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After 9 years, Panopto raises $42.8M to take on Microsoft and IBM in...
For nine years, Panopto quietly built a successful video platform for hundreds of big-name enterprise and academic customers. Working with just $8 million in total investment, the Seattle-based...
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Techstars grad Polly.ai raises $1.2M for chatbot tech that helps assess...
Polly.ai co-founders Bilal Aijazi and Samir Diwan. Photo via Polly. Another Techstars Seattle 2016 graduate is raising cash. This time it’s Polly.ai, which just reeled in a $1.2 million seed round to...
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GeekWire launches new Cloud Tech channel, with underwriting support from...
Clouds over Seattle. Photo by Dan Hershman, via Flickr. Cloud technology is one of the most dynamic, rapidly growing and important areas of the tech industry, and GeekWire has a front-row seat for the...
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Seattle startup raises $2M to expand technologies for immunotherapy
Ron Myers, CEO of Nexgenia. Photo: Nexgenia. Take a quick browse through Seattle’s biotech scene, and you’ll notice a pattern. Immunotherapy — using the body’s immune system to fight cancer — is the...
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Unilever Ventures pours more cash into Discuss.io, a consumer market research...
Discuss.io CEO Zach Simmons. Discuss.io is on a roll. The Seattle startup has reeled in another $880,000 for its consumer market research platform. Unilever Ventures, the venture capital and private...
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GeekWork Picks: WhitePages seeks Senior Software Architect to lead big data...
WhitePages, a leading contact information resource for North America, is adding several members to its Seattle team. One open position on this team is a Senior Software Architect, who will work with...
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Ex-Microsoft execs and engineers raise $1.5M for Komiko, a CRM enrichment...
Komiko CEO Hal Howard. Photo via Komiko. Hal Howard, Ami Heitner, and Srikanth Avadhanam spent years and years at companies like Microsoft and SAP, learning how and why customer relationship management...
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Something is missing from this new list of the 25 hottest startup cities —...
(Fintastique via Bigstock) Popular thinking would have you believe that the Seattle region is a sure bet to make any list of the hottest places in the country for entrepreneurs and startups. But in a...
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Will Amazon’s part-time tech teams succeed? Former AWS recruiting leader...
Amazon isn’t known for being a laid-back employer. In fact, the tech giant is famous, and in some cases infamous, for its hard-driving work culture. Kerry Van Voris, director of talent at Madrona...
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Knock raises $1.6M to help property managers with scheduling and communication
Knock CEO Tom Petry. Knock is raising cash to help grow its scheduling and communication platform for property managers. The Seattle startup just reeled in $1.65 million of a larger $2.5 million round...
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Cozy raises $8.4M to fuel growth of property rental management platform
Cozy CEO and co-founder Gino Zahnd. Portland-based Cozy today announced an $8.45 million funding round that will help the startup grow its property rental management platform. American Family Ventures,...
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This University of Washington spin-out can charge robots and drones wirelessly
WiBotic CEO Ben Waters. Photo via WiBotic. WiBotic is coming out of stealth mode. The University of Washington spin-out today revealed more details about its technology that wirelessly powers drones...
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New Portland VC firm Elevate Capital invests in 6 women and minority-led...
The Elevate Capital team: Robin Jones, Nitin Rai, Eric Boothe, and Stephen Green. Photo via Elevate. Elevate Capital, a new venture capital firm based in Portland, today unveiled its first funds. The...
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After helping build Destiny, ex-Bungie developers raise $3.5M for new VR...
Polyarc co-founders Tam Armstrong, Danny Bulla, and Chris Alderson. Photo via Polyarc. There’s another startup in Seattle developing virtual reality technology. The latest is Polyarc, a new company...
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GeekWork Picks: Avalara seeks senior software engineer to serve startup tax...
Dealing with sales tax can be a nightmare, particularly for small business owners and entrepreneurs. Seattle-based Avalara aims to end that nightmare with a suite of programs that guide corporations of...
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This startup wants to give you a free personal wedding planner
Joy began as a side project of founders Vishal Joshi, Michael Bach, and Kaiwalya Kher in 2013. Now, with a team of 6 full-time employees, it registers over 200 new weddings every day. Photo: Joy. Meet...
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Craigslist rival OfferUp raises $119M, confirms $1B valuation and cites...
OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar at the company’s Bellevue office. Credit: OfferUp. Bellevue, Wash.-based OfferUp says it has closed a $119 million funding round, led by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. The...
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Here are the top 10 universities graduating the most VC-backed entrepreneurs
(Photo via BigStock). Students across the country are headed back to school and many high school seniors are deciding which college or university would be best for them. Those with entrepreneurial...
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LiveStories raises $3M to help governments and non-profits visualize data
Livestories CEO Adnan Mahmud. Photos via Livestories. Seattle-based startup LiveStories today announced a $3 million funding round led by True Ventures. Founders’ Co-op, Social Leverage, Urban.us, the...
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: An inside look at Amazon Web Services, advice from...
Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing sectors in tech, and Seattle is an integral part of this revolution with local cloud superstars like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure. Next...
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