| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.06.2022 | Seattle’s Alliance of Angels aims to get deals done faster with new fund | Eric Larsen, fund administrator for AofA’s Innovation Fund. (AoA Photo)
Alliance of Angels raised $1.3 million for a new “Innovation Fund” that will back 10-to-12 early-stage startups over the next year, mostly in the Pacific Northwest.
Fou... |
| 17.11.2021 | Funding news: AI-fueled drug discovery startup and auto safety company raise cash | Variational AI CEO Handol Kim. (Variational AI Photo)
The news: Variational AI, a Vancouver, B.C.-based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding.
The tech: ... |
| 21.04.2020 | Leading a startup through the crisis: ‘We’ve just instantly transformed from peacetime to wartime’ | Dan Rosen, chair of the Alliance of Angels, and Xiao Wang, President and CEO of Boundless Immigration. (Alliance of Angels and GeekWire Photos)
For startup leaders accustomed to building their businesses in boom times, the economic impact f... |
| 04.12.2019 | Early stage investing 101: How to break into the club, and why you should give it a shot | (Bigstock Photo)
Early stage investing can be tremendously beneficial for early stage technology companies, the broader startup ecosystem, and of course, investors. But getting started isn’t easy. Minda Bruse and Heather Redman.
We both kno... |
| 23.01.2019 | Gender gap: Women-led companies make up 8% of the GeekWire 200 startup list | The numbers tell the story.
Out of the 200 companies listed on the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the top Pacific Northwest tech startups, 16 of them are led by women, or 8 percent.
“It’s a little depressing,” said Kieran Snyder, CEO of Seatt... |
| 06.09.2017 | Rental home repair marketplace Keepe raises $1.5M to expand to more cities | Members of the Keepe team. (Keepe Photo)
Finding a good contractor has become easier for homeowners over the years, with proliferation of marketplaces like Porch and HomeAdvisor, but it’s still a rough go for renters and property managers i... |
| 03.07.2017 | Founder of Valve’s Steam platform just raised $1.25M for new startup Sharkbite Games | The Sharkbite Games team, from left to right: Susan Mackey-Ellis, Rick Ellis, Matt Takacs, Jake Kim, Charlie Patterson and Anthony Settimi.. (Sharkbite Games Photo)
Rick Ellis has his fingerprints all over modern gaming.
His chief claim to ... |
| 02.06.2017 | Media Partners raises $1.1M to produce ‘Hollywood-grade’ training videos | A shot from a Media Partners video about employee theft. (Screenshot Via Media Partners)
Pretty much everyone has, at some point in life, been sequestered in a room and made to watch a series of inevitably outdated training videos that show... |
| 01.03.2017 | Backed by Seattle Angels, BluHaptics Readies Robot Control Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The typical controller that human operators use to manipulate a multi-million-dollar undersea robotic arm is a complicated, analog model of the arm itself. Operators direct th... |
| 13.01.2017 | Seattle Week in Review: 100k to AMZN, MSFT’s Olympia Agenda, VC Stats | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This was a busy week. Let’s get right to our review featuring a Microsoft acquisition in “machine literacy”; Amazon’s plans to hire 100,000 full-time U.S. workers by mid-2018;... |
| 11.12.2016 | 5 Reasons Seattle Should Be the Home of Your Next Startup | From great talent to a community of investors, there’s nothing this startup hub can’t offer.
Seattle is the hub for Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial innovation. As you walk down the street, you’ll see Starbucks, a company founded here. Loo... |
| 13.11.2016 | 10 tips for pitching angel investors | Brian Bosché and Dan Bloom of Slope pitch during GeekWire Startup Day.
Are you an entrepreneur looking for seed money to get your startup off the ground? Consider approaching angel investors, who often step in to fill the gap between fundin... |
| 20.01.2015 | Seattle Funding Roundup: Porch, Avalara, Alliance of Angels, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There is magic in the air after this past weekend’s NFC Championship game, in which the Seahawks took us from the lowest lows to the highest highs in the course of about five ... |
| 18.11.2014 | Q&A: Why this Seattle angel investor made 50 deals in the last 18 months | Gary Rubens and students from the Rainier Scholars program, which received a $200,000 donation from The Rubens Family Foundation. Photo via Rubens.
Gary Rubens may not be running his own startup anymore, but the man is certainly keeping bus... |
| 10.10.2014 | Commentary: 3 ways to value your startup | Photo via Shutterstock.
Many entrepreneurs struggle with having the “valuation” discussion with investors. Given that many startups have no revenue, much less profits, well established quantitative methods like Discounted Cash Flow analysis... |
| 11.01.2014 | ActX Raises $1.9M in Seed Funding | ActX, a Seattle, WA-based clinical genomics startup, raised $1.9m in seed funding.
Alliance of Angels made the investment.
Founded by Andrew Ury, CEO, an entrepreneur who previously founded Practice Partner, a pioneer in electronic health r... |
| 11.01.2014 | PlaceFull Raises $1.1M in Funding | PlaceFull, a Seattle, WA-based provider of booking and scheduling tools for small businesses, raised $1.1m in funding.
The financing added to a $1m round raised in March 2013 (read here). Backers included Alliance of Angels and other angels... |
| 28.07.2013 | Why angels are making a big deal about the SEC’s new rules on advertising investment opportunities | Dan Rosen is chairman of Alliance of Angels.
On June 10, the Securities and Exchange Commission released rules allowing entrepreneurs to publicly advertise their investment opportunities, finalizing a portion of the JOBS Act of 2012. These ... |
| 28.07.2013 | Why angels are making a big deal about the SEC’s new rules on advertising investment opportunities | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Dan Rosen is chairman of Alliance of Angels.
On J... |
| 17.10.2012 | iPad-enabled microscope camera takes first place at NWEN First Look Forum | Mashing your eyes up against a microscope and peering through a small viewfinder isn’t the most enjoyable or effective way to look at bugs and bacteria.
Exo Labs seems to have a good fix for that.
The Seattle startup has developed a microsc... |
| 27.03.2012 | Alliance of Angels: How Yi-Jian Ngo Sifts for Startup Gold | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When he worked at Microsoft, Yi-Jian Ngo got to work on high-profile projects like the Windows Azure cloud-computing platform and the hosted version of Microsoft Office. But w... |
| 05.03.2012 | Alliance of Angels takes flight, spins off from the Technology Alliance | The Alliance of Angels — a 15-year-old Seattle angel investment organization that boasts more than 60 members — is spinning off from its longtime non-profit parent organization, the Technology Alliance.
In a press release today, Alliance of... |
| 11.01.2012 | Elemental Pounces on Feds’ Push to Hush Loud Commercials | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Our long national nightmare of TV commercials that are too loud is finally nearing its end—and Portland, OR-based Elemental Technologies is angling to help its network custome... |
| 19.09.2011 | Alliance of Angels’ Dan Rosen: National Angel Syndicate a Matter of Trust, Natural Evolution | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
They finance some of the most innovative entrepreneurs on the planet, and foster inventions that make global business fast, cheap, and easy. So why do so many early stage tech... |
| 14.09.2011 | New Angel Alliance Aims to Keep Startups Out of Venture Capital’s Clutches Longer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 5:15 pm PT with fresh quotes from Richard Sudek, see below] Regional angel investing groups in Southern California, Northern California, and New York say they’re band... |
| 02.09.2011 | Greg Huey catches ‘startup bug,’ departs Alliance of Angels for Glassybaby | Greg Huey
Hanging around startups can be a risky proposition. Sooner or later, you catch the fever. Greg Huey, who served as managing director of the Alliance of Angels for the past two years, assisting dozens of startup companies with thei... |
| 18.08.2011 | The best of the best angel investors for healthcare startups | Certainly, the money is out there. According to the Center for Venture Research, U.S. angel investors invested $19 billion in 55,000 deals (about 35,000 small businesses) in 2008, with most of those investments in startup or very early-stag... |
| 21.07.2011 | Flux Drive Lands $1.5M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cleantech startup Flux Drive has raised $1.5 million to develop its energy-saving magnetic drives for electric motors. The company, based in Sumner, WA, says it can cut the da... |
| 10.05.2011 | Alliance of Angels chooses LiquidPlanner as startup Company of the Year | LiquidPlanner CEO Charles Seybold at the Technology Alliance luncheon in Seattle (Annie Laurie Malarkey photo)
Over the past seven years, The Alliance of Angels has picked one startup company that represents the promise of the region’s burg... |
| 12.03.2010 | Alliance of Angels Director: 2010 Is “A Great Time To Be Starting Something” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Angels have been in the air lately—especially around the Northwest. Last month, Atlas Accelerator hosted what might have been the largest-ever gathering of active angel invest... |
| 25.02.2010 | Alliance of Angels Invested $9.1M in 2009 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Alliance of Angels said today that it invested more money in 2009—$9.1 million in 29 companies—than in any previous year. The investments were made in software (... |
| 22.06.2009 | LiquidPlanner raises $1M to help projects adapt when things go wrong | LiquidPlanner, which offers an online project management tool that focuses on accommodating changes in plans, has raised $1 million in funding.
The LiquidPlanner service launched about a year ago, and I found the concept pretty compelling: ... |
| 19.06.2009 | Innovation Insights, and How Microsoft Enabled the Internet, From Technologist Dan Rosen | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ask Dan Rosen to define innovation, and he’ll say it’s “a breakthrough in technology that leads to a business breakthrough.” It’s a concept that Rosen is well acquainted with,... |
| 29.05.2009 | Modumetal Raises $1.5M-Plus from Alliance of Angels, Second Avenue, WRF Capital | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Modumetal, an advanced materials startup, is closing a new round of equity funding worth between $1.5 million and $2 million, according to co-founder and CEO Chr... |
| 29.05.2009 | Three Questions on Startup Culture and Investing Strategy with Greg Huey of Alliance of Angels | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We may have similar names, but we come from different worlds. Greg Huey, the new program director of Seattle-based Alliance of Angels, has a business background and more than ... |
| 15.05.2009 | With $4.25M Seed Fund, Alliance of Angels Looks to Take Northwest Investing to “New Level” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Alliance of Angels officially announced its new $4.25 million seed fund this week, which it will invest in early-stage companies alongside individual investors. ... |
| 27.02.2009 | Alliance of Angels Releases 2008 Stats | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Alliance of Angels, a network of individual investors focused on the Northwest, announced today it invested a total of $6.4 million in 36 companies in 2008—the s... |
| 24.11.2008 | Surviving the Downturn: Advice from Seattle-Area Firms Atlas Accelerator, Geospiza, and Mercent | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Updated Nov. 24 with corrections from Mike Crill: Last Thursday, the Seattle-based Alliance of Angels hosted a panel discussion on “managing through an economic downturn,” oth... |
| 31.07.2008 | Modumetal Grows Nanotech Metals for Military, Aiming To Make Parts For Your Car | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
How would you like to grow your own bulletproof vest? If you’re interested, Christina Lomasney can hook you up. OK, the technology might be a bit pricey for civilian use, but ... |
| 18.07.2008 | WTIA’s Summer Social: Busy Times, Hating Starbucks, and an Offer I Can’t Refuse | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“The only tall blonde women in Seattle are recruiters.” This and other astute observations from Aviel Ginzburg—by day, a mild-mannered developer at Seattle-based Appature, and... |
| 23.06.2008 | Two-Minute Pitch Competition Yields Two Startups To Watch, in Internet and Energy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“Anyone know any investor jokes?” asks Carolynn Duncan of FundingUniverse. A pause, then someone on the side of the stage shouts “Yahoo!”
We’re at Seattle LivePitch, in the Yo... |
| - | The best of the best angel investors for healthcare startups | The Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute are both great resources for healthcare entrepreneurs looking for capital funding.
Both have extensive lists of angel investor groups — both local and national — that can step i... |
