Direct-to-consumer casket startup raises $3.5M to boost product line and shipping speeds
Caskets are shown in a Titan Casket warehouse. (Titan Casket Photo) Titan Casket, a startup that is disrupting the funeral industry with a direct-to-consumer model for casket…
David Baker, head of Seattle’s Institute for Protein Design, launches London biotech startup
IPD director David Baker. (IPD Photograph) Prolific biotech co-founder and College of Washington scientist David Baker, head of the UW Institute for Protein Design, has launched a…
Boulder Care raises $36M to grow telehealth platform to treat opioid addiction
Boulder Care CEO Stephanie Strong outside the telehealth addiction treatment startup’s offices in downtown Portland. (Boulder Care Photo) Boulder Care, the Portland startup using telehealth to treat…
Tiger Global leads $20M funding round for Seattle-based medical supply startup
Seattle-based startup bttn, which aims to modernize the healthcare distribution marketplace, raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Tiger Global. The funding pushes the…
From ‘hippies’ to heavy hitters: This social good platform bolstered its C-suite, raised $47M
Submittable CEO Thor Culverhouse. (Submittable Photo) New funding: Submittable, a company that helps corporations, governments and nonprofits manage their programs focused on social good, today announced $47…
Joining the fold: This ‘Uber for laundry’ startup just raised cash from an early Uber investor
(Loopie Laundry Photo) In a 2019 Startup Spotlight with GeekWire, Loopie Laundry founder and CEO John Vincent Lee described his new peer-to-peer clothes washing startup as “Uber…
Check your empathy: This startup raised $4M for software that analyzes workplace communication
The mpathic team. (mpathic Photos) The news: mpathic, a Seattle-area startup aiming to bring more empathy to the corporate communication landscape, landed a $4 million seed round….
More funding for fusion: Seattle startup lands $160M and reveals technology breakthrough
Zap Energy’s co-founders, left to right: Chief Technology Officer Brian A Nelson, President Benj Conway, and Chief Science Officer Uri Shumlak. (Zap Energy Photo) The news: Seattle-area…