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Enterprise data storage startup Qumulo raising more cash
Qumulo CEO Peter Godman. Qumulo is raising more cash. An SEC filing posted today noted that the Seattle-based startup, which helps clients store, manage, and curate data, has raised $30.6 million of a...
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Gravity Payments co-owner testifies that he should have been involved in $70k...
Gravity Payments minority shareholder Lucas Price testifies in court on Wednesday. Lucas Price, the minority shareholder and board member of Gravity Payments, testified today that he wasn’t informed,...
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Mary Meeker shouts out fast-growing OfferUp in annual ‘Trends’ report; CEO...
OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar accepts the App of the Year award at the 2016 GeekWire Awards. (Via GeekWire) When Mary Meeker delivered her annual “Internet Trends” report on Wednesday, it was packed with...
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Data storage startup Qumulo confirms $32.5M investment as total funding...
Qumulo confirmed on Thursday that it has raised a $32.5 million round as the Seattle startup looks to add more customers and invest in its technology. GeekWire first reported about the Series C round...
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From sports news to social media marketing: Ripl raises $1.8M after series of...
Andrew Wright, Ripl’s executive chairman, and Paul Ingalls, the company’s CEO. It took a couple pivots, a lot of grit, and a little bit of sacrifice — but Paul Ingalls and Andrew Wright think they’ve...
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With $14M investment from top VCs, Ozlo opens Seattle office to help develop...
Ozlo co-founders Charles Jolley and Mike Hanson. Photos via Ozlo. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and other tech giants are all building their own “bots” that utilize artificial...
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Cloud cost-management firm Cloudability raises $24M in new financing round
Cloudability, a public-cloud cost-management firm based in Portland, Ore., has closed a $24M Series B round, led by the Foundry Group Select Fund. The round brings the company’s total funding to more...
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Microsoft vet raises more cash to sell coffee cup lids that ‘drink like a...
The Viora Lid is meant to replicate the feeling of drinking coffee from a ceramic cup. Photo via Vaporpath. It seems there is demand for better coffee cup lids. Vaporpath, a Seattle-area company that...
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‘Something is quite special about Seattle’: VC Fred Wilson eases off...
Fred Wilson. Fred Wilson probably didn’t expect much of a response after he called Seattle a “third-tier” startup city earlier this week. But his blog post that outlined the quality of U.S. startup...
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Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price: Brother’s buyout demands could force him to...
Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price testifies in court earlier this week. (GeekWire Photo) Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price said in court today that he could be forced to relinquish the company to his brother...
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GeekWire Radio: Is Seattle really a ‘third-tier’ startup city? Here’s how the...
(Via Tiffany Von Arnim / Flickr) New York-based venture capitalist Fred Wilson this week ranked Seattle a “third-tier” startup city, then backed down from his statement after Tren Griffin, our guest on...
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Digital health insurance platform League raises $25M, eyes growth in Seattle...
League, the Toronto-based digital health insurance platform with a presence in Seattle, announced Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in a Series A financing round. League bills itself as the...
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Better bricks, healthier chickens and more life-changing ideas from the...
Michael “Luni” Libes, Fledge accelerator founder, at Demo Day in Seattle this week. Ravaged villages, fires and emaciated people filled the screen at Fledge’s seventh annual Demo Day this week. These...
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Drug recovery app wins Seattle’s TechCrunch pitch-off
Daniela Luzi Tudor presents pala•linq at the TechCrunch Seattle Meetup + Pitch-Off. GeekWire Photo/Nat Levy Daniela Luzi Tudor struggled with alcohol and cocaine addiction for many years before seeking...
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Revealed: EY names 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year winners for Pacific NW
Master of ceremonies Jenni Hogan, left, and EY’s Greg Beams, far right, with EY regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award winners Scott and Ally Svenson of Mod Pizza; Sam Blackman of Elemental...
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Wrench brings car mechanics to the consumer, raises $1.2M in funding
Mechanics from Wrench can work on a variety of cars in a variety of locations. (Credit: Wrench) Self-described serial startup guy Ed Petersen knows first-hand how much of a pain car maintenance can be....
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Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff launches podcast, with former Twitter CEO Dick...
Dick Costolo. (Photo via Flickr/Joi) Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff is launching a new podcast called “Office Hours,” with Dick Costolo, a veteran entrepreneur and former Twitter CEO, as his first...
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A better air filter: UW spinout raises $1.25M for new approach to...
A diagram of the Pacific Air Filtration technology. (Click for full diagram.) A Seattle-based startup is developing a new air filter that it says will cost less than the alternatives, use less energy,...
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Co-working companies approaching 1M square feet of space in Seattle region
Co-working companies account for 648,400 square feet of office space in Seattle. Click here for full size image. (Credit: Colliers International Co-working companies now take up close to 950,000 square...
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Top investor Steve Anderson leads $2.25M investment for customer behavior...
The Appuri team at Pike Place. Photo via Edmond Wong. Steve Anderson, the first person to invest in Instagram who sits at No. 2 on Forbes’ Midas List of top investors, is leading a $2.25 million round...
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