| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.10.2024 | Carbon Robotics eyes new regions, products with $70m raise: ‘We’re focused very intently on the field’ | Carbon Robotics has raised a $70 million Series D round that will fuel the growth of its autonomous LaserWeeder platform for farmers.
This round brings the US-based company’s total funding to date to $157 million.
VC firm BOND led the round... |
| 22.10.2024 | Carbon Robotics Secures $70M to Revolutionize Farming with AI | In the world of agriculture, weeds are the silent thieves. They rob crops of nutrients, water, and sunlight. But a new player is stepping into the field, armed with lasers and artificial intelligence. Carbon Robotics, based in Seattle, has ... |
| 22.10.2024 | Carbon Robotics: AI-Based Farming Company Raises $70 Million (Series D) | Carbon Robotics, a leader in AI-based farming, announced that it has raised $70 million in Series D financing. The funding was led by new investor BOND with participation from existing investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Ant... |
| 21.10.2024 | Carbon Robotics Raises $70M in Series D Funding | Carbon Robotics, a Seattle, WA-based company which specializes in AI-powered farming, raised $70M in Series D funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $157M, was led by BOND with participation from existing investors NVentures ... |
| 21.09.2023 | Voyager Capital targeting $100M for its sixth fund to back more B2B startups in the Pacific Northwest | The Voyager Capital team, from left: Lesly Mohr, Chrismon Nofsinger, DIane Fraiman, James Newell, Erik Benson, Bill McAleer, Jennifer Harris, and Austin Guyette. (Voyager Photo)
Voyager Capital is raising cash for another fund to invest in ... |
| 11.04.2023 | Carbon Robotics bags $30m to fight the war on weeds with autonomous laser bots | Carbon Robotics has raised a $30 million Series C for its precision weed-control system for speciality crops.
New investor Sozo Ventures led the round with participation from existing investors Anthos Capital, Fuse Venture Capital, Ignition... |
| 11.04.2023 | Carbon Robotics lands $30M to sell more weed-destroying machines powered by AI | The LaserWeeder from Seattle startup Carbon Robotics zaps weeds using a high-powered lasers powered by AI and cameras. (Carbon Photos)
Turns out that farmers like using lasers to kill weeds.
Seattle startup Carbon Robotics raised $30 millio... |
| 10.08.2022 | The women writing checks: A list of female venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest | Back in 2018, GeekWire published a list of women investors based in the Pacific Northwest who were writing checks to help startups grow.
A lot has changed in four years. We’ve put together a new compilation below, highlighting more than 60 ... |
| 07.02.2022 | Seattle VC says this startup is the ‘fastest growing company I’ve seen’ in 23 years of investing | The 2022 LaserWeeder from Carbon Robotics has a span of three crop rows, roughly 20 feet wide, and uses 30 lasers to zap weeds. (Carbon Robotics Image)
Weeds may be a fast-growing headache for farmers, but a startup building machinery power... |
| 07.07.2021 | WellSaid Labs raises $10M to boost its synthetic voice business, fueled by AI | WellSaid Labs creates natural-sounding voice avatars for text-to-speech applications. (WellSaid Labs Graphic)
WellSaid Labs will have a lot more to say in the years ahead, thanks to $10 million in new investment that’ll be used to beef up t... |
| 22.06.2021 | Live video platform Videon lands $7.3M, hires new CEO and plans to open co-HQ in Seattle | Videon’s EdgeCaster video live streaming hardware. (Videon Photo)
Videon, a live streaming video infrastructure company, has raised $7.3 million in funding and hired a new Seattle-based CEO as it moves part of its operation from State Colle... |
| 20.05.2021 | New accelerator in Seattle: Creative Destruction Lab to launch ‘deep tech’ startup hub with Microsoft, UW | Emer Dooley (left), a faculty fellow at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, helped establish a Seattle hub for the Creative Destruction Lab. The program will start in November at the UW. (UW Photo)
The news: Creative D... |
| 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... |
| 20.09.2020 | Sunday Briefing | #114 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
BCBusiness spotlights BarrelWise Technologies, a company that sits in the... |
| 10.06.2020 | Understanding Lending And The Cost Of Capital In The Post-PPP World | For any of us who participated in the PPP Program, we were assured of fantastic rates and a business-centric rush to get capital into our accounts. Some businesses did not qualify, some chose not to participate, and those that did are alrea... |
| 10.03.2020 | Startup advice for coronavirus turmoil: curb expenses; assess hiring; don’t panic; be human | Key Takeaways
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, investors are telling startup founders to look closely at sales forecasts, hiring plans, expenses and every other assumption about their business.
Turmoil can also present opportunity, as changin... |
| 09.10.2019 | Voyager Capital raises $100m for first fund since 2011 | Voyager Capital has raised $100m for its fifth fund targeting first-round tech investments in the US northwest coast reg |
| 09.10.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, October 9, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, October 9, 2019.
Akamai Technologies is acquiring Israeli startup ChameleonX. Akamai Technologies, a Cambridge, MA-based intelligent edge platform for securing... |
| 09.10.2019 | Voyager Capital Raises $100M For Fifth Fund | The Voyager Team
Voyager Capital, a Seattle, WA-based venture capital firm focused on first-round venture technology investments, raised $100m to accelerate innovation in the Cascadia market, which includes Washington, Oregon, and Western C... |
| 08.10.2019 | Voyager Capital raises $100M for fifth fund as it doubles down on the Pacific Northwest | The Voyager team. (Voyager Photo)
Voyager Capital is ditching California and doubling down on the Pacific Northwest — with a new interest across the border up north.
The Seattle-based venture capital firm has closed its fifth fund, raising ... |
| 16.02.2019 | How to create an effective pitch deck: A data-driven analysis of what makes successful slides | Matt Rubright. (Matt Rubright Photo)
Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Matt Rubright, an operator turned banker at Silicon Valley Bank.
Building an effective pitch deck is a unique topic of conversation in the startup ecosystem. ... |
| 17.12.2018 | Tech Moves: Voyager Capital adds new partner in Canada; Nick Hughes embarks on Founders Live world tour | Meredith Powell.
— Voyager Capital has hired Meredith Powell as its dedicated Canadian venture partner, a new position the Pacific Northwest venture capital firm just created.
Powell is a long-time entrepreneur, investor, and board member w... |
| 15.05.2018 | Voyager Capital raising its fifth fund as firm targets B2B startups in Pacific Northwest | Voyager Capital is raising another fund as it looks to continue investing in B2B startups based in the Pacific Northwest.
The firm is raising its fifth fund, as revealed in a new SEC filing, which notes a total offering amount of $100 milli... |
| 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... |
| 14.04.2017 | Seattle startup TurboPatent raises $1.4M to expand patent automation capabilities | (TurboPatent Photo)
Seattle startup TurboPatent has raised $1.45 million in a convertible note as it gets ready to release the second version of some products and expand its documentation automation capabilities.
TurboPatent focuses on corp... |
| 27.01.2017 | Seattle Week in Review: UW Gets $279M, Cow Sharing, Techstars & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle’s role as a capital for global health was highlighted again this week when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a historic grant to a key University of Wa... |
| 18.01.2017 | Voyager Capital selects IVP’s James Newell as new partner | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Voyager Capital today announced the hiring of a n... |
| 18.01.2017 | Voyager Capital adds Silicon Valley vet to Seattle office, shifts investing focus to Pacific Northwest | James Newell joins Voyager Capital as a partner in their Seattle office. (Voyager Seattle Photo)
In some ways, James Newell is a hometown Seattle boy.
He was born and raised on the Kitsap Peninsula, just an hour’s ferry ride from downtown S... |
| 18.01.2017 | Voyager Capital selects IVP’s James Newell as new partner | Voyager Capital today announced the hiring of a new partner, bringing on board former Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) executive James Newell. In this role, he’ll be tasked with making investments in Seattle-based startups and those foc... |
| 11.01.2017 | After a rocky year, enterprise virtual reality startup Envelop VR is shutting down | Envelop founder and CEO Bob Berry. (GeekWire Photo)
Envelop VR, a virtual reality startup out of Bellevue, Wash., has ceased operations, according to the company’s website.
The startup, which specialized in VR apps for businesses, was backe... |
| 02.01.2017 | Here’s what five venture capitalists are predicting for 2017 | (BigStock Image)
With 2016 now in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to take a quick moment to forecast what might be looming on the horizon in the near year.
Who better to ask than a group of venture capitalists, the money managers who are pa... |
| 23.11.2016 | A longtime VC on the virtues of not swinging for the fences | There’s a winner-take-all mentality in Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, it has distorted the thinking of countless entrepreneurs who’d likely be better off running smaller companies — and giving up less ownership to investors in the process. ... |
| 26.08.2016 | Home care IT vendor ClearCare gets $60M from Battery Ventures | ClearCare Online produces a cloud-based platform used by 3,000 home care agencies that staff personal attendants serving more than 250,000 caregivers and 150,000 seniors living in their homes. Its products include a range of services agency... |
| 03.07.2016 | The art of relationships for fundraising success | Erik Benson Contributor
Erik Benson is a partner at Voyager Capital.
With the incessant talk about unicorns, it’s easy to lose sight of the opposite end of the investment funnel. What feeds the industry is not unicorns, but first venture ro... |
| 18.06.2016 | Meet Erik Benson, Partner at Voyager Capital | Based in the Pacific Northwest, Benson and his firm focus on B2B software technologies
There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not. What everyone can agree on, though, is that there ar... |
| 18.05.2016 | Make Exits, Not Unicorns: Voyager Charts the Early Stage VC Course | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Elemental Technologies and Blue Box Group were acquired by Amazon and IBM, respectively, in two of the Northwest’s most prominent technology deals of 2015. Both received initi... |
| 22.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 22, 2016 | Syntimmune bagged $26M; FineHeart recieved investment from Broadview Ventures; Shiftboard landed $4M
St. Louis, Missouri-based ClubReady, a software provider for the fitness and wellness industry, closed a Series A investment from Level Equ... |
| 12.01.2016 | Meet Portland’s newest VC firm: Elevate Capital looks to invest in Oregon startups | The Elevate Capital team: Robin Jones, Nitin Rai, Eric Boothe, and Stephen Green. Photo via Elevate.
Entrepreneurs in Oregon — including those among underrepresented groups — have a new option to finance their startups.
Elevate Capital laun... |
| 14.09.2015 | AnswerDash Raises $2.9M in Seed Funding | AnswerDash, a Seattle, WA-based provider of a website contextual help platform, raised $2.9m in seed funding.
The round was led by Voyager Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth by expanding its sales and marketi... |
| 14.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 14, 2015 | ipsy raised $100M; Plexxi secured $35M; Crossbar completed $35M round
GiPStech, a Milan, Italy-based indoor positioning and navigation startup, raised €400,000 ($453,700) in equity funding. Backers included members of Italian Angels for Gro... |
| 04.08.2015 | Patent Navigation raises $2M to help lawyers automate the patent application process | Patent Navigation co-founders James Billmaier and Charles Mirho.
Patent Navigation is raising cash to accelerate development of its software that helps lawyers prepare patent applications more efficiently.
The Seattle startup just reeled in... |
| 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 latest round of funding was led by Founders Co-Op, Norwest Venture Partners, Techstars Ventures and Verizon Ventures. Those companies joine... |
| 28.10.2014 | Drones on tour: Portland startup SkyWard teams with NASA to demonstrate value of aerial robots | Skyward CEO Jonathan Evans
SkyWard, a Portland, Ore., startup that makes software for running networks of drones, is teaming with NASA to conduct demonstrations of aerial robotics in the U.S., Canada and Europe — hoping to prove the value o... |
| 15.04.2014 | Marketing Automation Provider Act-On Software Raises $42M, Eyes IPO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
More cash is flowing into the online marketing business with Act-On Software hauling in a $42 million investment led by Technology Crossover Ventures and eying an initial publ... |
| 19.08.2013 | $13M for Jama From Trinity, Madrona Shows Strength of Portland Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Jama Software, which helps companies manage complex projects, is raising $13 million from Trinity Ventures and Madrona Venture Group in the latest sign that the Portland, OR t... |
| 29.07.2013 | iPhone-friendly brassiere-maker JoeyBra relaunches with new sports bra | Things are hoppin’ for JoeyBra, the company behind the brassieres designed to carry a smartphone.
The two-person startup was well-received when it debuted last year to initial success, but then went through a long-winded patent court case r... |
| 24.04.2013 | Chirpify Raises $2M in Series A Funding | Chirpify, a Portland, Oregon-based social commerce and payments company, raised $2m in an initial close of a Series A round.
The backer was Voyager Capital.
The company, which had raised $1.3m in 2012 (read here), plans to use the new fundi... |
| 31.01.2013 | Roundup: 9Mile, Invoke, nFluence, FlexMinder, Sigby, and Globys | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Another Northwest startup incubator is launching, this one in Vancouver, BC, while Seattle’s newest, 9Mile Labs, adds to its roster of partners. Meanwhile, nFluence Media, Fle... |
| 08.11.2012 | Deals Roundup: Limeade’s $5M, Blue Box’s $3.5M, Zillow’s Acquisitions | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As investors showered attention on the latest crop of Seattle TechStars companies last week, other more established Seattle-area tech companies were landing capital from far a... |
| 01.11.2012 | Blue Box Raises $3.5M in Funding | Blue Box, a Seattle, WA-based cloud hosting and managed services company, has completed an initial closing on a $3.5m venture funding.
The round was led by Voyager Capital.
The company intends to use the capital to accelerate product innova... |
| 31.10.2012 | Blue Box Raises $3.5 Million For Cloud And Hosting Service With An OpenStack Flavor | Blue Box has raised $3.5 million for its OpenStack-infused cloud and hosting service designed for companies that have major traffic volumes and big apps and rely on a high level of uptime.
This is a first round for Blue Box, which started i... |
| 06.09.2012 | Funding Daily: a big ol’ pile of cheese | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cheese graters bookended my day today. The first ... |
| 05.09.2012 | Act-On enters Act IV of investment with $16M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Act-On embraced $16 million in its fourth round o... |
| 19.07.2012 | New CEO for Lighter Capital, Founder Sack Moves to Exec Chairman | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle’s Lighter Capital exists to fill some holes in the usual models for financing young companies. And with that mission comes some criticism of the venture capital playbo... |
| 14.05.2012 | Femanomics: 105 Women Venture Capitalists & Angel Investors You Should Know | I know what you’re thinking. You are thinking there has been a lot of talk about women investors, or rather, the lack of women venture capitalists and angel investors. You can read about it, here, here, here, and here. You can read the outr... |
| 08.05.2012 | Elemental Technologies Grabs $13M to Expand in Video Processing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For your average digital consumer, Internet-connected video is no longer a revolutionary thing. It’s now simply a staple of the modern media diet, and one that will get even m... |
| 13.04.2012 | Voyager Co-Founder Godreau at New Firm with Ex-MS, Yahoo, AOL Execs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated 4/16
Enrique Godreau III, a founder and former managing director at Seattle’s Voyager Capital, has resurfaced at a new venture firm where he’s working closely with for... |
| 10.02.2012 | Voyager Capital Co-Founder Enrique Godreau Leaves Firm | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A big change at Seattle’s Voyager Capital: co-founder Enrique Godreau has resigned after nearly 15 years, as the VC firm seeks to raise a $125 million fourth fund.
Co-founder ... |
| 10.02.2012 | As Voyager Capital embarks on its 15th year, co-founder Enrique Godreau departs | Enrique Godreau
Enrique Godreau has weathered the ups and downs of the Seattle venture capital business for the past 15 years, with plenty of battle scars to prove it. But now the co-founder and managing partner of Voyager Capital has decid... |
| 11.01.2012 | Elemental Pounces on Feds’ Push to Hush Loud Commercials | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Our long national nightmare of TV commercials that are too loud is finally nearing its end—and Portland, OR-based Elemental Technologies is angling to help its network custome... |
| 20.12.2011 | Voyager Capital targets $125 million for new venture fund | Venture capital firms have encountered plenty of headwinds in recent months, with fundraising totals falling off a cliff. But Voyager Capital, a Seattle venture firm with offices in Portland and Menlo Park, is hoping that things improve in ... |
| 20.12.2011 | Voyager Capital Aims for $125M in New Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based venture firm Voyager Capital is raising a new fund pegged at up to $125 million, according to a new filing with federal regulators. The VC firm, which also has o... |
| 10.10.2011 | Seattle angel Geoff Entress joins board of mobile app maker Treemo Labs | Entress
Seattle angel investor Geoff Entress has joined the board of Treemo Labs, a maker of mobile applications.
A member of the Founder’s Co-op team and a venture partner at Voyager Capital, Entress is as well known investor who has backe... |
| 22.08.2011 | Medify, Stocked with Farecast Vets, Digs Deep into Online Health Data | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Saving money on a flight to visit your sick grandma is pretty easy these days. Finding out whether her doctor is using the latest treatment is another thing entirely. And pier... |
| 18.08.2011 | Does working at Microsoft really turn your brain numb? | Dave Schappell, Curtis Feeny and Greg Gottesman at the Barokas PR luncheon in downtown Seattle
Call it the Silicon Valley invasion. Facebook, Google, HP, Zynga and Salesforce.com — driven by an insatiable need for talented software engineer... |
| 30.06.2011 | RevenueLoan is now Lighter Capital | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
RevenueLoan, an alternative financing service for entrepreneurs, is changing its name and broadening its focus. Founder and CEO Andy Sack writes about the name change and hint... |
| 01.06.2011 | Trinity Leads $10M Investment in Act-On Software, Helping Oregon-Based Digital Marketing Company Fuel International Growth | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 4:45 pm to correct headline, copy reflecting Trinity as lead investor. Previous information provided by company spokesperson was incorrect.] Well, that was quick. Act... |
| 11.05.2011 | Venture capitalists upbeat about Microsoft’s massive $8.5 billion buyout of Skype | Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Skype's Tony Bates
Microsoft has been fairly quiet on the M&A front over the past 18 months, a fact that has not been lost on venture capitalists who love when cash-rich tech titans come knocking on their p... |
| 22.04.2011 | Zillow’s IPO: As the Market Comes Back to Life, Is this Deal the Bellwether of a New Boom? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Trying to read too much significance into any single event in business can be a dicey proposition. But when we’re talking about a well-known Seattle tech company IPO—something... |
| 11.04.2011 | Chart: Money flows to the top of the class in venture capital | Some may say that the venture capital model is broken. But that’s not stopping money from flowing into the coffers of VCs. Dow Jones LP Source reports today that U.S. venture capital funds raised $7.7 billion in the first quarter, nearly do... |
| 13.09.2010 | Cheaper, faster electric cars by next year? | A lithium-ion battery developer raises $4.2M and may bring better performing EVs to the road
A new era of mass-produced, elecric vehicles for the average driver is upon is, and the venture capital industry is trying to embrace it.
To wit: S... |
| 08.09.2010 | Coulomb Wins $15 Million To Roll Out Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Across America | Coulomb Technologies, a company setting up electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the United States, today announced a $15 million series C funding. The round was led by Rho Ventures, Voyager Capital, Siemens Venture Capital, and Ha... |
| 01.07.2010 | Medify, Incubated at Voyager Capital, Raises $1.3M to Reshape Health IT for Consumers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s not quite two guys in a garage getting their big break, but it’s close. Medify, a healthcare IT startup incubated at Seattle-based Voyager Capital, said today it has rais... |
| 07.06.2010 | Andy Sack, Flush With $6M, Builds Revenue Based Financing Company That Could Disrupt Venture Capital, Startup Ecosystem | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Andy Sack has been working behind the scenes for more than a year. Yes, we know he’s been busy bringing the first session of TechStars, the startup bootcamp, to Seattle this f... |
| 27.05.2010 | Geoff Entress, the Go-To Startup Investor, Weaves Himself Deeper Into Seattle Tech Community With Founder’s Co-op | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
How did Geoff Entress become Seattle’s go-to tech investor and startup guru? For those outside the local technology community, Entress is an angel investor who has put his own... |
| 08.02.2010 | Voyager Capital’s Daniel Ahn on the Firm’s Refocused Clean-IT Strategy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
To Voyager Capital managing director Daniel Ahn, “cleantech” is just a buzzword. “Clean IT” is much more precise—and, to the point, it’s something a hardcore techie venture ca... |
| 01.02.2010 | EV infrastructure on a roll — Coulomb bags $14M for charging stations | Companies working on ideas for charging and fueling green cars have been on a roll lately. The streak kicked off last Sunday with Better Place landing $350 million in equity, and continued with SunHydro touting plans to dot east coast highw... |
| 01.02.2010 | EV infrastructure on a roll — Coulomb bags $14M for charging stations | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Companies working on ideas for charging and fueli... |
| 27.01.2010 | Steve Singh, CEO of Concur, Joins Voyager Capital Advisory Board | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 1/27/10, 3:00 pm (see below).] Seattle-based venture firm Voyager Capital has added a heavy hitter from the local tech scene to its advisory board. He is Steve Sing... |
| 16.12.2009 | TechStars Expands to Seattle | The downturn certainly hasn’t made getting a term sheet an easy endeavor. Many early-stage companies have chosen to forgo traditional investment in favor of participating in incubator programs . This trend is exactly why the TechStars mento... |
| 18.09.2009 | Former Adobe CEO, Chizen, joins Voyager Capital | Voyager Capital has brought Bruce Chizen, former chief executive officer of Adobe Systems, on board as a venture partner. A long-time member of the Menlo Park, Calif. firm’s advisory board, he will be focusing his efforts on digital media a... |
| 25.06.2009 | Yapta lands $2M to track airfare and hotel prices | Yapta.com, a site that monitors airfare and hotel prices to get users bargains, has raised $2 million in a second round of funding to further product development and expand its marketing strategy. The company says it’s not enough anymore to... |
| 12.06.2009 | Poker, Children’s Books, & Going to California—A Seattle Entrepreneur Roundup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A few random rumblings from around the tech community today:
—Some notables from the Seattle startup scene are heading to Las Vegas next week to compete in the World Series of... |
| 04.03.2009 | Geoff Entress Joins Voyager Capital, Looks to Strengthen the VC Firm’s Internet Plays | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The newest face at Seattle-based Voyager Capital is a familiar one to Northwest techies. Voyager is announcing today that Geoff Entress, one of the region’s most active and pr... |
| 16.01.2009 | How Failure Is Viewed in the Innovation Community: Seattle Startups and VCs Weigh In | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Last week, I reported that Voyager Capital managing director Erik Benson said failure is seen as a “black mark” in the Seattle innovation community—more so than in places like... |
| 14.01.2009 | Smoothing Out Jittery Internet Video, Elemental Technologies Looks to Reinvent How You Watch | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re like most people, you’re viewing a lot more videos on your computer or mobile device these days. But say you want to watch CNN’s live coverage of the U.S. presidenti... |
| 09.01.2009 | Website wiki AboutUs raises $2.5M more | AboutUs, a website with user-written and -edited profiles of other websites, has raised another $2.5 million in venture funding, according to TechFlash.
On its profile page, the Portland-based company describes itself as “your guide to webs... |
| 09.01.2009 | Banking on the Wiki Way: AboutUs Secures $5 Million in Funding | AboutUs, the wiki that’s working to capture detailed information about every site on the Web, has secured $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Voyager Capital with a $2.5 million investment.
How does a small startup secure c... |
| 09.01.2009 | AboutUs Raises $2.5M from Voyager Capital to Create Collaborative Guide to the Web | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Internet software firm AboutUs, based in Portland, OR, announced today it has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding from Seattle-based Voyager Capital. Voyager managing ... |
| 07.01.2009 | Is Failure a Black Mark for Seattle Innovators? Insights from Erik Benson of Voyager Capital | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Erik Benson is a quantum particle. OK, that’s the only metaphor I can think of to explain how he can be in so many places at once. The managing director of Voyager Capital is ... |
| 29.09.2008 | Voyager Capital Founders Discuss Investment Strategy, Connected Computing, and the Future of Venture Firms | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Bill McAleer and Enrique Godreau remind me of an old couple. They’ve been through the ups and downs together. They’ve raised three children (OK, venture funds) in the past 10 ... |
| 24.09.2008 | In Google’s Phone, a Major Clash Between Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft Heats Up | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated Sep. 24 (see below): OK, this is getting good. Yesterday’s announcement that Amazon’s MP3 music store will be pre-loaded onto the G1—the first mobile phone to be power... |
| 10.09.2008 | Nusym Technology raises a round for chip design verification | Nusym Technology has raised $8 million in a second round of funding for its chip design verification business. The Los Gatos company makes software for verifiying the functions of circuitry in complex chip designs.
The company will use the ... |
| 14.08.2008 | Voyager Capital, Maveron Expand South | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based venture firms Voyager Capital and Maveron have made some West Coast additions. Voyager announced it has opened an office in Portland, OR, staffed by new venture ... |
| 13.08.2008 | Seattle VC firms Maveron and Voyager Capital venture southward | Two Seattle-based VC firms, Maveron and Voyager Capital, have recently brought on new partners to extend their reach to the south.
Maveron, which hit a homerun with an early investment in eBay, but has yet to match that success, has expande... |
| 18.07.2008 | Elemental Technologies raises $7.1M for video software | Elemental Technologies, a Portland, Ore. provider of parallel video processing software, has raised $7.1 million in new funding led by General Catalyst Partners and Voyager Capital.
Elemental says its software can perform video encoding, tr... |
| 17.07.2008 | Elementary, My Dear Video: Elemental Technologies Raises $7.1 Million, Goes After Media Conversion Market | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Everyone knows that Internet video is taking off. With the popularity of YouTube, online TV shows, and other video sites, the market seems to be ready. But now there are plent... |
| 18.10.2007 | Melodeo brings iTunes library to regular phones, raises $7.9M | Updated:
Seattle’s Melodeo, one of the many companies offering multimedia for your mobile phones, has just raised $7.9 million in a third round of financing.
The company’s newest product, nuTsie, lets you access your iTunes library from the... |
| - | Home care IT vendor ClearCare gets $60M from Battery Ventures | Chelsea Stoner
A San Francisco software firm used by four of the five largest U.S. home care systems announced that it raised $60 million from investment firm Battery Ventures to expand its products and market share and explore possible acq... |
