| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.03.2018 | Strix Leviathan raises $1.625M for its enterprise crypto trading platform | Seattle-based Strix Leviathan, an enterprise trading and management platform for crypto assets founded by startup vet Jesse Proudman, today announced that it has raised a $1.625 million seed round led by Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures (yes... |
| 13.07.2017 | Every Major Seattle Accelerator and Incubator, Listed | TechCo has compared accelerators to band camp in the past: You're stuck in a location with a bunch of your peers whether you like them or not, work hard, play hard, and take snack breaks. And by the time it ends, you've built a lasting netw... |
| 18.11.2016 | Founders Speak Up on the Perils of Bootstrapping at Seattle Startup Week | Seattle Startup Week has already graced its audience — and our loyal Tech.Co readers — with insight on everything from Facebook and Twitter's digital marketing advice to the benefits of boutique rose-flavored cotton candy. But the founders ... |
| 14.11.2016 | Startup tips for bootstrapping, and why scarce resources can create long-term benefits | From left to right: Socedo CEO Aseem Badshah; 9Mile Labs co-founder Sanjay Puri; Poppy CEO Avni Patel Thompson; Ripl CEO Paul Ingalls; WiBotic CEO Ben Waters; and BitTitan CEO Geeman Yip.
It’s not easy to bootstrap your startup. But for tho... |
| 14.11.2016 | 9Mile Labs ends B2B accelerator program but will continue investing in early-stage startups | 9Mile Labs co-founders Kevin Croy and Sanjay Puri.After three-and-a-half years of running an accelerator that graduated six cohorts with nearly 60 companies, 9Mile Labs is putting an end its 3-month startup program.
But the Seattle-based or... |
| 20.04.2016 | Working Geek: 9Mile Labs co-founder Sanjay Puri helps enterprise and B2B startups take off | 9Mile Labs co-founder and partner Sanjay Puri.
Three years ago, Sanjay Puri co-founded the 9Mile Labs incubator with a vision to help enterprise and B2B startups flourish. Since its launch, the accelerator has invested in 48 startups across... |
| 06.04.2016 | Startup Spotlight: Viato provides ‘deal escrow’ for product manufacturers and sales partners | Viato co-founders Jagan Nemani and Sandeep Kanaparthi.
During his years as a product executive, Jagan Nemani observed what he calls an “information black hole” between manufacturers and indirect sales partners. He knew that both sides could... |
| 24.03.2016 | Startup Spotlight: Globatom’s software streamlines commercial shipping | Globatom COO Nate Doran and CTO Alfredo Juarez.
After half a decade working in logistics for Office Depot, Dan Acosta grew frustrated with long supply chain lead times. He decided to take the entrepreneurial plunge and fix what he saw as br... |
| 17.03.2016 | Startup Spotlight: Muze automates the DJ experience for bars and restaurants | The Muze team.
DJing may become the latest occupation to face competition from machines.
Muze, a recent graduate from the 9Mile Labs Accelerator, is a cloud-based DJ simulator for bars and restaurants that want the ambiance a professional D... |
| 11.03.2016 | Startup Spotlight: Trenzi pays social media stars to promote products for businesses | Trenzi CEO Calder Wong.
Social media has produced an entirely new class of celebrity. Those who rise to Internet fame have the potential to reach and influence thousands of followers. Actors, musicians, and other traditional celebrities hav... |
| 10.03.2016 | Accelerator 9Mile Labs Evolves Model for Investing in Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 3/10/16 2:12 pm. See below.] In the three years since it opened, Seattle business-to-business accelerator 9Mile Labs has tweaked just about every aspect of its model ... |
| 03.03.2016 | Trash-sorting robots; cloud-based DJ simulators and more novel ideas from the 9Mile Labs startup accelerator | ClientLinkt CEO Jay Maharaj at Milestone9
Eleven startups graduated from Seattle startup accelerator 9Mile Labs today after a 14-week program, each with a different vision for business-to-business software or cloud technology.
“It’s a very ... |
| 19.02.2016 | Startup Spotlight: Jodone combines human intellect with robots to solve automation problems | Mike Yeh, Cole Parker and Mike Rivera and one of their robots.
When robots and humans work together, good things happen.
That’s at least according to Jodone, a Boston-based startup that combines human intellect with robotic technology to cr... |
| 01.09.2015 | Uber for big deliveries: Ghostruck expands to 12 cities after pilot in Seattle | Ghostruck CEO Nathanel Nienaber.
Ghostruck is expanding after a 10-month pilot in Seattle.
The startup, which helps those who need big items delivered, is now operating in 13 markets: Seattle; Portland; Sacramento; San Francisco, Oakland; L... |
| 16.06.2015 | Startup Spotlight: Microsoft vet launches Kodu Care, an online marketplace for healthcare home visits | Kodu Care Co-founders Mauricio Gonzalez de la Fuente and Sigal Saar Ben-Ari
Mauricio Gonzalez de la Fuente had been working for Microsoft for over two decades when he finally decided to strike out on his own as an entrepreneur. He found mot... |
| 12.06.2015 | Startup Spotlight: Unoceros turns smartphones into a massive computing network | Unoceros Founder Devin Elliot
Smartphones are everywhere. The number of worldwide smartphone users is expected to surpass 2 billion in 2016. Even now it’s hard to step into an elevator or coffee shop without hearing the familiar jingle of a... |
| 04.06.2015 | Startup Spotlight: SalesPrepper helps sellers target buyers with crowdsourced organizational charts | SalesPrepper CEOs Niraj Zaveri and Michael Chu
Michael Chu and Niraj Zaveri were working for SAP when they started to notice a dramatic shift in the world of enterprise sales.
“Buyers are more educated than ever, and sellers need to be equi... |
| 29.05.2015 | Startup Spotlight: Pingle uses machine learning engine to verify, store and send credentials | The Pingle team
Despite strides in business technology, acquiring credentials is still a manual process that can take weeks — a virtual lifetime in the current on-demand consumer climate.
That’s a problem Pingle wants to remedy. The Seattle... |
| 14.05.2015 | From lawn care to health care: Meet the startups that just emerged from the 9Mile Labs accelerator | Mauricio Gonzalez de la Fuente of Kodu Care presents at the Milestone9 event in Seattle
More than 600 investors, entrepreneurs and tech industry geeks packed the Showbox Sodo Thursday morning to hear from the latest crop of entrepreneurs em... |
| 14.05.2015 | Startup Spotlight: Camp Native makes it easy to find and reserve campsites around the world | The Camp Native team: Mitchell Hymowitz, David Woodbury, Brian Martell, Chris Rimple
It’s been a whirlwind year for serial entrepreneurs David Woodbury and Brian Martell. A month after conceiving the idea for a service that helps people fin... |
| 11.05.2015 | KustomNote rebrands as Transpose, raises $1.5M for holistic information management platform | Transpose CEO Hussein Ahmed, CCO Skyler Johnson-Wagner, and CTO Samah Gad. Photo via Transpose.
Transpose, a new Seattle startup that bills itself as a holistic information management platform, today announced a $1.5 million funding round. ... |
| 15.04.2015 | Let the GeekWire Awards voting begin! Cast your ballot for Startup of the Year | Aaron Easterly of Rover accepts the Startup of the Year award at the 2014 GeekWire Awards.
We’re kicking off the GeekWire Awards voting today, and we’re starting with a big one: Startup of the Year. GeekWire Awards attendees in the Sky Chur... |
| 25.03.2015 | Mapping Seattle’s incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces | Inside the UW’s new Startup Hall, home to Techstars Seattle and a co-working space.
With the birth of Y Combinator in Silicon Valley a decade ago, the number of accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces has increased exponentially ove... |
| 25.11.2014 | How Concur nearly landed in Austin, and why co-founder Raj Singh is so glad they picked Seattle | Concur execs Steve Singh, Rajeev Singh and Mike Hilton at the opening of the company’s new headquarters in 2013.
Can you imagine this scenario?
Austin, Texas-based Concur, the maker of travel and entertainment expense management software wi... |
| 21.11.2014 | 9Mile Labs Demo Day: My favorite pitches, products and ideas from Seattle’s B2B accelerator | BuildPulse co-founder Brice Kosnik
Jet City Improv co-founder Andrew McMasters offered a little comic relief Thursday at the 9Mile Labs Demo Day event in Seattle, noting the challenges that each of the nine presenting entrepreneurs faced in... |
| 26.09.2014 | Seattle Roundup: Pro.com, Array Health, Ghostruck, DocuSign, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Fall in Seattle began this week with a flurry of investment deals. In addition to new capital for Apptentive and Context Relevant, which we covered earlier this week, Pro.com,... |
| 25.09.2014 | Ghostruck raises $1.2M to be the Uber for large deliveries | Whether it’s a massive dresser, a giant piano, or your 5-piece leather couch, moving large stuff just isn’t fun. Ghostruck knows that, and now the new Seattle startup that’s essentially an Uber for large deliveries has raised some cash to h... |
| 01.09.2014 | Acceleprise, the enterprise accelerator, comes to San Francisco (exclusive) | 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!
It took two years, but the Acceleprise accelerato... |
| 01.09.2014 | Acceleprise, the enterprise accelerator, comes to San Francisco (exclusive) | It took two years, but the Acceleprise accelerator for enterprise startups in the District of Columbia has finally established a presence in the startup and investing haven of the Bay Area.
An initial batch of eight like-minded companies ar... |
| 25.07.2014 | Seattle Roundup: Zillow+Trulia, Pacific Crest, Anomo, Comr.se, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Zillow could be pursuing its biggest online real estate rival, Trulia, if a report from Bloomberg is to be believed. Another Northwest M&A deal is also going down: KeyCorp... |
| 24.07.2014 | Startup Spotlight: GiftStarter uses a crowdfunding platform for group gifting | Here’s the traditional model of group gifting. Illustration via GiftStarter
Arry Yu arrived at Seattle’s Startup Weekend in March armed with little more than an idea and a 60-second pitch. Over the course of the weekend she found a team and... |
| 22.07.2014 | As Facebook and Twitter push into social commerce, Seattle startup Comr.se raises cash | Comr.se, a social commerce startup that graduated from B2B incubator 9Mile Labs last year, has reeled in an additional $800,000 in capital that it will use to grow the team and add new customers.
The company earlier this month rolled out a ... |
| 06.06.2014 | Roundup: InDemand Interpreting, Cozi, Ada Developers, Accelerators & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re catching up on a funding round for medical interpreting service provider InDemand Interpreting, the acquisition by Time of Cozi, expansion at the Ada Develope... |
| 02.04.2014 | PARC Partners With Seattle B2B Startup Accelerator 9Mile Labs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Nine Seattle-based startup companies will have access to mentoring, technology, intellectual property, and other assistance from the storied Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) i... |
| 02.04.2014 | B2B accelerator 9Mile Labs inks key alliance with PARC | The first class from 9Mile Labs.
Over the past four decades, Xerox PARC has helped spark some amazing innovations, from the ethernet to laser printing to the graphical user interface.
Now, PARC, originally founded in 1970 as the Palo Alto R... |
| 04.11.2013 | Accelerator 9Mile Labs Raises Fund to Back Next Class at $35k Each | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
9Mile Labs, the Seattle-area business-to-business startup accelerator, has raised a $900,000 fund from local angel investors to back companies in its upcoming second class and... |
| 04.11.2013 | B2B incubator 9Mile raises $900,000 to boost individual startup investments | The first cohort at 9Mile Labs
There’s a lot of chatter these days about the “consumerization of the enterprise” — this notion that business software will follow the path of consumer-oriented technologies with new products that are based in... |
| 27.10.2013 | Relive GeekWire Startup Day with photos, tweets from a day of entrepreneurial inspiration | GeekWire’s John Cook interviews a VC panel of Frank Artale, Greg Gottesman, Rudy Gadre and Geoff Entress at Startup Day.
It was hard to not feel totally inspired by the time Startup Day wrapped up this past Friday.
Whether it was the govern... |
| 24.10.2013 | Startup Day FAQ: What to know if you’re going to our big event and geek bands bash | A great list of speakers in store for Startup Day, plus many more.
We’re getting excited for the fifth annual Startup Day event, kicking off Friday morning with remarks by Gov. Jay Inslee and featuring talks by 10 of the region’s top entrep... |
| 23.10.2013 | Roundup: WhitePages, Contour, 9Mile Labs, Blue Rooster, Dwellable | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s a busy week for startups in Seattle. Some of the news that has caught our attention lately: WhitePages’ buyout of its VC investors; the apparent revival of action-sports ... |
| 21.10.2013 | Ready, set, pitch: Earn a chance to pitch your startup to top VCs at Startup Day | Our big Startup Day event is coming up this Friday — kicking off with Gov. Jay Inslee and concluding with a keynote by Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. It’s going to be an informative and inspiring day, and I encourage you to attend if you’re in th... |
| 11.10.2013 | Seattle Roundup: Nuance+Varolii, Amazon+TenMarks, Funding for Comr.se | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It was a busy week in tech M&A locally. Nuance Communications is buying Seattle-based Varolii; Amazon.com steps up its education game with the acquisition of TenMarks; and... |
| 11.10.2013 | Early-bird prices end today for Startup Day: Moz CEO Rand Fishkin, Glympse CEO Bryan Trussel added to lineup | Rand Fishkin
OK, folks, as they say: “If you snooze, you lose.”
Early-bird prices end later today for our big Startup Day event, taking place Oct. 25 at the Showbox Sodo in Seattle. That means prices will go up, so make sure to gobble up th... |
| 11.10.2013 | Comr.se raises $780K to help brands sell products within social streams | Shopping cart technology isn’t exactly the newest innovation around. But one young Seattle startup seems to have struck the right chord in terms of bridging the gap between social media, advertising and e-commerce.
Comr.se — pronounced “com... |
| 09.10.2013 | Dawn Lepore and others added to Startup Day lineup, early-bird rates expire Friday | Dawn Lepore will be a featured speaker at this year’s Startup Day
Do you want to get inspired by some of the region’s top entrepreneurial thinkers, innovators and doers? Of course, you do.
GeekWire Startup Day — our big startup bootcamp — i... |
| 10.09.2013 | 9Mile Labs: First Demo Day and Research on Accelerator Effectiveness | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
9Mile Labs, the new Seattle area startup accelerator for business-to-business companies, delivered nine new companies to potential investors Tuesday.
Begun earlier this year o... |
| 19.03.2013 | Meet the 9 startups joining the new 9Mile Labs accelerator | 9Mile Labs, the new accelerator that focuses on hatching new B2B startups, today announced its first cohort of startups that will begin the program on April 8th.
Like other accelerators, 9Mile Labs invests $20,000, taking a four to eight pe... |
| 15.02.2013 | Roundup: Cozi, X2Impact Raise Funds, Angels Report, and More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Investors are making bets on Seattle companies including family organizer Cozi and X2Impact, which aims to prevent sports head injuries, while angel groups the Keiretsu Form N... |
| 14.02.2013 | 9Mile Labs sets up new accelerator at SURF Incubator | This is a new one. It’s an accelerator inside an incubator.
9Mile Labs, the newly-formed startup accelerator that’s focusing on hatching new B2B companies, has picked SURF Incubator in downtown Seattle as its new home.
“We believe it’s sign... |
| 31.01.2013 | B2B startup accelerator 9Mile Labs taps Microsoft VP, veteran VC to lead the charge | Enrique Godreau
Sanjay Puri thinks more needs to be done to help entrepreneurs in the Seattle region — one of the reasons why he recently formed the startup accelerator 9Mile Labs. He calls the early-stage funding environment in Seattle at ... |
| 31.01.2013 | Roundup: 9Mile, Invoke, nFluence, FlexMinder, Sigby, and Globys | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Another Northwest startup incubator is launching, this one in Vancouver, BC, while Seattle’s newest, 9Mile Labs, adds to its roster of partners. Meanwhile, nFluence Media, Fle... |
| 02.01.2013 | New accelerator 9Mile looks to help jumpstart B2B startups | There’s no shortage of incubators and accelerators sprouting up around the Seattle area, and yet the creators of 9Mile Labs feel as if there’s still plenty of room to operate.
Their hook?
The firm is focusing on enterprise software companie... |
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