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Seattle startup Joon raises $6M to expand online mental health therapy for youth
Joon Care CEO Emily Pesce (left) and cofounder and Chief Psychologist Amy Mezulis. (Joon Photo) Teletherapy startup Joon Care raised $6 million from investors to extend the company’s runway as it...
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Walmart tech vet, AI2 research scientists are behind new Seattle startup Spiffy
Spiffy co-founders, from top left: CEO Aniket Deosthali; CSO Iz Beltagy; CTO Sameer Singh; and Chief Architect Matthew Peters. A group of “LLM hipsters” are behind a new AI startup in Seattle emerging...
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Seattle Children’s spins out BrainChild Bio, a startup developing therapies...
BrainChild Bio will rent space in the Seattle Children’s building Building Cure. The structure opened in downtown Seattle in 2019. The startup will occupy part of the 10th floor, which is also home to...
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Center lands $30M to bolster corporate expense software, explore potential...
(Center Photo) Center has found a formula for its expense software business, offering a corporate credit card with a real-time analytics platform used by more than 1,000 middle-market companies. Now...
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Read AI expands beyond single meeting analysis with scheduling, project...
Read AI’s new “Smart Scheduler” uses past sentiment and engagement scores to suggest optimal meeting times. (Read AI Image) Read AI, a Seattle startup that applies artificial intelligence to online...
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Airship AI, a Seattle-area edge computing company that never raised...
Derek Xu (left) and Victor Huang began their startup journey two decades ago. Now they’re taking a company public. (Airship AI Photos) No VC, no problem. Airship AI, an under-the-radar tech startup...
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Carbon Robotics raises additional $8M as maker of AI-powered weed zapper eyes...
Carbon Robotics CEO Paul Mikesell with the company’s weed-zapping robot. (Carbon Robotics Photo) Carbon Robotics, makers of a weed-zapping machine powered by artificial intelligence and computer...
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Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital...
Audiosocket co-founder and CEO Jenn Anderson-Miller. (Audiosocket Photo) TikTok videos posted by Charli D’Amelio, Miss Universe, and the Philadelphia Eagles are quite different from one another, but...
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Seattle founder Vetri Vellore, who sold last startup to Microsoft, raises...
Rhythms founder Vetri Vellore (left) and Madrona Venture Group Managing Director S. “Soma” Somasegar. (Madrona Photo) Seattle tech veteran Vetri Vellore is launching a new startup with a big vision to...
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LevelTen, which helps facilitate clean energy deals, adds $10M to Series C round
Wind turbines in the Pacific Northwest. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle’s LevelTen Energy has raised $10 million to support its platform that facilitates the development of new clean energy...
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Seattle startup Carbon raises $1.3M to help developers manage external data...
Carbon CEO Derek Tu. (LinkedIn Photo) Carbon, a Seattle startup that helps companies connect external data sources to their large language models, raised a $1.3 million seed round to fuel growth....
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Zulily has seen better days: Co-founder Mark Vadon shares startup lessons...
Seattle-based online retailer Zulily went public in 2013. Co-founder and former CEO Darrell Cavens is at center, with his son. Mark Vadon, the company’s co-founder, is left of Cavens, looking upwards...
View ArticleField operations software startup Zuper raises $32M
Zuper, a Seattle startup that sells software to help companies with field workers, raised a $32 million Series B round led by FUSE. Founded in 2018, the company serves industries including residential...
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How Pfizer’s $43B acquisition of Seagen may impact Seattle and broader...
William Canestaro. (LinkedIn Photo) Editor’s note: William Canestaro is managing director at Seattle venture capital firm WRF Capital and leads the biotechnology investment team. Seagen’s sale to...
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Parse Biosciences raises $50M for single cell sequencing tech
Parse Biosciences. a Seattle biotech startup developing single cell sequencing products used by more than 1,000 labs worldwide, raised $50 million as part of a Series C equity round and a debt facility.
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High-tech pat-downs: Startup lands $6M to develop handheld device for...
Hatch Graham, co-founder and CEO of Bellevue, Wash.-based Lassen Peak. (Lassen Peak Photo) Lassen Peak, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup developing a handheld concealed weapon detection system, has...
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Sam Altman’s venture fund invests $3M in startup using humans and AI to keep...
Shelpful co-founders, from left, Lydia Swift, Sharon Pope and Chris Morse. (Shelpful Photo) Shelpful, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that combines artificial intelligence and human empathy to help...
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Startup that helps law firms and VCs review deals wins new First Row Partners...
Julie Saltman, CEO of Standd. (Standd Photo) Standd, a Washington D.C. startup that builds software to help lawyers and investors review deals, won the top investment prize at a new competition...
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Seattle marketing company Banzai goes public, rings opening bell at Nasdaq...
Banzai employees rang the opening bell at Nasdaq today in New York City. (Banzai Photo) Marketing tech company Banzai rang the opening bell at Nasdaq on Friday as the Seattle firm officially became a...
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Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes conducts more layoffs amid ‘worsening...
Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg. (Flyhomes Photo) Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes has conducted another round of layoffs as the company faces what it calls “persistent and worsening industry headwinds.”...
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