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Salesforce chief Marc Benioff and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke invest in...
DroneSeed CEO Grant Canary, left, and Chief Technology Officer Ben Reilly holding drones used for reseeding land damaged by wildfire. (DroneSeed Photo) New funding: As wildfires continue to burn in...
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Tech Moves: Cloudentity names new CEO; Leafly appoints CFO; SeekOut adds...
Jason Needham. (Cloudentity Photo) — Seattle startup Cloudentity appointed CloudCoreo co-founder Jason Needham as its new CEO and a member of the board. Needham was most recently senior director of...
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Seattle healthcare data startup Truveta lands investment from Microsoft and...
Truveta CEO Terry Myerson. (Truveta Photo) Seattle-based Truveta will leverage Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to analyze health data under a new partnership with the software giant announced...
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Archera lands $7M to help AWS and Azure customers cut costs and optimize usage
Archera co-founders — and brothers — Aran Khanna (left) and Nikhil Khanna. (Archera Photos) Archera, a Seattle startup formerly known as Reserved.ai, announced a $7 million Series A funding round....
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Read the room — virtually: Seattle startup lands $10M to analyze your face...
From left: Rob Williams, David Shim, and Elliott Waldron. (Read Photos) David Shim, Elliott Waldron, and Rob Williams helped build location analytics startup Placed, which was acquired by Snap for...
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Vancouver, B.C.-based Semios raises $100M for farming tech and services
Semios, a Vancouver, B.C.-based company that develops agriculture technology to assess crop status and risks, today announced a $100 million investment round. Founded in 2010, Semios’ wireless IoT...
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Data Skrive, which sells content automation tech to news outlets and...
Data Skrive helps generate online content such as news stories for sites like ESPN. (Data Skrive Image) Data Skrive, a Seattle startup that automates the creation of sports-related content, has raised...
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Ex-Amazon designers dream up $148 cardboard bassinet, and sleep better with...
A baby is shown in a paperboard bassinet made by Seattle-based Juno. (Juno Photo) Two industrial designers who helped create and launch the first Amazon Go cashierless convenience store have a new...
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DevOps for device fleets: Esper raises $60M to manage devices used in retail,...
Esper co-founders Yadhu Gopalan (left) and Shiv Sundar. (Esper Photos) Seattle-area startup Esper just raised a second round of investment in less than six months to support growth of its software...
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Seattle startup wants to help B2B sellers fix ‘spray and pray’ strategy with...
Relevvo co-founders Tushar Shanbhag (above) and Aashish Dhamdhere. (Relevvo Photos) A new Seattle startup led by veterans of Microsoft, LinkedIn, Apptio, Amperity, Skilljar and other companies landed...
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Online learning company CreativeLive acquired by Israel-based Fiverr, a...
CreativeLive co-founder and CEO Chase Jarvis. (CreativeLive Photo) CreativeLive, the Seattle-based online learning company founded in 2010, has been acquired by Fiverr, a platform that connects...
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Want to improve your public speaking? This startup’s AI tool aims to give you...
A screenshot shows the interface for the Yoodli AI platform. (Yoodli Photo) If you’re intimidated by the prospect of giving a speech, going through a job interview or doing a wedding toast, a Seattle...
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Microsoft acquires collaboration software startup Ally to bolster employee...
Microsoft has acquired Ally, a 3-year-old Seattle-based startup that helps companies track and hit their goals. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ally CEO Vetri Vellore. (Ally Photo) Microsoft...
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Tech Moves: Ex-Glassdoor CTO will lead Auth0 engineering; Flyhomes hires CRO;...
Bhawna Singh. (Auth0 Photo) — Bellevue, Wash.-based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. She will be responsible for Auth0’s...
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Funding news roundup: Pandion’s parcel network, Copper’s banking app for...
(Pandion Photo) Pacific Northwest companies are raising venture capital dollars at a rapid clip — so much so that it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the latest on the most recent rounds. Pandion Pandion, a...
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For the love of gaming: Husband and wife co-founders raise $2.6M for social...
Game Jolt co-founders Yaprak and David DeCarmine. (Game Jolt Photo) Eight years after they left Zulily to concentrate full time on their social platform for gamers, husband and wife co-founders Yaprak...
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Led by founders who met at Microsoft, Chronosphere lands $200M, reaches...
Chronosphere co-founders Martin Mao (left, CEO) and Rob Skillington (CTO). (Chronosphere Photo) Chronosphere has reached unicorn status in less than three years. The company this week announced a $200...
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Former Kymeta CEO lands $6M to reimagine AI training with new Seattle-area...
The Rendered.ai team takes an engineering break for some go-kart racing. Founder and CEO Nathan Kundtz is kneeling in front row, second from the right. (Rendered.ai Photo) There are a lot of potential...
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Tech Moves: Leafly hires general counsel; Skilljar and LevelTen add execs;...
From top left, clockwise: Kimberly Boler, Laura Wiler, Niran Kundapur, Dino Rech, Marty Blue, and Maria Gilfoyle. — Seattle cannabis marketplace Leafly announced New York-based lawyer Kimberly Boler...
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iSpot buys DRMetrix, makes another acquisition to fuel growth of TV ad...
iSpot CEO Sean Muller. (iSpot Photo) Seattle-area startup iSpot has acquired DRMetrix, a Southern California-based company that specializes in measuring TV ad performance for direct-to-consumer TV...
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