| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.02.2019 | iUNU raises $7.5m for greenhouse ‘system-as-a-service’ using computer vision | Greenhouse decision support software company iUNU closed a $7.5 million venture round with existing early-stage Midwest investor NCT Ventures and AI-focused BooststapLabs. The Seattle-based startup closed a $6 million round in August 2017 w... |
| 18.01.2018 | WISErg Brings Funding Total to $57m for Food Waste Tech with Series C | Food waste-to-fertilizer technology startup WISErg has raised a $19.2 million Series C round, bringing the company’s total fundraising to $56.6 million.
The round was led by family office Laird Norton Company, with Seattle-based Second Aven... |
| 22.08.2017 | Reddit Cofounder & Joe Montana Invest in $6m Seed Round for Stealthy iUNU | Seattle-based greenhouse software company iUNU has raised $6 million from Initialized Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures, run by Reddit-cofounder Alex Ohanian and NFL hall-of-famer Joe Montana, respectively. Second Avenue Partners and Fuel Capit... |
| 21.02.2017 | Murray Asks Businesses to Help Homeless as Seattle Opposes Trump | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Washington state’s emergence as a capital of resistance to the Trump administration has been abetted by many prominent tech companies. Now Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is asking co... |
| 10.02.2017 | Best way from A to B: Former Expedia vet raises $1.5M for stealthy transportation advice startup | Closer Mobile CEO and Founder Jeff Warren. (Photo via LinkedIn)
You’ve got somewhere to be, but aren’t sure what mode of transportation is best. Uber or Lyft might get you there fastest, but surge pricing can be a pain. Are the busses runni... |
| 12.09.2016 | Content collaboration startup Slope closes $1M round, product now available to the public | Slope co-founders Brian Bosché and Dan Bloom at GeekWire Startup Day 2016
GeekWire Startup Day champ Slope, a Seattle-based company that makes software to help teams manage and collaborate on multimedia content, said it has completed a $1 m... |
| 14.04.2016 | Food Waste Startups Grab More Attention as WISErg Raises $12.3m | Food waste is starting to get the attention it deserves. It remains one of the biggest problems affecting the global food system and is particularly troublesome in the United States.
Last week, AgFunderNews reported on a new study conducted... |
| 10.03.2016 | Hey, startups: Here’s the best thing you can do to get ready for a possible downturn | Sales solve most problems at startup companies. Photo via Shutterstock.
There are a lot of things that can muck up a startup — bad hires, improper focus or expanding too quickly.
But there’s one thing that alleviates much of the pain that c... |
| 12.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 12, 2015 | TigerText raised $50M; Eyefluence secured $14M; Flexe landed $4.4M
Flexe, provider of on-demand warehousing, today announced that it has raised $4.4 million in seed funding, which added to $1.9 million in previous investments brings the sta... |
| 16.10.2014 | Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer on redefining capitalism and why entrepreneurs who don’t get his money ‘suck’ | Nick Hanauer at the SIC conference in Seattle.
Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer says an economic revolution is coming, and you better get ready for it. Even as the Dow surges toward 17,000 — making the rich even richer — the rabble-r... |
| 13.02.2014 | Mobile management startup Front Desk gets $4M, already processing $100M annually | Front Desk, a mobile management software startup targeting the $300 billion personal service industry, has received $4 million in funding.
Co-founder and CEO Jon Zimmerman, a Stanford graduate and early player at Expedia, launched the compa... |
| 05.11.2013 | Seeq Raises $6M in Series A Funding | Seeq Corporation, a Seattle, WA-based provider of software and services apply big data technologies to manufacturing and operational process data, raised $6m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Second Avenue Partners with participatio... |
| 06.09.2013 | Front Desk reels in $1M to help business owners manage scheduling, admin | Front Desk, the Seattle startup that helps businesses manage scheduling and other administrative tasks, has raised an additional $1 million from some of the region’s top angel investors.
The Seattle company, led by former T-Mobile and Exped... |
| 07.12.2012 | Modumetal Closes Financing | Modumetal, a Seattle, WA-based developer of nanolaminated alloys, has closed a round of financing.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
Backers include Chevron Technology Ventures, ConocoPhillips, and Sunshine Tech Limited, Seco... |
| 06.01.2012 | JeNu Biosciences Closes $3M Funding | JeNu Biosciences, a Seattle-based technology driven beauty company, has closed a $3m funding round with Second Avenue Partners.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow and commercialize its JeNu Home System, a proprietary u... |
| 18.10.2010 | Ice Energy Closes $24 Million To Help Power Companies Beat The Heat, Efficiently | Ice Energy, a Windsor, Colorado company, closed a $24 million series C investment to help electric utilities shift peak energy demands in the buildings they power to off-peak during hot weather. Investors in the round included TIAA-CREF’s G... |
| 30.03.2010 | Nick Hanauer, a “High-Functioning Contrarian,” on How to Think About Breakthroughs in Business and Society (Part 2) | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Yesterday, we ran the first part of a sit-down interview with Nick Hanauer, a noted entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Seattle-based Second Avenue Partners. Hanauer, wh... |
| 11.03.2010 | How Seattle Companies and Innovators Can Change the World: Come Find Out on March 29 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s no crying in baseball—or in innovation. Yet I’ve been hearing a fair bit of lamenting around town about how Seattle startups or venture capitalists are not making the ... |
| 26.02.2010 | Breakthrough Ideas: Hanauer, Hood, Myhrvold to Keynote Xconomy Event at UW | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Entrepreneurs need to think bigger. Big companies need to think bigger. Everyone needs to think bigger. Including Xconomy.
That’s why we’re organizing our biggest event in Sea... |
| 10.04.2009 | TalentSpring raises $1.6M for semantic resume searching | TalentSpring, a startup that uses semantic technology to help recruiters find the best candidate for a job, has raised $1.6 million in a first round of funding.
The Seattle company claims to stands out from the horde of other resume matchin... |
| 04.03.2009 | Fanzter raises $2M for celebrity trend tracker Coolspotters | Coolspotters, a site that aggregates celebrity style trends in wiki-fashion, just snagged $2 million in a second round of capital for its parent company Fanzter. Today’s homepage, for example, highlights Ashton Kutcher’s avid use of Twitter... |
| 15.07.2008 | Atomic Moguls gets more money for online fantasy leagues | Everyone knows about fantasy sports. Leagues like football and baseball are basically a part of American life now. Not as big are fantasy leagues geared towards the entertainment industry, but Atomic Moguls is raising money to focus on both... |
| 14.07.2008 | Jeff Bezos and Amazon Are Banking on the Games People Play (on Social Networks) | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
iPhone, schmy-Phone. While games and other applications developed for Apple’s iPhone have been all the rage for the last few days, there’s another sector worth keeping an eye ... |
| 07.12.2007 | Drone battles: Insitu raises funding for unmanned aerial vehicles | Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) look to be part of the automation wave of the future, with military, police and research organizations shifting billions of dollars to purchase unmanned drones for surveillance and combat.
From tiny, lightwei... |
| 25.10.2006 | GotVoice Takes $3M in Series A Funding | Web based voice mail management system GotVoice announced today morning that it closed a first round of funding with $3 million from Ignition Partners, Second Avenue Partners and Cedar Grove Investments. One representative from each fund wi... |
