Aloft Raised $20M, Included Launched, and More Seattle Tech News

Here’s what you may have missed in the world of Seattle tech.

Written by Delilah Alvarado
Published on Nov. 22, 2021
Photo: SEA- Shutterstock
Photo: Shutterstock

Seattle tech companies made some impressive gains this past week. Keep reading to find out more. This is the Built In Seattle weekly refresh.

Aloft raised $20M. The funding came from a Series A round led by Fifth Wall with additional backing from Andreessen Horowitz. The funding will go toward its workflow technology, and expand its workforce. Aloft uses technology mixed with data and standardized methodology to generate more accurate appraisal reports in real estate. [PR Newswire]

24 Seattle companies made the Deloitte 500. The Technology Fast 500 list ranks the companies that have experienced the most revenue growth over a three-year period. Among those companies were 24 based out of Seattle. Local companies making the cut this year included Qumulo, Educative, Highspot and Outreach. [Built In Seattle]

SEATTLE TECH QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Data collection methods were designed at a time and place when it was considered unimportant to tell the diversity story of our workforces. The world has changed and now the demand for this capability is high, which is really encouraging.” — Laura Close, co-founder of Included

Included launched with $1.9M. Included has developed an AI platform that can search through a company’s data to gain insight about its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The platform helps companies further improve their efforts in these areas and reduce the time companies spend on reporting on these efforts. The company will expand more with the pre-seed funding. [Built In Seattle] 

Hiya launched an adaptive AI. Hiya, a Seattle-based performance management cloud platform, launched Adaptive AI, a learning system that hunts and shuts down illegal callers. The launch is to further protect the public from spam calls. [Hiya]

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