Moments of pure inspiration can be rare, but ideas that can spawn a successful business are even rarer. And if there’s one thing we learned from talking to the founders featured here, it’s that industry-changing light bulb moments don’t just happen overnight.
Tax compliance software company Avalara announced its IPO price on the New York Stock Exchange last night, sending share prices up 50 percent today. It's the third Seattle-area tech company to go public in 2018.
Digital video platform Inspo Network announced today that it had raised a $5.5 million seed round, lead by Pioneer Square Labs. Expedia, Zillow and Glassdoor co-founder Rich Barton, Second Avenue Partners co-founder Nick Hanauer and Maveron co-founder Dan Levitan also participated.
Seattle’s broad array of incubators and accelerators run the technological gamut, offering everything from workshops filled with manufacturing tools to experienced entrepreneurs ready to deliver hard truths.
Seattle’s SeaChange Fund announced Wednesday that it’s fourth fund has netted $4.6 million, which it will use to power startups in the Pacific Northwest.
In the third-largest deal in Microsoft history, the Redmond behemoth confirmed last week that it had agreed to acquire popular open source code-hosting service GitHub. At $7.5 billion, only its 2011 acquisition of Skype and 2016 deal to land LinkedIn have been bigger.
