Seattle-based venture investor Maveron is one of the firms backing Newsle, a developer of technology to help surface and track news on your social contacts and connections. Newsle said it raised $1.65M in a Series A financing round today, w...

Bellevue-based Apptio announced this morning that it has raised a huge, $45M funding round for the company's enterprise software. The company said the Series E funding round was led by Janus Capital, The Hillman Capital, and another, un-nam...

Seattle-based open source, machine learning software developer GraphLab said this morning that it has raised $6.75M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group and New Enterprise Associates. According to GraphLab...

DFJ Frontier, the venture capital firm which has an office in Portland, is bolstering its Pacific Northwest connections today, saying that it has added former Seattle resident and MSNBC.com founder Merrill Brown as a Venture Partner. DFJ Fr...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron has backed the operator of an online, crowdfunding site aimed at retail and consumer companies. San Francisco-based CircleUp said today that it has raised a $7.5M Series A, which included Maveron, alon...

Microsoft's seed investment fund, Bing Fund, has backed a developer of mobile-based applications to help restaurants manage their guests and waiting lists, the fund announced Wednesday. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed...

Square 1 Bank, a specialized technology banks, said Wednesday that it has bolstered its Seattle presence, to help grow the company's business in the Pacific Northwest. According to Square 1 Bank, Rilus Graham has relocated to Seattle to gro...

Bellingham, Washington-based AVA.ai, a developer of artificial intelligence software used to help validate and score leads, has raised $16M in a funding round. The funding was led by private equity firm Kennet Partners. Kennet said that, as...

Seattle-based Tango Card, which operates a gift card service, has raised $4.1M more in a funding round, the firm said today. The Series B funding came from Allegro Venture Partners, Floodgate, Swan Ventures, Legend Ventures, Western Technol...

In what is an unusual investment area for venture capital--although perhaps a less unlikely investment for consumer products focused Maveron--the Seattle investors is one of the firms investing in home hair care startup Madison Color today....

Portland-based Conscious Company, a monthly delivery service which sends users eco-friendly home, beauty, and other products via subscription, has raised $400,000, the firm disclosed Friday. The funding came from Birchmere Ventures and ange...

Seattle-based startup SkyKick said this morning that it has raised $3.7M, and launched its Office 365 migration service. Source of the new funding was not announced. SkyKick is led by Evan Richman, and offers up a service that helps small a...

Seattle-based VoloMetrix, a developer of enterprise software for organizational analytics, said it has raised $3.3M in a funding round this morning in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Shasta Ventures. According tot he firm, it wil...

Portland-based Chirpify has $2M more in its pocket for advancing its social payments service, after a new investment from Voyager Capital. Chirpify said the initial, Series A close comes in addition to the $1.3M it raise earlier from Voyage...

Seattle-based BEATbio, a biotechnology firm which says it is looking to develop a novel gene therapy to improve cardiac performance during heart failure, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round. The firm said the funding came from CET Capi...

Bellevue-based UI Evolution, a developer of mobile software development products, has now raised $5.0M in its latest round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the ongoing funding have not been announced by t...

Looking to make it easier to let individuals invest in broad investment "themes", a Silicon Valley startup, Motif Investing said Friday that it has raised a new, $25M round of investment. That investment included prior, Seattle-based invest...

Seattle-based Adapx, the developer of software which captures speech, handwriting, and drawings and imports them into Microsoft Office and other software, said Thursday that it has raised $3M in a new round of funding. The funding came from...

Seattle-based Relaborate, a startup developing what it calls content marketing software for helping brands and companies generate content for their marketing efforts, has raised $566,319 in an ongoing funding round. The funding came from an...

Kirkland-based WebTuner, the stealthy startup headed by Bernee Strom, the former COO of InfoSpace, has just raised its latest funding round to $8.7M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. No details on the funding--or the com...

Online video tutorial and learning startup Treehouse--which apparently set up shop recently in Portland--has a mission, which is to help users learn how to develop their own websites, web applications, iPhone apps, and learn how to code. Th...

Bellevue, Washington-based top level domain registrar startup Donuts Inc. has just dipped into a new glass of funding, saying this morning that it has raised a new, Series B funding round. The new funding comes on top of its existing, $100M...

Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, has a new company in his portfolio this morning: Business Insider, the online news site run by Henry Blodget. The Business Insider said that the firm raised $5M from Jeff Bezos and its existing inv...

Kirkland-based VisibleBrands, which operates an in-store, digital promotions network which presents custom coupon and other offers to consumers while they are shopping via interactive kiosks, announced it has raised $4.6M in a Series A fund...

Seattle-based EveryMove, which operates an online service to encourage people to track and improve their physical activity and health, has raised $3.5M in a Series A-1 funding, and also launched an Android application. The firm--headed by R...

Bill Gates has put his weight behind a developer of energy storage systems, as part of a new funding for Pittsburgh-based Aquion Energy. Aquion Energy said yesterday that it has had a first close on a $35M, Series D funding, which came from...

Seattle-based Haiku Deck, which is developing iPad software to create slick presentations for business, said this morning that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Trilogy Partnership, and also included Madron...

Bellevue-based venture capital investor Ignition Partners disclosed this morning that it has raised a new, $150M fund, and has opened up a new office in Palo Alto, California. The new fund--Ignition V--will be run by Frank Artale, John Conn...

Vulcan Capital, the investment firm owned by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, is setting up a new office in Silicon Valley, according to reports. Reuters said Monday evening that the new office is set to open in the next few weeks, ...

Seattle-based, early stage venture capital investor Divergent Ventures is the lead investor in a developer of caching software for the virtualized server market. Proximal Data, which is based in San Diego, California, said it has raised $2M...

Seattle-based Cell Therapeutics said Thursday that it has received $15M in a senior secured term loan. The funding came from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. Terms of that loan were not announced. Cell Therapeutics said it would use the ...

Seattle-based Atossa Genetics said Thursday that it has raised $30M more, in a stock purchase agreement with Aspire Capital. The publicly held firm, which is developing diagnostics for breast cancer, said Aspire paid $12.00 per share for $1...

Seattle-based venture capital investor Maveron is ramping up its seed level investments--in a big way--with plans to invest in at least one consumer startup a month. Maveron said this morning that it will be investing seed funding in consum...

Seattle-based Decide.com, the online electronics price tracking service, has $8M more in its pocket, thanks to a funding round it announced last week--and now plans to use that funding for expansion and jobs. The startup told its users toda...

Seattle-based therapeutic antibody developer Theraclone Sciences said this morning that it has raised $14M, in a combination of equity and debt funding. The firm said that $8M of the funding was equity, which came from its existing investor...

Seattle-based products comparison and prediction startup Decide.com has pocketed $8M more in funding, in a new round of venture capital led by Vulcan Capital, the firm said this morning. The new funding round also included prior investors M...

San Francisco-based Postmates, the operator of a smartphone driven, urban delivery service which lets consumers order lunch, groceries, or office supplies and get them delivered directly to their home or office, said this week that it raise...

Seattle-based Placefull has raised $1M to expand its online, party and event planning service. The startup--headed by Ryan Hamlin and George Webb, two former Microsoft executives--did not disclose the source of the funding, only saying it c...

Indochino, a custom, online menswear retailer based in Vancouver, BC has raised $13M in a Series B, the firm said today. The funding was led by Highland Consumer Fund, and also included funding from Seattle's Madrona Venture Group, ACton Ca...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based ClearEdge Power, which develops fuel cell-based systems which convert natural gas into electricity and heat, has raised $36M in a new funding round, the firm said Monday. The firm said the funding will go towards ser...

Seattle-based Optimum Energy, which develops technology to help optimize the energy consumption from heating and air conditioning (HVAC) and other building systems, is in the midst of raising $3.0M in a funding round, according to a recent ...

Seattle-based Spiral Gentics, a developer of cloud-based, bioinformatics software for DNA analysis, said Tuesday that it has raised $3M in a funding round. The round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Spiral Geenetics is led by Adina Mangu...

Seattle-based creativeLIVE, which operates an online video education site, said Monday that it has raised $8M in a funding round. The round came from Creative Artists Agency (CAA), William Morris Endeavor (WME), CrunchFund and Google Ven...

Portland-based GlobeSherpa, a developer of point-of-sale ticketing and payment software, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.3M in a Series B funding round. The round came from the Oregon Angel Fund (OAF), and comes a year after the firm rai...

Can your humble water faucet be used as a source of renewable energy? That's the hope of Portland-based Lucid Energy, which just anounced a round of funding from crowdfunding site OurCrowd today. Lucid Energy develops a hydroelectric system...

PivotLink, which develops software-as-a-service to help retailers analyze their business performance, has raised $2.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. Details on the funding have not yet been announc...

Sonar, a New York-based developer of mobile, social networking applications, is the latest firm to gain backing from Microsoft's Bing Fund, the company's seed investment and incubation effort. According to Bing, Sonar will be part of the Bi...

Seattle-based online beauty and fashion brand Julep Beauty said today that it has raised $10.3M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included Maveron, Lady Gaga's Manager, Troy Carter, Precedent ...

Bellevue-based online language learning site LiveMocha has raised $240,000 in new funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. The filing indicates the funding c...

Bellevue-based Clearwire said today that it has elected to draw $80M from Sprint, as part of an earlier agreement with the firm for financing. Clearwire said that the move comes in conjunction with a deal with Sprint, which removes Sprint's...

Seattle-based Blaze Bioscience announced this morning that it has raised $8.5M in a Series A funding round. The firm said the funding came from individual investors, including physicians and biotech executives. The firm said it has now rais...

Seattle-based Cozi, the developer of mobile apps for helping mothers and families manage their life, has raised $5.78M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not been announced by the c...

Redmond-based EndoGastric Solutions, a developer of medical devices used for treating gastrointestinal diseases, has raised $10.0M more in funding, according to a regulatory filing. Details on the funding have yet to be announced. EndoGastr...

Portland-based mobile, social networking tool developer Celly announced this morning that it has raised $1.4M in a funding round, to power its service for allowing groups to create their own, mobile social networks focused on families, scho...

Leanplum, a startup out of TechStars Seattle developing mobile optimization and testing tools, has raised $825,000 in an angel funding, the firm said today. The funding round came from TechStars, Kima Ventures, VoiVoda Ventures, as well as ...

MobileWalla, which is developing mobile analytics software, has raised $4M in a funding round, the firm disclosed Tuesday. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, along with angels. The firm is moving to Seattle as part of the funding ...

Bellevue-based Innovative Pulmonary Solutions said today that it has raised $10M in a Series C funding round--but has moved its headquarters to Minneapolis, Minnesota from Bellevue, and renamed itself to Holaira. The medical device company,...

Nextdoor, the online, neighborhood-focused social networking site backed by such local investors as Rich Barton, has raised $21.6M in a new funding, the firm said today. The San Francisco company said the funding was led by Greylock Partner...

Tacoma-based startup CloudSway said today that it has raised $1.4M in an angel funding round. The firm said it is developing financial project management software, which lets teams within businesses work on financial data; the firm said its...

Portland-based startup incubator Upstart Labs said this morning that it has invested in two companies, in a partnership with Rogue Venture Partners. According to Upstart, the two have invested in Juked, a music discovery platform, and Measu...

Urban Airship, the mobile messaging and push software developer based in Portland, announced today that it has received $25M in a funding round, which it says will go towards doubling its employees this year, and accelerate its roadmap. T...

Seattle-based Kineta, the biopharmaceuticals firm developing treatments for infection and autoimmune diseases, said yesterday that it has scored a new investment from RLB Holdings, the investment group which also owns the New York Yankees. ...

Seattle-based venture investor Madrona Venture Group is bolstering the firm's experience in the big data and cloud area, with the new hire of a Venture Partner. Madrona said it has added Ted Kummert, a 23 year Microsoft veteran, as Venture ...

The big reboot over at Seattle's Ignition Partners turned some heads here in the Pacific Northwest, as yet another regional fund fell victim to headwinds in the venture capital industry. However, as the WSJ reports, what Ignition has been g...

Rover.com, the Seattle-based online marketplace for pet care and dog sitting services, has just raised $7M more in funding, the firm said today. The funding came from Foundry Group. The new funding brings Rover's total raised to $10.4M. Rov...

Two, Seattle investors are backing the maker of IT management software, which helps system administrators and IT staffers manage incidents and paging. PagerDuty, which is based in San Francisco, said Thursday that it has raised $10.7M in a ...

Blab, a new Seattle startup focused on applying big data to online, social conversations, said Thursdya that it has raised $1.5M in a funding round. The firm said the funding was led by Barry X Lynn, and also included other angels. The firm...

Seattle-based venture capital firm has some good news, finally, as one of its portfolio firms had a successful exit today. Larkspur, California-based mobile banking developer mFoundry has been acquired by mobile financial services firm FIS,...

Seattle-based Writer.ly, a new startup founded by Kelsye Nelson and Abigail Carter, is looking to raised $400,000 for its online marketplace for people working on publishing projects, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week...

Cloudability, the Portland-based operator of cloud monitoring services for monitoring cloud spending for companies, has raised $1.0M in a debt funding round. According to regulatory filings by the firm, the company is in the midst of raisin...

Liberty Lake, Washington-based Demand Energy Networks, a developer of energy storage devices for the utility industry, has raised $2.42M out of a $3.0M round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding round was not...

Seattle-based venture investor Ignition Partners is making some big--very big--changes to its structure, according to reports Thursday evening, and plans to raise a $150M fund with only three senior partners. According to FORTUNE, which bro...

Seattle-based ValueAppeal, which operates an online site to help homeowners appeal their property tax assessments, has just raised $6.49M in new funding. According to a regulatory filing, the funding came from 24 investors. ValueAppeal, whi...

Spokane-based ReliOn, which is developing high reliability, fuel cell generators for backup power, has scored a strategic funding from industrial products firm Cummins Inc.. Size of the investment was not disclosed. The firm said that as pa...

Spokane-based CXOWARE, a developer of software-as-a-service products used for risk exposure assessment and management, reported today that it has received $1.25M in a funding round. The funding primarily came from Dr. Henry Beker, the found...

Portland-based Puppet Labs, the developer of IT automation software headed by Luke Kanies, said this morning that it has raised $30M in a funding round from VMware. The new funding is part of a strategic partnership between the two companie...

Seattle-based investor Maveron Ventures is putting more cash behind PayNearMe, an operator of a network of locations where consumers can pay their bills--including for rent, consumer loans, education, and more--with cash. Mountain View-base...

Seattle-based Simply Measured, the social media and web analytics software developer headed by Adam Schoenfeld, has pulled in $8M in a new funding round, the firm announced today. The company said its Series B funding came from Bessemer Ven...

Seattle-based cloud hosting and managed services firm Blue Box said today that it has completed a $4.3M, Series A funding. Blue Box said the round was over-subscribed, and was an increase over the earlier $3.5M funding it announced last yea...

The Pacific Northwest region saw a surge in venture capital investment in Q4, particularly in Washington State, according to the latest numbers released in the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capita...

Renton-based Parallels, the developer of desktop virtualization and web hosting management software, has a big, new partner today: Cisco. Parallels said that Cisco has made an equity investment in the company, which will go towards joint go...

Seattle-based Tred, a startup developing an online service to help people set up and schedule test drives of new cars--and which wants to eventually help drive car sales for dealers--raised $1.7M Wednesday, from Maveron, Fraser McCombs Capi...

Seattle-based LikeBright, an online dating and matchmaking startup, said Wednesday that it has been selected to join the Bing Fund, the Microsoft angel fund and incubator program. LikeBright, which is headed by Nick Soman, uses the details ...

Seattle-based Symform, the provider of cloud storage and backup which is headed by Matthew Schiltz, announced today that it has raised $3M in a strategic investment, from Second Century Ventures. Second Century Ventures is the venture capit...

Portland-based Janrain, the developer of user management and registration tools for online websites, reported today that it has raised $33M in a funding round. The round came from Millennium Technology Value Partners, Split Rock Partners, E...

Arlington, Washington-based MicgoGREEN Polymers, the developer of technology for using recycled PET bottles to create insulating and temperature resistant cups, trays, and other items, has raised $5M in a strategic funding, the firm said la...

Spokane-based CXOware, a developer of enterprise risk management and security software, has raised $1.15M in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on the funding have not been announced by the comp...

Seattle-based airfare tracking service Yapta has raised $1.15M, part of an ongoing $1.3M round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. The funding looks to be a convertible round to bridge it to its next equity funding. Yapta is ve...

Seattle-based Clipboard, the developer of an online service which lets people save and share websites in a virtual "clipboard" online, has raised a round of strategic funding. The funding came from Scientia, a company in the educational tec...

Seattle-based Qliance, the venture-backed operator of primary care clinics for preventative care, minor treatments, and treating chronic health conditions, has raised $8.65M in a new investment, according to a regulatory filing from the com...

The latest venture capital fund to emerge in Seattle isn't focused on consumer Internet, mobile apps, or even enterprise software (or even, investments in Seattle). Unitus Seed Fund, said Thursday that it has raised $8M for its investment f...

Bellevue-based Expedia is a major investor in a new, $30.3M funding round for hotel room search engine Room 77, the startup backed by Concur, Rich Barton, Erik Blachford, and Spencer Rascoff. News of the funding emerged Thursday via a regul...

Seattle-based EnerG2 has raised $9.396M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Wednesday. The developer of material science techology being applied to high performance batteries. EnerG2 did not announce any details of th...

Seattle-based Cheezburger Network, the online humor and meme site headed by Ben Huh, has raised $5M in new funding. The new funding was revealed via an SEC filing over the holidays. Cheezburger is backed by Foundry Group, Madrona Venture Gr...

Seattle-based 2nd Watch, which provides services to help companies migrate their operations to the cloud, said Friday that it has raised $4.2M in a funding round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included other investors...

Seattle-based MobileDevHQ, a provider of mobile store optimization tools, has raised $650,000 in funding, the firm disclosed Thursday. The funding came from Founder's Co-op, Social Leverage, and other Seattle angels. MobileDevHQ is headed b...

Redmond-based travel and expense management software provider Concur has funded the developer of software which helps hotels and resorts upsell their products to customers. According to Nor1, which is based in Santa Clara, California, it ra...

Bing Fund, the angel investment fund run by Microsoft, said Tuesday that it has invested in New York's Selectable Media. Selectable Media develops technology and services which helps publishers to monetize content, and which allows consumer...

SNUPI Technologies, a brand new startup spun out of the University of Washington, has raised $1.5M in a funding round. The seattle startup said the funding came from Madrona Venture Group and Rada Partners. SNUPI's technology, which is shor...

Seattle-based Sandglaz, which is developing task and project management software, disclosed Tuesday that it has raised $500,000 in a seed funding round. Names of the company's investors were not disclosed. Sandglaz, which is headed by Nada ...

Seattle-based ID Interact, a startup developing enterprise marketing software-as-a-service, said today that it has raised $700,000 and launched the company. The firm--led by former T-Mobile executive Matthew Standish--said it will provide e...

Seattle-based Apptentive said this morning that it has raised $1.2M in a seed funding round, which came from Founder's Co-Op, Google VEntures, Golden Venture Partners, Social Leverage, as well local angels. The company, which is part of Tec...

Portland-based Tyfone, the developer of mobile payment products, said today that it has received a strategic investment and entered into a technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community...

Portland-based VendScreen, the developer of a device which attaches to vending machines to receive payments, provide ads, and other information, has raised $15.4M in a funding round, the firm said earlier this week. The company, which is le...

Don't drive all too much, and don't mind someone watching your driving habits? A new, silicon valley startup called MetroMile said this week that it is launching in Oregon, and will offer up a product that charges drivers a per-mile rate on...

Cloudera, one of the Silicon Valley-based, enterprise software firms backed by Seattle's Ignition Partners, has just raised a huge, $65M funding round. Palo Alto-based Cloudera announced the funding late Thursday, saying that the round Acce...

Naya Ventures, a early stage venture capital fund focused on the mobile and cloud market, said today that it has had a first close on a new, $50M fund. The firm--which has offices in Seattle--is led by Dayaka Puskoor, a former Microsoft exe...

Bellevue-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners has had an exit at one of the firm's portfolio companies, Zenprise. Citrix said Wednesday that it is buying Zenprise, and will make that firm's products part of its Citrix CloudGateway a...

Bellevue-based medical devices developer Kona Medical said yesterday taht it has added $10M in equity and debt as part of its Series C financing round, bring its total raised in the round to $40M. The firm said it added two, un-named large-...

Seattle-based Powerit Solutions announced Tuesday that it has raised $5.5M, in a Series C growth financing round. The firm, wihch develops energy demand management products, said the funding includes $3M raised in April, and $2.5M that clos...

Bellevue-based Smartsheet.com, the developer of online collaboration tools, has just pulled together a big chunk of funding. The firm announced today that it has raised $26M in a funding round, which came from Insight Venture Partners and M...

Seattle-based NanoString Technologies, which develops life science tools for the molecular diagnostics area, said this morning that it has raised $15.3M in a Series E funding round. The round came from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and A...

Amazon.com has put more dollars into online wiki software and services firm Wikia, as part of a new, $10M funding round for that company. Wikia said Friday that it raised $10M in a Series C round, led by Institutional Venture Partners, and ...

Seattle-based Red Tricycle, which runs an online site which helps parents learn about local activities, restaurants, stores, and more, has raised $1.5M in a Series A funding, the firm said Thursday. The funding was led by Maveron, and also ...

Seattle-based mobile technology developer CENTRI Technology has raised $4.5M in a Series B round, the company said today, to help accelerate its product development efforts, strategic partnerships, and grow its team. The company said the ro...

Seattle-based Bizible said this week that it has raised $1.7M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included MHS Capital and un-named Seattle angels. Len Jordon joins the company's board as part o...

Kirkland-based traffic information provider INRIX said this morning that it has named venture capitalist John Connors to its board of directors. Connors is a partner at Ignition Partners, and formerly served as Chief Financial Officer of Mi...

Seattle-based Qumulo said today that it has raised $24.5M in a Series A funding, for its enterprise storage efforts. The funding was led by Highland Capital, and also included Madrona Venture Group and Valhalla Partners. Qumulo's founders a...

Jintronix, a developer of medical software aimed at physical and cognitive therapy and rehabilitiation, said it has raised a seed capital round from Madrona Venture Group. As part of the funding, the company said it is relocating to Seattle...

Zulily, the daily deals site for mothers nheaded by Darrell Cavens, has just scored a big, $85M funding, which reportedly values the firm at more than $1 billion. The company said the round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and also included ...

Seattle-based big data software developer Context Relevant said today that it has raised $1.5M in seed funding, from Madrona Venture Group and individuals, as well as entered into a deal with Concur. Context Relevant, which is headed by Ste...

Ignition Partners has made an investment in a Silicon Valley-based developer of software for the "big data" market. Palo Alto-based Continuuity announced yesterday that it had raised $10M in a funding round, which came from Battery Ventures...

Kirkland-based WaveDivision Holdings, the provider of broadband fiber networks to the business and residential market, has raised a giant, $1.052 billion funding round, the firm said today. The company said the round included substantial eq...

Portland-based Site9 said Tuesday that it has raised $500,000 in funding from private investors, for its ProtoShare collaborative prototyping tool, which is used to help develop both web and mobile applications. Source of the funding was no...

Who's going to be the top dog in this fight? Seattle-based Rover.com, the online marketplace which connects dog owners with local dog sitters, is getting a challenge from a rival, which just announced a big round today. DogVacay, which oper...

Visterra, a biopharmaceuticals developer focusing on novel medicines to prevent and treat infections, said last week that it has raised $26M in a Series A round, led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The funding also include Omega F...

Redmond-based Concur, the provider of travel and expense management software, said this morning that it has launched a new, $150M fund to invest in emerging companies in the travel and expense management area. The firm said its new Concur P...

Bellevue-based Limeade, the provider of software-as-a-service to manage wellness programs, announced today that it has raised $5M in a Series B financing round. The rounding came from TVC Capital, a California growth equity firm that focuse...

Bellevue-based Talyst, the developer of pharmacy automation products for managing and dispensing medication, has scored $10M in growth capital, according to venture lender ORIX Ventures. ORIX said the funding will go towards Talysts's expan...

Seattle-based ModuMetal, a developer of advanced materials and coatings, has raised $4.73M in a funding, part of a $19.2M round the firm is raising, according to a regulatory filing. The funding apparently comes from Second Avenue Partners,...

Seattle-based Radio Runt, the developer of a mobile app called Rallee, said today that it has raised $1M in a funding round. The firm said the funding came from Kenges Rakishev, a wealthy investor from Kazakhstan. Rallee said it is launchin...

Seattle-based Resolve Bio has raised $5.8M more for its efforts to develop treatments for lupus, according to a report today. The funding came from WRF Capital, New Science Ventures, and Easton Capital. New of the funding first came from Xc...

Kirkland-based Pirq, the mobile applications developer headed by James Sun, has just pocketed $1.2M more in funding, as it looks to push its new local business punch card app. Pirq said the second round of venture capital brings its total r...

Blue Box, the cloud hosting and managed services firm headed by Jesse Proudman, has raised a $3.5M, Series A funding round, the firm said Wednesday. The round was led by Voyager Capital. As part of the funding, Bill McAleer has joined the c...

A cellulosic biofuels startup, ZeaChem, has completed construction of a new cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon, and raised $25M in funding. ZeaChem said the plant, which is expected to have a capacity of 250,000 gallons per ...

iJento, a developer of marketing analytics software, said Monday that it has raised $8M in an equity funding, led by MMC Ventures and also including Nauta Capital and Oxford Capital Partners. The firm--which has its U.S. headquarters in Por...

Seattle-based online multiplayer game developer Meteor Entertainment has raised $18M in a funding round, the firm disclosed today. The second round of funding came from Rustic Canyon Ventures, Chinese game publisher KongZhong, and FirstMark...

The venture capital investments in the region saw a decrease of nearly a third, year to year, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers and National Venture Capital Association's venture capital report. The MoneyTree...

Are you looking for some good advice about venture capital and startups? Seattle has a brand new, venture capital blogger: Greg Gottesman, the managing director of Madrona Venture Group, who recently started posting to StarkRavingVC. Gottes...

Bothell-based HaloSource, which develops water treatment and purification products, said Tuesday that it has raised $25.7M in a funding from investors. The firm--which trades on the London Stock Exchange--said that the funding would go towa...

Romotive, which designs robots which connect and are controlled by smartphones like the iPhone, has raised $5M in a funding round. The firm--which was incubated as part of TechStars Seattle--said the funding came from Sequoia Capital, Crunc...

It's been a busy day for Seattle's Ignition Partners down in Silicon Valley today, as the firm was involved in two, separate funding rounds for companies. Ignition backed Message Bus, a developer of cloud-based messaging APIs as part of an ...

Kirkland-based venture capital firm OVP Venture Partners is winding down its operations after over 30 years in the business, according to a report from Xconomy. According to an interview with Gerry Langeler, one of OVP's managing directors,...

Seattle-based social shopping service Lockerz has raised another $7.5M in funding, as part of an ongoing, $9.6M funding effort for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The filing looks to be a convertible debt round. L...

Portland-based Little Bird, the startup headed by former blogger Marshall Kilpatrick, announced today that it has raised $1M in an angel funding round. The round came from Mark Cuban, Howard Lindzon, Dharmesh Shah (Hubspot), Blaine Cook (Tw...

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced Thursday they have completed their deal to create a new subsidiary, NOOK MEDIA, which includes a $300M investment from Microsoft, to develop NOOK reading applications and hardware. The firms said the d...

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, has backed a developer of quantum computing technology based in Vancouver, B.C. According to D-Wave, it has raised $30M in a funding round, which included Bezos Expeditions and In-Q-Tel (IQT), the inve...

Buuteeq, which develops digital marketing software for hotels, has just booked a $10M investment, the firm said this morning. The Seattle firm said the funding was co-led by Madrona Venture Group and Concur, the travel and expense managemen...

Microsoft has integrated social influence tracking firm Klout into its search engine, Bing, and also made a strategic investment in Klout as a part of the deal. Klout announced the move Thursday afternoon. Bing is now including Klout's scor...

Bellevue-based Tier 3, which develops a cloud computing platform, has raised $10M more in a new funding, according to regulatory filings by the firm. The new funding was led by Intel Capital. Tier 3 is also backed by Ignition Partners and M...

Seattle-based search engine optimization software developer SEOmoz founder Rand Fishkin said yesterday that the firm has set its sights on an IPO, as the company begins mulling an exit. The company said that, since it has taken institutiona...

Bellevue-based medical device developer Innovative Pulmonary Solutions has raised $10.6M in a Series B funding round, the firm announced Thursday. The funding came in March of 2012, and was led by Advanced Technology Ventures. Other investo...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron has seen an exit in its portfolio, via the acquisition of Zui, the operator of a kid-friendly Internet portal. Zui was acquired by Saban Brands, which owns a number of children's entertainment bran...

Seattle-based Familiar, which develops an app which turns your Mac, PC, iPad, or Android phone into a digital photo frame, has raised $1.3M in a funding round, the firm said this morning. The funding came from Greylock Partners, Redpoint ...

Mobile payment processing and credit card reader firm Square has closed its Series D round, the firm announced today, including backing from Seattle's Starbucks Coffee. Square did not announce the size of the round, which has been widely re...

Honest Buildings, which has operations in Seattle, said Tuesday that it has scored a first round of funding. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. Funding was led by RockPort Capital and Mohr Davidow Ventures, and also include Spring...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Act-On Software said Wednesday that it has raised $16M in a funding round, for the firm's marketing automation platform. The round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Trinity Ventures, US Venture P...

Seattle-based Pirq, the developer of local, mobile apps which help local retailers attract and retain customers, has raised $1.2M as part of an ongoing funding, the firm revealed yesterday. The firm, which is headed by James Sun, let the de...

Youth sports site Korrio, which is run by Steve Goldman, has raised $4.6M more in funding, the firm said over the weekend. The funding came from its existing investors, which include Ignition Partners and a number of angels. Korrio offers u...

Seattle-based Matrix Genetics, a biotechnology firm aimed at producing both renewable fuels and specialty chemicals from algae, said today that it has scored a funding round. The round came from Avista Development, the Spokane-based venture...

Seattle-based FutureAdvisor, the online investment advice startup headed by Bo Lu, announced today that it has scored $5M in a Series A funding round. THe round came from Sequoia Capital. As a part of its funding announcement, FutureAdvisor...

Kymeta, a new startup based on technology from Intellectual Ventures, has spun out of IV and raised its first round of funding. Intellectual Ventures announced the investment Tuesday, saying that Bill Gates, Liberty Global, and Lux Capital ...

Seattle-based Discovery Bay Games, the provider of tablet and mobile gaming accessories, as well as maker or more traditional board games, is adding some fuel to the firm's move to the mobile accessories business, with a new investment this...

Seattle-based Madrona popped up on a list of the top performing, Internet era funds yesterday, showing that--despite dismal overall returns from funds of the same vintage--the firm's Fund I has done quite well. The list, unearthed by Dan Pr...

Seattle-based big data software provider SpaceCurve said this morning that it has raised $3.5M in additional funding, an extension of its Series A funding round. The new funding came from Triage Ventures, as well as its existing investors, ...

Microsoft's Bing Fund angel investment fund and incubator program said Thursday that it has invested in two startups, Buddy Platform and Pinion Tech. Buddy Platform, which is based in Kirkland, develops hosted tools for web application deve...

SiOnyx, a developer of CMOS imaging sensors being applied to night vision and other systems, reported yesterday that it has scored a strategic round from In-Q-Tel. The firm, which has significant operations in Beaverton, Oregon, did not dis...

A new, Silicon Valley startup has an offer for students at the University of Washington: trade us a portion of your future income, over the next 10 years, for a chunk of capital for your startup. Upstart, which was started by ex-Google empl...

Seattle-based Starbucks said today that it has made an investment in mobile payment provider Square, and has also entered into a broad partnership with the company. According to Starbucks, it is investing $25M in Square as part of that comp...

Seattle-based Infratel, a provider of cloud telephony services for the small business market, said today that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Prostor Capital and Runa Capital. According to Infrastel, it wi...

Docusign, the developer of electronic signature services, said today that Google Ventures has joined in the company's most recent financing round, bringing its total raised to $55.7M. The firm, which is split between San Francisco and Seatt...

FiveStars Bay area startup focused on loyalty and rewards cards has scored more funding from Seattle angel investor Hadi Partovi, along with his brother Ali, as well as venture firms Lightspeed Venture partners, DCM, YCombinator, Mayfield, ...

Bellevue-based Point Inside, a developer of mobile shopping analytics apps and software, has raised $3.2M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Point Inside is headed by...

Seattle-based Adapx, the developer of digital capture and recognition software, announced this morning that it has raised $3M more in funding from its existing investors. The firm said the round, which brings its total raised to approximat...

Portland-based Coaxis, the parent company of Viewpoint Construction Software, announced this morning that it has received $76M in a private equity investment, from TA Associates. Coaxis said the minority investment will go to accelerate the...

Amazon.com is continuing to back a developer of online, media management software for celebrities, as part of a new funding round for WhoSay. WhoSay said Tuesday that it has raised $12M in a Series C round for the company, which was led by ...

Nextdoor, the online private social networking site geared around connecting people with their neighbors, and which is backed by Zillow's Rich Barton, has scored a big funding round, the firm said today. Nextdoor said it has raised $18.6M -...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron is bolstering its San Francisco presence today, saying that it has named David Wu as a Venture Partner in its San Francisco office. Wu is an angel investors and entrepreneur. Maveron said that Wu w...

Investments in Oregon and Washington were a mixed bag for Q2 of 2012, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report, based on data from Thomson Reuters. According to the report, a total of $24...

Seattle-based Optify, the developer of search engine optimization and search marketing tools, has just raised $2.0M, part of an ongoing $2.7M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm yesterday. Optify is venture backed ...

Seattle-based RealNetworks said this morning that it has added John E. Cunningham, IV, the Seattle investor, to its board of directors. Cunningham also serves on the boards of Blucora (InfoSpace), AudienceScience, Qliance, and a number of o...

Seattle- and San Francisco-based electronic signature firm Docusign has confirmed the details of its $47.5M fundraising round this morning. The firm said the round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation of Accel Par...

Microsoft has taken the wraps off its Bing Fund, its angel fund and incubator program, detailing the effort on Thursday. The company said it will be inviting promising startups, based in the U.S., to work with the program for at least four ...

The Northwest Energy Angels reported Thursday afternoon that the angel investment group has invested $1,132,000 across six, clean technology companies in the first half of the year. The investment group said that it has invested in Pacific ...

Seattle-based electronic signature firm Docusign has just raised $47.5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. DocuSign's prior investors in...

Seattle-based Appature, the developer of software for managing sales and marketing, has raised $6.1M in a new funding round, from Ignition Partners and Madrona Venture Group. The company, which is led by Kabir Shahani, develops software whi...

Portland-based Cloudability, which operates an online service which monitors cloud spending for companies, said this morning that it has raised $8.7M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Foundry Group. As part of the funding, J...

The deadline for local Portland startups looking to gain some funding and help in launching their startups is today, as the Portland Seed Fund closes its applications for its latest class. The accelerator program's latest class is expected ...

Seattle-based QThru, a startup aimed at the mobile market, said this week that it has launched its mobile software aimed at helping retail shoppers to check themselves out of stores and markets, backed by $3.5M in funding. The startup is he...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is continuing to back New York-based photo editing firm Aviary, as the company said this week that it has raised another $6M in funding. Avaiary said the new funding came from Spark Capital, Bezos Expeditions, and ...

Seattle-based Context Relevant, a new startup headed by Stephen Purpura, said this morning that it has raised $1.3M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included angels Geoff Entress, Mike McSherry...

Seattle-based Avalara, the developer of sales tax automation software, has raised $20M in a funding round, according to the firm this morning. Avalara said the funding round was led by Battery Ventures, which joins The Benaroya Company, Pio...

Bezos Expeditions, the venture funding arm of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has backed a developer of manufacturing robots. Boston -based Rethink Robotics announced the $30M investment last week, saying that new investor Sigma Partners led...

Seattle-based venture investor Madrona Ventures has made another Silicon Valley investment, this time in a photo sharing site ThisLife. ThisLife said it has raised $2.75M in a Series A funding, led by Madrona Ventures, and also including Mo...

Seattle-based Scope 5, a developer of web-based software for helping organizations manage their sustainability data, has scored some funding from the ZINO Society, after winning that group's ZINO Green Investment Forum. The ZINO Society sai...

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners has invested more money in a Silicon Valley-based developer of virtualization software, Bromium, in a $26.5M investment round for that firm. Bromium said the Series B funding round was led by Highland Capita...

Vulcan Capital has backed Sand 9, a developer of MEMS-based, precision timing products, as a major participant in that firm's latest financing round. Sand 9, which is based in Cambridge, Mass., said it raised $23M in a Series C funding roun...

A new, venture capital fund out of the University of Washington, the The W Fund, said today that it has launched a $20M early stage venture fund aimed at funding promising spinouts of the University of Washington and other research institut...

A new spinout of Seattle-based Evri, focused on providing a "second screen" for sports fans on tablet PCs, has raised $3.5M in funding from Vulcan Capital. SportStream, headed by Will Hunsinger, announced the funding round Thursday saying i...

Portland-based Indow Windows, a manufacturer of thermal windows inserts, announced yesterday that it has raised $1.3M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Vision Ridge Partners, and also included members of the Northwest Energy...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron is the lead investor in Lemon.com, a developer of a mobile application aimed at replacing the wallet in your pocket with software. According to Lemon.com, it has raised $8M in it Series A funding, ...

Seattle-based ValueAppeal, an online service to help people appeal their property taxes, announced this morning that it has raised $1.2M, and launched a new "PRO" service aimed at real estate professionals. The firm said the funding came fr...

Seattle-based Wonder Forge, a developer of board and puzzle games for children, has raised $1.75M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Wonder Forge, headed by former Cranium Games ...

Seattle-based Blaze Bioscience, a developer of technology it calls "tumor paint" to help physicians visualize solid, cancer tumors, has raised $5.0M in a Series A financing round, the firm said today. Source of the funding was not announced...

Seattle-based Tango Card, the provider of flexible, digital gift cards, has raised $1.8M in an expansion of its Series A financing round. According to the company, the round added Innovation Endeavors, the investment fund of Eric Schmidt, a...

Seattle-based venture capital investment firm Madrona Venture Group has raised $300M, in its fifth fund, the company said Wednesday. According to Madrona, Funv V was originally targeted at $250M, but was oversubscribed. The limited partners...

The developer of a last minute hotel booking application for mobile phones, which is backd by Rich Barton and Erik Blachford, has scored more funding. Hotel Tonight, which is based in San Francisco, said it has raised $23M in a Series C fun...

A new, Bellevue-based startup focused on the domain name business, Donuts Inc., said today that it has raised $100M in funding from private equity and venture capital, to create a brand new, registry for top level domain names. The firm sai...

Bellevue-based Kona Medical, a developer of ultrasound-based treatments for high blood pressure, said Wednesday that it has raised $30M in a Series C funding round. The round came from existing Essex Woodlands, Domain Associates, Morgentha...

Seattle-based The Buddy Platform, a new startup headed by David McLauchlan, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a seed funding round, and released its software. Buddy said the funding came from Transmedia Capital, along with Crestli...

Bill Gates is putting more of his money behind a developer of battery technology, whose technology is based on research out of MIT. Liquid Metal Battery said Thursday that it has raised $15M in a Series B round, which was led by Khosla Vent...

Redmond-based projection display technology developer MicroVision reports today that it has received approximately $5M in a sale of its stock to private investors. The deal had previously been announced on May 10th. In addition, MicroVision...

It looks like there's one person who won't be invited back to a TED talk anytime soon: Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer. In a scathing post, TED curator Chris Anderson called out Hanauer on his complaints that TED had failed to post ...

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, known for his investments in Amazon.com, aQuantive, and other local companies, looks to have -- he's stirred up some controversy over a TED talk he gave at the TED University conference, according to...

Seattle-based Prosodic, a developer of predictive analytics software aimed at helping publishers gain Facebook followers and likes, said this morning that it has raised $1.4M in a seed funding round. The round included Ignition Partners, as...

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, has backed an online marketplace which allows artists and others to show off their portfolio of work. New York-based Behance said Monday that it has raised $6.5M in a funding round, which included an i...

Ensequence, a developer of technology to provide interactivity on cable, satellite, telco and connected devices, said today that it has raised $26.0M in a funding round. The firm, which has development operations in Portland, said the fundi...

Redmond-based MicroVision, which develops miniature projection display technology, said this morning that private investors have agreed to invest approximately $5M in the company in an equity investment deal. Microvision said the lead inves...

Vancouver, BC-based RewardLoop, a developer of QR-code based loyalty programs for businesses, has scored $1M in a Series A funding from Seattle's Madrona Ventures, the firm said today. RewardLoop's mobile software allows users to scan QR co...

Seattle-based EveryMove, the health and fitness tracking service headed by Marcello Calbucci, has raised $2.6M in a funding round from partners Premera Blue Cross, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partner...

Portland-based Swan Island Networks, a provider of cloud-based, data services, said Tuesday that it has raised $2.5M in a financing round. Source of the funding was not announced. The company said the new preferred stock financing round inc...

Portland-based Elemental Technologies, which develops video transcoding hardware which takes advantage of GPUs (graphical processing units) to accelerate the transcoding process, has raised $13M in a new funding round, the firm is announcin...

Another day, another Seattle venture capital investor making investments in Silicon Valley. This time, it's Bellevue-based Ignition Partners which is leading a Series C financing round for online payments firm WePay, which is based in Palo...

Seattle-based Coinstar is upping it investment in a maker of kiosks used to help people trade in their old cell phones for cash, store credit, or gift cards. EcoATM, whose kiosks are used to encourage cell phone trade-ins, has raised $17M i...

Seattle-based SEOmoz, the provider of search engine optimization tools and services headed by Rand Fishkin, has raised $18M in a venture financing. The round came from Foundry Group and Ignition Partners. As part of the funding, Brad Feld f...

A new startup, Circa, co-founded by Ben Huh, the CEO of Seattle-based Cheezburger Network, has raised $750,000 in a seed funding round. The stealthy startup raised funding from eonCapital, Quotidian Ventures, David Cohen and David Tisch of ...

Seattle-based Cadence Biomedical, a developer of medical devices to help people with severe disabilities to walk, said this morning that it has raised $1.1M in a Series A2 funding round. The funding came from the Sand Hill Angels, Tech Coas...

Seattle-based CoinLab, a developer of virtual currency products based on the Bitcoin standard, said earlier this week that it has raised $500,000. The investment came from Draper Associates and Geoff Entress. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, digi...

Seattle-based Symform, which operates an online cloud storage and backup service, has scored new funding for its service this morning, saying that it has raised $11M in a Series B funding round. The new funding came from existing investors ...

Portland-based Chirpify, a startup developing a way for Twitter users to directly exchange and pay for goods through the Twitter system, announced today that it has raised $1.3M in a Series A funding round. The firm, which is headed by Chri...

The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network awarded $344,000 in investments this week, after unveiling the winners of its Angel Oregon 2012 investment competition. According to the OEN, the winner of the competition was Chez Gourmet from Marie, a heal...

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree report, from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters, show that investments in Washington and Oregon increased in Q1, compared wi...

Seattle-based Big Fish Games, the developer of casual gaming software, has issued $11.2M in equity, with an additional $3.4M in earn-out, related to an acquisition of Self Aware Games, a regulatory filing by the firm indicates this week. B...

Bothell-based Alder BioPharmaceuticals, a developer of technology for developing antibodies used in treating cancer, autoimmune diseases, and other diseases, has raised $38M in a Series D funding round, the company said this morning. The fu...

In a sign of demand for the shares of Splunk, the venture-backed developer of enterprise indexing software which is backed by local investor Ignition Partners, Splunk has revealed in a filing that it is upping its estimated IPO pricing rang...

Bellevue-based ReadyPulse, a developer of tools to help companies find brand advocates through social media, has raised an initial round of funding, and appointed a CEO, the company said Tuesday. The firm--a spinout of Moxie Software--did n...

Seattle-based Opanga Networks said Monday that it has raised $6M in a new financing round. The developer of network optimization products for improving the quality of mobile video, said the funding was led by Pacific Wireless Ventures, and ...

Seattle-based department store retailer Nordstrom said Thursday that it is backing New York-based online men's retailer Bonobos. According to Bonobos, it raised $16.4M in a Series C1 funding, which also included Accel Partners and Lightspee...

Seattle-based Beamit, which is developing an overseas payment and remittance service, has raised $2.4M. The funding came from the Founder Co-Op, TomorrowVentures, and Bezos Expeditions. BeamIt was founded by Matt Oppenheimer, and is looking...

Seattle-based Rover.com said this morning that it has raised $3.4M in a Series A funding, to make it easier for dog owners to find a pet sitter. The firm said that the funding round was led by Madrona Venture Group, which also included Crun...

Wishing you could win a ticket for a local concert? Interested in learning about new bands? That's the idea behind Portland-based TIXIE, a new startup which said Wednesday that it has landed a new round of investment. Size of the investment...

Seattle-based BigDoor, the developer of website gamification tools, said today that it has raised $5M in a new round of funding. The round was led by Foundry Group, an existing investor in the company. BigDoor develops software which makes ...

Seattle-based Digital Fortress, a brand new company backed by Halyard Capital, Meritage Funds and Sweetwater Capital, said Friday that tit has acquired the data center businesses of digital.forest, Inc. and Fortress Colocation Services. The...

Seattle-based OPscode, the developer of cloud infrastructure automation and management software, said this morning that it has raised $19.5M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Ignition Partners, and also included Battery Vent...

Seattle-based FutureAdvisor, a new startup headed by Bo Lu, said this morning that it has scored a round of funding for the firm, from Sequoia Capital, Keith Rabois, and Jeremy Stoppelman. The startup is developing an online service to help...

Seattle-based Apptio, the developer of IT management software headed by Sunny Gupta, has just closed on a massive, $50M funding round, the firm said Thursday afternoon. The company said that the Series D funding round came from T. Rowe Pric...

Seattle-based Placed, the provider of location-based analytics software which was previously known as Sewichi, said today that it has raised a $3.4M, Series A funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and included Shane A...

HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals, which is developing small molecule therapeutics for treating hemoglobain disorders such as sickle cell disease, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series B extension financing. The firm, which has its researc...

Seattle-based Drawn To Scale, a new startup developing "big data" software, said today that it has raised an initial round of funding. The funding came from RTP Ventures, IA Ventures, and SK Ventures. The firm, which is headed by former Vis...

The Portland Seed Fund accelerator announced its new class of startups on Friday, adding eight new companies to its list of firms. According to the group, which is led by Jim Huston and Angela Jackson, the new firms in the program include B...

Seattle-based X2IMPACT, a developer of devices used to measure the force of head impacts in contact sports, has scored a round of venture capital funding. Amount of funding was not disclosed. The funding came from Kodiak Financial Group. X2...

Publicly held, Tualatin, Oregon-based CUI Global, a developer of power supplies and other products for the telecom and networking market, as well as products for the energy market, said today that it has raised $10M in an equity funding rou...

Seattle-based Buteeq, the startup providing social marketing and web site management to hotels, has raised $2M in funding from a number of angel investors. Buteeq's service provide online, mobile, and social features to help hotels -- parti...

The Northwest Energy Angels, the energy focused, organized angel investment group, said this week that it has invested $880,000 across nine cleantech companies during 2011, as part of its efforts to help build a vibrant cleantech community ...

Seattle-based Integrated Diagnostics, the developer of molecular diagnostic products, said this morning that it has closed on $10M in a third tranche of its Series A financing. The funding was led by Interwest Partners, and also included Th...

Seattle-based nFluence Media, a new startup which helps users control the flow of advertising, deals, and other media being sent to their inboxes, said today that it has raised $3M in a funding round. The round came from the Alliance of Ang...

Seattle-based SpaceCurve, a developer of "big data" software used to analyze massive ammount of geospatial data, said today that it has raised $2.7M in funding. The round came from Reed Elsevier VEntures, Divergent Ventures, and Musea Ventu...

Redmond-based Microsoft and General Electric Co. said this morning that they are launching a new, joint venture called Cardigm. The two said the 50-50 joint venture will focused on healthcare IT, which it says will help health professionals...

Seattle-based Vulcan Capital is one of the investors in a developer of personalized medicine products. According to Applied Proteomics, which is based in San Diego, California, Vulcan joined Domain Associates and un-named angels in investin...

Bellevue-based Spoken Communications has raised $11.5M in a Series B funding round, the company said this morning, to further develop its cloud software for contact centers. The firm said the funding was led by Ignition Capital, and also in...

Bellevue-based Concordia Coffee Systems, which manufacturers self-serve commercial espresso systems, has raised $6.5M in a new financing round, the company said today. The funding was led by Marker Hill Capital, and also included Fluke Capi...

Seattle-based Cozi, the developer of a family calendaring service headed by Robbie Cape, has raised $3.0M, part of an ongoing $4.3M fundraising effort by the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm yesterday. Source of the fun...

Seattle-based cloud storage provider Symform said today that it has raised $2.0M in a funding round, from WestRiver Capital. The funding is part of its Series A funding, bringing the total raised in that round to $7.5M. Symform, which is he...

Bellevue-based Finsphere, a developer of identity analytics technology used to secure wireless customers, said Monday afternoon that it has raised $11.3M in an investment. The round was led by Vodafone Ventures. Finsphere siad that Vodafone...

Venture capital totals in the Washington and Oregon plummeted in Q4 of 2011, according to the numbers released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) last night, with only $136.57M being raised in the ...

Seattle-based Cadence Biomedical, a developer of an early stage medical device to help people with disabilities to walk, has raised $750,000 in a funding, according to lead investor HealthTech Capital. HealthTech said it invested over $300,...

Portland-based VendScreen, a startup developing a video screen product for vending machines which provides credit card payment support, nutritional information, and advertising, said Tuesday that it has raised $12M in an investment round. S...

Seattle-based Ignition Partners has led an investment in a developer of cloud-based, identity management software. According to Symplified, it raised $20M in the round led by Ignition, and also included its prior investors, Allegis Capital,...

Seattle-based Walk Score, the developer of software to calculate the "walkability" of neighborhoods and homes, has raised $1.7M, part of an ongoing, $2.35M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the fundi...

Seattle-based PivotLink, a provider of software-as-a-service for managing retail businesses, has raised another $13M in funding, according to the firm. The new funding came from Trident Capital, Emergence Capital Partners, Starvest Partners...

Seattle-based venture investor Maveron has promoted Jason Stoffer to Partner at the firm, the company said Thursday, from his prior role as Principal. Stoffer has been at Maveron since 2007, and has been involved in such companies as zulily...

Splunk, a developer of real time indexing software backed by Seattle's Ignition Partners, has filed for an IPO. Splunk said it is planning to raise up to $125M in an IPO as SPLK in an S-1 filing Thursday. Ignition owns about 20.7 percent of...

The Portland Seed Fund, the seed investing fund backed by the City of Portland, has just scored $200,000 more in funding from the Portland Development Commission for its investment efforts. According to The Oregonian, the fund now has $3M t...

Seattle-based venture capital investor Madrona Venture Group announced this morning that it has promoted Scott Jacobson, Len Jordan and Tim Porter to Managing Director. Jacobson has been at Madrona since 2007, Jordan joined in 2010, and Por...

Seattle-based Everymove, the health and fitness tracking service co-founded by Marcelo Calbucci and Russell Benaroya, has raised $375,000 in an angel funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. Source of the new fu...

Seattle-based Founder's Co-op, the early stage, angel fund led by TechStars Seattle's Andy Sack, has just raised $8M for its second fund, according to a regulatory filing from the fund. According to the filing, there were more than 66 inves...

Uptake Medical, the developer of treatment for emphysema, has raised a Series C round of funding, the firm said this morning. The company--which has offices in Seattle, but which recently moved its headquarters to Southern California--did n...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners is backing a Silicon Valley startup, Flotype, developing real time communications software for enterprise applications. Flotype said Thursday that it has raised $1.4M in a seed funding ro...

Portland-based Vizify, which is working on a service it says will create a highly visual, interactive profile of users based on their social media usage, has raised $1.2M in a seed funding round. The round included Jonathan Sposato (Picnik)...

Seattle-=based Scope 5, a provider of web-based software for managing environmental sustainability and energy data, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised a first round of outside funding. Size of the round was not announced. The firm ...

Portland-based Cloudability, which develops cloud management software, announced today that it has raised $1.1M in a seed investment round. The round was led by Trinity Ventures and Walden VC, and also included local Portland angel investor...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Voyager Capital is looking to raise $125M in its fourth fund, Voyager Capital IV, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. Voyager has yet to gain any commitments for the new fund, according ...

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners has co-led a funding in a developer of social games, aimed at boosting employee wellness. According to Keas, it raised $6.5M in a Series B funding, led by Atlas Ventures and Ignition Partners, which will go ...

Beaverton-based Agilyx, a developer of a process to convert waste plastics into crude oil, said today that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Keating Capital, and also included prior investors Kleiner Per...

Redmond-based Digital Lifeboat, a provider of an online backup service, has raised another $1.0M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. Digital Lifeboat offers an unlimited cloud based backup service for PC users. Detail...

Kirkland-based Pirq, the mobile restaurant coupon site run by James Sun, said Thursday that it has raised $1.95M in a new round of funding. The funding came from Rally Capital. Pirq is Sun's latest startup, and offers users location-based d...

Xeround, a developer of cloud-based, MySQL database services, said today that it has raised $9M in a Series C found, which included local investors Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership. The firm--which had previously had its U.S. headq...

Seattle-based venture capital investor Maveron has backed a provider of pet insurance, Trupanion, which has its U.S. offices in Seattle but is based in Vancouver. Trupanion said it raised $9M, from Maveron's Highland Consumer Fund. Maveron ...

The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network said Tuesday that it is extending its deadline to apply for its Angel Oregon 2012 competition. The competition--which will award more than $200,000 in angel investment to the top company--looks to identify p...

Seattle-based Groove Biopharma, a biopharmaceuticals startup focused on microRNA, said Monday that it has raised $6M in a Series B funding. The firm--formerly known as Mirina--said the funding came from Alexandria Venture Investments, ARCH ...

Portland-based CrowdCompass, a developer of a customizable, mobile apps for conferences and events, said Thursday that it has raised $1.3M in a funding round. The round came from the Alliance of Angels and Oregon Angel Fund. CrowdCompass is...

Redmond-based Microsoft and GE said late Wednesday that they are creating a new, 50-50 joint venture, to aim at the healthcare IT business. According to the two companies, the new joint venture will be based in Redmond, and will incorporate...

In what looks to be a surge of cloud software investments, Seattle-based Ignition Partners has backed another cloud software firm today, Iron.io. Ignition is part of a $1.4M, seed funding round which was led by Baseline Ventures, and which ...

Bellevue-based DreamBox Learning, the developer of adaptive learning software for elementary school students, said today that it has raised $11M in a new funding round. The round came from Charter School Growth Fund, the fund run by Netflix...

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, has made an investment in Uber, the personalized private car service, via his investment arm today. Bezos Expeditions is one of the new investors in a $32M funding round for San Francisco-based Uber, w...

Seattle-based Amazon.com looks to be working on adding the ability for its Kindle reader to read PDF files today, as it made a strategic investment in Foxit, a developer of PDF creation and reading software. Foxit said that Amazon invested ...

Portland-based Puppet Labs, the developer of open source systems and server administration software, said today that VMware, Google, and Cisco have backed the firm in an $8.5M, Series C funding round. The round also included Kleiner Perkins...

Portland-based Urban Airship and Intel Capital announced yesterday that Intel Capital has made an investment in Urban Airship, as part of the earlier, $15.1M Series C funding the firm announced this month. Urban Airship had announced the de...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners is having a busy month, and is backing a developer of cloud management software, ServiceMesh, this time in Southern California. ServiceMesh said this morning that it raised $15M in a fund...

Portland-based Meridian, a developer of location-based, mobile software, said Monday that it has scored $1M in funding, from the Oregon Angel Fund and Bellingham Angels Group. Meridian develops location-based applications for iOS and Androi...

In its third investment in Silicon Valley this week, Seattle venture capital firm Ignition Partners has backed a 19-year old entrepeneur with big plans in the social gaming space. Ignition is one of a long list of investors in San Francisc...

Seattle-based Ignition Partners, in a busy week investing in Silicon Valley companies, has led an investment in San Francisco-based Parse, which develops mobile backend software. Parse announced Wednesday that it raised $5.5M in a funding r...

Bellevue-based Clipboard, a stealth mode startup developing a service to save and share web pages, has raised $1.43M in a funding round, from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, CrunchFund, Draper Fisher Jurveston, SV Angel, BEtaworks, Fir...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners is the lead on the investment in a Silicon Valley developer of "big data" software. According to Burlingame, California-based Cloudera, it just received $40M in a Series D round, led by F...

Seattle-based NanoString Technologies, a developer of life sciences tools, said today that it has raised $20M in a Series D equity funding round. The round came from GE, BioMed Ventures and Henri Termeer (former CEO of Genzyme Corporation),...

Portland-based Urban Airship, the developer of mobile applications, said today that it has raised $15.1M in a Series C funding round. The round included salesforce.com and Verizon, along with existing investors Foundry Group and True Ventur...

Seattle-based Vulcan Capital, the venture capital arm of Paul G. Allen, has led an investment in a Silicon Valley mobile advertising firm, 4INFO. 4INFO said Thursday that it has added $14M in an additional round of financing for the company...

Seattle-based real estate website Redfin said this morning that it has raised $14.8M in a new funding round. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners, and also included prior investors Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, Draper F...

Ashland, Oregon-based Brammo, the maker of electric motorcycles and electric vehicle technology, said today that it has raised $28M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Polaris Industries, and also included Alpine Energy and No...

Zaarly, the mobile, location-based marketplace spun out of Startup Weekend which has a number of Seattle connections, has raised $14.1M in a new funding round. The round came from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund, Sands Capital Ventur...

Seattle-based Impel Neuropharma, a developer of biomedical devices, has raised $500,000 in a Series B, angel funding round, the firm said Thursday. Names of those angel investors were not detailed. Impel Neuropharma is developing a medical ...

VisionGate, a developer of non-invasive tests for lung cancer, said today that it has raised $2M out of a $3M funding round. The firm, which has research and development offices in Seattle near the University of Washington, did not disclose...

Seattle-based Cozi, the developer of a family scheduling and coordination application and service, has raised $2.47M out of a $7.1M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Source of the new funding was not disclo...

Seattle-based Newline Software has raised $1.3M in a third round of funding, for its online data storage service, according to reports. The firm, which is headed by Kory Gill and Marius Nita, disclosed the funding to Reuters Friday. Both Gi...

Seattle-based Banyan Branch, a provider of social media marketing services, said this morning that it has raised $1.7M in a growth funding round. The funding came from Bob Gay (Huntsman Gay Global Capital), Bill Bryant (Draper Fisher Jurvet...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com have both re-upped their investment in a New York-based ad technology firm, Yieldex, Yieldex said this morning. Yieldex said it has raised $10M in a third round of funding, led by Triangle ...

Galena Biopharma, a new company borne out of the split of Worcester, Mass-based RXi Pharmaceuticals, said yesterday that it has set up shop in Portland, and received $.5M in an institutional funding round. RxI Pharmaceuticals, a publicly tr...

Bellevue-based Visible Technologies said this morning that it has added $4M in funding for the firm, from existing investors Investor Growth Capital, Ignition Partners, and Joe Grano. According to the firm, the funding will go to expand opp...

Bellevue-based Microsoft Corp. has made an investment in a developer of tools for placing search engine advertising. According to Silicon Valley-based ad technology firm Adchemy, it has inked a strategic deal with Microsoft Advertising, whe...

TechStars, the venture acceleration program which is run in the Seattle area by Andy Sack, said today that it has scored $24M in a new funding round, which will allow the group to invest up to $100,000 in each of its graduates. The firm sai...

Seattle-based Symform, which provides cloud data storage services, has raised $1.0M in a venture funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. The filing indicates the round is part of an ongoing, $1.5M funding effo...

Portland-based OpenSesame, a developer of an online, elearning marketplace, has raised $2M in a funding round, the firm announced this week. The funding round came from Harmony Investments, as well as funding from winning the Angel Oregon 2...

Bellevue-based RF Surgical Systems, a developer of systems used to keep track of surgical sponges within patients, said Tuesday that it has raised $12M in a new fundraising round. The round was led by Split Rock Partners, and also included ...

Bainbridge Island-based Avalara, a developer of e-commerce software used for managing sales tax collection, has raised another $7M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. The filing indicates the funding is an extension ...

Seattle-based Theraclone Sciences, a biotechnology firm focused on developing therapeutic antibodies for treating infectious disease and cancer, said Thursday that it has raised $10.6M in a Series B funding round. The round came from prior ...

Bellevue-based G2 Web Services, a provider of merchant compliance management and e-commerce risk management, said Tuesday that it has scored a strategic investment from Primus Capital. Size of the new investment round was not disclosed. G2 ...

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, and Seattle-based investor Ignition Partners have both invested in an online service which connects developers with application programming interfaces (APIs). According to Mashape, it has just landed $...

Seattle-based Tango Card, a firm which provides a more flexible gift card, has bumped its funding to $1.0M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. The filing indicates the company is in the process of raising $2.0M. No deta...

Kirkland-based Viableware, a developer of digital bill presentation software for restaurants, has raised $956,072 in an angel funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Viableware is headed by Joseph Snell. Viableware's ...

Seattle-based Centri Technology, a developer of technology for reducing mobile network congestion, has raised $1.5M more in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Centri ha...

Burbaby, BC-based Teradici, a developer of chipsets which enable the remote control of PC equipment over a network, has raised $15M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on the new round have not ye...

Bezos Expeditions, the venture capital arm of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is one of the investors in a 3D printer firm. MakerBot, a New York-based company developing low cost, 3D printing technology, said it raised $10M in a funding roun...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based ClearEdge Power, the manufacturer of fuel cell energy systems, announced this morning that it has raised $73.5M in a financing round. The round was a Series E funding, and was led by new investor Artis Capital Manage...

Vancouver, Washington-based nLight, a developer of high power, semiconductor lasers, said last week that it has raised $17.5M in a Series E financing round. The round brings the company's total raised to around $110M. nLight said the fundin...

Seattle-based Medify, a developer of a consumer health information service, said last week that it has launched the firm, and raised a total of $1.8M in a Series A funding. Medify develops an online service which helps patients probe a data...

Bothell-based NanoICE, a developer of food preservation technology, has raised nearly $2.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. According to the filing, the firm has raised $1,986,237 out of a $3.0M e...

Seattle-based search engine optimization firm SEOmoz, which is headed by Rand Fishkin, is reportedly looking to raised $25M in a funding round. The details of the search for funding came after an incorrect news post by VentureBeat, which sa...

BankSimple, which is developing a new "personal banking" service and has operations in Portland, said last week that it has raised $10M in additional funding. The funding came from IA Ventures, and also included new investor Shasta Ventures...

Portland-based AppFog, which develops a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to host PHP applications in the cloud, said Thursday that it has raised $8M in a funding round. The round was led by Ignition Partners, represented by Frank Artale. The ro...

Seattle-base venture capital firm Ignition Partners has backed a Silicon Valley software development firm, Couchbase. Couchbase said earlier this week that Ignition led its $14M, Series C funding round. Other investors in the round included...

Portland-based Cedexis, a developer of cloud performance monitoring and optimization software, said Wednesday that it has raised a round of funding worth $6M. The round came from Madrona Ventures and Advanced Technology Ventures both partic...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners is the lead investor in a New York-based developer of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software. New York-based Apprenda said Tuesday that it raised $10M in a Series B led by Ignition. The ro...

Seattle-based Lockerz, the social advertising firm headed by Kathy Savitt, said today that it has raised $36M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by DAG Ventures, and also included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Live nation...

Portland-based JanRain, the developer of OpenID and other identity management software, announced today that it has raised $15.5M in a financing round. The round was led by Emergence Capital Partners, and also included Anthem Venture Partne...

A former child prodigy who graduated from the University of Washington at the age of 12 with three degrees, Andrew Hsu, is behind Silicon Valley's latest startup, Airy Labs, which announced a funding round today. Hsu, who entered the Univer...

Bellevue-based ChoozOn, an online startup focused on deal discovery and social shopping, said today that it has raised $3.2M in a Series A angel funding. According to the firm, the round was led by Michael Orsak of Worldview Technology Part...

Seattle-based Simply Measured, the formerly known as Untitled Startup Inc., has raised $750,000 in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing form the firm. The funding came from Founders Co-Op and MHS Capital. The firm was co...

Seattle-based Lucid COmmerce, an advertising analytics company focused on television, said Friday that it has raised $8M in a Series C financing round. The round was led by Rho Ventures, and also included StarVest Partners, Positec USA, OVP...

Bend, Oregon-based InEnTec, a developer of waste-to-fuel energy technology, said this week that it has raised $20M in a funding round, part of a $69M fundraising effort. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The firm is developing pl...

Seattle-based SeniorHomes, the operator of an online service to help families and seniors find housing and healthcare, has raised $3M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by MentorTech Ventures. SeniorHomes was founded by All Star...

Seattle-based Varolii, which develops interactive voice, text, and email systems for corporations, said this morning that it has raised $8M in a Series D funding round. The round came from current investors BlueRun Ventures, Draper Fischer ...

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners has led an investment round in a developer of an online investment platform provider, Motif Investing. According to Motif, which is based in Silicon Valley, it has raised $20M in a Series B funding round. Th...

Kirkland-based INRIX, the provider of traffic information services, said today that it has raised $37M in a Series D funding round, led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers Green Growth Fund and August Capital. The firm, whose traffic data...

Seattle-based luxury handbag rental site Bag Borrow or Steal said yesterday that it has scored a new round of financing, worth $4M. The firm--which said it is changing its name from Avelle back to its original company name--said that the ne...

Seattle-based airfare and hotel price tracking service Yapta has just scored $5M in a strategic investment from Redmond-based Concur, the firms said today. According to Concur, the investment comes as part of an alliance where Concur will e...

Firms in Washington and Oregon raised $153.9M in venture capital investments, according to the latest numbers 60.8M in venture capital investments in Q2, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture...

Seattle-based LiveMocha, is looking to raise $7.5M in a Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm yesterday, and has so far inked $5.0M in the funding round. The firm, which operates a site focused on learning ...

A portfolio firm of Seattle-based Frazier Healthcare Ventures, has filed for an IPO this morning. Pleasanton, California-based Zeltiq Aesthetics, a developer of medical aesthetics technology for fat removal, has filed for an IPO on the NASD...

Seattle-based Swype, the developer of touch-screen keyboard input software, said Tuesday that it has added $2.5M to the firm's Series C financing round. The round came from existing investors Samsung Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Benaroy...

Seattle-based RealNetworks has invested in a social TV startup, Clipsync, the firm said this morning. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. According to Realnetworks, ClipSync is powering is online video and VIP programming ...

Kirkland-based Unsocial, a location-based, networking service for business professionals, has kicked off a new, fundraising effort aimed at netting the firm around $760,000, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. No details ...

Bellevue-based Moprise, a developer of mobile collaboration and sharing apps for the iPhone, has raised $500,000 in a funding round. The round included the Alliance of Angels. The firm's lead product is Coaxion, an iPhone app which allows w...

Seattle-based Amazon.com is the lead investor in a Silicon Valley data analytics startup. According to Campbell, California-based ParAccel, it has scored a new round of funding, led by Amazon.com. The round also included prior investors Men...

Seattle-based ,a href="http://www.payscale.com">PayScale, the online site which allows users to see what companies are paying their employees, said yesterday that it has raised a new round of financing. The $7M in funding was led by SAP Ven...

Seattle-based NanoString Technologies, the developer of genetic analysis hardware, appears to have kicked off an effort to raised $14M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm yesterday. The filing indicates t...

Redmond-based Puzzazz, a startup developing puzzles and puzzle games for the Kindle and online, said today that it has raised an angel round. The firm did not disclose the size of the round, however, GeekWire placed the round at $440,000. I...

Animoto, which operates an online service to help users to easily create video slideshows from their pictures and videos, has raised another $25M. The firm--which is backed by Amazon.com and Madrona Venture Group--said the new round was led...

Portland-based The Clymb, a daily deals site focused on outdoor products, said today that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by the Oregon Angel Fund and also included Walden Venture Capital, J. Allard, and un-...

Seattle-based Pressplane, the firm headed by Kelly Smith and which is behind both Inkd and Zapd, has raised $3.5M in funding from Madrona Venture Group, Second Avenue, and RealNetworks' Rob Glaser, the firm said today. Glaser joins the firm...

Seattle-based Atossa Genetics, a developer of molecular diagnostics for breast cancer, said this morning that it has raised $6.6M in a new funding round. Source of the new funding was not announced. The firm said the round was oversubscribe...

Redmond-based Glympse, which develops a location sharing application, said today that it has raised $7.5M in a series B funding round. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and Ignition Partners. The firm said the funding will go towards grow...

Seattle- and San Francisco-based Billing Revolution said this morning that it has scored a strategic investment from Citi Ventures, the investment arm of Citigroup. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Billing Revolution ...

Seattle-based Ignition Partners is the lead investor in a round for cloud systems management firm ScaleXtreme. According to ScaleXtreme, it just received an $11M, Series B investment led by Ignition's Frank Artale. ScaleXtreme's software is...

Seattle-based Optimum Energy, a developer of energy management software for the HVAC market, has scored another $5M in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Optimum E...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron, as well as Blue Nile and Zulily co-founder Mark Vadon, have made an investment in a handbag company which sells its handbags through in-home parties. According to Maveron and handbag firm Gigi Hil...

Seattle-based EquaShip, which operates a service to provide small and medium sized, e-commerce sellers with discounted shipping rates, said today that it has raised $900,000 in an investment round. Source of the new funding were angel inves...

Seattle-based Golazo, the developer of a sports energy drink, has raised $3.7M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding was not announced by the firm, however, Geekwire said the funding came from Starbucks Chairm...

Seattle-based Stratos Genomics said Wednesday that it has raised $2.1M in a new round of funding. The firm said the funding came from existing investors. The funding will go to continue development of the firm's DNA sequencing method, aimed...

Seattle-based buuteeq, which provides online marketing and advertising systems for independent hotels, announced today that it has raised $3.5M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Mike Galgon and Geoff Entress, and also includ...

Bellevue-based electronic design automation software firm Phyware has renamed itself Nimbic, set up a Bay Area headquarters, and raised another $6.9M in funding, the firm revealed Thursday. Nimbic said that it has raised $6.(m in a funding ...

Daily deals site Groupon has filed for an IPO, offering up a possible early payout for Seattle venture firm Maveron. According to Groupon, via a filing today with the SEC, it is looking to raised up to $750M in an IPO under the symbol GRPN....

Seattle-based ValueAppeal, which runs an online property tax appeal service, said today that it has raised $1.6M in a new funding round. The funding came from existing investors. The company said the new funding will go towards additional h...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Act-On Software, a developer of cloud-based, marketing automation software, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series C financing round. The round came from Trinity Ventures. According to the firm, the funding w...

Portland-based Shopigniter, which develops social commerce software to help companies sell products via Facebook and other social channels, has raised $8M in funding. The new funding round came from Trinity Ventures and Madrona Venture Grou...

Bellevue-based Ignition Ventures has put its muscle behind a new startup, BlueStacks, developing technology to run Android applications on Windows. According to BlueStacks, which is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, it raised $7.6M in it...

Seattle-based Adapx, which develops digital pen capture software, is announcing this morning that it has raised $5M in a new venture funding round. The round include existing investors OVP Venture Partners, Paladin Capital Group, and Pelion...

Seattle-based Resolve Therapeutics, a new startup developing treatments for lupus, said today that it has raised $2M in a initial close of a Series A funding round. The round came from New Science Ventures and Easton Capital. Resolve Therap...

Seattle-based Billing Revolution, a developer of mobile payment technology, has raised $7.3M as part of a $7.6M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. According to the filing, the funding came from 13 investors. ...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based ClearEdge Power has raised $5.0M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The filing did not indicate the source of the new funds. ClearEdge develops fuel cell energy equipme...

Seattle-based OVP Venture Partners has re-upped its investment in renewable fuels firm Verdezyne, according to the company. Verdezyne, which is based in California, said it has scored a new round of funding. The new round included BP Altern...

Bezos Expeditions, the investment firm of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has backed Burnaby, British Columbia-based General Fusion. General Fusion, which says it is commercializing fusion energy technology, said it raised $19.5M in a Series B r...

Redmond-based MicroVision, the developer of pico display projection technology, said today that it has secured a $40m committed equity financing facility. The firm said the deal will allow it to sell up to $40M in its common stock to Azimut...

Techstars Seattle, the business mentoring and acceleration effort being run locally by Andy Sack, has scored a top spot in a listing of top venture acceleration programs in the US. The list, developed by Aziz Gilani from DFJ Mercury as part...

Seattle-based ExtraHop Networks, which develops application performance management tools for enterprise networks, confirmed its recent fundraising Tuesday afternoon. The firm confirmed that it had raised $14M in a Series B funding. The roun...

Redmond-based VacuPractor, a developer of a device for lower back pain treatment, has scored $25,000 from the ZINO Life Fund, the ZINO Society said Monday evening. The ZINO Society said the funding came out of a presentation at the March li...

Seattle-based ExtraHop, a developer of network appliances for managing application performance and health, has raised $14.0M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. The new round was led by Meritech Capi...

Seattle-based SignalSet, a developer of wireless infrastructure products, said today that it has raised $6M in a funding round from Vanedge Capital, Point B Capital, Globespan Capital Partners and Razorback Capital. The firm said its softwa...

Seattle-based Sewichi, a startup developing mobile analytics software, said today that it has raised a seed round of funding. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group. Sewichi was founded and is he...

Medford, Oregon-based UpWind Solutions, a provider of operations and maintenance solutions for utility-scale wind projects, has raised $10M in new funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates the funds ...

Seattle-based Decide.com has scored $6M in a Series B funding, the firm said today. The firm, which is developing a consumer electronics shopping service, said the funding was led by Maveron, and also included Madrona Venture Group and ange...

Redmond-based Concur said this morning that it has invested $40M in an Indian travel site, ClearTrip, as part of a strategic alliance. Concur said the deal both includes the investment plus a marketing partnership with the firm, allowing it...

The tally of venture capital investments in the Pacific Northwest for Q1 was released this evening by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters, showing...

Seattle-based Mirador Biomedical, a medical device firm, said this week that it has raised $1.5M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by WRF Capital and Summit Capital. The firm said the funds will go towards sales of its first tw...

Seattle-based Lockerz, the social commerce and marketing firm headed by Kathy Savitt, has raised $30M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. The funding is part of an ongoing $45M fundraising effort for ...

Bellevue-based InfoSpace announced Monday that it has added Steve Hooper, founding partner of venture capital firm Ignition Partners, to its board of directors. Hooper is the eighth board member for the firm, which says it is also seeking a...

Spokane-based ReliOn, a developer of fuel cell technology for backup power, said this week that it has raised an additional $6M in equity financing. The firm said the funding came from existing investors, but did not say which investors par...

online daily deals site LivingSocial said today that it has raised $400M in an investment from both new and existing investors. The new funding--which comes just four months after Seattle-based Amazon.com put $175M into the firm--brings the...

Portland-based Zapproved, a developer of software-as-a-service focused on compliance, said Monday that it has raised $1.45M in a Series B funding round. The firm said the funding came from a group of angel investors, including Steven Singh,...

Seattle-based Mpire the online ad verification and optimization provider, is announcing today that it has changed its named to AdXpose, and raised $3M in a funding round. The firm's flagship product is AdXpose. The new funding was led by Dr...

Tigard, Oregon-based Agilyx, a firm developing processes to convert waste plastic into oil, has raised $22M in funding in a Series B round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and also included Waste Managing, Inc. and To...

Bellevue-based Visible Technologies, which develops services for social media brand monitoring, said today that it has raised $6M in a new funding round. The round came from current investors Investor Growth Capital (IGC), Centurion Holding...

Seattle-based Z2Live, a developer of mobile games, has raised $2.5M in a funding. The firm had earlier announced a Series B investment, but had not disclosed the amount of the funding. The details on the funding amount came via a regulatory...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based NexPlanar, a provider of technology for the semiconductor manufacturing industry, has raised $10.1M, part of a new $10.5M funding round for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesday. Details...

Seattle-based Bobber Interactive, the developer of finance-focused, games for kids to help them save and manage their money, has raised $1.2M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. Bobber Interactive's s...

Bellevue-based Physware, a developer of electromagnetic modeling software for the verification and design of chips, packages, and boards in the area of microprocessor, memory, and other electronic designs, has raised $6.9M in new funding, a...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group has led a round in a Vancounver, BC-based online retailer of custom menswear, Indochino. According to Indochino, it has raised $4M in a Series A round, led by Madrona and also including Burda Digital Vent...

Seattle-based Thinkfuse, a new startup out of the TechStars Seattle program, has raised $500,000, according to multiple reports. The funding came from angel investors including Andy Sack, Ali and Hadi Partovi, and others....

Bellevue-based Coinstar said last night that it has made an investment in SoloHealth, a developer of health screening and information kiosks. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Coinstar said the move was made because it i...

Redmond-based OwnZones Media Network, which says it is developing a digital content delivery and subscription platform, announced today that it has raised $500,000 in an initial round of funding. Source of the funding was not disclosed. The...

Seattle-based Highlighter, a developer of in-line commenting systems for web sites, has scored new funding. The firm said it has raised $300,000 in a second round of funding for the company. Highlighter is headed by Josh Mullineaux and is a...

Seattle-based Ignition Partners has re-upped its investment in real time, social search service Topsy. According to Topsy, which is based in San Francisco, it has raised $15M in a Series C funding round. That round included prior backers Bl...

Seattle-based Zaarly, a new startup developing a service to help connect buyers and sellers in real-time marketplace using mobile phones, has scored $1M in funding from Ashton Kutcher and a number of other angel investors. The firm is heade...

Seattle-based Tier 3, a developer of software-as-a-service platforms, announced this morning that it has raised $8.5M in a Series A funding round. The round came from Ignition Capital and Madrona Venture Group. As part of the funding, Ignit...

Seattle-based Ignition Partners is the lead investor in DailyBooth, a real-time, photo blogging web site based in San Francisco. DailyBooth said Ignition led its latest, $6M funding round, which also included Sequoia Capital. DailyBooth all...

Seattle-based HomePipe, a developer of digital content sharing services, said Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $1.1M in a Series A funding round. The round came from a group of angel investors. The firm said the funding will go towards ...

Corvallis, Oregon-based Columbia Power Technologies reports today that it has scored private funding for the firm's wave energy conversion technology, along with support from the U.S. government. The firm did not detail any information on t...

Bellevue-based Savers, the operator of a chain of discount thrift stores, has raised $21.93M in conjunction with the acquisition of an un-named business, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. Details of the funding were not...

Seattle-based Powerit Solutions, a provider of energy management technology for the smart grid market, said yesterday that it has raised $5M in a new funding round. The round was led by Black Coral Capital, and also included its four existi...

Seattle-based venture firm Madrona Venture Group is the lead investor in an Internet ad targeting firm, MaxPoint Interactive. According to MaxPoint, which is based in North Carolina, Madrona led an $8M funding round for the firm. The fundin...

Kirkland-based BigTip, a stealth mode firm currently in alpha, has raised $475,000 out of an ongoing $625,000 in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. BigTip is headed by Matt Rowlen, who has previously served as an e...

Rob Glaser, the founder of RealNetworks, has booted up a new startup, SocialEyes, focused on video chat with friends and others. The new startup--based in San Francisco--is launching at the DEMO conference this week. SocialEyes is backed by...

Portland- and San Francisco-based startup Green Goose, which is in the midst of developing wireless sensors which connect to an online service for tracking your life, has scored $100,000 in investment. The investment was announced at the La...

Bellevue-based CupidsPlay said today that it has launched a new, dating website which combines online dating with social games. The firm, which said it also received seed funding from venture capital investor Clearstone Ventures, says is it...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Inovise, a developer of medical instruments being used for cardiology, has raised $4.4M in an ongoing, $5.0M funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing from the firm. No details on the funding have been a...

Seattle-based doxo, the provider of online billing and bill management services headed by Steve Shivers, said this morning that Thomas Layton, the former CEO of OpenTable, participated in the firm's latest venture capital funding round. Dox...

Seattle-based doxo, the startup which is looking to help users manage their online bills, and which hopes to make it easier for firms to switch users over to electronic billing, announced tonight that it has raised $10M in a Series B financ...

Port Orchard, Washington-based Millennium Airship, a firm which says it is developing a lighter-than-air craft, has raised $10M, in what the firm indicates is an ongoing effort to raise $110M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by ...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron has joined the list of investors in daily deals site Groupon, Maveron said Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Maveron purchased shares of the firm from employees and existing...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has put $2M into a Silicon Valley, social networking and education firm Inigral, the firm said today, as part of a $4M, series B funding round. According to Inigral, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in...

Seattle-based Tippr, the developer of group buying software and technology headed by Martin Tobias, has raised $4.0M in a funding round. The funding came to light via a regulatory filing. No details on the funding have been announced by the...

Seattle-based Datacastle, a provider of remote backup software, said this morning that it has raised $2m in a new venture capital funding round. The round was led by CM Capital and Haag Ltd, two Australian venture firms. Datacastle said the...

Bellevue-based Ignition Venture Management announced this morning that it has added Frank Artale as a Managing Director and general partner at the firm. Artale was CEO of Consera, an Ignition portfolio firm, and also served at XenSource, Re...

Seattle-based Pressplane, a stealth mode firm backed by Curious Office Partners, has upped its funding by $400,000, according to Curious Office. Curious Office said the investment brings its total investment into Pressplane to $2.2 million....

San Francisco-based Hipmunk, an online travel booking site, revealed today that it has raised $4.2M in funding from a slew of Seattle investors. The round was led by Ignition Partners, and also included Rich Barton and Erik Blachford of Exp...

Seattle-based PhysioSonics, a firm developing noninvasive neurological monitors, said this week that it has scored a Series B funding round. The round was led by Kirby Cramer, former Chairman of SonoSite, as well as undisclosed strategic in...

Seattle-based Korrio, a provider of sports automation software for online sports clubs, announced this morning that it has raised $3.3M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Ignition Partners and other private investors. According to...

Crowd Factory, a provider of social marketing applications which has its roots in Portland, announced today that it has raised $6.5M in funding. The firm, which is now based in San Francisco, said the funding was led by Storm Ventures and a...

Cirtas Systems, a Silicon Valley enterprise cloud storage products firm which is backed by Amazon, and uses Amazon's S3 storage service for its cloud storage, has gained new funding today. According to Cirtas, it has raised $22.5M in a Seri...

Seattle-based Decide, a stealth mode firm which says it is building a "revolutionary new shopping service" for electronics, announced this morning that it has raised $2.5M in a Series A funding from Madrona Venture Group and Seattle-area an...

Portland-based Elemental Technologies, a provider of massively parallel video processing products based on graphical processing unit (GPU) cores, said today that it has scored new funding from stratic investor Citrix Systems. The firm also ...

Seattle-based ZINO Society said this week that the winner of its 2010 $50,000 ZINO Marketplace Investment Forum Fund is J&D's Foods, Inc., a consumer products firm which develops the Bacon Salt, Baconnaise and BaconPOP microwave popcorn. Th...

Companies in Oregon and Washington raised a total of $152.8M in venture capital in Q4, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association. The numbers were from the quarterly MoneyTr...

Microsoft's Bill Gates has backed a Texas developer of software and services for the oil and gas exploration market, NEOS GeoSolutions, according to NEOS today. NEOS said that it has landed $60M in funding from Energy Capital Group and Bill...

Seattle-based Amazon.com is one of the lead investors in Sonian, a Massachusetts-based developer of cloud archiving services. According to Sonian, it raised $9M in a Series B funding led by strategic investors Amazon.com and Webroot. Other ...

Seattle-based Cheezburger, the Internet publishing site which runs I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, and other humorous Internet content and meme sites, announced this evening that it has raised $30M in an investment round. The firm, heade...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based ClearEdge Power, which develops fuel cell energy equipment, has scored $1M in an investment from a gas utility. According to utility Southern California Gas Co., it made the investment in ClearEdge as a "strategic ad...

Seattle-based Adapx, developer of software used to capture handwriting from digital pens and turn them into electronic data, has raised $2.0M in additional funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Details on the fundin...

Portland-based PHPfog, a developer of cloud-based PHP software hosting tools, said last night that it has raised $1.8M in a funding round from Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital and Founder's Co-op. PHPfog develops a cloud hosting e...

Lakewood, Washington-based Thrift Recycling Management, a seller of used books and consumer goods on the Internet, has raised $8.5M in a funding round, according to investment bank Cascadia Capital. Cascadia said the funding was led by Ques...

Seattle-based Skytap, a developer of cloud automation software, has raised $10M in a Series C funding round. The new funding came from OpenView Venture Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Ignition Partners, and the Washington Research Foundati...

Seattle-based Dashwire, a developer of mobile backup and migration applications, has raised nearly $1.0M in new debt funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. According t...

Seattle-based EnergySavvy, which operates an online site to help homeowners save energy and reduce their utility bills, has raised $1.1M more in funding, according to multiple reports. New funding came from the Northwest Energy Angels and o...

Bellevue-based Xenon Arc said this morning that it has raised $15M in a funding round. According to the firm, the round came from private equity firm Weston Presidio. Stealthy Xeon Arc said it is working on technology to enable "business pr...

Seattle- and New York-based Stereo Scope, the parent firm of Kapitall, has raised $7.3M in new funding for its new web-based investment software. The firm is announcing the investment tomorrow. Kapitall said it raised $7.3M, plus converted ...

Seattle-based travel site Yapta has upped a recent, convertible debt funding round to $700,000, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. The firm--which provides tracking of airfare for travelers--has not released any detai...

Bellevue-based Spoken Communications, a developer of speech recognition technology for the call center market, said today that it has raised $4.0M in a strategic investment from Ignition Growth Capital. Spoken said the funds will go towards...

Redmond-based Xenon Arc, a stealth startup headed by Chad Steigers, has raised $6.9M in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Stiegers foremly headed ChemPoint. Th...

Kirkland, Washington-based OVP Venture Partners is the lead investor in a developer of 4G/3G routers, CradlePoint Technology. According to CradlePoint today, OVP, in an investment headed by Gerry Langeler, has led a $7.5M, Series B funding ...

Portland-based JanRain, a developer of single sign-on technology, has raised $1.0M in a debt funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. JanRain is ventu...

Seattle-based Docusign, the developer of electronic signature software-as-a-service, said today that it has raised $27M in a Series C investment round. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, and also included Sigma Partners, Ignition ...

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners has seen a big win in its investment portfolio today, as Salesforce.com announced it is buying Heroku, in a deal worth $212M in cash. Ignition was the lead investor in a Series B funding for Heroku in May. H...

Seattle-based ValueAppeal, which operates an online, property tax appeal service, said today that it has raised $560,000. The funding came from individual investors. ValueAppeal said the new funding comes on top of an earlier, $1M in initia...

The acquisition yesterday of Beaverton, Oregon-based RetailMeNot.com, an online coupons and deals site, looks to be worth around $87.0M, based on a regulatory filing from acquiring firm WhaleShark Media. According to the regulatory filing, ...

Amazon.com has invested $175M in LivingSocial, an online daily deals and events site based in Washington, D.C. LivingSocial said that the investment came alongside an $8M investment from LightSpeed Venture Partners. LivingSocial offers up d...

Snoqualmie, Wash.-based Valuevine, a developer of social media and location-based marketing software for brands, said Tuesday that it has raised a new round of investment. Amount of the funding was not disclosed, however, a recent regulator...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Avnera, a developer of low power semiconductors for the wireless audio and video market, has raised $10M in a equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the new funding was not disc...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron has re-upped in a Silicon Valley online education firm, Altius Education. According to Altius Thursday, it has raised $18.6M in a Series B for the firm, led by Charles River Ventures and also inclu...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron has re-upped its investment in PayNearMe, a firm which allows users to pay for online purchases via cash payments at retailers. Maveron was one of the return investors in a $16M round of financing,...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Act On Software, a developer of marketing automation software, has raised $4M in a funding from U.S. Venture Partners and Voyager Capital. The startup is headed by Raghu Raghavan, who was a co-founder of Responsys. A...

Seattle-based Vulcan Inc., the investment firm of Paul G. Allen, said this morning that it has named Paul Ghaffari as the Chief Investment Officer of Vulcan Capital. Ghaffari was most recently at Palatine Hill Partners, an investment firm h...

Kirkland- and Portland-based OVP Venture Partners can chalk up another exit among its portfolio firms today, after Complete Genomics priced its IPO, saying it will debut on the NASDAQ Global Market tomorrow. Complete Genomics said it is sel...

Seattle-based PhotoRocket, which is developing simple photo sharing tools for the web, has upped its initial funding to almost $1.35M, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The firm is the latest venture of Scott Lipsky, co-founder ...

Yesterday, Portland-based Urban Airship (www.urbanairship.com) announced it just closed a new $5.4M Series B round of funding. We caught up with Urban Airship's CEO, Scott Kveton, to hear more about the company as well as the funding round....

Bellevue-based Apptio, a developer of software for the financial management of corporate data centers, is announcing today that it has scored $3.5M in new funding from Cisco. The firm said the funding closes out its Series C round, which it...

Portland-based Urban Airship, a developer of software used for real-time push notification to mobile application users, is announcing tonight that it has raised $5.4M in a Series B round of funding, bringing the company's total raised to $6...

Kirkland, Washington-based OVP Venture Partners is the lead investor in a new round of funding for carbon trading firm Carbonflow, based in San Francisco. According to Carbonflow, OVP lead its $4.2M Series B funding round, which also includ...

Seattle-based Nearlyweds, which operates an online site targeted at engaged couples in the process of wedding planning, said Thursday that it has acquired OneWed, an online wedding planning site which also operates WeddingPreParty.com. Fina...

Seattle-based Omeros Corporation, the biopharmaceuticals firm focused on treating inflammation and disorders of the central nervous system, said yesterday that it has raised $25M, including $20M from Vulcan Capital, and $5M in a grant from ...

Seattle-based Lockerz has rolled out what it calls a "social commerce" platform, which it describes as a hybrid of e-commerce and social networking. The firm, which is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Liberty Media, said its n...

Amazon.com is backing a new, $250M investment fund from venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers today, as a major investor. According to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, it has established the $250M fund to specifically invest in ent...

Seattle-based Lockerz, an online site which gives users points for watching videos and music, shopping, and for other online activities; and Jive Software, which is now located in San Francisco but has its roots and operations in Portland, ...

Seattle-based RPI, which provides manufacturing and fulfillment for on-demand, printed products, has raised $5M in an investment round. The round came from Portland-based private equity firm Riverlake Partners. According to Riverlake, the i...

Seattle-based Optify, the provider of search engine optimization and social media software run by Brian Goffman, said today that it has raised another $6.1M. The funding came from Triangle Peak Partners, which led the round, along with curr...

Seattle-based Off & Away, which operates an online auction site for travel packages, said Tuesday that it has raised $2M in a funding round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group. Off & Away is headed by Doug Aley. ...

Seattle-based PayScale, an online site which provides information about wages and pay for users at different companies, has scored a line of working capital from lender Leader Ventures. Leader, which did not disclose the size or terms of th...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron has snagged a former executive of social gaming firm Zynga as its newest entrepreneur-in-residence. According to Maveron, it has added Andrew Trader, the former Vice President of Sales and Business...

The latest venture capital numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters, was released this evening, finding that the Pacific Northwest saw $193.4M investments in Q3. Ac...

Seattle-based Avelle, which operates Bag, Borrow, or Steal, the online service which allows consumers to rent expensive women's handbags, has raised $1M in a debt funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The debt ...

Seattle-based Torrent Technologies, a developer of software used to streamline the policy and claims processing of flood insurance, said Wednesday afternoon that it has raised a new round of funding. Financial terms of the round were not di...

Predixion Software, a developer of business analytics software which has its development offices in Redmond, said Wednesday that it has raised $5M in a funding round. The firm, whose CTO, Jamie MacLennon was most recently directing Microsof...

Former Portland startup Carwoo, an online car buying site, said today it has raised a Series A round of funding, bringing its total raised to $6M. The funding is bittersweet for the Portland area, where CarWoo was founded in 2008, as the fi...

Bellevue-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners has seen an exit in its portfolio, via the acquisition of Fat Spaniel. Fat Spaniel, which makes software used for managing renewable power assets, was acquired by Power-One, a maker of p...

Portland-based Giftango, which operates an online virtual gift card business, said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series B funding round. The firm said the new funding came from Taylor Corporation, and also included participation ...

AppNexus, a developer online advertising exchange and management technology, has scored a new investment round, including investments from Microsoft, AppNexus said today. According to New York-based AppNexus, it received $50M in Series C fu...

The "small investment" in Seattle-based Redfin by CarMax CEO Austin Ligon last week was worth $269,495, according to recent regulatory filings from the real estate site. The funding looks to be an extension of the last funding announced by ...

Seattle-based Redfin said Thursday afternoon that founder and former CarMax CEO, Austin Ligon, has joined the company's board of directors. According to Redfin, the addition of Ligon to the board also includes a "small investment" in the co...

Seattle-based Amazon.com is backing a new, enterprise data storage firm, Cirtas, as part of a trio of investors backing the new firm. According to Cirtas, it is developing storage appliances which provides enterprise storage, but which use ...

Seattle-based Buuteeq, a firm developing mobile applications, search engine, search marketing, and providing digital marketing services for hotels, has raised $1.18M in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm F...

Seattle-based Smartsheet, a provider of online project management and collaboration tools, said Thursday afternoon that it has raised an additional $1.5M in funding. The Series C round was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included its...

Bothell-based Winshuttle, a developer of software which enables users to use SAP directly from tools like Microsoft Excel, announced today that it has raised $12M in a growth equity round. According to the company, the funding came from Sum...

Seattle-based Centri, headed by Vaughan Emery, said this week that it has launched a new effort to bring network acceleration technology to market, to help ease mobile network congestion caused by smart phones. According to Centri Technolog...

Bellevue-based DataSphere Technologies, a developer of software used to manage the content and sales of hyperlocal web sites, said this morning that it has raised $10M in its Series C funding round. The round was led by OVP Venture Partners...

Portland, Oregon-based SweetSpot Diabetes Care, a startup focus on using data from patient devices to improve diabetes care, said Tuesday that it has raised a round of initial funding. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The round came...

Seattle-based Stratos Genomics, a developer of DNA sequencing equipment for genome analysis and molecular diagnostics, announced Tuesday afternoon that it has raised $4M in a Series A funding. According to the firm, the round was led by Fis...

Portland-based Tyfone, a developer of mobile banking and contactless payment technology, said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series B funding round. According to the firm, the new funding came from HDFC Holdings, Polaris Software ...

Seattle-based MOD Systems, which develops retail kiosks for distributing music and other digital media, said Thursday that it has raised $6M in a Series B funding round. The round came from existing investors. According to MOD Systems, the ...

Seattle-based RealNetworks said Thursday that it has added Janice Roberts, a managing director at venture capital firm Mayfield Fund, to its board of directors. Roberts has also served at 3Com Ventures, 3Com, and other firms. RealNetworks s...

This morning, Bellevue-based Apptio (www.apptio.com) announced it had raised $16.5M in a Series C funding round for the firm, as it looks to expand and grow--despite still sitting on funding from its last rounds. To gain more insight into w...

Seattle-based Apptio said this morning that it has raised $16.5M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Shasta Ventures, and also included current investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Madrona Venture Group. Appti...

Redwood City-based EndoGastric Solutions, a developer of treatments for upper gastrointestinal diseases, including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), announced today that it has raised $30M in a Series F financing round. The firm also ...

Seattle-based Reklaim, which recycles tires to extract oil and other materials for re-use, has raised $6.0M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. The filing indicates the funding is part of a $6.6M fun...

Seattle-based NeuroVista, a developer of medical technology for managing and treating epilepsy, has raised $21.4M in a combination of equity and debt. According to the firm, it has raised $16.5M in equity, in a round led by GBS Venture Part...

Two Amazon.com veterans who worked on the Amazon EC2 service have just scored another $15M in venture capital funding. According to Nimbula, the startup started by Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, the new round was led by Accel Partners...

Kirkland, Washington-based NeuralIQ, a provider of information security services and products, has raised $5.2M, as part of an ongoing $6.0M fundraising, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. No details of the funding have be...

Seattle-based ZINO Society said Friday that it will be awarding $100,000 to two companies determined by a panel of investors and others on its 5th annual ZINO Zillionaire Investment Forum. The firm said it will give $50,000 for Best Technol...

Portland-based Tyfone, a developer of mobile, contactless payment products, has raised around $4.9M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the equity funding was not disclosed. Tyfone has pr...

Bellevue- and New York-based Oggifinogi, a firm developing products for rich media advertising, announced Thursday that it has raised $2M in a Series A funding round. The firm said the round was led by Greycroft Partners, and also included ...

Kirkland-based WebTuner, a stealth mode firm headed by former InfoSpace COO Bernee Strom, has raised $1.7M out of an ongoing, $2.7M funding round, according to a regulatory filing this week. No details on the firm or funding have been annou...

Seattle-based SpaceCurve, a developer of massively parallel database technology, has raised $1.1M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing. Details on the new funding round have not been disclosed by the firm. SpaceCurve is head...

Redmond-based Microvision, a developer of pico-projection technology, said late Tuesday that it has received an equity financing commitment to raise up to $60M in sales of its common stock, to Azimuth Opportunity Ltd. The firm said the 24-m...

Seattle-based Yapta, which operates an online site for tracking airline and hotel prices for travelers, is in the midst of raising $650,000 in a convertible round of funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The funding ...

Bellevue-based DepotPoint, which operates online, web-based software for managing short sales and foreclosures for distressed real estate, has raised $2.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. No detai...

Bellevue-based Coinstar announced this morning that it is investing in ecoATM, a California developer of automated kiosks for cell phone recycling. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Coinstar said that ecoATM was the winn...

Seattle- and San Francisco-based Telekenex, a provider of managed internet, SIP trunking, and other IP telephony products, has raised $5.5M in debt, according to debt provider Wellington Financial LP. According to Wellington, the funding wi...

Bend, Oregon-based G5, a provider of search engine marketing solutions to mid-sized, local businesses, said today that it has closed $15M in its first round of institutional financing. The round was led by Volition Capital. According to G5,...

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) released its quarterly report on venture capital in the state Monday, saying that the venture capitalists surveyed by the group are "cautiously optimistic" in their outlook for the indus...

Mercer Island-based Korrio, a stealth mode firm in the online youth sports registration area, has raised $3.3M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. No details on the funding, or source of the funds were not di...

Seattle-based Zulily, the private sales site run by Darrell Cavens, said Wednesday that it has raised $6M in a new funding round. The round was led by August Capital, and also included Maveron, which had previously backed the firm. The new ...

One of the portfolio firms of OVP Venture Partners has filed for an IPO. According to an S-1 filing Friday, California-based Complete Genomics, a provider of human genome sequencing products, is looking to raised up to $86.25M in an IPO. Th...

Seattle-based Total Living Choices, which operates an online guide to nursing, assisted living, and other senior living facilities, has raised $2.2M in a funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Thursday. According to the filin...

Seattle-based Gist, the provider of software which helps users pull more information about their contacts into their email software, has raised another $4.0M in funding from Vulcan Capital and the Foundry Group. The funding had been widely ...

Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment firm of Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, has seen an exit out of its investment portfolio this week, with the acquisition of San Francisco-based Kongregate. Videogame retailer GameStop acquired Kongregate ...

Seattle-based HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals, a firm developing small molecule therapeutic treatments for sickle cell disease, beta thalassemia, and cancer, said today that it has raised and additional $4M in its Series B round, bringing the tot...

Portland-based Elemental Technologies, a developer of massively parallel video processing products, announced today that it has raised $7.5M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Steamboat Ventures, the venture capital arm of Wa...

Seattle-based Immune Design Corp., a biotech firm focused on treatments for infectious disease and cancer, said today that it has raised $32M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by ProQuest Investments, and also included current ...

Seattle-based RPI, which provides automated manufacturing and fulfillment for customized, on-demand printed products, said today that it has closed on a financing round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The firm said the funding cam...

Jive Software, the developer of enterprise social networking software, has made its first major move after transfering its headquarters from Portland--raising $30M in funding from Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers...

Portland-based Puppet labs, a developer of data center automation tools, said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and also includes True Ventures and Radar ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) have released their quarterly venture capital numbers for Q2, reporting that venture deals in the US in the quarter totaled $6.5 billion. According to the two, using...

Seattle-based AdReady, a provider of display advertising software, said today that it has added Madrona's Brian McAndrews to its board of directors, and also appointed aQuantive co-founder Mike Galgon to its advisory board. AdReady announce...

Seattle-based DocuSign, a developer of software-as-a-service for capturing electronic signatures, has raised $2M in a debt round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding has not been released. DocuSign has...

An analysis of the venture capital, angel, and private equity deals in the Pacific Northwest, finds that there was around $385M in investments in Q2 2010. The amount was a slight increase from Q2 of last year, when only $355.48M was investe...

Seattle-based Uptake Medical, a developer of medical devices for treating emphysema, announced today that it has raised $17.5M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Maverick Capital, and also included prior investors GBS Venture...

Seattle-based Lockerz.com, a new startup focused on social commerce, said today that it has officially launched, with backing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Liberty Media. The firm said it is targeted at men and women between 13-...

Seattle-based Symform, a provider of cloud-based, backup and recovery services, said today that it has raised $4M in a financing round. The round was led by Longworth Venture Partners, and also included OVP Ventures. Longworth's Nilanjana B...

Seattle-based Calistoga Pharmaceuticals, a developer of treatments for cancer and inflammatory disease, said today that it has raised $40M more in a Series C financing round. The round was led by Quogue Capital, and also included prior inve...

Seattle-based Presage Biosciences, the spinout of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has upped its total funding to $3.8M, up from the $3.1M the firm announced in March. The additional funding was revealed through a regulatory fili...

Seattle-based DigitalScirocco, which operates an online, auction-based marketplace for buying content for web properties, has raised $1.1M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding was not discl...

Seattle-based TeachTown, a developer of products for computer-assisted treatment for autistic and special needs children, has issued $1.569M in equity, according to a filing by the firm today. The filing indicates that the equity was either...

Seattle-based Opscode, a developer of automation software for the cloud computing market, said today that it has raised $11M in a Series B funding round. According to Opscode, the round was led by Battery Ventures, and also included Draper ...

Portland-based Elemental Technologies, which develops video processing products which take advantage of off-the-shelf graphical processing units, has raised $7.15M as part of a $9.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the fi...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based ClearEdge Power, a developer of fuel-cell based alternative electric generation products, has now raised around $7.75M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Details on the f...

Bellevue, Washington-based TerraPower, a firm developing nuclear energy technology, has raised $35M in a Series B round, according to the firm's investors. According to Charles River Ventures, it invested in the new funding round for TerraP...

Seattle-based Runic Games, maker of the role playing game Torchlight, has raised $7.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Source of the new funding has not been announced by the company. Runic was founde...

Last month, Seattle-based MicroGREEN Polymers, a developer of plastics technology, announced that it had raised $6.9M in a funding round from Waste Management, WRF Capital, Northwest Energy Angels, and other investors. We recently caught up...

Kirkland, Wash.-based venture capital firm OVP has re-upped its investment in Silicon Valley firm Tigo Energy, as part of a new round. According to Tigo, OVP participated in a new $10M funding round in the company, which is developing photo...

Seattle-based BigDoor Media, which develops a platform which allows any web site to implement their own badges, leaderboards, virtual currency, and other "game mechanics", has raised $5M in a Series B funding. The funding was led by Foundry...

Seattle-based RevenueLoan said Monday afternoon that it has raised $6M in a venture funding round, from Voyager Capital, Summit Capital, and Founder’s Co-op. The firm was founded by Andy Sack of Founder's Co-op and TechStars. The firm said ...

Bellevue-based Onehub, a developer of online, software-as-a-service for sharing files and project collaboration, has raised another $750,000 as part of an ongoing, $1.5M round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. No detail...

Predixion Software, a stealth mode software with its roots at Microsoft, has raised $800,000 as part of a larger $3.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing today. The firm, which has offices in Redmond, says that one of its co-fo...

Bainbridge Island-based Avalara, a developer of software for managing the collection of sales taxes, has raised $4.9M as part of an ongoing, $9.4M funding round. Source and details of the funding have yet to be announced by the company. Acc...

Silicon valley venture capital firm Accel Partners has snagged Rob Glaser, chairman and founder of RealNetworks, as its newest venture partner, the firm said late last night. According to Accel, Glaser will serve as a Venture Partner focuse...

Woodland, Washington-based Scayl, a developer of peer-to-peer networking technology, has raised $50K as part of a $250,000 fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. According to the filing, the firm is headed b...

Seattle-based MicroGreen Polymers, a firm which is developing technology to reduce the amount of plastic required in consumer products, announced today that it has received $6.9M in a Series B round of financing. The firm said that the fund...

Seattle-based SeniorHomes.com, a startup founded by All Stars Directories' vets Chris Rodde, Jay Goldstein, and Tom Blumer, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.1M in a Series A financing round. The round was led by MentorTech Ventures, and a...

Portland-based Klassic, a firm focused on gourmet cuisine, has raised $500,000 in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Klassic is headed by Miguel A. Mendez. The firm, in a profile listing for the OTBC, says...

Seattle-based doxo has raised $5.25M in a Series A funding round, and is set to launch a new firm developing and online service to encourage consumers to sign up for paperless billing. According to doxo, the funding round comes from Mohr D...

Seattle-based AdReady, a provider of software for display advertising management, announced today that it has raised $5.3M in a new funding round. The round came from Madrona Venture Group, Bain Capital, and Khosla Ventures. The funding had...

Seattle-based EnergySavvy, which operates an online site to help homeowners save on their utility bills, has raised $315,000 in a funding round, the firm said this week. The round came from Mike Galgon, founder of aQuantive, and Karl Seibre...

Seattle-based Bonanzle, an online marketplace for a variety of goods, has raised $1M in a funding round, according to a number of reports. The funding came from Ignition Partners, Voyager Capital, Founder's Co-Op, Curious Office Partners, M...

Seattle-based Qliance Medical Management, a firm developing medical clinics based on monthly membership fees, has announced that it is raising $6M from Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Dell's Michael Dell, and comedian Drew Carey, along with Second...

Seattle-based EnerG2, a developer of advanced materials being applied to ultracapacitors, natural gas storage, hydrogen storage, and photovoltaic applications, has raised $3.5M in an equity funding, according to a recent regulatory filing b...

Seattle-based GroundTruth, a firm developing tools to measure mobile Internet usage, announced this morning that it has raised $7M in a Series B funding round. The round came from Emergence Capital partners, OPENAIR Ventures, Steamboat Vent...

Seattle-based Maveron has boosted its investments in Hollywood news blog TheWrap.com, according to TheWrap. TheWrap.com operates an online site focused on Hollywood and entertainment news. TheWrap said the will be used to accelerate the con...

Seattle-based Mirina Corporation, a biotechnology firm focused on microRNA therapeutics, said today that it has closed on a Series A-1 financing. Size of the round was not disclosed. According to Mirina, the round was led by versant Venture...

Bellevue, Washington-based Dreambox Learning, a developer of online, math education software, has been acquired by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and venture capital firm Charter Fund, DreamBox said today. According to Dreambox Learning, Hasting...

The Washington Technology Industry Association is releasing its results today from its Q2 2010 Venture Capital Outlook Survey, saying that the venture capital community in Washington is optimistic in revenues and hiring for their portfolio ...

Portland, Oregon-based Revelation, a provider on online software used for qualitative research and market research, has closed out its Series A funding at $1.27M, according to an updated regulatory filing by the firm last week. Steve August...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Home Comfort Zones, a developer of room-by-room, zone controller HVAC products, has raised around $1.25M out of a $2.5M funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the funding was no...

Bothell-based Mirabilis Medica, which develops a high intensity ultrasound system for treating gynecological diseases, raised $1.0M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing this week. Details on the funding have not been an...

Seattle-based Lucid Commerce, which develops business intelligence software-as-a-service, raised $5M in a Series B round, according to reports this week. The round was led by Greycroft Partners and also included OVP Venture Partners. Lucid...

Both Washington and Oregon saw venture capital investments rise in Q1 of this year, according to the venture capital numbers released this evening by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data ...

Seattle-based PhotoRocket, a stealth-mode startup developing a photo sharing service, has quietly raised $376K as part of a $1.25M funding round, according to a regulatory filing. The firm is headed by Scott Lipsky, who was founder of Galle...

Mercer Island-based Liberty Dialysis, which operates a network of dialysis centers, has scored new funding from private equity firm KRG Capital Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, and Ignition, according to KRG. According to the firm, the fund...

Seattle-based Foodista, an online wiki site for recipes, has raised $750,000 in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Source of the funding was not disclosed. The new round, which comes almost a yea...

Portland-based Site9, a developer of tools for prototyping web sites and web apps, announced today that it has received a round of growth capital. Financial terms of the funding and source of the capital was not disclosed. The firm also sai...

Mentors and backers of the TechStars Seattle incubation program are putting their money where their mouth is, and have put around $452,500 into the effort, according according to a regulatory filing by the group this week. According to the ...

Seattle-based travel site Yapta has raised $300,000 as part of an ongoing $500,000, convertible debt round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. According to the filing, the round is convertible into shares of the firm's Se...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron said today that the firm is backing Washington, D.C-based Latimer Education, a firm developing an online university for African Americans. According to Maveron, it led the investment of $1.25M in L...

Seattle-based Playteau, a stealth mode firm headed by Anatoly Tikhman, founder of TikGames, a developer of video games, has raised $620,000 in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates the fu...

Arlington, Washington-based MicroGREEN Polymers, a firm commercializing technology from the University of Washington to manufacture eco-friendly polymers, has upped a recent venture funding to $7.2M, according to a recent regulatory filing ...

Portland-based Skyron Systems, a firm developing vertical axis wind turbine products for the power industry, has raised $500,000 in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the new funding was not disc...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based NexPlanar, a developer of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pads for the semiconductor industry, has raised $3.5M in a venture debt round, according to funding provider ATEL Ventures. According to ATEL, the fun...

TechStars Seattle, the business incubation and mentoring effort, has officially opened up applications for its Seattle program, the group said Tuesday. TechStars, which helps startup founders get their businesses started with intensive ment...

Bellevue-based Limeade, which runs employee wellness and health monitoring services, announced today that the firm has raised $3M in a financing round today. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The firm also said that it has added ...

SpectraWatt, the Intel spinoff which is manufacturing photovoltaic cells for the solar industry, said today that it has raised $41.4M in funding. The firm, which has operations in Hillsboro, Oregon, said the funding came from Cogentrix Ener...

A new, stealth-mode travel startup, headed by Expedia's Rich Barton and VacationSpot.com's Greg Slyngstad, has raised $9.8M in a funding, according to a regulatory filing Monday. No details on the stealthy firm--currently named New Travelco...

Seattle-based Avvo, which operates an online site which rates lawyers, said today that it has received $10M in a Series C funding round. The round was led by DAG Venturs, and also included prior investors Benchmark Capital and Ignition Part...

Seattle-based Evri, a developer of semantic web search tools, has issued $349,203 in equity, as part of its acquisition last week of Radar Networks, the operator of Twine.com. The details came through a regulatory filing by the firm Wednesd...

Cheetah Medical, a developer of noninvasive hemodynamic and cardiac output monitoring technology, said this week that it has raised $20M in a venture round. The firm, which has its U.S. headquarters in Portland, and international headquarte...

Medford, Oregon-based UpWind Solutions has raised $28.8M in a financing round, the firm has announced. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and also included MissionPoint Capital partners. UpWind Solutions provides wind ass...

Seattle-based Amazon.com is losing long time board member and venture capitalist L. John Doerr, the firm reported in an SEC filing Tuesday. According to the filing, Doerr informed Amazon.com that he would not stand for re-election to its bo...

Portland-based Second Porch, an online site that helps people find vacation home rentals and home exchanges, has raised $1.0m in a Series A investment, the firm said late Tuesday. Second Porch said the round was led by the Oregon Angel Fund...

Seattle-based Kinetix Living, a firm that provides customized health and nutrition programs, has been sold, according to venture capital firm Maveron. Maveron said late Wednesday that Kinetix Living was acquired by Regence BlueShield of Was...

Portland, Oregon-based DeltaPoint is planning to accelerate its regulatory, product development and market education efforts with the recent $170,000 the firm garnered at last week's OEN Angel Oregon 2010 Launch State investment competition...

Medford, Oregon-based UpWind Solutions, a provider of operations and support services for wind power projects, has raised $10M in a Series B funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the new funding was not ann...

Portland-based ActiveTrak announced today that it has raised a first round of funding. Financial terms of the funding were not announced, however, the round was led by ProtectCell, a provider of mobile phone warranty and handset protection ...

Seattle nonprofit research center The Institute for Systems Biology said Monday that it has received a $6M gift from an un-named California venture capitalist and philanthropist, to support the organization. According to the ISB, the fundin...

Portland-based ShopIgniter, a firm developing e-commerce software, said today that it has raised $3M in a funding from Madrona Venture Group. Madrona's Matt Compton has joined the firm as CEO....

Bellevue-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners has backed a San Francisco firm's acquisition of a competitor, with a new round of funding. According to Cloudmark, a developer of spam filtering and security software, Ignition was one ...

Seattle-based Vulcan Capital is re-upping its involvement in a Silicon Valley semiconductor firm, Audience, Audience announced today. Mountain View, California-based Audience, a developer of noise suppression semiconductors for the cell pho...

Seattle-based 3Tier, a provider of wind, solar and hydro energy assessment services for the power industry, has raised $3.0M more in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing filed by the company today. Details on the funding have ...

Redmond-based Smilebox, an online site to help families share photos and create slideshows, said today that it has received $2M in follow on funding to its Series B round. The firm said the funding will go towards European expansion of its ...

Portland-based Urban Airship, a developer of infrastructure software for the smart phone application market, said today that it has raised $1.1M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by True Ventures, and also included Seattle's Fo...

Seattle-based Cozi, which develops applications which helps companies manage their schedules and other activities, has raised $5M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm last week. Details on the funding have not been discl...

Kennewick, Washington-based Infinia, a developer of Stirling engines for the solar power industry, has raised another $11.5M in a financing round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm last week. The filing indicates the fundraising ...

Portland-based Coaxis, a developer of software for the construction industry, has raised $10M in an investment round, according to venture firm Updata Partners. Updata said Tuesday that it provided the funding to Coaxis, for growth and inte...

Seattle-based BlueKai, a provider of online advertising analytics and related services, said Monday that it has raised $21M in a funding round. The Series C funding round was led by GGV Capital, and also included prior investors Redpoint Ve...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Avnera, a developer of systms-on-a-chip for the consumer electronics market, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series D funding round. The round came from Onkyo, as well as existing investors. The firm said Onk...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based SpectraWatt, the solar manufacturing firm spun out of Intel, is in the midst of raising $41.4M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm earlier this month. The filing indicates the company has so far ...

Bellevue-based Visible Technologies said today that it has scored a $22M, Series C funding round for the firm's social media monitoring software. According to Visible Technologies, the round was led by new investor Investor Growth Capital, ...

Seattle- and Portland-based venture capital firm Buerk Dale Victor said today that the firm has renamed itself Montlake Capital. According to the firm, the name change comes as the firm has "grown and evolved significantly" from a local par...

Seattle-based Dashwire, a developer of a service to back up mobile phone contacts, photos, videos, and text messages, has raised $2.8M in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The funding is part of a round k...

Bothell-based HaloSource, a developer of drinking water purification technology, said today that it has raised $10M in a new investment round. According to the firm, the financing came from Prime Partners Asia Merchant Capital of Singapore ...

Rand Fishkin, the CEO of Seattle-based SEOmoz, a provider of search engine optimization services, has posted an extensive, blow-by-blow account of how and why the firm decided to raise a round of venture capital last summer and fall--and wh...

Seattle- and Portland-based OVP Venture Partners is the lead investor in a Bay Area, online advertising technology firm, Aggregate Knowledge, it was disclosed this morning. According to Aggregate Knowledge, which develops advertising person...

Belleveue-based Datasphere, a developer of content management tools, disclosed Tuesday via a regulatory filing that it has raised $10.8M in a funding round. The funding came from Ignition Partners and others. Datasphere was previously known...

Seattle-based Verdiem, which develops energy management software for PCs, has raised $4.71M out of a $4.93M venture funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. No details on the funding have been announced by the com...

Bellevue-based Livemocha, which operates an online community for learning foreign languages, said today that it has raised $8M in a Series B financing round. The round was led by August Capital, and also included prior investor Maveron. The...

Seattle-based Zulily, a new startup founded by former Blue Nile executives Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon, is announcing today that it has raised $4.6M in a Series A funding round. According to Zulily, the round was led by Maveron LLC. Zulil...

Seattle-based Swype, which is developing text input technology for smart phones and other mobile devices, announced today that it has raised $5.6M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Nokia Growth Partners, Samsung Venturse, an...

Seattle-based Widevine, a developer of DRM software for the entertainment market, said today that it has raised $15M more, in a new funding round. According to Widevine, the funding came from Liberty Global, Samsung Ventures, and a third, u...

Portland-based Solar Nation, a provider of photovoltaic installation and consulting services, has raised $2.0M in an equity fundraising, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Source of the new funding was not disclosed....

Portland-based JanRain, a developer of online identity software, is announcing this morning that it has raised $3.25M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by DFJ Frontier, and also included RPM Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners. Ac...

Bellevue-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners is one of the investors in a new round of funding for , Fotonauts, which runs photography wiki site Fotopedia.com. The funding was first disclosed in a regulatory filing. According to th...

Seattle-based Vulcan Capital, the venture arm of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen, has re-upped its commitment to a Bay Aarea online display advertising firm, Bizo, as part of a new equity funding round. Bizo said this morning that Vulcan...

EndoGastric Solutions, a developer of treatments for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and other GI disorders which has facilities in Redmond, said late last week that it has raised $21.5M in a Series E financing. The firm said the fun...

Seattle-based Datacastle, which develops enterprise, storage backup software, has raised $3M in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. The funding came from investor CM Capital Investments, according to X...

Bellevue-based Root Wireless, which is developing technology to map and analyze the performance of cellular networks, announced Monday that it has raised $3.25M in a funding round. The funding was led by Fred Warren and Oliver Grace, Jr., a...

Kennewick, Washington-based Infinia, a developer of Stirling engine technology for the energy industry, has gained another $2.6M in an equity funding, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the new funding was not di...

Seattle- and Portland-based venture firm Voyager Capital has re-upped its investment in San Francisco area mobile, location-based marketing firm 1020 Placecast, 1020 Placecast said Wednesday. Voyager participated in a $5M, Series B funding ...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron is in an expansion into the Bay Area, the firm announced this morning, saying it has opened up a new office San Francisco. According to Maveron, Partner Amy Errett is leading the new San Francisco ...

OVP Venture Partners has led a $30M investment in a San Diego, California firm focused on stem cell therapy, according to Fate Therapeutics. Fate said that OVP Venture Partners led the firm's latest, Series B funding round, and will be addi...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Avnera, a developer of wireless semiconductors, has raised $8M in a financing deal, according to a regulatory filing by the firm last week. No details on the funding have been announced by the company. The filing ind...

Bellevue-based Enroute Systems, which develops shipping management software, has raised $810,000 in an angel funding. The funding was revealed in a regulatory filing Thursday. According to Xconomy, quoting Keith McCall, the firm's founder a...

Seattle-based Doxo, a stealth mode service which says its is developing solutions to an "age-old problem" addressing a "multi-billion dollar" business, has received $4.75M in a venture funding round which appears to be led by MDV Mohr David...

Seattle-based Widevine, a developer of digital rights management and protection technology, has raised $7.2M, as part of a $9.5M fundraising round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Details on the funding were not yet re...

Seattle-based online real estate site Redfin has raised another $10M in funding, in a new round led by Greylock Partners. The new, Series D funding also included Madrona Venture Group, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Vulcan Capital and The Hillman...

Kirkland-based Clearwire confirmed today that it is in a deal to raise $1.564 billion in new investment capital, coming from Sprint Nextel Corporation, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Intel Corporation, Eagle River Holdings, and Bright House Ne...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Sprint Nextel and others are preparing to put $1.5 billion more into Clearwire Corp., the Kirkland-based firm developing a WiMax-based, nationwide wireless network. The WSJ quotes sources "fam...

Bellevue-based Light Sciences Oncology has scored $23.35M in a credit facility, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. According to the filing, the firm received $23,347,833 as part of a credit facility, which came from 17...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group said Wednesday that Len Jordan, General Partners at Frazier Technology Ventures, is joining the firm, as FTV winds down its investing activities. According to Madrona, Jordan will join the firm effective ...

Bellevue-based Onehub, a developer of web-based collaboration software, reported Thursday that it has raised $1.3M in Series A funding. The round came from Ignition Partners and angel investors. As part of the funding, the firm said it has ...

Kirkland-based Adometry, a new startup focused on providing metrics for online display and rich media ads, said today that it has raised a round of angel funding, and has launched its software-as-a-service product. The firm said its product...

Portland-based Giftango, an issuer of virtual gift cards, has raised around $1.4M in an equity fundraising, according to a regulatory filing from the firm last week. The filing indicates the funding is part of an overall, $2.1M fundraising ...

Portland-based RF Arrays, a developer of semiconductors for the RF and Zigbee markets, has raised $6.5M in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. Source of the new funding was not announced. The firm...

Corvallis, Oregon-based Nuscale Power, a developer of small nuclear power plant technology, has raised $1.0M in a debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. According to the filing, the funding comes as part o...

Kennewick, Washington-based Infinia has gained $3.25M in a debt round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. Infinia is a developer of Stirling engine technology for the energy i...

Seattle-based Point Inside, a stealth mode startup working on "mapping the inside world" has raised $700,000 in an angel funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Details on the funding have not been released. The fundi...

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, is one of the investors in New York-based Aviary, a developer of creative applications being deployed as software-as-a-service. The firm announced today that it has received $7M in a Series B financing fro...

TechStars, the highly visible, business incubation effort out of Boulder, Colorado, is heading to Seattle, and is looking to pitch its companies to Seattle-based venture capitalists and angel investors. TechStars--which helps very early st...

Bellevue-based online advertising firm AudienceScience has confirmed a $20M, venture funding round, which had been disclosed last week. According to the firm, the funding came from Mohr, Davidow Ventures; Mayfield Fund; Meritech Capital Par...

Portland-based Jive, a developer of social networking software for businesses, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a Series B round of funding. The round came from Sequoia Capital, the firm's original backer. According to Jive, the...

Bellevue-based Visible Technologies, a developer of software for monitoring online reputations, said Monday afternoon that it is in a strategic partnership and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel, the CIA's investment arm. Detail...

Venture Capital deals dropped to $5.1 billion in 616 deals, according to a report released by Dow Jones VentureSource over the weekend. According to Dow Jones, the results point to the worst investment year since 2003. The quarterly totals ...

Bellevue-based AudienceScience, the online advertising firm formerly known as Revenue Science, has scored $15M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Thursday. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The Seri...

Seattle-based Integrated Diagnostics, the biotech startup headed by Dr. Leroy Hood, said today that it has raised more than $30M in funding, and will focus on personalized and preventative diagnostics using genomic and proteomic technologie...

Bellevue-based Visible Technologies, a provider of Internet brand and reputation services, has raised another $2M in funding, the firm said Tuesday. Visible Technologies said the round came from its existing investors. The firm said the fun...

Redmond-based Endogastric Solutions, a developer of medical devices for treating gastroesophageal reflex disease (GERD), has raised $2.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm last week. According to the filing,...

Portland-based Clinicient, which develops outsourced physical therapy billing software, has raised another $250,000, according to a regulatory filing from the firm last week. The additional funding comes on top of $2.0M raise in March of th...

Seattle-based Nearlyweds, an online service for creating personalized, wedding web sites, has raised $150,000 in a round of funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Friday. Chris DeVore is an investor in the firm. Nearlyweds...

Seattle-based Uptake Medical, a developer of treatments for emphysema, has raised $4.5M in an ongoing, $13.3M round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. No details on the funding have been announced. The filing indicates t...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group said earlier this week that it has promoted Tim Porter and Scott Jacobson to Partner. Managing Director Greg Gottesman said that the move came to "recognize all that Tim and Scott are...

Kirkland-based Veratect, a firm which provides tracking of emerging threats to human, animal and plant life--including swine flu and other influenza--has raised $4.21M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today...

Seattle-based casual games maker PopCap Games announced this morning that it has raised its first, ever, round of funding, worth $22.5M. The round was led by Meritech Capital Partners, and also included individuals Larry Bowman and John McC...

Venture capitalists put in around $270M in venture capital in the region in Q3, according to an analysis of Northwest Innovation's proprietary venture database, down a bit from $355M totaled by us last quarter. According to our tracking, t...

Seattle-based Spiration, a maker of medical devices for treating emphysema, has raised $7M in a convertible debt round, according to a regulatory filing. According to reports, the funding came from Olympus Medical Systems. Spiration is back...

Seattle-based PitchBook Data, which maintains an online database of private equity deals and firms, along with related newsletters, has raised $3.8M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing and reports. The firm is headed by Joh...

Seattle-based venture firm Maveron has put its weight behind a firm which operates online, accredited colleges, Altius Education, Altius said today. According to Altius, Maveron is one of the two firms leading a $8M, Series A investment in ...

Seattle-based Integrative Diagnostics, a firm developing technology to detect cancer in the bloodstream, has raised $7.252M as part of an ongoing, $30.1M fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing from the firm last week. No detai...

Portland-based Ensequence disclosed today that it has raised $20M in a new funding round. The firm, which develops interactive television technology, said that the funding was led by Clay Mathile, CEO of CYMI technologies, and former CEO an...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Voyager Capital reports this morning that it has added Bruce Chizen, the former CEO of Adobe Systems, as a Venture Partner at the firm. Chizen has previously been involved with Voyager as a member of its A...

Seattle-based Calypso Medical Technologies said Thursday that it has raised $50M in a venture funding round. The firm, which develops medical technology for tracking tumors, said that the round was led by Skyline Ventures and Frazier Health...

Seattle-based SynapticMash, a developer of educational software for the classroom, has raised another $200,000, as part of an ongoing, $2M fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Source of the new funding w...

Seattle-based Getty Images disclosed today that it has made a strategic investment in New York-based content services firm Daylife. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Getty said that the investment came alongside a comm...

Seattle-based Lucid Commerce, a developer of business intelligence tools for direct marketers, has raised $1.9M out of a $4.0M venture funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this morning. Details on the funding have n...

Kirkland-based SchemaLogic, a developer of business integration and classification software, has raised $1.0M in a debt financing, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week. No details on the financing were released by the co...

Seattle-based Dashwire, a developer of a service to back up mobile phone contacts, photos, videos, and text messages, has raised $1.1M more, as part of a $2.8M fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. The ...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based ClearEdge Power has raised $15.0M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. The firm is backed by the Kohlberg Family, Big Basin Partners, and Applied Ventures; no details on who led the...

Seattle-based TUUSSO Energy, a developer of utility-scale solar projects, said Monday that it has raised $2M in a financing round. The funding came from Portland-based clean technology investor Pivotal Investments, as well as Akula Energy V...

Bellevue-based Smith & Tinker said this morning that it has raised $29M in a venture capital funding round. The firm, which develops online, multiplayer games, said the funding was led by DCM, and also included Alsop Louie Partners, DCM, Fo...

Seattle-based OVP Venture Partners is continuing its investment in a Silicon Valley, human geneome sequencing company, Complete Genomics. Complete Genomics said this morning that it has raised $45M in a Series D equity financing round. The ...

Portland-based iovation, a developer of technology for detecting fraud on the Internet, has raised $1.0M out of a $3.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. iovati...

Vancouver, Washington-based ClearAccess, a developer of software for remote management of set top boxes and other broadband equipment, has raised $6M in a funding. The funding was co-led by Blade Ventures and Buerk Dale Victor. Prior invest...

Jambool, a startup started by two ex-Amazon employees, said today that it has raised $5M in a financing round, for the firm's software for handling virtual goods and payments. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group and Bay Partners. Th...

Hillsboro, Oregon-based Advanced Inquiry Systems announced this morning that it has raised $11M in a Series B financing round. The firm, which develops systems for lower-cost testing of semiconductor memory, said that investors included OVP...

Bellevue-based Apptio said this morning that the firm has raised $14M in a Series B round of funding. The round came from Andreessen Horowitz Fund, the new investment fund run by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz; Shasta Ventures; and existi...

Seattle-based Z2Live said today that it has raised $3M in a venture funding round. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group. The company said it is developing real-time, multiplayer services targeted at the Apple iPhone and iPod touch ma...

Bellevue-based Trilogy Equity Partners is the lead in the funding of an Israeli, web acceleration firm, Crescendo Networks, Crescendo said today. According to Crescendo, it raised $5M in a round led by Trilogy Equity Partners. The funding a...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group reports this morning that it has added former aQuantive CEO Brian P. McAndrews as a Managing Director of the firm. Madrona said that McAndrews will identify and lead investments out of its recent $250M fu...

Portland-based JanRain, a developer of OpenID single-sign on technology for the consumer Internet, has raised $1.0M in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Wednesday.The funding comes as part of a $3.0M, S...

Beaverton, Oregon- and UK-based VirtenSys Ltd. announced today that it has raised $16M in a funding round. The firm said the Series C funding came from existing investors Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), Celtic House Venture Partners (CHVP),...

Seattle-based Oncothyreon, a publicly held biotech firm developing treatments for cancer, has scored $15M in a private placement in the publicly held firm. According to Oncothyreon, it is seeling 2.28 million shares of its common stock and ...

Bellevue-based Limeade, which operates an online service to track employee wellness, has raised $2.4M in a funding round, according to a filing by the firm yesterday. The round--which actually opened in July of 2008--has a target of $3.0M. ...

A report Thursday says that one of Seattle- and Portland-based OVP Partners portfolio companies, M2E Power, located in Boise, Idaho, has been acquired. According to VatorNews, M2E Power was acquired by Motionetics. No financial terms of the...

Bellevue-based Finsphere, a firm working on identity theft protection products, has raised $9M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. Details on the funding have not been released. Finsphere is backed by ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association have weighed in on the quarterly venture capital investment activity, saying this morning that there was $3.7 billion invested in 612 deals in Q2 of 2009. The MoneyTree Rep...

Bothell-base OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, which is focusing on treatments for cancer, disclosed Monday that the firm has inked a deal with institutional investors, where those investors will buy 475,000 shares of its common stock at $20 per s...

Beaverton, Oregon-based RouteWare, which develops software used to manage waste hauling scheduling, dispatch, and routing, has raised $615,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. The funding came as part ...

Portland-based Yecuris, a biotech startup spun out of Oregon Health and Science University, has raised $1.25M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. According to the filing, the equity fundraising came fro...

Quarterly venture capital investment numbers were released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource, with the firm saying that there was $5.27B invested across 595 deals nationally in the quarter. The amount of investments were down from...

Portland-based AboutUs, which operates a wiki-style site giving information about web sites, has raised $1.2M in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Accordi...

Seattle-based Blue Marble Energy, which says it is developing technology to convert cellulosic materials such as algae, plants, and food waste into chemicals, said it has scored a Series A financing round. The firm did not disclose the amou...

Seattle-based Bio Architecture Lab, a startup out of the University of Washington, has raised $3.3M in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. Details on the funding have not been released by the compa...

Seattle venture capital firm OVP Venture Partners is the lead in the funding of a San Francisco firm developing biopharmaceuticals, according to the firm, Limerick BioPharma. Limerick, which develops compounds for reducing side effects in d...

Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association reported this morning that venture capital fundraising dropped to only $1.7 billion in the second quarter of 2009, raised by 25 funds, the smallest number of funds raising money i...

An analysis of the venture capital deals in Washington and Oregon by Northwest Innovation finds that there was around $355M invested in Q2 of 2009, up significantly from around $131M invested in Q1. The three largest deals for the quarter...

Redmond-based EndoGastric Solutions, a developer of medical devices for treating gastroesophageal reflex disease (GERD), has raised another $3.75M in funding for the firm, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. The round come...

Seattle-based Qliance Medical Management, an operator of primary care clinics in Washington State, reported today that it has closed on $4M in a funding round. The funding was led by Second Avenue Partners, and also included New Atlantic Ve...

Seattle-based stealth mode startup Ground Truth has raised around $2.6M in a equity fundraise, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Thursday. According to the filing, board members of the firm include Tom Huseby and Erik Benson of V...

Prometheus Energy, a developer of technology to convert emissions from landfills into liquid natural gas, has raised $10M out of a $20M equity fundraise, according to a regulatory filing by the firm earlier this week. According to the filin...

Bellevue-based PhysioSonics officially confirmed the firm's recent $2.0M financing in a second tranche of a Series A this morning, saying that the funding came from an unnamed strategic investor. The firm said the follow on investment bring...

Last quarter was not a good quarter for venture liquidity, Dow Jones VentureSource is reporting today. Dow Jones said that Q2 was a six year low for exits for venture-capital backed firms, with only $2.8 billion in liquidity events -- merge...

Seattle-based Daptiv a developer of online project management and collaboration software, has raised $1.5M in a debt financing, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. No details on the funding were released by the firm. Dap...

Seattle-based travel site Yapta.com said Thursday that the firm has raised $2M in a Series B investment round, upping the total raised by the firm to $7.7M. According to Yapta, the round was led by Voyager Capital, and also included Bay Par...

Seattle-based Escapia has raised $1.6M in a round of funding, the firm said this week, for the firm's web-based vacation rental management and marketing products. The funding was led by Steven D. Murch, Buerk Dale Victor, and Atlas Accelera...

Seattle-based Jobvana.com, which operates an online business marketplace, reported Tuesday that the firm has raised a new, undisclosed round of funding. Amount of funding for the firm was not disclosed. Jobvana said the funding came from Ra...

Portland-based Reductive Labs announced this morning that the firm has raised $2M in a funding round, for its enterprise IT automation tools. The funding came from True Ventures, and other, unnamed private investors. According to the firm, ...

Redmond-based Microvision, a developer of micro-display products and technology, said this morning that the firm has reached an agreement with Taiwanese firm Walsin Lihwa to receive a $15M equity investment from the firm. According to Micro...

Bellevue-based LiquidPlanner, which is developing online, scheduling and project management software, has raised $1.4M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. According to the filing, Voyager Capital's Geoff ...

Seattle-based 5to1.com, a stealth startup, disclosed in a regulatory filing this week that it has completed a $4.5M in a funding round. According to the filing, investors include Prism Ventureworks, and Fuse Capital. Woody Benson of Prism V...

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group has led an investment into New York-based Animoto, a developer of a web-based, video creation service. According to Animoto, it raised $4.4M in funding, from Madrona, Jeff Clavier's SoftTech VC, and iStoc...

Seattle-based Optimum Energy said Wednesday that the firm has raised $4.5M in an equity financing round. According to Optimum Energy, the funding round was led by Columbia Pacific Advisors. Optimum Energy develops softwar for the heating, v...

Bellevue, Washington-based CourtTrax, which operates a service which allows users to search for legal filings, and aggregates results from many, different court systems, has raised $450,000 in a equity funding round, according to a regulato...

Bellevue, Washington-based Doyenz, a developer of automated virtualization software targeted at disaster recovery and business continuity, has raised $4.3M in a equity funding round, according to a filing from the firm today. According to t...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Digimarc, a developer of technology for watermarking various kinds of content and identification, said today that it has entered into a deal with The Nielsen Company to jointly launch two new companies. According to ...

Bend, Oregon-based PV Powered, a manufacturer of solar power inverters, announced Tuesday that it has received millions in debt and equity financing from Evans Renewable Holdings II LLC. The specific amount of the multimillion-dollar invest...

Microsoft IP Ventures has helped fund the launch of a new technology-oriented startup company based in Dublin, Ireland, Microsoft announced this morning. Microsoft said it and Enterprise Ireland collaborated to found the startup, InishTech....

Seattle-based NanoString Technologies, a developer of life sciences technology for characterizing biological samples, said today that the firm has raised $30M in a Series C equity financing. According to the firm, the round was led by Claru...

Seattle-based Prepared Response, a provider of crisis management and emergency management software, has has raised $6.3M out of a $8.7M equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Details on the funding were no...

Seattle-based EnerG2, a University of Washington spinoff developing advanced materials, has raised $2.5M more in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. According to the filing, the firm has now raised $11.0M in funding...

Bellevue-based Mediquest Therapeutics, which is developing products for the topical treatment of inflammatory and infectious diseases, has apparently raised $2.3M of an ongoing, $15M equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing fr...

Eastsound, Washington-based 1000 Markets, which operates an online marketplace for handmade and artisan gifts, has raised $503,739 in a equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing. The firm is run by Matthew Trifiro. No details o...

Kirkland, Washington-based venture capital firm OVP Ventures is one of the returning investors in Silicon Valley firm Tigo Energy, Tigo said Tuesday. Tigo, which develops technology for increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic systems, sai...

Seattle-based TeachStreet, which operates a website that helps local teachers and students connect, said today that it has raised an additional $1.2M in funding, from existing investors and its management team. According to Dave Schappell, ...

Kennewick, Washington-based Infinia has raised $14.1M in what looks to be a convertible debt round, part of a $50M raise by the firm, according to a regulatory filing today by the firm. No details of the funding have been released by the fi...

Bellevue, Washington-based Visible Technologies which operates a service for monitoring the brand and reputation of companies on the Internet, has raised $6M in debt financing round, according to a regulatory filing by the company today. Th...

Bellevue-based HealthUnity, a developer of software for the healthcare industry, has raised additional funding worth around $650,000, based on a recent regulatory filing by the firm and previously disclosed funding from the company. In the ...

Kirkland-based Pathway Medical Technologies disclosed Wednesday that the firm has closed its Series D investment round, adding new investor WRF Capital to the $42.5M funding. Pathway said that WRF invested $1.5M as part of its previously an...

Redmond-based CoAptus Medical, which is developing non-implant, energy-based device to treat the heart condition patent foramen ovale (PFO), has raised $3.0M in an equity round of funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. CoA...

Bellingham, Washington-based Accelitec, a developer of RFID enabled marketing technology, has now raised $4.6M in capital, according to a recent regulatory filing. Details on the funding have not been released by the firm, however, accordin...

Seattle-based XORI, a biotech startup, has spun out of Accelerator Corp.. According to Accelerator, Xori is focused on technology for the rapid discovery and development of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). Investors in the Series A funding inc...

Seattle-based Vulcan Capital, the private investment firm of Microsoft's Paul G. Allen, said late Thursday night that it has promoted Chris Temple to President. Temple has been a Vice President at Vulcan since September of last year. Accord...

Seattle-based SynapticMash, which develops educational tools for the classroom, has raised $1.25M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of the funding was not disclosed. The firm's products include learn...

Seattle-based Dashwire, which develops a web-based service to back up mobile phone settings and information, has quietly raised $1.6M in funding for the firm, according to regulatory filing. The filing said that the firm raised $1.6M out of...

Seattle-based Delve Networks appears to have scored some initial funding in a new, ongoing venture round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today. According to the filing, Delve has raised $1.65M out of an ongoing, $11.27M equi...

Kirkland, Washington-based Proteotech has scored $519,401 in debt financing, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the debt financing was not disclosed. Proteotech develops treatments for Alzheimer's disease, Parkin...

Seattle-based Foodista has formally announced its Series A financing round this week. Amazon.com led the round. The round had already been disclosed in late April. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed by Foodista, however, r...

Seattle-based Calistoga Pharmaceuticals, which is developing treatments for cancer and inflammatory diseases, said Tuesday that it has raised $30M in a Series B funding round. Calistoga said that the funding came from Alta Partners, Amgen V...

Seattle-based Gist is reporting today that the firm has raised $6.75M in a funding round. According to the firm, the round was led by Foundry Group, and also included prior investor Vulcan Capital. Gist is a developer of software which inte...

Former Talyst co-founder Jim Torina apparently is looking to start his own, venture capital fund, based in Bellevue, Washington, according to a report from PEHub. According to the publication, Torina is trying to raise a seed-stage fund cal...

Bellevue-based Likewise, a developer of security and authentication products, said Thursday that it has raised $10M in a Series C round of funding. According to the firm, the funding was led by Ignition Partners, Trinity Ventures and Intel ...

Seattle-based 5to1.com, a stealth mode startup, disclosed Tuesday in a regulatory filing that the firm has raised $2.0M out of an ongoing, $3.25M venture round. Details on the funding have not been released, however, the firm lists James He...

Seattle-based Vigilos, a provider of software for remote monitoring of physical facilities, said that it has raised $1.4M. According to the firm, the round was led by Northwest Venture Associates. The company said it is also in the process ...

Seattle-based Symform, a provider of cloud computing software, announced today that it has raised $1.5M in a Series A financing. The round came from OVP Venture Partners. According to Symform, it is developing an enterprise-class, data stor...

DFJ Frontier, one of the affiliate venture capital firms of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is announcing this morning that it has opened up a new office in the Portland area. According to the fund, it has tapped Eric Rosenfeld and Bob Ward--cofou...

Seattle-based Opscode announced Friday that the firm has raised $2.5M in a Series A funding for the firm's technology, which is focused on cloud infrastructure. The funding round came from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. According to the firm, the...

Seattle-based Lookstat, a developer of web analytics technology for tracking the sales of microstock photography, has raised $500k in a venture round from the Founder's Coop. The funding was first disclosed by Xconomy. Lookstat's service he...

Seattle-based Newpath Networks, a developer of wireless infrastructure, has scored $30M in a funding from a pair of private equity firms. According to New York-based Charterhouse Group, it has invested $20M in NewPath Networks, alongside a ...

Portland-based SignaCert, a provider of IT compliance software, announced earlier this week that it has raised $8.8M in a Series B financing round. Investors in the round included DCM, Intel Capital, SmartForest Ventures, as well as the ven...

Seattle-based ExtraHop Networks announced Tuesday that the firm has raised $5.1M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included angel investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. According to Extra...

Cell Therapeutics announced late Monday that an institutional investor has purchased $15 million of Series 1 Preferred Stock and associated warrants and might buy up to $5 million more within the next 60 days. CTI, which develops therapies ...

Seattle-based Azaleos, a provider of managed Microsoft Exchange services, has raised $5M in an equity funding, according to a regulatory filing. According to the filing, filed this morning, the funding came on April 1st. No details of the f...

Amazon.com is an investor in BookTour, an online directory focused on book author events, according to a report from PEHub.com. According to PEHub, citing a regulatory filing, BookTour received $350,000 in a recent investment round....

Seattle-based Adapx is announcing this morning that it has raised $9M in a Series B funding round. According to the firm's CEO, Ken Schneider, the round was led by UV Partners, and also included OVP and Paladin Capital, existing investors i...

Seattle-based TalentSpring announced Friday that the firm has raised $1.6M in an investment round. The funding came from Second Avenue Partners and other private investors. TalentSpring, which develops a service which searches social networ...

Bellevue, Washington-based Likewise, a developer of software for managing Linux servers, disclosed this week in a regulatory filing that it has raised $4M in an equity funding round. No details of the funding have been released by the compa...

Seattle-based Swype, a developer of software used for handling gesture-based text input on screens, has raised $1.35M in $1.7M funding round, according to a regulatory filing. The firm, which develops a method for more easily inputting text...

Companies in the Pacific Northwest raised around $131M in venture capital for Q1, according to an analysis of Northwest Innovation's proprietary venture capital database. According to an analysis of the data, VC investments were down sign...

Bellevue-based Onehub, which operates a service which allows user to share files, manage projects, and collaborate with others online, has raised nearly $600K in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. According to the filing...

Seattle-based Earth Class Mail is apparently looking for more funding, according to reports. The firm, which has previously received funding from Ignition Partners and the Keiretsu forum, is looking to raise between $11M and $20M, according...

Kirkland, Washington-based Pathway Medical Technologies announced this morning that the firm has raised $40M in a Series D funding round. According to the firm, the funding came from Forbion Capital Partners, HLM Venture Partners, Latterell...

Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital has re-upped its investment in a Silicon Valley firm, Audience, which develops voice processing semiconductors. Audience, which is based in Mountain View, California, said this morning that it raised $15M in a ro...

Indianapolis-based ChaCha, which operates a SMS search service which provides human answers via cell phone, said Wednesday that the firm has raised $12M in funding. The firm did not disclose who funded this round, however, the firm's lead i...

Seattle-based Skytap, a developer of cloud-based, virtual lab services, said Monday morning that it has raised $7M in a Series B funding round. The firm said the funding came from Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and the Washington...

Seattle-based OVP Venture Partners announced Thursday afternoon that it has added stem cell expert and scientist Irving L. Weissman, M.D. to its technical advisory group. Weissman said that Weissman is the founder of SyStemix, Inc., StemCel...

Bellevue-based Blade Games World, the video game firm created out of Digini and Vyk Games, said Wednesday that it has raised $4M in funding. According to the company, the round came from California Technology Ventures. Blade Games develops ...

Bellevue, Washington-based Complaints.com, a web site that allows consumers to complain about companies and send them feedback, said today that the firm has scored an angel investment from Rob Monster. Financial terms of the investment were...

Seattle- and San Francisco-based Twilio announced an initial funding earlier this week. Financial terms of the funding were not disclosed. The funding came from The Founders Fund and Mitch Kapor. Twilio is looking to create a cloud-based, A...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Voyager Capital announced today that it has added Geoff Entress as a Venture Partner at the firm. According to Voyager, Entree will focus on Internet and digital media investments in the Pacific Northwest,...

Seattle-based Second Avenue Partners has re-upped its investment in a Connecticut firm, Fanzter, which operates celebrity web site Coolspotters.com. According to Fanzter, Second Avenue--which was the lead investor in the firm's Series A rou...

Seattle-based Ignition Partners is the lead venture capital backer of a Silicon Valley firm, Zenprise. According to Zenprise, it raised $10M this morning in a round led by Ignition Partners, which also included other investors Bay Partners,...

Bellevue, Washington-based Topaz Bridge, a developer of an application which connects SAP software with Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007, said this morning it has received $2M in what it described as the first tranche of a Series B funding ...

Concur Technologies Inc., a Redmond, Washington-based publisher of hosted spending management software, announced today that it has made a strategic investment in travel booking firm RideCharge Inc. The specific amount of Concur's investmen...

Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com have both invested in an online advertising firm, Yieldex, Yieldex said Monday, as part of a $8.5M Series B funding round for the company. According to Yieldex, the round was led by Madrona Venture Group...

Seattle-based Ontela, which develops technology services for allowing consumers to upload and save photos from their camera phones, announced Monday that it has received funding from Eastven Venture Partners. Financial terms of the funding ...

Beaverton, Oregon-based Infinity Softworks, a developer of mobile financial software, said Friday that the firm has closed a new funding round. The round came from Pacific Street Partners. The size of the funding round was not disclosed. In...

Seattle-based FrugalMechanic.com announced Wednesday that the firm has scored a round of venture funding from the Founder's Co-op. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. According to Frugal Mechanic, it will use the funding to accelerate ...

PivotLink, a developer of business intelligence software, announced today that it has closed on a $10M venture capital round. The firm, which has offices in Bellevue, Washington and San Francisco, California, said the round brings the compa...

A Florida-based venture capital firm announced recently that it has invested $3 million into MolecularMD Corp. According to Ballast Point Ventures, MolecularMD will use the funds to finance expansion of its assay portfolio and corporate inf...

Seattle-based online video advertising software maker Mixpo is announcing today that it has raised a second round of venture financing worth $4 million. The round is being led by Madrona Venture Group, an existing investor. Series A backer ...

Portland, Oregon-based RNA Networks said Monday that the firm has raised $7M in a Series A funding round, for the firm's memory virtualization software. According to RNA Networks, the funding was led by Menlo Ventures. RNA Networks said tha...

Bothell, Washington-based Ekos, which develops medical devices for treating blood clots, has raised $12.5M in a round, according to reports. According to Xconomy, Ekos raised the Series D funding from Crown Venture Fund, in a deal which als...

Seattle-based Omeros reported Wednesday that the firm has gained $3.1M in a second tranche of equity and grant funding, for the firm's candidates for the treatment of schizophrenia. The firm said the funding came from The Stanley Medical R...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron's Brody Stout is joining one of the firm's investments, CitizenHawk, and will become Chief Operating Officer at the firm. Stout, who was a Senior Associate at Maveron, is moving back over to the op...

Vancouver, Washington-based nLIGHT, a developer of high-power semiconductor lasers, said Monday that the firm has raised $10.7M in a new equity financing. The funding came from Oak Investment Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Menlo Ventu...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron is backing a new startup focused on entertainment news and media. According to Hollywood-based TheWrap.com, it will provide news coverage of the business of entertainment and media. The new site wa...

SAManage, a publisher of hosted IT governance and compliance software, announced late last week that it has secured its first round of venture financing. SAManage declined to disclose the amount of the funding. However, the Seattle-area fir...

A University of Washington startup, PetraVM, has scored $1.5M in funding from Madrona Venture Group and WRF Capital. According to the firm's website, it is developing technology to enable effective and reliable use of now ubiquitous multi-c...

Washington and Oregon venture capital deals slipped in Q4 to $141.96M, down significantly from $260.4M last quarter and $450M last year, according to a report released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the quarterly ...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Maveron said Wednesday that the firm has added Will Hunsinger as the firm's EIR. Hunsiger was most recently CEO of Adeze, which is a portfolio company of Maveron. He has also served as General Manager of G...

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) released the results of its quarterly venture capital outlook survey today, finding that availability of capital is predicted to be a big problem in coming months. The survey, which asks...

Bellevue, Wash.-based Smartsheet, publisher of a hosted work management and project collaboration tool, announced Wednesday that it has received a second round of equity funding worth $1.25 million. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Gr...

Redmond, Wash.-based mobile applications publisher Mobui Corp. has received a strategic investment from a cellular services provider and consumer electronics retailer, the investor announced Monday. Financial terms of the transaction were n...

Microsoft is one of the investors in a Israeli firm developing capacitive sensing and pen input devices for the PC market, the firm, N-trig, said today. N-trig said it has raised $24M in a funding from Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaa...

Bellevue-based venture firms Trilogy Partners and Ignition Partners have both backed a startup developing foreign exchange exposure management software, according to the firm, FIREapps. The company--which is based in Arizona--said that it h...

Portland-based AboutUs, an online site which allows users to edit and contribute information about web sites, said Friday that it has raised $5M in a venture capital round. The firm said the Series A funding came from Voyager Capital, with ...

A Colorado-based biofuels firm, with plans to build a cellolosic ethanol biorefinery in Oregon, has just grabbed additional venture funding for its efforts. Lakewood, Colorado-based ZeaChem said today that it has raised $34M in a Series B f...

Stealth drug development firm Qwell Pharmaceuticals has scored $7M in a Series A funding, according to reports, from venture firms Arch Venture Partners and the Wellcome Trust. Online news site Xconomy first reported the deal, citing Arch V...

Portland-based Ontier said late last week that it has added additional investors to the firm's recent angel funding round, saying that it has added Doug Fieldhouse and other unnamed investors in what it describes as an "oversubscribed" fund...

Seattle-based VLST, which is developing biopharmaceuticals focused on treating autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, has scored $12M in an investment from pharmaceuticals firm Novo Nordisk A/S, as part of a collaboration deal. According to...

Seattle-bsed BlueKai said today that it has closed on $10.5M in a Series B funding round, for the firm's services for collecting consumer shopping information on the Internet. According to BlueKai, the round was led by Battery Ventures, and...

Seattle-based Yapta, which helps travelers track airfares and gain refund when prices drop, has raised $2.7M so far in what is an open round. A spokesperson for the firm confirmed the amount, which was disclosed in filings with both the sta...

Biomaterials manufacturer Healionics Corp. announced this morning that it has raised a second round of institutional financing worth some $2.6 million. The Redmond, Wash.-based company said several angel networks participated in the Series ...

Kartik Raghavan, most recently a venture partner and special advisor to Bellevue, Washington-based venture capital firm Trilogy Partners, has left the company for another venture capital firm, Shasta Ventures. Shasta made the announcement e...

Portland-based Ontier, a developer of software-as-a-service for helping professions and consumers communicate online, said Monday afternoon that it has added Les Fahey and Paul Gulick as board members and investors in the firm. Details of t...

Seattle-based venture capital firm OVP Venture Partners said late Friday that it has promoted Carl Weissman to Managing Director, starting in 2009, and is losing Managing Director John Hull. Weissman has been at the firm since February of 2...

Seattle-based DotNetNuke, a provider of open source software for the Microsoft Dot Net platform, said last week that it has raised a Series A funding round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. The funding came from August Capital and S...

Seattle-based data storage services provider Datacastle said Wednesday that it has raised $5.3M in a Series A investment round. The firm said that the funding was led by CM Capital Investments. Datacastle provides a PC data protection servi...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Voyager Capital has led an investment in a Silicon Valley firm, Keystream, developing technology for the web video advertising market. According to Keystream, Voyager Capital led the investment in the comp...

Seattle-based EnerG2, which develops advanced materials, has apparently raised $8.5M in a funding round, according to a report by Xconomy. The funding is a Series A, and comes from OVP Venture Partners and Firelake Capital Management. EnerG...

Seattle-based Napera Networks has reportedly raised $6M in a venture round from OVP Venture Partners. Napera, a maker of network security software, was formerly known as Altus Networks. The funding news was disclosed in a regulatory filing ...

Internet marketing and Web design firm Ascentium Corp. announced Monday that it has received another investment infusion from WestRiver Capital. The extent of WestRiver's financial participation was not disclosed. Erik Anderson, WestRiver's...

Seattle-based venture capital firm Second Avenue has renewed its commitment to an energy storage firm out of Colorado, Ice Energy. According to Ice Energy, Second Avenue participated in a second round $33M financing in the company, for its ...

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) is predicting lower near-term revenue growth and shrinking deal valuations for local companies, according to its latest Venture Capital Outlook Survey. The WTIA said that its survey for ...

Glassdoor.com, the online job site co-founded by Zillow's Rich Barton, has scored a round a funding, the firm said today. The site--which provides salary details and information about workplaces to prospective job seekers--said the funding ...

Seattle-based Earth Class Mail announced today that the firm has secured $5.1M in a new round of funding. The funding round came from angel group Keiretsu Forum. According to the firm, some of the new funding will be earmarked for adding lo...

The Oregon Investment Fund (OIF), the private equity and venture capital fund arm of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, said Monday that the firm has made investments into three different private equity and venture funds. Accordin...