OPENTRONS ANNOUNCES $200 MILLION SERIES C ROUND LED BY SOFTBANK
September 23, 2021 - Today Opentrons Labworks Inc. has announced SoftBank Vision Fund 2* has led the company’s $200 million Series C investment with participation by Khosla Ventures. Opentrons will use this fundraising round to further invest in its automated lab platform globally. “Biology opens the door to solve many of humanity’s grand challenges. For far too long, scientists…
Wilsonville-based Avocor inks 'game changer' deal with Google for display hardware
September 8, 2021 - Scott Hix is getting the band back together, so to speak. Hix is a product of Portland’s display technology heyday and his new company Avocor might be on its way to bringing that ecosystem back to the spotlight. Avocor unveiled this morning a strategic partnership with search giant Google to develop and manufacture a line of smart displays specifically for…
Pillar Lays The Foundation For Influencers To Monetize Their Work In The New Creator Economy
August 27, 2021 - Making a living as a full-time content creator has never been more viable than now. A growing number of Gen-Zers and Millennials are eschewing traditional career paths for a chance to live out their childhood dreams of getting paid to create content online, as more than two million creators make more than six figures online. However, the financial challenges…
Give InKind, which aims to make giving easier, lands more funding to expand healthcare partnerships
July 16, 2021 - Social giving startup Give InKind has raised another $500,000 as it inks deals with hospitals and healthcare systems. The Tacoma, Wash.-based startup hosts a platform to make the giving process easier for the family and friends helping those in need of meals and other necessities in difficult life situations. The company now has partnerships with…
E-commerce boom lifts another startup as Shipium lands $8M to help retailers keep up with Amazon
June 9, 2021 - Online shopping has surged amid the pandemic, forcing e-commerce companies to ramp up their fulfillment capacity. That’s good news for startups building e-commerce software such as Shipium. The Seattle startup just raised $8 million to help online retailers with technology that improves operations inside their fulfillment centers. It’s the latest software…
Vega Cloud, a Liberty Lake, WA Public Cloud technology startup announced that it has raised $2.3M in its Seed round
September 25, 2020 - Kick Start, an early-stage venture fund based in Spokane, WA, led the round. Also participating are Voyager Capital, Tapas Capital, Mind2Market, Bighorn Ventures, Morning Star Foundation and local Angel investors. The company also secured funding from Ignite Northwest’ Technology Growth Fund. “We believe that Cloud management as a whole, requires a new…
Seattle startup founder on the discrimination-busting advantages of VC fundraising during COVID
August 24, 2020 - Sarah Haggard just raised an investment round remotely due to COVID-19 and found advantages compared to doing it in person — particularly given that she is pregnant and due with her first child next month. Haggard is CEO and founder of Tribute, a Seattle-based mentoring app. She declined to reveal the investment amount, but talked about the unusual process of…
Former Airbnb President joins tapas Capital as venture advisor
July 20, 2020 - Tapas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, today announced that Greg Greeley, formerly President of Airbnb and Vice President of Amazon Prime, will join as an Advisor. Greeley, whose recent departure from Airbnb was announced last week, stated, “I’m looking forward to applying my experiences of incubating new businesses and innovating at scale…
Market Wagon Finishes Seed Round
July 9, 2020 -Carmel-based Market Wagon has completed a $1 million seed round of funding. The company, which offers an online farmers market experience in nine hubs around the Midwest, says it will use the funding for growth, including opening more hubs by the end of 2020. The round was led by Tapas Capital of Bellevue…
Give InKind raises more cash as social giving platform gains popularity amid pandemic
June 6, 2020 - Business is booming for Tacoma, Wash.-based startup Give InKind as more people use its social giving platform during the global pandemic. The company just raised nearly $900,000 to help support its growth. The funding comes six months after it raised a $1.5 million seed round. Give InKind aims to help streamline the giving process between friends and…
Furniture rental startup Fernish raises $15M from Khosla, Jeff Wilke, Spencer Rascoff, and others
May 27, 2020 - A group of top Silicon Valley investors and veteran tech executives are putting more cash behind Fernish, a Los Angeles-based startup aiming to reinvent how people buy furniture for their homes. Khosla Ventures led a $15 million Series A round announced Tuesday, which included participation from Techstars Investments, Tapas Capital, RET Ventures, and…
