August has been big so far at the upper echelons of these Seattle tech companies. Here are our picks for the biggest move of the month so far — including an exclusive interview with Nintex's new CMO.
We asked Seattle techies from a range of positions in the industry — from founders to product managers — to share the lessons they’ve learned in their own career journeys, and to fill us in on what their companies are doing to eliminate the gender gap.
We caught up with a handful of Seattle companies about the dogs who frequent their offices, and asked them to elaborate on what dog-friendly policies mean for their workplace. While their answers were certainly insightful, we must confess that Built In Seattle was mostly interested in meeting the pups themselves.
Craigslist competitor OfferUp has raised $39 million for its buying and selling platform designed to be a slicker, mobile-friendly version of popular classifieds site Craigslist. According to a filing lodged yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Bellevue company is chasing over $150 million — which would bring its funding total to over $370 million.
In a city that prides itself on the strength of its communities, it’s no surprise that sharing economy startups are flourishing around Puget Sound. Here are five that might be onto something big.
There were a handful of sizeable fundings around Puget Sound in July, including a huge round by one of Bellevue’s best-known edtech exports. Read on to find out how much they landed — plus the rest of the region’s largest funding rounds this past month.
There’s never been a better time to change up your tech career. Seattle is full of innovative companies making the most of our city’s deep talent pool, and they’re throwing some serious perks at anyone who gets an offer letter.
DefinedCrowd has raised $11.8 million for its AI-enabling platform, the company announced today. New York and Zurich-based Evolution Equity Partners lead the round, along with existing contributors Sony, Portugal Ventures, Amazon Alexa Fund and Busy Angels. The round also added Mastercard, Kibo Ventures and Energias de Portugal to the company’s list of investors.
Edtech company DreamBox Learning announced that it had raised $130 million in funding today. The investment came from The Rise Fund, a venture firm managed by TPG Growth and aimed at combining positive social and environmental change with financial profit.
Certain platforms can create thousands or even millions of new types of proteins, which pharmaceutical companies can use to create new drugs. But the process of testing whether those proteins will actually create the desired effects remains a costly, arduous process, creating a bottleneck in the workflow. A-Alpha Bio's new technology aims to streamline that process.
