Downstream co-founders Salim Hamed (left, CTO) and Connor Folley (CEO). (Downstream photo) Jungle Scout raised $ 110 million and today announced it has acquired Downstream, a Seattle startup helping brands with their Amazon advertising strategies. The terms of the contract were not disclosed. Downstream will add its 11-person team to Jungle Scout, a 200-person company … Read more
Sure had a secret. And a “secret weapon”. The Seattle-area fintech startup recently announced that TV personality and bestselling author Suze Orman is one of the company’s co-founders. A spin-off of Pioneer Square Labs, Secure helps employers offer employees a financial wellness benefit in the form of an Emergency Savings Account (ESA) on top of … Read more
(Highspot Photo / David Kennedy) Highspot has joined the growing list of billion dollar startups that have sprung up in the Seattle area. Highspot CEO Robert Wahbe. (Highspot photo) Seattle’s newest unicorn just raised a $ 200 million round that valued the 9-year-old company at $ 2.3 billion – more than double what it was … Read more
(CNN) – “Real Estate Investments” and “Residual Income”. Both terms are very appealing, but for many in their 20s and 30s, both can seem very distant. But Roofstock is trying to solve that. The first step in this process is to dispel some myths about buying property: Myth 1: You have to move and live … Read more
Harjinder Sandhu, CEO and Founder of Saykara, speaks on the Health Tech stage at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Nuance Communications has acquired Saykara, a Seattle-based health tech startup that makes a voice assistant for clinicians. Based in Boston and publicly traded, Nuance will use the deal to improve its own … Read more
Steven Halliwell, Promethean Chief Product Officer, with his family in Carlsbad, California (photo courtesy of the Halliwell family) Steven Halliwell, Promethean’s chief product officer, calls himself a change agent. In his current role during the COVID-19 pandemic, this has meant pushing for new approaches internally and with customers. Halliwell joined Promethean in 2017 and joined … Read more
Iterative CEO Patrick Thompson. (Iterative photo) The Seattle startup iteratively raised a $ 5.4 million round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund. Founded in 2019 by veterans of Atlassian and Microsoft, the company iteratively sells software to data and product teams to track customer analytics. The idea is to avoid data quality problems … Read more
Vicis is back. The former Seattle startup darling, who suffered a major and sudden fall in 2019, has just unveiled a new and improved version of its high-tech football helmet called the ZERO2. The launch marks a milestone in Vicis’ roller coaster ride in recent years. After Vicis left the University of Washington in 2014, … Read more
The French startup Seyna has a new CEO. Stephen Leguillon joins the company as managing director, while Philippe Mangematin resigns from his daily activities for personal reasons – he becomes honorary chairman. If you are unfamiliar with the company, Seyna is an Insurtech startup that has been granted an insurance license to provide property and … Read more