| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 29.04.2024 | Inside the ‘cold war’ at Techstars as CEO Mäelle Gavet hires... | Last spring, founders from all over the world began their treks to Techstars’ Stockholm accelerator ... | techcrunch... |
| 07.12.2022 | Seattle startup Pebble, which helps create health benefit pl... | Pebble co-founders Manoj Pinna (left) and Vinay Reddy. (Pebble Photo)
Seattle health benefits startu... | geekwire.c... |
| 22.10.2022 | Why this Seattle venture capitalist moved to a farm — and th... | Aviel Ginzburg with his daughter on a tractor at his family’s farm in Oregon. (Photos courtesy of Av... | geekwire.c... |
| 07.10.2022 | Why a slowdown in VC funding might be a good thing for some ... | From left: Annie Kadavy, managing director at Redpoint; Chris DeVore, founding managing partner at F... | geekwire.c... |
| 13.07.2022 | Buyers wanted: Exit opportunities for venture-backed startup... | (Bigstock Photo)
It’s getting harder for an early-stage company to find a buyer.
The exit value for ... | geekwire.c... |
| 03.06.2022 | Q&A: Seattle startups may be insulated from the downturn... | Elliott Bay and the downtown Seattle skyline. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
With fears of an eco... | geekwire.c... |
| 03.02.2022 | ‘The darkest, most bottomless pit in healthcare’: Goodbill r... | Patrick Haig and Ian Sefferman, co-founders of Goodbill. (Photos via LinkedIn)
If you dare, try sear... | geekwire.c... |
| 15.01.2022 | NFTs, Metaverse, Web3, and new realities of startup investin... | Founders’ Co-op General Partner Aviel Ginzburg. (Founders’ Co-op Photo)
So much of what happens in t... | geekwire.c... |
| 14.10.2021 | TA Ventures invested in Spice AI that helps developers build... | TA Ventures invested in Spice AI $1M Pre-Seed round alongside Madrona Venture Group, Picus Capital, ... | taventures... |
| 07.10.2021 | Microsoft acquires collaboration software startup Ally to bo... | Microsoft has acquired Ally, a 3-year-old Seattle-based startup that helps companies track and hit t... | geekwire.c... |
| 03.06.2021 | HR management platform Ganaz raises $7m Series A funding fro... | Disclosure: AgFunder (our parent company) is an investor in Ganaz. Find out more about AgFunder’s po... | agfunderne... |
| 15.04.2021 | Crazy for crypto — or not: Seattle VCs sound off on tech’s h... | Coinbase is the talk of tech world this week as the cryptocurrency startup went public and its valua... | geekwire.c... |
| 09.04.2021 | Take note: Amazon vets raise $2M for Dendron, a tool to mana... | Dendron founders Kevin Lin, left, and Kiran Pathakota. (Dendron Photos)
New funding: Seattle-based s... | geekwire.c... |
| 04.03.2021 | How this Seattle VC missed out on Auth0’s seed round, but pe... | Founders’ Co-op Managing Partner Chris DeVore. (Founders’ Co-op Photo)
Seattle venture capitalist Ch... | geekwire.c... |
| 01.03.2021 | More capital for Pacific Northwest startups: Founders’ Co-op... | Founders’ Co-op Managing Partner Chris DeVore (left) and General Partner Aviel Ginzburg. (Founders’ ... | geekwire.c... |
| 04.12.2019 | Early stage investing 101: How to break into the club, and w... | (Bigstock Photo)
Early stage investing can be tremendously beneficial for early stage technology com... | geekwire.c... |
| 28.10.2019 | Startup advice: Here’s what founders should do before pitchi... | From left to right: Dave Parker, founder of 6 Month Startup; Aviel Ginzburg, general partner at Foun... | geekwire.c... |
| 18.07.2019 | Workday buys Trusted Key in first exit for Seattle’s Kernel ... | Amit Mital, CEO and founder of startup studio Kernel Labs. (Kernel Labs Photo)
Business cloud softwa... | geekwire.c... |
| 12.06.2019 | Techstars Seattle leader Chris DeVore to step down, will foc... | Techstars Seattle Managing Director Chris Devore will step down next month. (GeekWire File Photo)
Af... | geekwire.c... |
| 16.04.2019 | Founders’ Co-op Raises $25M to Back More Pacific Northwest S... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Founders’ Co-op, a Seattle-based ve... | xconomy.co... |
| 15.04.2019 | More cash for Pacific Northwest startups: Founders’ Co-op ra... | Founders’ Co-op Managing Partners Chris DeVore and Aviel Ginzburg. (Founders’ Co-op Photo)
More inve... | geekwire.c... |
| 23.01.2019 | Gender gap: Women-led companies make up 8% of the GeekWire 2... | The numbers tell the story.
Out of the 200 companies listed on the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the ... | geekwire.c... |
| 16.03.2018 | What’s wrong with Seattle’s startup scene? Despite top talen... | Image via the Greater Seattle Technology Ecosystem report.
After nine years of building a robust clo... | geekwire.c... |
| 15.03.2018 | Strix Leviathan raises $1.625M for its enterprise crypto tra... | Seattle-based Strix Leviathan, an enterprise trading and management platform for crypto assets found... | techcrunch... |
| 15.02.2018 | Looking to spark Seattle’s startup ecosystem, Founder’s Co-o... | Techstars Seattle Managing Director and Founder’s Co-op founding partner Chris DeVore.
Founder’s Co-... | geekwire.c... |
| 15.02.2018 | Founders’ Co-op, a fixture on Seattle’s venture scene, is ra... | Founders’ Co-op, a Seattle-based seed-stage venture firm, is looking to close its fourth and newest ... | techcrunch... |
| 19.09.2017 | Immigration startup Boundless launches tools to streamline a... | The Boundless team, from left: Anjana Prasad, Charity Seid, David Balatero, Xiao Wang, Chris Montes,... | geekwire.c... |
| 05.07.2017 | Chinese search giant Baidu buys Seattle startup Kitt.ai to c... | Kitt.ai, the Seattle artificial intelligence startup that’s developing a conversational language eng... | geekwire.c... |
| 15.06.2017 | Seattle’s Rapid Tech Growth Highlights the City’s Need for I... | Over 1,100 people have moved into the Puget Sound area each week since 2010. That number would fill ... | tech.co/ne... |
| 03.05.2017 | LevelTen Aims to Satisfy Surging Corporate Renewable Energy ... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Large technology companies have dri... | xconomy.co... |
| 20.04.2017 | Startup led by ex-Amazon manager and Obama tech policy guru ... | The Boundless team. (Boundless Photo)
Boundless, a Seattle startup that aims to help people navigate... | geekwire.c... |
| 09.11.2016 | Amazon and Paul Allen-backed startup launches new product th... | KITT.AI is rolling out its newest flagship product. KITT.AI co-founder and CEO Xuchen Yao, and co-fo... | geekwire.c... |
| 11.05.2016 | Backed by Amazon and Paul Allen, KITT.AI launches first ‘hot... | KITT.AI wants to help developers add voice activation features to almost any device for free.
The Se... | geekwire.c... |
| 26.02.2016 | Founder’s Co-op invests in Giftbit, a B2B digital gift card ... | Giftbit co-founders Leif Baradoy and Peter Locke.
Founders’ Co-op, a Seattle-based early-stage ventu... | geekwire.c... |
| 07.01.2016 | Amazon and Founders’ Co-op back new Seattle startup KITT.AI,... | Xuchen Yao
A new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup called KITT.AI, incubated inside Paul... | geekwire.c... |
| 02.09.2015 | Calling entrepreneurs, scientists, coders: New ‘Hacker House... | A new “Hacker House” is opening near the University of Washington campus this month. Photo via Andy ... | geekwire.c... |
| 27.07.2015 | Meet the 11 new startups in Techstars Seattle | Techstars companies at Startup Hall in the University District. Photo via University of Washington.
... | geekwire.c... |
| 16.07.2015 | Invest NW Would Help Rich Families Make Local Impact Investm... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Pacific Northwest innovation ec... | xconomy.co... |
| 01.05.2015 | Skyward Announces $4.1 Million Seed Round | Portland, Oregon based drone company, Skyward, announced a $4.1 million seed round on April 28. This... | agfunderne... |
| 03.04.2015 | Seattle Roundup: Founders’ Co-op New Fund and Real Estate Mo... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The big Seattle tech news this week... | xconomy.co... |
| 02.04.2015 | Founder’s Co-op raises $20M, looks to spark more innovative ... | Andy Sack and Chris DeVore of Founder’s Co-op.
Over the past seven years, Founder’s Co-op has trumpe... | geekwire.c... |
| 22.01.2015 | Amidst $6M Series A, TriggerMail Rebrands as Bluecore | Since participating in the Techstars 2013 New York Class, life for TriggerMail has been busy – or sh... | tech.co/ne... |
| 15.01.2015 | Tom Douglas Serving Local, Sustainable Startups to Would-be ... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Tom Douglas, builder of food empire... | xconomy.co... |
| 02.01.2015 | So You Want to Be an Early Stage Investor? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I absolutely love what I do—running... | xconomy.co... |
| 10.12.2014 | As VCs Move Upstream, Madrona Venture Labs Builds Its Own St... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In recent years, venture capitalist... | xconomy.co... |
| 07.11.2014 | Techstars Seattle Demo Day: New Companies, Pitching Models, ... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Techstars, the international networ... | xconomy.co... |
| 06.11.2014 | In tearful farewell, Andy Sack steps down from Techstars Sea... | Andy Sack thanks the community at the TechStars Demo Day as Chris DeVore looks on.
At its fifth annu... | geekwire.c... |
| 23.10.2014 | The Startup Hall Story—How it Could Transform Seattle’s U Di... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The second floor of what used to be... | xconomy.co... |
| 16.09.2014 | Video: Inside the University of Washington’s new Startup Hal... | Condon Hall isn’t exactly the University of Washington’s most impressive space. From the outside, th... | geekwire.c... |
| 29.05.2014 | Time to ditch non-compete agreements to increase entrepreneu... | Chris DeVore keynoting the 2013 GeekWire Awards.
Chris DeVore has devoted many hours over the past f... | geekwire.c... |
| 07.05.2014 | Techstars Seattle grad, online flyer-maker Smore raises $1.7... | Two-and-a-half years ago, Shlomi Atar and Gilad Avidan traveled all the way from Israel to participa... | geekwire.c... |
| 23.04.2014 | GeekWire Awards: Vote for Hire of the Year | Talent is the name of the game in the tech industry.
And that’s why today’s category in the GeekWire... | geekwire.c... |
| 11.04.2014 | Seattle Roundup: Founders’ Co-op New Fund; Allen Grant; Munc... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The big news this week is a new fun... | xconomy.co... |
| 10.04.2014 | Founder’s Co-op raises $10M, looks to bankroll ‘hungry and f... | Chris DeVore keynoting the 2013 GeekWire Awards.
Founder’s Co-op, the 6-year-old Seattle angel inves... | geekwire.c... |
| 05.02.2014 | Advice for entrepreneurs: Focus more on solving problems, no... | Founders Co-op General Partner Chris DeVore speaks at Tuesday’s Hacker News Meetup.
When Chris DeVor... | geekwire.c... |
| 03.01.2014 | Forget Mega-Corporations, Here’s The Mega-Network | We live in the age of cryptocurrency heists, Chinese moon landings, eco-disasters and electronic cig... | techcrunch... |
| 19.12.2013 | Roundup: DreamBox, Resolution Tube, & Qazzow Funded; U D... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
‘Twas the week before Christmas and... | xconomy.co... |
| 16.12.2013 | Commentary: Global innovation + ‘big tent’ capitalism in Sea... | Seattle skyline. Photo by Kevin Lisota.
I’ve been reflecting lately on the cultural differences betw... | geekwire.c... |
| 10.12.2013 | Techstars Seattle Startup Shippable Raises $2.05M For Contin... | Shippable, a Techstars Seattle startup, has raised $2.05 million in seed funding for its continuous ... | techcrunch... |
| 03.12.2013 | Roundup: Founder’s Co-op, Wire, Inside Social, Indow Windows... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Tired of turkey? Have some Thanksgi... | xconomy.co... |
| 02.12.2013 | Ex-Facebook general counsel Rudy Gadre joins Seattle VC firm... | Rudy Gadre
Former Facebook general counsel and ex-Amazon.com attorney Rudy Gadre has quickly establi... | geekwire.c... |
| 05.10.2013 | Are Microsoft and Amazon holding back Seattle’s startup scen... | Photo via RootStartup
Silicon Valley is certainly the king in terms of venture capital and startup f... | geekwire.c... |
| 05.08.2013 | Techstars Picks 11 Startups for 2013 Class in Seattle | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Techstars Seattle has picked 11 sta... | xconomy.co... |
| 30.07.2013 | What drives you as an entrepreneur — ambition or obligation?... | Photo via RootStartup
Bring together a bunch of highly-successful entrepreneurs in one room and you’... | geekwire.c... |
| 11.05.2013 | Turtles and Flywheels: How to build a startup community | (Editor’s note: Chris DeVore gave the keynote speech at Thursday night’s GeekWire Awards. These are ... | geekwire.c... |
| 03.04.2013 | Seattle Roundup: Indix, Haiku, Livemocha, WebTuner, and More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A handful of interesting local comp... | xconomy.co... |
| 22.01.2013 | Simply Measured Plans to Double Staff with $8M From Bessemer... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Simply Measured, a Seattle startup ... | xconomy.co... |
| 17.01.2013 | Symform, Tred, LikeBright, UIEvolution, and More Seattle Tec... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Washington attracted 4 percent of V... | xconomy.co... |
| 15.01.2013 | Tred Gets $1.7M To Be An Uber For Car Test Drives | Tred, a startup that allows you to order auto test drives to your home, is announcing a $1.7 million... | techcrunch... |
| 02.01.2013 | New Seattle Accelerator 9Mile Labs Wants To Build On TechSta... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Three startup devotees are launchin... | xconomy.co... |
| 13.12.2012 | Mobile Madness Northwest: Highlights, Predictions, and Takea... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A great crowd of enthusiastic mobil... | xconomy.co... |
| 10.12.2012 | TechStars’ Apptentive Gets $1.2m to Improve Customer Service... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If this is indeed the Christmas of ... | xconomy.co... |
| 25.10.2012 | Hear From Siri Co-Founder Adam Cheyer & More at Mobile M... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We’re really excited to invite you ... | xconomy.co... |
| 19.07.2012 | New CEO for Lighter Capital, Founder Sack Moves to Exec Chai... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle’s Lighter Capital exists to... | xconomy.co... |
| 12.07.2012 | Microsoft Confirms Bing Fund, a New Angel Investment Vehicle | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Microsoft’s enthusiasm for early st... | xconomy.co... |
| 06.07.2012 | Mobile Gaming Startup Zipline Games Raises $750,000 More Fro... | So can we all agree that the future of gaming is mobile, and if you’re not building fun apps for you... | techcrunch... |
| 12.06.2012 | Think Seattle has startup mojo? Vancouver’s GROW Conference ... | This sponsored post is produced by Chris DeVore of Founders Co-op.
As a Seattle-based seed investor,... | venturebea... |
| 12.06.2012 | Think Seattle has startup mojo? Vancouver’s GROW Conference ... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 09.05.2012 | Amazon Takes Over: How a Flood of People Could Remake Seattl... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In Seattle, the future is pretty ea... | xconomy.co... |
| 26.01.2012 | Bringing A Startup Together: FounderDating Launches Matching... | Finding the right cofounder is often the hardest part of doing a startup, as most anyone with experi... | techcrunch... |
| 06.01.2012 | Founder’s Co-Op Closes $8M Second Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Founder’s Co-op, the Seattle-based ... | xconomy.co... |
| 06.01.2012 | Founder’s Co-op raises $8M angel fund, looks to become a ‘ca... | Founder’s Co-op, the angel investment fund led by Andy Sack and Chris DeVore, has raised a new $8 mi... | geekwire.c... |
| 01.12.2011 | Unbounce Raises $850K in Funding | Unbounce, a Vancouver, BC, Canada-based self-serve hosted service that provides tools to create, pub... | finsmes.co... |
| 07.11.2011 | TechStars Honchos David Cohen & Andy Sack: The Post-Demo... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you want a glimpse at the leadin... | xconomy.co... |
| 14.08.2011 | Habit Labs Gets $250K To Turn Leading A Healthier Life Into ... | The Y Combinator funded Contagion Health and Health Month have merged this week to form one big heal... | techcrunch... |
| 11.08.2011 | AppFog secures $8M from Ignition Partners | The PHP hosting service also gets support from returning investors
Cloud-based PHP solutions provide... | vator.tv/n... |
| 08.08.2011 | Gamification Startup BigDoor Media Levels Up to Bigger Digs,... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Can a company that hands out digita... | xconomy.co... |
| 13.07.2011 | Andy Sack on Lighter Capital: Expanding Beyond RevenueLoan t... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Premium goat-milk ice cream. Bouncy... | xconomy.co... |
| 30.06.2011 | RevenueLoan is now Lighter Capital | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
RevenueLoan, an alternative financi... | xconomy.co... |
| 10.05.2011 | BigDoor Media Adds Power-Hitter Client: Seattle Startup Brin... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The trend of gamification—adding vi... | xconomy.co... |
| 05.05.2011 | A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Part... | techcrunch... |
| 15.04.2011 | Rewind: Andy Sack on startups, TechStars and the promise of ... | Andy Sack in the KIRO-FM studios
Joining us for our latest GeekWire Podcast was Andy Sack of TechSta... | geekwire.c... |
| 09.04.2011 | GeekWire Podcast: Sports, Twitter, beer, apps and startups | We’ve got sports on our brains this week, with a roundup of the latest technological “innovations” a... | geekwire.c... |
| 16.07.2010 | TechStars Set to Open in Seattle: A Photo Tour of the New Sp... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s a shame I’m moving away from t... | xconomy.co... |
| 07.06.2010 | Andy Sack, Flush With $6M, Builds Revenue Based Financing Co... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Andy Sack has been working behind t... | xconomy.co... |
| 07.06.2010 | RevenueLoan Raises $6 million To Loan Your Startup Money | Seattle based RevenueLoan, a new startup founded by Founder’s Co-op, is open for business. Think of ... | techcrunch... |
| 27.05.2010 | Geoff Entress, the Go-To Startup Investor, Weaves Himself De... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
How did Geoff Entress become Seattl... | xconomy.co... |
| 24.05.2010 | The Retreat - are you going? | Twiistup's invitation-only conference brings leading tech thinkers together
This Thursday is the las... | vator.tv/n... |
| 16.02.2010 | Urban Airship raises $1.1M to provide infrastructure for mob... | Urban Airship, a company that helps developers build mobile applications by providing services like ... | venturebea... |
| 16.02.2010 | The Incredible Story of Scott Kveton: Linux, Firefox, Bacon ... | Geekdom may be a land of big personalities, but some peoples’ stories are better known than others. ... | readwrite.... |
