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| May 7, 2026 | SageOx: $15 Million Seed Round Raised For Human And AI Agent Collaboration Infrastructure | SageOx announced it raised a $15 million seed financing round led by Canaan Partners, with participation from A.Capital, Pioneer Square Labs, and Founders’ Co-op.
The company is developing a shared context infrastructure designed to improve... |
| Feb 20, 2025 | SingleFile: $9 Million (Series A) Raised For Legal & Compliance Technology | SingleFile, a leading innovator in legal & compliance tech, announced the completion of its Series A funding round at $9 million. This milestone brings the company’s total funding to over $24 million since its founding in 2019 and $15 m... |
| Aug 20, 2024 | Mudstack: $4 Million Raised And James Gwertzman Named As New CEO | Mudstack, a leading provider of file versioning and asset management tools for the game industry, announced the closing of a $4 million financing round. Anthos Capital led the round, which also included participation from Khosla Ventures, A... |
| Jan 19, 2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, January 19 | CRYPTO HYBRIDS
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| Jan 3, 2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 3 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Eric Hippeau, a managing partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, is well-known in the venture community for his firm’s blockbuster investments including Birchbox, BuzzFeed, Casper, and Warby Parker. Two thirds of Lerer Hipp... |
| Dec 29, 2017 | Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs raises new fund to bankroll more companies | Pioneer Square Labs has raised a new investment fund, money that will add a much-needed injection of fresh capital into the Seattle startup ecosystem.
A SEC filing from Friday reveals a $40.8 million fund for PSL, a Seattle-based “startup s... |
| Sep 7, 2017 | Taunt raises $1.75 million for esports fan competition platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Taunt announced today that it has raised $1.75 million in a seed financing round to build an esports fan competition platform. It’s a k... |
| Jul 6, 2017 | JetClosing raises another $2M, will expand real estate closing process service to more states | The JetClosing team. Photo via JetClosing.
JetClosing is raising more cash to help support the growth of its online real estate closing platform. JetClosing CEO Daniel Greenshields.
The Seattle startup just reeled in another $2 million for ... |
| Jun 30, 2017 | Seattle Week in Review: State Budget, Startup Funding, Asteroid Day | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The clock ticks toward midnight and the deadline for the state of Washington to pass a two-year budget or face a government shutdown. Lawmakers just released the 600-odd page,... |
| Jun 29, 2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, June 29 | New Money, Old Deals, Lingering Questions
LA Tech: Upfront Ventures has closed its fourth core fund with $400 million in commitments. It’s the firm’s largest ever, and according to managing partner Mark Suster, the largest Los Angeles-based... |
| Jun 29, 2017 | Julie Sandler Joins Pioneer Square Labs as a Managing Director | Former VC Partner to Help Grow Groundbreaking Startup Studio Model
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 29, 2017–
Pioneer Square Labs (PSL), the Seattle-based startup studio, announced today that Julie Sandler is joining the organization as a Manag... |
| Jun 29, 2017 | Pioneer Square Labs hires Madrona Venture Group’s Julie Sandler as new managing director | Julie Sandler accepts the award for Geek of the Year at the 2014 GeekWire Awards. She is now moving from Madrona to Pioneer Square Labs. (GeekWire Photo)
For the past five years, Julie Sandler has immersed herself in the startup world as an... |
| May 12, 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... |
| Apr 20, 2017 | Startup led by ex-Amazon manager and Obama tech policy guru raises $3.5M to navigate the ‘opaque, intimidating, and high-stakes’ immigration process | The Boundless team. (Boundless Photo)
Boundless, a Seattle startup that aims to help people navigate the U.S. immigration process, has come out of stealth mode and announced $3.5 million in seed financing.
The round was led by Trilogy Equit... |
| Nov 30, 2016 | JetClosing raises $2.3M from Trilogy and Maveron to digitize the real estate closing process | The JetClosing team. From left to right: David Wolf; Geoff Entress; Shawna Hernandez; Arthur Delight; Xiaodi Huang; Dan Greenshields; Eric Bloomquist; and Lee Fergestrom. Photo via JetClosing.
Closing on a new home can be a time-consuming a... |
| Nov 23, 2016 | Ad Lightning Secures $2M in Seed Funding | Ad Lightning, a Seattle, WA-based business intelligence service for publishers and advertising platforms, completed a $2m seed financing.
The round was led by Sinclair Digital Ventures, an investment division of Sinclair Broadcast Group, wi... |
| Nov 15, 2016 | New digital advertising watchdog service led by former Microsoft and Cheezburger exec Scott Moore raises $2M | From left: Drake Callahan, Scott Moore, Mark Maday, Kate Reinmiller, Paul Lavelle. Credit: Ad Lightning.
Scott Moore, a 20-year veteran of online publishing for the likes of Microsoft, Yahoo and Cheezburger, has found his next venture.
Ad L... |
| Oct 12, 2016 | How this ‘startup studio’ quickly axed 22 ideas and spun out three companies in one year | Pioneer Square Labs co-founder Greg Gottesman (left) interviewed by GeekWire reporter Taylor Soper at the 2016 GeekWire Summit. Photo by Dan DeLong/GeekWire.
“Fail fast” seems to be the theme at Pioneer Square Labs.
It’s been about one year... |
| Oct 9, 2016 | Pioneer Square Labs’ Greg Gottesman on the studio model for high growth startups | Jasper Kuria Contributor
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| Sep 26, 2016 | Intelligent messaging company Essential spins out of Madrona Labs startup studio | The Essential team working out of Madrona Venture Labs in Seattle. Credit: Madrona Venture Labs.
Madrona Venture Labs has spun out its third company: A startup called Essential that helps businesses communicate with customers via text messa... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | LumaTax Raises $2M Funding from LumaTax | Pioneer Square Labs, the Seattle-based startup studio, announced that it has spun out its first venture-funded company, LumaTax, a sales tax automation solution for small businesses. PSL has spun out two additional companies and plans annou... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | LumaTax Raises $2M Funding from LumaTax | Pioneer Square Labs, the Seattle-based startup studio, announced that it has spun out its first venture-funded company, LumaTax, a sales tax automation solution for small businesses. PSL has spun out two additional companies and plans annou... |
| Sep 17, 2016 | Pioneer Square Labs Launches Operations | Pioneer Square Labs, a Seattle, WA-based startup studio, has started operations with the spin out of LumaTax, a sales tax automation solution for small businesses.
Launched a year ago by Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon and Ben Gi... |
| Sep 16, 2016 | LumaTax Raises $2.0M in Funding | LumaTax, a San Diego, CA- and Seattle, WA-based sales tax automation solution for small businesses, raised $2.0m in funding.
Backers included Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners and several strategic angel investors.
Led by Robert Sch... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | Pioneer Square Labs spinout LumaTax raises $2M from Madrona, Greycroft | LumaTax, which aims to automate sales tax reporting for small businesses, has raised $2 million from Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners and angel investors.
The company will use the money to build out software that makes it easier fo... |
| Feb 26, 2016 | GeekWire Radio: Secrets of successful tech acquisitions, with Pioneer Square Labs co-founder and ‘Acquired’ co-host Ben Gilbert | Ben Gilbert, co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs and co-host of the podcast Acquired
Ben Gilbert knows startups and he knows tech acquisitions. This week on the GeekWire podcast, we asked him about both, grilling him on the best and worst acq... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Madrona Doubles Down on Venture Labs, Taps Fridgen as CEO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Madrona Venture Group likes the “startup studio” model it inaugurated 18 months ago so much that it not only backed a similar effort outside its walls, but is now doubling the... |
| Oct 9, 2015 | Seattle 2035: Agenda Posted for the Future of Our Innovation Economy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I had a vivid dream last night. I hopped a rocket—it seemed routine—to an orbiting laboratory where I interviewed a youthful Oren Etzioni and a team of action heroes working o... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Pioneer Square Labs Raises $12.5M in Funding | Pioneer Square Labs, a Seattle-based new startup studio, raised $12.5m in funding.
13 venture capital firms and over 50 angel investors backed the studio to create and launch startups. The round was led by Foundry Group with participation f... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Big Name VCs Back Seattle ‘Startup Studio’ Pioneer Square Labs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Some of the biggest names in Northwest investing and entrepreneurship, including prolific angel investor Geoff Entress and startup founder/venture capitalist Greg Gottesman, h... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Pioneer Square Labs Grabs $12.5M To Dream Up, Then Kill Off Or Spin Out Startups | Brilliant entrepreneurs are wasting their talents trapped inside Seattle’s big tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon. Pioneer Square Labs wants to give them a startup to run. Today with $12.5 million from 12 VCs and 50 angels, Pioneer Sq... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Top Seattle investors raise $12.5M for new ‘startup studio’ Pioneer Square Labs | The Pioneer Square Labs team, from left to right: Ryan Kosai, Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Ben Gilbert, Aria Haghighi, Marcelo Calbucci, Leah Severe, and Mike Galgon.
Geoff Entress has an impressive resume. The former securities lawyer an... |
