team and business around...
(Bottomless Photo) New funding: Bottomless, the small Seattle startup with big e-commerce dreams, has raised $4.5 million in a new Series A funding round to help with the continued growth of its...
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Seattle health-tech startup DexCare raises $20M, spins out of Providence’s...
DexCare CEO Derek Streat and CCO Sean O’Connor. (DexCare Photos) New funding: DexCare, an “access optimization platform” and the latest health-tech company to spin out of Providence’s Digital...
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Why Microsoft would want to acquire Discord, which is reportedly exploring a...
(Discord Image) The gaming-focused VoIP app Discord has reportedly put itself on the market, and it’s possible that Microsoft might be the buyer. VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi reported Monday that...
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Legal writing startup Clearbrief raises $1.2M from Madrona, Sequoia, Avvo...
Clearbrief founder Jacqueline Schafer. (Clearbrief Photo) New funding: Clearbrief, a new Seattle startup that has developed AI-fueled writing technology for the legal industry, raised $1.2 million....
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Biotech startup AbSci raises $125M for ‘Protein Printing’ tech; total funding...
AbSci CEO and founder Sean McClain. (AbSci Photo) New funding: Vancouver, Wash.-based biotech company AbSci raised $125 million in a round led by Casdin Capital and Redmile Group. The tech: Founded in...
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Trulia founder, Zillow vets invest in $1.5M round for new real estate startup...
(Instashowing screenshot) Instashowing, a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings, has raised $1.5 million in a funding round led by veterans of...
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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity...
(Rec Room Image) Seattle-based Rec Room has raised $100 million in new funding. The game development startup is now valued at $1.25 billion after an explosive year of growth in which players used the...
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Vacation home startup Pacaso raises $75M, hits $1B valuation less than a year...
Former Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff (left) and dotloop founder Austin Allison are co-founders of Pacaso, a real estate startup that helps people buy second homes. (Pacaso Photos) New funding: Pacaso...
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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5...
The Startup Haven team (clockwise, from top left): Bob Crimmins, Claudius Mbemba, Jay Westerdal, David Malcolm and Arry Yu. (Startup Haven Photo) — Startup Haven, a community for entrepreneurs founded...
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Seattle-area legal tech startup Advocat wins top prize of $200k at San Diego...
Advocat Technologies CEO Pradnya Desh with the company’s winnings from the San Diego Angel Conference. (Photo courtesy of Advocat) Advocat Technologies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup which uses...
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Idaho startup Continuous Composites inks deal with French manufacturing giant...
(Continuous Composites Photos) Coeur d’Alene, Id.-based startup Continuous Composites has entered into a joint development agreement with leading French industrial conglomerate Saint-Gobain to develop...
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Seattle startup iFoodDS raises $15M for food supply chain monitoring tech
Diane Wetherington, founder and executive chairman of iFoodDS. (iFoodDS Photo) New funding: Seattle startup iFoodDS raised a $15 million Series A round led by Insight Partners. The tech: The...
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Led by former Juno and Alder exec, Seattle neurology startup Eliem...
Bob Azelby. (Eliem Photo) New funding: Eliem Therapeutics, a new Seattle biotech startup led by former Juno Therapeutics exec Bob Azelby, raised $80 million to develop clinically-validated therapies...
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Seattle-area startup Tagboard signs 4-year deal with MLB to enhance digital...
(Tagboard Image) Redmond, Wash.-based Tagboard has entered into a new four-year deal with Major League Baseball to help the league create interactive content and experiences utilizing the startup’s...
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How a tech entrepreneur went from potatoes to Amazon and back again with a...
Connor Wallace, CODA Farm Technologies co-founder, working alongside one of the reels used for watering crops. (CODA Farm Technologies Photo) Everyone knows the built-in-a-garage startup origin story....
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