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Meet the 5 startups that just pitched at Founders Live in Seattle
Founders Live hosted an event in Seattle on Feb. 24 at The Collective. (Photo by Steve Case) Founders Live hosted its first in-person gathering of 2022 on Feb. 24 in Seattle. For many who hadn’t...
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Here are top mistakes startups make when hiring salespeople — and tips on...
Ron Davis. As a former founder, sales executive and current B2B consultant to several startups, I’ve discovered that founders make the same hiring mistakes, over and over again. There are too few good...
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Safer urinary catheter, pulse oximeter for all skin colors and a GI stent win...
Team InSTENT: Ziming (Jimmy) Ye, Brandon Lou, Gillian Pereira, Evan Ross and Clara Black. (UW Photo) Students from Pacific Northwest colleges and universities jostled for a slate of awards Thursday at...
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Seattle startup Swiftly lands $100M to help grocers fend off Amazon and other...
Swiftly, a Seattle startup that provides software to brick-and-mortar grocery retailers such as Family Dollar and The Save Mart Companies, raised $100 million in a Series B funding round. Swiflty’s...
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Seattle-area VC firm Tola Capital raising a new $400M fund, filing shows
Tola Capital, a Seattle-area investment firm that backs enterprise software companies, is raising $400 million for its third fund, according to a new SEC filing. Founded in 2010, Tola is led by former...
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Crypto tax software startup BearTax lands $3.2M
BearTax, a Seattle startup that helps cryptocurrency investors file taxes, raised a $3.2 million seed round led by Seattle VC firm Ascend. The company is led by Tela Andrews, a former product manager...
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Contactless shopping gets fashionable: Inside the newest store from clothing...
At Armoire Go, subscribers place apparel for pick up or drop of on a table capable of detecting RFID tags sewn into the clothes, allowing for contactless exchanges. (Lucinda Roraback Photos for...
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How this health startup serving the maritime industry saw huge growth in the...
Discovery Health co-founder and CEO Ann Jarris. (Discovery Health Photo) In January 2020, a ship docking in Dalian, China, called on Ann Jarris for assistance. As CEO of the company overseeing the...
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Startup funding news: PairTree, RightBound, LOANtuitive, Crelate raise fresh...
PairTree CEO and co-founder Erin Quick with her two children. (PairTree Photo) PairTree, a Seattle startup that facilitates adoptions, raised $5.1 million. The company launched in 2020 and has 4,000...
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Seattle computer vision startup led by former HoloLens scientist lands $3.4M
Retrocausal co-founders Andrey Konin (Chief Architect), Quoc-Huy Tran (CTO), and Zeeshan Zia (CEO). The news: Retrocausal raised $3.4 million to advance its AI-powered platform to help manufacturers...
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IUNU, a Seattle startup that develops computer vision tech for greenhouses,...
Seattle startup IUNU landed a $24 million Series B round that will fuel growth of its technology used in greenhouses to analyze the health of crops and manage production. Customers hail from markets...
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Remote possibilities: This startup is building an Airbnb-style platform for...
A Portland workspace as seen on the Radious website. (Radious Image) Nobody ever said working from home had to be from your home. As more companies begin to make the move to bring workers back to...
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Bill pay software startup Doxo lands $18.5M
Doxo, a Seattle-area startup that helps people manage and pay their bills, raised $18.5 million. The company is profitable and annual revenue is more than $40 million. Doxo was co-founded 14 years ago...
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Startup tackling homelessness with easily erected, durable shelters lands $15M
A village of Pallet tiny houses, with some customization by residents. (Pallet Photo) Pallet, an Everett, Wash. social purpose corporation, has raised $15 million to expand its production of shelters...
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Neu direction: Seattle startup pivots to become Spritz, a tech platform to...
Kwame Boler, left, and Claudius Mbemba, co-founders of Neu and now Spritz. (Neu File Photos) Kwame Boler and Claudius Mbemba have a new idea that pivots off their five-year run with Neu, the Seattle...
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Seattle sisters lead fast-growing e-commerce startup selling ethnic fashion...
The Shobitam team. Aparna Thyagarajan (far left, second row) and her sister Ambika (far right, second round) co-founded the company three years ago. (Shobitam Photo) It started three years ago after a...
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5 takeaways from SXSW 2022: Web3, holograms, spatial audio, social justice,...
Holograms were a hot topic at SXSW this month in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Martina Welkhoff) SXSW has been one of my favorite annual events for years because it brings together such an eclectic group...
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A list of mental health startups in the Pacific Northwest, as pandemic fuels...
2Morrow, one of several mental health-related startups based in the Pacific Northwest, helps treat nicotine addiction. (2Morrow Photo) The pandemic has been hard on people’s mental health. And it’s...
View ArticleMeet the 12 startups participating in the new Filecoin Techstars accelerator
Techstars on Monday unveiled the 12 startups participating in its new Filecoin Techstars Accelerator, which aims to help companies using the IPFS/Filecoin blockchain-based storage network. The 13-week...
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Seattle startup Stack wins $100K top prize in Madrona Venture Labs’...
(Madrona Venture Labs Image) Stack, a Seattle startup intent on making cryptocurrency and modern finance accessible for Gen Z, took the top prize at Madrona Venture Labs’ recent Launchable event aimed...
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