| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.06.2025 | Nectar Social: The Future of Commerce in a Social-First World | In the bustling marketplace of today, where attention is currency, Nectar Social emerges as a beacon for brands navigating the turbulent waters of social commerce. Recently, the Seattle-based startup announced a significant funding mileston... |
| 06.06.2025 | Nectar Social Raises $10.6M to Turn Social Engagement Into Sales | Nectar Social, the agentic social commerce platform for disruptor brands, today announced its emergence from stealth with $10.6 million in combined pre-seed and seed funding co-led by True Ventures and GV (Google Ventures), with participati... |
| 05.06.2025 | Nectar Social Raises $10.6M in Pre-Seed and Seed | Nectar Social, a Seattle, WA-based provider of an agentic social commerce platform for brands, raised $10.6M in Pre-Seed and Seed funding.
The rounds were co-led by True Ventures and GV (Google Ventures), with participation from Trust Fund ... |
| 13.02.2025 | Latent Labs: The New Frontier in Programmable Biology | In the world of biotechnology, a new player has emerged, ready to rewrite the rules. Latent Labs, a London-based startup, has burst onto the scene with a staggering $50 million in funding. This infusion of capital is not just a number; it’s... |
| 13.02.2025 | AI pioneer Dr Simon Kohl's Latent Labs emerges from stealth, raising $50M for programmable biology | AI foundation model builder Latent Labs today emerged from stealth with $50 million in total funding to accelerate their progress in programmable biology.
The company was founded by Dr Simon Kohl, previously a co-lead of DeepMind’s protein ... |
| 06.04.2024 | TrojAI Secures $5.75M for AI Protection | TrojAI, a powerhouse in AI security, has locked in $5.75M in Seed funding to fortify enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) defenses. Led by Flying Fish and backed by investors like Build Ventures and Techstars, TrojAI is on a mission to s... |
| 03.04.2024 | TrojAI Raises $5.75M in Seed Funding to Secure AI in the Enterprise | Lee Weiner Appointed CEO of TrojAI
SAINT JOHN, NB and BOSTON, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TrojAI, a leading provider of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) security solutions, today announced a USD $5.75 million funding round of addit... |
| 20.03.2024 | Toronto Startups AuX Labs & Genuine Taste Join BioCreate Accelerator to Create Alternatives to Cheese and Beef | Two cutting-edge biotech startups from Ontario, Canada — AuX Labs and Genuine Taste — have been selected to join BioCreate, an accelerator program that supports innovative companies in the health, food, agriculture, and cleantech sectors.
A... |
| 25.01.2024 | Digs raises $7M for its collaboration platform for home builders | Vancouver, Washington–based Digs, a collaboration platform that provides homebuilders, vendors and — eventually — homeowners with something akin to a digital twin of a home, today announced that it has extended its $7 million seed round fro... |
| 01.02.2023 | Digs is a Figma-like collaboration tool for home builders and suppliers | Digs, a Vancouver, Washington-based startup that is developing a collaboration tool for homebuilders and their vendors, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $7 million seed funding round from Fuse, Flying Fish, Betaworks, Legacy,... |
| 11.01.2023 | Romanian-founded startup NLX raises €4.2M in a seed II round | Romanian-founded startup NLX raises €4.2M in a seed II round
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The New York-based and Romanian-founded startu... |
| 20.09.2022 | Augment Unveils AI Assistants to Supercharge Productivity in Meeting-Driven Workplaces | Augment organizes your life in the background "The apps we use know so much about us, and yet they do so little with that knowledge, forcing us to repeat the same tasks day in and day out," said Jordan Ritter, CEO and Co-Founder.
... |
| 24.05.2022 | Tech Moves: Flying Fish adds investor to lead new Canada office; Panopto, magniX hire CEOs | Tiffany Linke-Boyko. (Flying Fish Photo)
— Flying Fish hired Tiffany Linke-Boyko as principal to lead a new Alberta hub, its first office outside of Seattle.
The firm also revealed Tuesday that it landed $7.5 million from Alberta Enterprise... |
| 19.05.2022 | Why Google’s hybrid work experiment is a case study for all companies on return-to-office policy | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
If you’re up for a challenge, try orchestrating a hybrid work system for tens of thousands of emp... |
| 18.05.2022 | Flying Fish Partners Closes Second Fund, at $70M | Flying Fish Partners, a Seattle, WA-based artificial intelligence and machine learning focused venture firm, closed its second venture fund, Flying Fish Partners II, L.P., at $70 million.
Led by Geoff Harris, Heather Redman and Frank Chang,... |
| 17.05.2022 | Flying Fish raises $70M fund and will cast net beyond Seattle to back more AI/ML startups | Flying Fish managing partners, from left: Frank Chang, Geoff Harris, and Heather Redman. (Flying Fish Photo)
The news: Seattle-based venture capital firm Flying Fish landed $70 million for its second fund to invest in more early-stage machi... |
| 23.11.2021 | We asked seven venture capitalists if the metaverse is the next big thing or just a lot of hype | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg uses a haptic glove research prototype intended to create a realistic sense of touch in the metaverse. (Meta Photo)
What is the metaverse? How far off is it? And will this represent a tectonic technological platform... |
| 17.11.2021 | Funding news: AI-fueled drug discovery startup and auto safety company raise cash | Variational AI CEO Handol Kim. (Variational AI Photo)
The news: Variational AI, a Vancouver, B.C.-based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding.
The tech: ... |
| 18.05.2021 | Food automation startup Picnic raises more cash as it partners with a top Seattle chef and other groups | The Picnic Pizza System. (Picnic Photo)
New funding: Picnic, the Seattle-based food automation startup that’s been perfecting a pizza-making robot, has raised $16.3 million in new financing, the company announced Tuesday. The Series A round... |
| 15.04.2021 | Crazy for crypto — or not: Seattle VCs sound off on tech’s hottest topic following Coinbase IPO | Coinbase is the talk of tech world this week as the cryptocurrency startup went public and its valuation soared to $85 billion. (Coinbase Photo)
Sometimes, making an exception can pay off.
That’s what happened to Version One Ventures, which... |
| 25.02.2021 | Seattle investors talk SPACs; pandemic impact on startups; advice for founders; and more | From top left, clockwise: Anu Sharma, partner at Madrona Venture Group; Ben Gilbert, co-founder at Pioneer Square Labs; Heather Redman, managing partner at Flying Fish Partners; and Kellan Carter, general partner at Fuse Venture Partners.
W... |
| 19.12.2020 | GeekWire Podcast: What Seattle’s billion-dollar startups say about the region’s tech industry | Seattle’s billion-dollar tech club, startups with valuations of more than $1 billion. (GeekWire Graphic)
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: Seattle’s tech community just reached a new milestone: 10 unicorns, ... |
| 21.09.2020 | Seattle-based startup investment firm Flying Fish is raising a new fund | Left to right: Flying Fish Partners Geoff Harris, Heather Redman, and Frank Chang. (Flying Fish Photo)
Flying Fish, a Seattle-based venture capital firm formed in 2018 that invests in Pacific Northwest startups, is raising its second fund.
... |
| 27.02.2020 | It’s about time: Portland startup ReclaimAI helps users prioritize their work and personal calendars | The ReclaimAI team, from left to right: Ian White, principal software engineer, co-founder Henry Shapiro, and co-founder and CEO Patrick Lightbody. (ReclaimAI Photo)
Chances are you’ve asked yourself, likely more than once, the largely rhet... |
| 04.12.2019 | Early stage investing 101: How to break into the club, and why you should give it a shot | (Bigstock Photo)
Early stage investing can be tremendously beneficial for early stage technology companies, the broader startup ecosystem, and of course, investors. But getting started isn’t easy. Minda Bruse and Heather Redman.
We both kno... |
| 12.09.2019 | Nomad Go raises $2.7M to help brick-and-mortar businesses use AI to level field against online retail | (Nomad Go screen shot)
Brick-and-mortar businesses are already up against the wall when it comes to competing against the technology that fuels online competitors. Nomad Go, the Bellevue, Wash.-based startup that uses artificial intelligenc... |
| 05.09.2019 | GeekWire Elevator Pitch returns! An insect farmer, detergent maker and wine grape analyzer vie for startup glory (inside an actual elevator) | GeekWire Elevator Pitch entrepreneurs Keith McCall of Pollen Systems; Virginia Emery of Beta Hatch; and Christoph Krumm of Sironix Renewables. (GeekWire Photos / Dan DeLong)
Welcome to Smith Tower!
With those words we kick off season two of... |
| 30.11.2018 | Flying Fish adds 4 new venture partners as it raises $80M fund for Pacific Northwest startups | From left to right: Steven Lawler, Vanessa Pegueros, Adriane Brown, Bonnie Foley-Wong. (Flying Fish Photo)
Flying Fish Partners this week announced four new venture partners as the Seattle-based venture capital firm continues to raise its f... |
| 28.08.2018 | WeWork Labs startup incubator to open first West Coast location in Seattle, led by UW startup veteran | WeWork Labs in London. (WeWork Photo)
WeWork will open the first West Coast location of its WeWork Labs startup incubator in Seattle next month, GeekWire has learned, underscoring the growing global prominence of Seattle’s startup scene. El... |
| 20.07.2018 | Why this new Silicon Valley seed-stage VC firm thinks it can win — and why it’s focusing on Seattle | Wave Capital partners Riley Newman, Sara Adler, and David Rosenthal. (Photo via Wave Capital)
David Rosenthal knows about the dearth of early-stage financing options available to entrepreneurs in the Seattle region. The venture capitalist s... |
| 26.04.2018 | New episode: GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch returns with AI in healthcare, a math learning tool and a new way to challenge speeding tickets | We’re back for the second episode of Elevator Pitch, a new show on GeekWire in which entrepreneurs pitch their business concepts in the 42 seconds it takes to travel to the top of Seattle’s Space Needle. The clock is ticking, and the judges... |
| 25.04.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 25 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Hayley Barna co-founded beauty cosmetics company Birchbox in 2010. As the co-CEO, Barna helped grow the startup to more than a million monthly subscribers — all while raising tens of millions of dollars in venture capi... |
| 24.04.2018 | Seattle’s new venture firm, Flying Fish, holds a first close on its targeted $80 million fund | The founding partners of the new Seattle-based venture firm Flying Fish met as angel investors deploying capital in the talent-heavy, cash-light region around Amazon and Microsoft’s corporate headquarters.
“We’ve underperformed relative to ... |
| 23.04.2018 | New Seattle venture fund hooks $27M to bankroll AI startups — and it’s not done fishing for fresh cash | Flying Fish managing partners Geoff Harris, Heather Redman, and Frank Chang, with Flying Fish CFO Tri Tran.
Flying Fish Partners is ready to cast its pole deep underneath Seattle’s iceberg.
The new venture firm has raised $27.8 million as p... |
| 16.03.2018 | What’s wrong with Seattle’s startup scene? Despite top talent, a lack of venture capital stunts growth | Image via the Greater Seattle Technology Ecosystem report.
After nine years of building a robust cloud services business with thousands of customers, Geeman Yip was ready to raise venture capital. But when the BitTitan founder began knockin... |
| 06.01.2018 | From cryptocurrency to IPOs, 6 venture capitalists make tech predictions for 2018 | (Bigstock photo)
No one knows for sure what will happen in the technology world this year. But venture capitalists have their finger on the pulse better than most, so we reached out to a handful of Seattle-area investors to get some predict... |
| 11.07.2017 | VC Investment in Seattle Companies Up 27 Percent in First Half | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 7/11/17, 2:47 p.m. See below.] Seattle companies raised $803 million in venture capital during the first half of 2017, a 27 percent increase over the first six months... |
| 12.05.2017 | Former Bitly CMO returns to Seattle, creates VC fund to provide NW startups with more early-stage cash | Seattle has become one of the most important top tech hubs in the world, with an all-star lineup of homegrown companies and massive offices for out-of-towners looking to get their hands on the region’s deep roster of tech talent. Andrew Dum... |
| 13.04.2017 | New NW-Focused Tech VC Firm Flies Under the Radar | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A group of Seattle-area angel investors is organizing a new tech-focused early stage venture capital fund.
Flying Fish Partners is described on its co-founders’ LinkedIn pages... |
| 13.04.2017 | Seattle angel investors launch ‘Flying Fish’ venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups | Geoff Harris, Heather Redman, and Frank Chang launch Flying Fish Venture Partners. (Photos via Flying Fish Photos)
For the past few months, Flying Fish Venture Partners has been flying under the radar. Seattle skyline (Kurt Schlosser / Geek... |
| - | YData secures €2.3 million to join the data preparation for AI race | Lisbon’s YData has secured €2.3 million in seed funding. The company joins the ranks of startups that use a data-centric approach in preparing data to be fed to help train AI products. The seed money will be used to help the startup acceler... |
