| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.07.2026 | Wonderdog Launches With $5 Million Pre-Seed To Bring At-Home Blood Testing And AI Health Intelligence To Preventive Dog Care | Wonderdog, a Los Angeles and New York–based preventive health platform for dogs, has launched publicly and announced $5 million in pre-seed funding led by consumer venture capital firms WndrCo and Maveron. The company combines at-home blood... |
| 08.07.2026 | Wonderdog Secures $5M in Pre-Seed Funding | Wonderdog, a Hermosa Beach, California-based developer of an AI-powered canine preventive health and at-home diagnostic platform, launched out of stealth mode after securing $5m in pre-seed funding.
The round was led by WndrCo and Maveron, ... |
| 21.05.2026 | Kin Health Raises $9M to Launch Free Conversational App for Patients
The “Patient Forgetfulness” Crisis: Why Kin Health is Giving Patients Their Own Ambient AI Scribe | Kin Health Raises $9M to Launch Free Conversational App for Patients What You Should Know
Kin Health has closed an oversubscribed $9M seed financing round led by Maveron, featuring participation from Town Hall Ventures, Flex Capital, and th... |
| 19.05.2026 | Kin Health: $9 Million Raised To Build Patient-Owned Health Records From Doctor Conversations | Kin Health, a consumer health platform founded by practicing physicians, announced a $9 million seed round to help patients better understand and retain information from their medical appointments. The funding round was led by Maveron, with... |
| 19.05.2026 | Kin Health Raises $9M in Seed Funding | Kin Health, a Los Angeles, CA-based company developing a free app that allows patients to remember and act upon doctors’ advice, raised $9M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Maveron, with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Flex Capi... |
| 27.02.2026 | Jampack AI Secures $3.2M to Revolutionize CPG Wholesale Automation | Jampack AI secures $3.2M seed funding. Its agentic platform automates CPG wholesale operations, streamlining purchase orders, logistics, and invoicing. This cuts manual work, reduces errors, and boosts efficiency. Maveron led the round. The... |
| 24.02.2026 | Jampack AI Raises $3.2M in Seed Funding | Jampack AI, a NYC-based provider of an agentic platform that automates wholesale operations for CPG brands, raised $3.2M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Maveron, with participation from Timber Grove Ventures and angel investors.
The c... |
| 24.02.2026 | Jampack AI: $3.2 Million Raised For Agentic Wholesale Automation Platform For CPG Brands | Jampack AI, an agentic platform automating wholesale operations for consumer packaged goods brands, announced it has raised $3.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Maveron, with participation from Timber Grove Ventures and a grou... |
| 15.01.2026 | WeatherPromise Secures $12.8M Series A to Redefine Weather Risk for Consumers | WeatherPromise, a technology innovator, recently secured a significant $12.8 million Series A funding round. This pivotal investment pushes the company's total capital raised beyond $22 million. The New York City-based firm champions a nove... |
| 14.01.2026 | WeatherPromise: $12.8 Million Series A Raised To Scale Weather Guarantees Across Travel And Events | WeatherPromise, a technology company that offers “weather guarantees” for travel and outdoor experiences, announced it closed a $12.8 million Series A financing round that was more than three times oversubscribed, bringing total investment ... |
| 13.01.2026 | WeatherPromise Raises in Series A Funding | WeatherPromise, a NYC-based technology company providing weather guarantees, raised $12.8M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Maveron, with participation from 1Sharpe, Lerer Hippeau, Clocktower Ventures, Commerce Ventures, MS Transve... |
| 14.11.2025 | REBEL: $25 Million Series B Raised To Accelerate Retail Returns Recommerce Expansion | REBEL has secured a $25 million Series B funding round led by MarcyPen Capital Partners, marking a significant milestone in the company’s effort to reshape the massive returns market. The round was oversubscribed and closed less than one ye... |
| 13.11.2025 | Rebel Raises $25M in Series B Funding | Rebel, a Kannapolis, NC-based B-Corp certified returns recommerce marketplace for open-box and overstock goods across North America, raised $25M in Series B funding.
The round was led by MarcyPen Capital Partners.
The company intends to use... |
| 14.08.2025 | Full Send Partners Advises on Landmark Cross-Border Acquisition of Daring Foods by v2food, Establishing a Global Platform for Plant-Based Meat | Full Send Partners is a middle-market investment bank that provides M&A, capital raising, buy-side, and strategic advisory services to corporate, entrepreneurial, and private equity clients.
Daring Foods joins forces with Australia's to... |
| 01.08.2025 | Pacaso Rakes in $35M: Luxury Co-Ownership Model Soars | Pacaso secured over $35 million in its latest funding round. Over 10,000 individual investors participated. This SEC-qualified Regulation A+ offering marks a significant milestone. The firm pioneers luxury vacation home co-ownership. It mak... |
| 31.07.2025 | Pacaso Raises $35M in Funding | Pacaso, a San Francisco, CA-based tech-enabled marketplace for co-owned luxury vacation homes, raised more than $35m from more than 10,000 individual investors as part of its ongoing SEC-qualified Regulation A+ offering.
Founded in 2020 by ... |
| 28.06.2025 | Pro Athlete Community: A New Era for Athlete Support | In the world of sports, the spotlight shines brightly on athletes during their playing days. But what happens when the final whistle blows? The transition from the field to the next chapter can be daunting. Enter the Pro Athlete Community (... |
| 27.06.2025 | Pro Athlete Community: $7.6 Million Series A Raised For Transforming Athlete Support | Pro Athlete Community (PAC), a leading global education and community platform for current and former professional athletes, announced the closing of a $7.6 million oversubscribed Series A funding round led by GSV Ventures, with participati... |
| 31.03.2025 | Lucky Energy: A Rising Star in the Energy Drink Market | In the bustling world of energy drinks, a new contender is making waves. Lucky Energy, based in Austin, Texas, has just secured $14.2 million in a Series A1 funding round. This brings its total funding to over $40 million. The company is no... |
| 31.03.2025 | Lucky Beverage Company: $14.2 Million (Series A1) Raised For Better-For-You Energy Drink | Lucky Energy, a simpler and better-for-you energy drink, announced that it has successfully closed a $14.2 million oversubscribed Series A1 round, bringing its total funding to over $40 million. The funding round is led by Maveron, with bac... |
| 27.03.2025 | Lucky Energy Raises $14.2M in Series A1 Funding | Lucky Energy, an Austin, TX-based energy drink company, raised $14.2M in Series A1 funding.
The round, which brought total funding to over $40m, was led by Maveron, with participation from DMG Ventures, Second Sight Ventures, and existing i... |
| 12.01.2025 | Former Zillow Execs Target $1.3T Market Co-ownership is creating big opportunities for entrepreneurs. | Spencer Rascoff co-founded Zillow. Austin Allison sold his company to Zillow for $125 million. Now they've teamed up to co-found Pacaso and transform the $1.3T vacation home market.
Pacaso's streamlined digital marketplace is leading the co... |
| 08.12.2024 | Sage: $35 Million (Series B) Secured For Transforming Senior Living Operations | Sage, a leading operations management platform for senior living, announced it raised $35 million in Series B funding, led by IVP and with participation from Friends & Family Capital and PLUS Capital. Existing investors Maveron, Goldcre... |
| 23.09.2024 | Rebelstork: Baby Gear Returns Recommerce Marketplace Raises $18 Million (Series A) | Rebelstork, which is North America’s largest and most trusted baby gear returns recommerce marketplace, announced a new round of investment that will help the company to build on its innovative solution to the baby gear industry’s pressing ... |
| 19.09.2024 | Rebelstork Raises $18M in Series A Funding | Emily Hosie, Founder and CEO of Rebelstork (CNW Group/Rebelstork)
Rebelstork, a NYC-based baby gear returns recommerce marketplace, raised $18M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Maveron Ventures with participation from Serena Ventur... |
| 26.08.2022 | Sandeep Nailwal’s Crypto VC Fund Symbolic Capital Raises $50 Mn | The VC fund has already made nearly 15 investments, including three Web3 gaming startups Planet Mojo, Blinkmoon and Community Gaming
Symbolic Capital plans to back startups building consumer-facing dApps
The firm’s next cheques will be made... |
| 24.05.2022 | Maveron raises $225M for its 8th fund to back more consumer-focused startups | The Maveron team. (Maveron Photo)
The news: Maveron, a venture capital firm founded 24 years ago that invests in consumer-oriented startups, raised $225 million for its eighth fund.
Why it matters: It’s one of the largest funds for Maveron,... |
| 12.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Absolute Foods scores $100m, Mashgin bags $63m | Among this week’s largest funding rounds in agrifoodtech was the $100 million raised by India’s Absolute Foods, which is seeking to vertically integrate the ag value chain. Mashgin, a US maker of contactless self-checkout machines, also sco... |
| 06.05.2022 | BREAKING: Tomorrow Farms lands $8.5m to develop next-gen pantry staples | Right on the cusp of announcing its first product, New York-based food tech company Tomorrow Farms has announced an $8.5 million seed round to recreate refrigerator and pantry staples with healthier ingredients.
The round was led by Lowerca... |
| 19.04.2022 | D2C VC Fund Fluid Ventures Closes At INR 50 Cr; To Invest In Growth-Stage Consumer Brands | D2C-focussed venture capital fund Fluid Ventures has made final closure of its fund at INR 50 Cr ($6.53 Mn). The fund is oversubscribed to INR 50 Cr, from the initial target of INR 45 Cr, and has used green shoe option.
The fund saw partici... |
| 10.12.2021 | How to (successfully) pivot your startup, from a company that did it twice | In recent years, the word “pivot” became one of the buzziest in Silicon Valley. It seemed as if every other startup had switched gears and morphed into a new company. And it sounded as if a pivot was no big deal.
The truth is that pivots ar... |
| 18.09.2021 | ‘They proved me wrong.’ Investor who passed on Seattle startup Remitly analyzes its upcoming IPO | (Remitly Photo)
Jason Stoffer was still early in his career at venture capital firm Maveron in 2012 when he declined an opportunity to invest in Remitly, then a fledgling Seattle startup with ambitions to challenge Western Union by bringing... |
| 24.08.2021 | AllStripes Secures $50M to Advance Global Rare Disease Research Platform | Nancy Yu, CEO and Co-founder, AllStripes
– AllStripes, a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company dedicated to unlocking treatments for people affected by rare diseases, today announced it has raised $50 million in Series B funding... |
| 15.07.2021 | Purpose and profit: Why this venture capital firm became a ‘B-Corp’ and wants others to follow | The Maveron team. (Maveron Photo)
Dan Levitan isn’t confident that the U.S. government can solve the country’s pressing problems, at a time when it needs help more than ever.
“Sadly, I think more and more of us have lost faith that governme... |
| 07.05.2021 | Column: Diversity Riders Can Make the Investing Network Better in LA. Here's How Entrepreneurs Can Help. | Back in August of last year, L.A.-based Act One Ventures partner Alejandro (Alex) Guerrero launched the Diversity Rider, along with a number of other marquee venture capital firms, including First Round Capital, Maveron and Greycroft.
It's ... |
| 26.01.2021 | 10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021 | The digital media industry will give us plenty to talk about this year.
When we last surveyed venture capitalists about their media investments, the big topic was the impact that the pandemic would have on the industry, and on the prospects... |
| 11.01.2021 | Former Zulily execs raise $150M for new firm that buys and supercharges e-commerce businesses | Jason LeeKeenan (left) and Kevin Saliba are the brains behind Cap Hill Brands. (GeekWire Photos)
Two former Zulily executives have landed more than $150 million to fuel a new venture that seeks to buy profitable e-commerce businesses.
Jason... |
| 10.12.2020 | 51 VCs Who Want To Invest In Women, Black And Latinx, And LGBTQ+ Founders | Erica Chidi, co-founder and chief executive officer of Loom, speaks during the 2020 Makers ... [+] Conference in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. The event gathers industry leading females for roundtable discussio... |
| 22.09.2020 | ‘The next wave of plant-based alternatives needs to be significantly less processed…’ Daring Foods raises $8m | Additional investors include GoodFriends, Stray Dog Capital, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew Investments, and private investors including Mike Smith (CFO of Stitch Fix) and Brian Swette (former chairman of Burger King and president at Sweet Earth).
“... |
| 14.08.2020 | Backed by Johnson & Johnson, Thirty Madison Raises $47M for Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth Brands | What You Should Know:
– Direct-to-consumer telehealth company Thirty Madison raises $47M in Series B round from Johnson & Johnson and Polaris Partners.
– Thirty Madison’s three portfolio brands — Keeps, Cove, and Evens — enables patient... |
| 01.04.2020 | Could Covid action spur climate action? Packaged food company Planet FWD thinks so. | Countless consumer goods companies are reeling from the impact of Covid-19, as shelter-in-place orders deter customers, supply chains buckle, and workers are sent home or laid off. Companies are being forced to radically rethink strategies ... |
| 30.12.2019 | In the shadow of Amazon and Microsoft, Seattle startups are having a moment | Venture capital investment exploded across a number of geographies in 2019 despite the constant threat of an economic downturn.
San Francisco, of course, remains the startup epicenter of the world, shutting out all other geographies when it... |
| 21.08.2019 | Spyce up your life with robot woks: review from Boston | For the last several months, I’ve been monitoring the roll-out of robo-chefs in restaurants. A fair few of them either end up malfunctioning or on the scrapheap, as it’s not an easy business to get both the technology and the hospitality ri... |
| 29.05.2019 | Allbirds, Everlane investor Maveron turned away more than $70M for its latest fund | Maveron, a venture capital fund co-founded by Starbucks mastermind Howard Schultz, has closed on another $180 million to invest in early-stage consumer startups.
The capital represents the firm’s seventh fundraise and largest since 2000. To... |
| 29.05.2019 | Why consumer-focused venture capital firm Maveron turned away millions for its seventh fund | The Maveron team. (Maveron Photo)
Venture capitalists broke all kinds of records last year as the size of funds and deals continued to reach astronomical levels.
That’s what makes Maveron’s decision to say “no” to more cash for its seventh ... |
| 28.05.2019 | Maveron Raises $180M For A Trio Of New ‘Consumer Only’ Venture Funds | 21 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Update: This post has been updated from the original version. Shortly after publication, Maveron’s paperwork for “MEP Associates VII, L.P.” crossed the SEC wires. Rather than posting a new article, ... |
| 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... |
| 11.01.2019 | Early Pinterest exec Cat Lee joins Maveron as partner, will focus on backing women-led startups | The Maveron team. (Maveron Photo/Michael Clemens)
Cat Lee, a Silicon Valley veteran who was most recently head of culture at Pinterest, has joined Seattle-based consumer-focused venture capital firm Maveron as partner. Cat Lee. (LinkedIn Ph... |
| 11.01.2019 | Term Sheet — Friday, January 11 | BIG MONEY
Another day, another mega-round. On-demand delivery startup Postmates raised $100 million in venture funding from investors including Tiger Global and Blackrock. The deal values the company at approximately $1.85 billion, accordin... |
| 30.11.2018 | Seattle is the cloud capital and an enterprise town — can consumer tech startups thrive, too? | OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar accepts the App of the Year award at the 2016 GeekWire Awards.
When Nick Huzar started OfferUp, it was almost a disadvantage to be based in the Seattle area.
“Investors didn’t really understand the consumer world as m... |
| 19.09.2018 | Illumix will use $8.6 million in funding to make augmented reality games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Illumix has raised $8.6 million to fuel its augmented reality technology and build games based on it.
Kirin Sinha, CEO of Menlo Park, C... |
| 19.09.2018 | Illumix will use $8.6 million in funding to make augmented reality games | Illumix has raised $8.6 million to fuel its augmented reality technology and build games based on it.
Kirin Sinha, CEO of Menlo Park, California-based Illumix, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the company has cool technology that co... |
| 30.08.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, August 30 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Venture capitalist Ashmeet Sidana believes that some of the best Silicon Valley companies owe their success to a technical insight.
Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop
His firm, Engine... |
| 07.08.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, August 7 | MEDIA MONEY
Good morning, Term Sheet readers.
Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraHop
NewTV is a venture under Katzenberg’s umbrella company WndrCo, which has invested in startups such as Mixcloud, Axios, Node, Flowsp... |
| 04.06.2018 | Where is VR headed? Investors share insights on the industry’s trajectory | After an initial frenzy of interest in virtual reality due to Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, investors and startups alike faced a “VR winter.” This was a difficult period of time in which consumer adoption of VR was slow, funding dried u... |
| 04.06.2018 | Where is VR headed? Investors share insights on the industry’s trajectory | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After an initial frenzy of interest in virtual reality due to Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, investors and startups alike faced a “V... |
| 06.01.2018 | From cryptocurrency to IPOs, 6 venture capitalists make tech predictions for 2018 | (Bigstock photo)
No one knows for sure what will happen in the technology world this year. But venture capitalists have their finger on the pulse better than most, so we reached out to a handful of Seattle-area investors to get some predict... |
| 20.10.2017 | Rebecca Kaden | USV added a new partner today. Her name is Rebecca Kaden and she introduced herself to our world on the USV blog just now. Rebecca joins a team of fifteen people; our network team, our analysts, and our fantastic administrative team. We are... |
| 20.10.2017 | Rebecca Kaden joins Union Square Ventures as general partner | Rebecca Kaden has announced that she’s leaving Maveron to join Union Square Ventures as a general partner on the investment team. She’ll be the first female partner at USV.
“While their investments in many category-defining businesses speak... |
| 11.10.2017 | 5 Startup of the Year Finalist Pitches at Innovate Celebrate | Pitching is scary. Sitting down with a relative stranger to convince them that your company is the next big thing is enough to make an entrepreneur sweat bullets. After all, the right pitch can do a lot for the future of a new startup. And ... |
| 29.09.2017 | 20 More Mentors Imparting Wisdom at Innovate Celebrate 2017 | A little mentorship can go a long way when your building a startup. Sure, failure is the best teacher, but doesn't it sound a little less soul crushing to learn about the mistakes you might make from someone that's already been there? Fortu... |
| 30.08.2017 | E-commerce vets raise $1.5M from top VCs and NFL players for sports jersey rental startup | Rep The Squad CEO Brian Watkins (far left) and his team. Photo via Rep the Squad.
A new Seattle startup backed by top venture capital investors and NFL stars is looking to change the way sports fans pay for jerseys with an e-commerce rental... |
| 26.05.2017 | Sana Health aims to stop insomnia with smart goggles | When Solar Impulse pilot Bertrand Piccard set out to fly around the world in a plane that uses no fuel, he knew he wasn’t going to get much rest. During the journey, he would be able to sleep, at a maximum, three hours per day with rest met... |
| 13.04.2017 | Pluto VR raises $13.9M to build out virtual reality communication platform | Pluto VR lets you talk to other people within virtual reality apps. (Pluto VR Photo)
Pluto VR, the Seattle-based virtual reality startup co-founded by PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey, has raised $13.9 million in a Series A funding round... |
| 23.03.2017 | The winner of Vator Splash Health is... Iris Plans! | Congratulations to our runner up: Blumio!
The ballots are in! They have all been counted and recounted, and we have a winner for this year's Vator Splash Health, Wellness & Wearables 2017.
Hubert Zajicek of Health Wildcatters, and one o... |
| 23.03.2017 | Presenting the finalists for Vator Splash Health! | 8 startups will be pitching their ideas to some of the top healthtech VCs!
Vator Splash Health is finally here! And in just a few hours, we'll find out who the winner of our competition is!
The winning company, and the runner up, gets about... |
| 31.01.2017 | Many Washington Tech Giants in Vocal Opposition to Immigration Ban | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit to invalidate the Trump administration’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven predomi... |
| 26.01.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Insect Farming, Big Data, Soil Health Tech, Crowdfund a Cow Platform, more | nextProtein, a French-Tunisian black soldier farming and animal feed startup, has raised €1.3 million in seed funding from a range of investors including Kima Ventures, Silicon Valley business angel Jerome Lecat, Khaled Helioui, and crowdfu... |
| 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;... |
| 02.08.2016 | iBeat raises $1.5 million to build a heart monitor that people will actually want to wear | A San Francisco startup called iBeat has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to make a smartwatch that constantly monitors a wearer’s heart and, in the event of cardiac arrest, checks in on them, and notifies loved ones and emergency respon... |
| 02.08.2016 | iBeat raises $1.5 million for ‘life-saving’ heart-monitoring watch | iBeat, the startup behind a “life-saving, heart-monitoring smartwatch,” announced today that it scored a $1.5 million seed investment.
Led by Maveron and Subtraction Capital, iBeat’s latest round aims to hire new talent and expand its opera... |
| 10.05.2016 | MegaBots raises $2.4 million to create league of human-piloted, giant fighting robots | Oakland, Calif. startup MegaBots Inc. has raised $2.4 million in seed funding to bring the robot-fighting stuff of manga and anime to a venue near you.
According to MegaBots cofounders, Gui Cavalcanti, Matt Oehrlein, and Brinkley Warren, th... |
| 14.04.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Israeli Seed Breeding Startup Raises $1.25m, Alibaba Invests $2.3bn in Ele.me, more | Israeli Seed Breeding Startup EQUInom Raises $1.25m
EQUInom, an Israeli seed breeding startup, has raised a $1.25 million round led by Hazera, a field crops and seed production specialist group. The startup uses computational breeding techn... |
| 05.04.2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 5, 2016 | Human Longevity bagged $220M Series B; Persado closed $30M; Sequoia Capital invested in Mintigo
London-based on-demand delivery company Jinn closed a $7.5 million Series A round of funding, according to TechCrunch, led by Samaipata Ventures... |
| 19.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 19, 2015 | PresenceLearning raised $25M; UrbanClap scored $25M; Cinematique closed $3.5M funding
Touchable video platform Cinematique, announced on Thursday that it has closed $3.5 million in a funding round led by Pumori Capital, an investment adviso... |
| 01.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 1, 2015 | General Assembly raised $70M; Neon Therapeutics secured $55M; Dolly landed $8M
Social Finance (SoFi for short), a lending startup has raised a monster round of funding, taking $1 billion from SoftBank, with existing Third Point Ventures and... |
| 13.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 13, 2015 | CrowdStrike landed $100M; Delphix raised $75M; Class Wallet closed $1.9M;
ClassWallet, a platform for school funds disbursement and tracking, closed a $1.9 million round of seed financing. Total funding raised to date is $2.53 million. Inve... |
| 25.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 25, 2015 | Postmates landed $80M; Bitsight raised $23M; Celect nabbed $5M Postmates, a delivery platform, raised an $80 million funding round led by Tiger Global Management. A Postmates spokesperson also revealed to VatorNews that Slow Ventures partic... |
| 08.03.2015 | Venture’s Angels | Sarah Kunst Contributor
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| 12.02.2015 | The winner of Vator Splash Health is Luminate Health! | And a big congratulations to our People's Choice winner, Privail!
(Image: Jules Walker (KPMG), Bambi Francisco (Vator), Sidd Sinha (Founder & CEO, Luminate Health), Jessica Hsu (Founder & CTO)
The ballots are in! They have all been ... |
| 12.02.2015 | Presenting the 6 finalists for Vator Splash Health! | These 6 startups will be pitching their ideas to some of the top tech VCs and entrepreneurs!
Today, Vator will be holding its first ever Splash Health event in Oakland, where speakers such as Dr. Katrina Firlik, Tom Lee, Founder & CEO o... |
| 27.01.2015 | New Loan Refinancing Tool And $17M Round Shows The Importance Of Earnest | Louis Beryl, the founder of the personal lending (and now student loan refinancing) business Earnest, knows a thing or three about student debt.
When Beryl was trying to drum up loans for grad school, he’d run into a problem. Nobody would l... |
| 14.11.2014 | Leading Seattle Entrepreneurs to Share Stories at Xconomy Xchange Tuesday | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
How did Jane Park go from high-touch nail salons to an omni-channel social commerce brand? How did the local community convince Carlos Guestrin, a leader in machine learning, ... |
| 12.11.2014 | Jane Says: Julep CEO on Leadership, Growing Pains, Community, Family | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Jane Park, co-founder and CEO of Seattle beauty brand Julep, is trying to build “the most transparent and collaborative company” in any category, not just in the massive beaut... |
| 09.10.2014 | Learn From Leading Seattle Innovators at Xconomy Xchange Nov. 18 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
From the frontiers of modern multi-channel commerce to business intelligence deep inside networking infrastructure, another generation of Seattle innovators is pushing out bou... |
| 28.08.2014 | Home & Baby Companies Plan To Profit as Millennials Settle Down | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Sure, he’s in love with artful neck tattoos and outlandish facial hair right now. But that hipster at your favorite coffee bar down the street is going to get older, and a gro... |
| 12.08.2014 | Dolls Kill Raises $5M in Seed Funding | Dolls Kill, a San Francisco, CA-based ecommerce fashion brand for girls, raised $5m in seed funding.
The round was led by Maveron. In conjunction with the funding, Jason Stoffer, Partner at Maveron, will be joining the Board of Directors al... |
| 14.07.2014 | Craft Kit Maker Darby Smart Takes on Supply Goliath Michaels | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After Nicole Shariat Farb got married in 2011, she wanted to make the thank-you notes she sent to guests herself. Armed with inspiration from Pinterest, she headed to crafting... |
| 10.06.2014 | Mobile vacation rental app Dwellable lands $2M Seed | A who's who list of travel and real-estate angels back startup gunning for HomeAway
Dwellable, a mobile-first app to find vacation rentals, announced Tuesday that it's raised $2 million in a Series Seed round of financing, led by Version On... |
| 29.05.2014 | Vhoto hits 200K downloads in 1 month for iPhone app that scans your videos to find amazing photos | The folks at Vhoto are finding that users — and investors — seem to like the idea of an app that clips out the best photographic moments from a motion video.
Vhoto today announced that it has seen more than 200,000 downloads for its app tha... |
| 26.03.2014 | The 2014 Midas List: Fewer New Names And More Explosive Exits | For the third straight year, the number of newcomers to the Midas List has dropped. From 38 new names in 2012 to 25 new names in 2013, the number of entrants to this year’s List dipped even further, to 19. The data from previous years’ Mida... |
| 14.03.2014 | Advice for hardware startup founders: Scope how big your idea is before raising money | Jason Stoffer, Eric Klein, Kyle Hart and Scott Jacobsen talk about fundraising at the inaugural Hardware Workshop in Seattle on March 14.
There’s been an influx of hardware startups popping up in recent years, with cheaper tools and crowdfu... |
| 03.01.2014 | Roundup: Maveron Fundraising; Vidible & Doxo Funded; NWEN’s Future? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We know the holidays are over because Starbucks has switched its cups back to white. 2013 closed with word of a new fund for Maveron, funding for video marketplace Vidible and... |
| 23.12.2013 | Maveron joins the billion-dollar club, one of 10 VC firms to generate big returns in 2013 | Dan Levitan of Maveron
Venture capital is a high-risk, high-reward game where the funds at the top tend to grab the lion’s share of the returns.
And who was at the top of that elite list in 2013?
Bloomberg analyzed venture-backed acquisitio... |
| 19.11.2013 | August Raises $8M in Series A Funding | August, a home automation company, raised $8m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Maveron, with participation from Cowboy Ventures, Industry Ventures, Rho Ventures, and SoftTech VC.
The company, which had previously raised $2m in seed... |
| 19.11.2013 | Home Automation Startup August Raises $8 Million From Maveron To Make Smart Locks Mainstream | Home automation startup August is getting ready to start shipping its first product to consumers early next year. But first, it’s raised a bit more cash to add personnel and ramp up production of its mobile-operated smart lock.
August raise... |
| 03.10.2013 | Wave of Capital for Ed-Tech Startups Kairos, LearnBIG, Actively Learn | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It looks like an opportune moment for education technology entrepreneurs in Seattle. A trio of local startups has raised a combined $6 million in recent weeks to work on vario... |
| 06.09.2013 | EBay buys shopping research site Decide.com | EBay has acquired price forecasting and shopping research company Decide, the company confirmed today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Decide provides consumers with a set of analytics that can help predict whether they shou... |
| 26.06.2013 | PeerTransfer Closes $6.4M Funding | PeerTransfer, a Boston, MA-based provider of global payment solutions for the education industry, closed a $6.4m funding.
Backers included QED Investors, led by Nigel Morris, co-founder of Capital One Financial Services, and FIDES and KIBO ... |
| 25.06.2013 | peerTransfer recibe €5 millones de QED, FIDES-FJME, Kibo, Spark y Maveron | 25/06/2013
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PEERTRANSFER RECIBE €5 MILLONES DE QED, FIDES-FJME, KIBO, SPARK Y MAVERON.
peerTransfer, el proveedor líder de soluciones de pago mundiales para la industria de la educación, ha cerrado una ronda de €5 millones ... |
