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DreamBox Learning raises $130M, adds former U.S. Education Secretary to board
DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson. (DreamBox Learning Photo) DreamBox Learning, the Bellevue, Wash., maker of an adaptive K-8 math education platform, announced Tuesday that it has raised a...
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Real estate investment platform CrowdStreet raises $8M to develop new...
CrowdStreet website. Portland, Ore.-based CrowdStreet, the crowdfunding commercial real estate investment platform, has raised $8 million in a Series B funding round led by Grotech Ventures....
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Nintex acquires New Zealand process mapping company Promapp
Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex has acquired Promapp, a New Zealand firm that helps companies identify and automate their business processes. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal. A...
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GeekWire 200 update: It’s the era of giant funding rounds, and Seattle area...
Rover employees celebrate with CEO Aaron Easterly after his CEO of the Year award win at the 2016 GeekWire Awards. Rover received a big investment in recent months. (GeekWire Photo) It’s a good time to...
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How Arlan Hamilton turned her hustle and grit into a minority-focused VC fund...
Arlan Hamilton, founder of Backstage Capital, speaking with The Riveter CEO Amy Nelson at an event at The Riveter’s Capitol Hill site in Seattle on July 26, 2018. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) Arlan...
View ArticleTLDR: Self-flying planes, Cat celeb Lil Bub lends poop to biotech startup,...
Today’s featured stories Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends poop to Seattle startup, leading to discovery of new kinds of...
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Mindshare Medical launches AI cancer screening tech that can see data ‘beyond...
Left to right, Mindshare Medical’s co-founders: CTO Ilya Goldberg, COO Samir Chowdhury and CEO Michael Calhoun. (Photo courtesy of Mindshare Medical) You might think diagnosing cancer is easy: Someone...
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Vicis lands $15M to boost production of high-tech football helmets and expand...
The Vicis ZERO1 helmet. (Vicis Image) Vicis, the Seattle-based company known for high-tech helmets used in the NFL, NCAA, high school and youth football, has raised an additional $15 million, bringing...
View ArticleTLDR: Apple becomes a $1 trillion company, Starbucks & Alibaba launch...
Today’s featured stories Apple becomes first American public company to be worth $1,000,000,000,000 — briefly Starbucks and Alibaba to integrate apps and partner on delivery as coffee culture takes...
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Startup Spotlight: Nori is creating a blockchain marketplace open to all to...
Most of team Nori, from left to right: Alexsandra Guerra, director of strategic planning; Ross Kenyon, lead growth strategist; Aldyen Donnelly, director of carbon economics; Paul Carduner, chief...
View ArticleTLDR: Amazon’s Whole Foods grocery pick-up service, Magic Leap’s mixed...
Today’s featured stories Amazon to offer Whole Foods drive-up grocery pickup for the first time, starting at two stores Hype turns into (mixed) reality as Magic Leap finally unveils its long awaited...
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Startup Spotlight: Shop the Change sees purchases as ‘votes’ for companies...
Edgar Mason and Sara LeHoullier, co-founders of Shop the Change. (Shop the Change Photo) When you buy something, you’re voting with your dollar, giving your support to whatever brand you’re purchasing...
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Breaking News founders launch Factal, delivering real-time news and incident...
Factal founders Cory Bergman, Charlie Tillinghast, and Ben Tesch. (GeekWire Photo /Todd Bishop) When NBC News shut down its popular Breaking News website and app in late 2016, the team heard not just...
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Y Combinator to open research lab in Seattle, hires former Microsoft exec Qi...
Qi Lu. (Wikimedia Photo) Y Combinator is extending its reach in both Seattle and China. The famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator announced today that it has hired former Microsoft and Baidu...
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Clobotics lands $11M to keep wind turbines spinning safely with drones and AI
Clobotics is based in Shanghai and Bellevue, Wash. and is eager to grow it’s Northwest workforce. (Clobotics Photo) Clobotics, a startup using robotics and artificial intelligence to capture and...
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MirrorCache raises cash for smart hotel mirrors as hospitality industry uses...
Photo via MirrorCache. More and more technology is making its way into the hospitality industry and Seattle startup MirrorCache is the latest example. The company just raised $750,000 to further...
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Intel acquires Seattle-based deep learning startup Vertex.AI to bolster...
Vertex co-founder Choong Ng. Intel has acquired Vertex.AI, a three-year-old Seattle startup whose tools let developers add deep learning capabilities to their software. Founded in 2015 by Choong Ng,...
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Spocket raises $1.2M for platform that allows anyone to become an e-commerce...
Spocket’s Vancouver team (from left: Tom Hansen, Saba Mohebpour, and Mannat Cheema. (Photo by Stefan van Mourik). This week, Spocket closed a $1.2 million fundraising round to double the Vancouver,...
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Porch acquires another home services startup as it aims to be ‘one of the...
Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman. (Photo via Porch) It’s been quite the roller coaster ride for Porch. The Seattle-based home services company grew rapidly and raised $100 million less than two years after it...
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Underwear maker TomboyX raises $4.3M, aims to tackle ‘lack of inclusivity’ in...
(Photos via TomboyX) TomboyX just raised another round of investment to make more gender-neutral underwear. The Seattle startup reeled in a $4.3 million Series A round led by TAU, with participation...
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