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Commercial IoT startup Rigado sells Bluetooth tech to Swiss wireless company...
Rigado’s lineup of Bluetooth modules. (Rigado Photo) Rigado, a nine-year-old Portland, Ore. startup that builds commercial IoT products and services, sold a portion of its business to Swiss wireless...
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Google Cloud vets launch Seattle startup Kaskada to bolster machine learning...
The Kaskada leadership team, from left to right: Davor Bonaci, Ben Chambers, and Emily Kruger. (Kaskada Photo) After spending several years working at Google Cloud, Davor Bonaci and Ben Chambers saw...
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High-tech compression shorts maker Strive aims to measure the ‘miles per...
Strive co-founders Nikola Mrvaljevic and Carsten Winsnes with the Sense3 compression short. (Strive Photo) As a professional basketball player in Montenegro, Nikola Mrvaljevic got the idea that there...
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Geek of the Week: How lifelong entrepreneur Bob Crimmins’ little poker game...
Bob Crimmins with his daughters on the day they met their Kickstarter goal for the ‘Wise Walker.’ There are plenty of stories of entrepreneurs who got their start in dorm rooms and garages, but how...
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Esports tournament operator Matcherino lands funding as question swirl about...
Matcherino CEO John Maffei. (John Maffei Photo) Investors are putting more cash behind esports tournament operator Matcherino as questions swirl about how large the professional gaming industry will...
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Grocery delivery startup Dumpling raises $3M to democratize the gig economy,...
Wolfgang Eastman, a Seattle-based personal shopper who uses Dumpling, picks out tomatoes. (Dumpling Photo) Seattle startup Dumpling raised $3 million for a personal shopping platform that flips the...
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Commercial real estate marketing tech startup Remarkably raises more cash to...
(Remarkably Images) Remarkably is raising more cash to meet early demand for its technology that helps apartment rental building owners, managers, investors, and developers with their marketing...
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Cancer-fighting startup Neoleukin merging with Aquinox in $40M deal, 8 months...
Neoleukin Therapeutics launched in January with the goal of commercializing a cancer-fighting protein that was designed from scratch at the University of Washington. (UW Photo) Vancouver, B.C.-based...
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Meet the 6 startups joining the Oregon Enterprise Blockchain Venture Studio
The Oregon Enterprise Blockchain Venture Studio announced its first class on Tuesday. The new public-private program is designed to support startups developing blockchain products for businesses. R/GA...
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Women’s health startup Genneve lands $4M to grow telemedicine service for...
The Genneve team, from left: Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su, director of health; Jill Angelo, CEO; and Shannon Perry, director of media and marketing. (Genneve Photo) Genneve, a Seattle startup that runs a...
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Snack Video offers bite-sized tutorials for info-hungry, time-crunched startups
The Snack Team, from left to right: Sunny Wu, Gordon Sun, Duncan Keith, Anting Chen, and Karalyn Smith. (Snack Photo) Startup founders and employees have a reputation for working outlandishly long...
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Joe Coffee, the mobile app for indie shops, raises $750K as it plans to bring...
Baristas armed with their Joe Coffee launch kit. (Joe Coffee Photo) The buzz around Joe Coffee keeps building. The Seattle startup, which built a mobile order and rewards app for local and independent...
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Hey, startup founders: Growth and profitability can coexist — here’s how to...
Nintex CEO Eric Johnson. (Nintex Photo) For startups looking to scale, the Silicon Valley mindset encourages growth before profit, which often means raising capital to sustain continuous losses for...
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SingleFile spins out of Pioneer Square Labs, raises $3.3M to automate...
From left to right: Barbara Lee, customer success manager; Matt Woodward, CTO; and Sean Flynn, founder and CEO. (SingleFile Technologies Photos) The process by which companies stay compliant hasn’t...
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This startup wants to accelerate ‘precision medicine’ with its growing...
(Amplion Screenshot) Amplion, a startup that helps healthcare companies sort through biological data, closed a Series A fundraising round led by Greycroft with participation from existing investors...
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Battery startup Group14 Technologies raises $14M to make materials for...
Group14 Technologies manufactures silicon-carbon nano-composite materials for electric vehicle batteries. Above, a piece of silicon. (Wikimedia Commons Photo) A 3-year-old Seattle-area startup is...
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Atomo Coffee ditches the bean and raises a nice seed: $2.6M in funding to...
Atomo Coffee co-founders Andy Kleitsch, left, and Jarret Stopforth. (Atomo Photo) Bean there, done with that. The future of coffee got a jolt Wednesday as Atomo Coffee announced it has secured $2.6...
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This little known Seattle startup just raised $25M to grow its ‘mobile...
Some of Mason’s various customizable hardware offerings. (Mason Photos) Jim Xiao learned about building enterprise platforms at Microsoft China. An executive role at a wireless company taught him...
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MediaPartners raises $5.6M to help companies prevent workplace harassment,...
John Hansen. A Seattle-area company that sells training videos to help improve workplace environments has raised more cash from investors. MediaPartners reeled in a $5.6 million round to push total...
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‘Stripe for international shipping’: FlavorCloud helps e-commerce companies...
FlavorCloud CEO Rathna Sharad. (FlavorCloud Photo) If you want to buy a shirt directly from a merchant in China, the customs hurdles will vary depending on whether it’s made of cotton or wool. Or if...
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