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• Ekos, Maker of Ultrasound Blood Clot Dissolver, Bought for $180M

  Ekos has been around a long time in the business of making ultrasound devices to improve the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Now it’s getting some rewards for that investment of time and money.

  The Bothell, WA-based company agreed to be acquired... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/24/13

  • Biotech

  • Devices

  • acquisitions

• Do You Have A Story to Tell? Here Are the Digital Tools You’ll Need

  Back in January I got an invitation out of the blue to give a 1-hour talk at the Palo Alto Research Center—the Xerox-owned lab better known as PARC. The invitation was completely open-ended. The full extent of PARC’s guidance was... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/24/13

  • National

  • xperience

  • Storytelling

  • IT

• Cardeas Pharma Snags $34M For Antibiotic Against Hospital Infections

  Seattle-based Cardeas Pharma just raised a lot more cash to fight a big problem that hospitals wrestle with every day, and which they’d rather not say much about publicly.

  Cardeas, the startup led by prolific drug developer Bruce Montgomery, has... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/22/13

  • Biotech

  • VC

  • startups

• Roundup: HasOffers Raises $9.4M, UW Bothell Chancellor, & More

  This week’s Seattle tech news roundup features a hefty venture round for mobile ad tracking startup HasOffers, the new STEM-focused chancellor of University of Washington Bothell, an Avanade study of social collaboration tools use in the enterprise, and a Seattle AWS... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/21/13

  • Seattle

  • Roundup

  • Startup

• Kineta, Scouring the World for Cash, Finds Oil Money

  Seattle-based Kineta has found some more support for its drug development work from an unlikely source—a group of oil traders.

  The company said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash from Hydra, a group made up of 13 recently... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/21/13

  • Biotech

  • Drugs

  • deals

• Juan Enriquez on the Forces Shaping Innovation: A Napa Summit Preview

  What are the most powerful forces affecting innovation and the economy? That is one of the key questions facing the nation as we inch our way out of the economic mire.

  Juan Enriquez may not have all the answers, but he... Read more »

  Robert Buderi5/21/13

  • National

  • Napa Summit

  • innovation

  • Economy

• Tableau on the Run: IPO Underscores Seattle Big Data Leadership

  Tableau Software continued producing visually stunning stock charts during its second day of trading, shining a favorable light on both the Seattle tech industry, and on big data companies.

  Shares of the company (NYSE: DATA) were nearing $60 at one... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/20/13

  • Software

  • IPOs

  • Finances

• NanoString Technologies Maneuvers In Line for $86M IPO

  NanoString Technologies just started selling its first diagnostic test after 10 years in business, and now it’s getting ready for another milestone—an initial public offering.

  The Seattle-based company said today that it is seeking to raise as much as $86.3 million... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/20/13

  • Biotech

  • IPO

  • Instruments

• Zillions of Biotech Conferences Want You. Which Should You Attend?

  Biotech industry conferences are happening, somewhere on this green Earth, every day. If you’ve been around a while, and you’ve attended a few, chances are you get invitations, or marketing pitches, that ask you to attend a different meeting every day.... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/20/13

  • National

  • BioBeat

  • conferences

  • Life Sciences

• Tableau Shares Jump More Than 50% in IPO

  No question, traders in the stock market knew there was going to be an appetite for shares of data visualization provider Tableau Software. But that hunger for business-tech IPO stocks is even deeper than Tableau guessed.

  Shares of the Seattle-based company (NYSE:... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/17/13

  • Software

  • enterprise

  • IPOs

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• Nine Lessons for Innovators from a Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist

  I was pretty slow about getting around to reading Thinking, Fast and Slow. The career-capping book by Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman, one of the founders of behavioral economics, spent months on all the bestseller lists back in 2011. I finally... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/17/13

  • National

  • xperience

  • startups

  • Economics

• Tableau Software to Reap $155M from IPO at $31 per Share

  Wall Street’s hunger for business-tech companies is on display again with the initial public offering of Seattle-based Tableau Software.

  Tableau, a provider of data-visualization software, begins trading today (NYSE: DATA) at $31 per share. That’s a higher price than... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/17/13

  • Software

  • enterprise

  • data

• Check KUOW’s “Weekday” for Science News

  Science news often falls into the trap of becoming “infotainment” designed to generate ratings, and little else. As one essayist in The Guardian recently put it, “freaky copulation techniques in the animal kingdom,” heart-warming tales of miracle cures for kids, or... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/17/13

  • Biotech

  • people

  • Media

• The Daily Grommet Leads Wave of “Anti-Amazon” E-Commerce in Boston

  First of all, the company is no longer called the Daily Grommet. Now it’s just The Grommet.

  “We still execute daily,” says CEO Jules Pieri, “but we dropped the word because it seemed to be superfluous.” She adds, “We love... Read more »

  Gregory T. Huang5/16/13

  • Boston

  • Internet

  • e-commerce

  • strategy

• Matterport Isn’t Playing Games with Kinect-Style 3D Camera

  When Tel Aviv, Israel-based PrimeSense came out with its first depth-sensitive, near-infrared camera-on-a-chip in 2010, nobody could have predicted how many uses hardware makers would dream up for the technology within a few short years.

  The first and most famous was... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/16/13

  • San Francisco

  • startups

  • IT

  • Computer Vision

• Matrix Genetics Emerges from Algae Biofuel Wilderness With a Partner

  Matrix Genetics is one of those startups that never really got off the ground in its early days, but never died, either. While the Seattle-based company lived on fumes at various points over the past four years, it saw other contenders... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/16/13

  • Biotech

  • Biofuels

  • startups

• In Pursuit of Big Opportunity, Software Maker Apptio Raises $45M More

  Apptio, which makes software to help corporate CIO’s manage IT operations, has filled up its coffers for a push into what it sees as a major untapped market.

  The Bellevue, WA, company has raised $45 million in a Series E round... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/15/13

  • Seattle

  • IT

  • VC

• With IPO Pending, Tableau Ups Targeted Share Price Again to Max of $30

  Tableau Software has again increased the price range of shares in its impending initial public offering, putting the top range at $30 in a sign of strong interest among investors in the Seattle data visualization software maker.

  Tableau is expected to... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/15/13

  • Seattle

  • IPO

  • IT

• Real Estate Move: DocuSign Buys Cartavi, Strengthens Ties with zipLogix

  Electronic signatures company DocuSign is beefing up its real estate line with the acquisition of Cartavi and a tighter partnership with zipLogix, meant to enable transactions using any device.

  DocuSign—founded in Seattle in 2004, but with its headquarters now in... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/15/13

  • Detroit

  • Seattle

  • Real Estate

  • M&A

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• Cloudant Raises $12M from Rackspace and Others, Opens SF Office

  There’s some more fuel for the online database arms race today: Boston-based Cloudant has secured a new $12 million investment round.

  The money will bankroll Cloudant’s general growth, which includes a new office in San Francisco, complementing Cloudant’s previous footprint in Boston,... Read more »

  Curt Woodward5/14/13

  • Boston

  • cloud

  • databases

  • Software

• Madrona, NEA Bet $6.75M on Seattle Big Data Analysis Startup GraphLab

  When Seattle’s tech community pulled together last year to help recruit Carlos Guestrin, a standout machine-learning expert and data scientist, to the University of Washington, some people were hoping a hot startup would wind up here as well.

  They weren’t disappointed.... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/14/13

  • Seattle

  • Startup

  • big data

• Henri Termeer on Startups, Drug Prices, Getting Older (Part 2)

  Yesterday, we ran the first part of a wide-ranging interview with Henri Termeer, the legendary biotech entrepreneur and former CEO of Cambridge, MA-based Genzyme. He spoke about what kinds of startups he likes to get involved in, the trend toward... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/14/13

  • National

  • BioBeat

  • people

  • startups

• Henri Termeer on Startups, Drug Prices, Getting Older (Part 1)

  Henri Termeer could have easily faded away into obscurity a couple years ago. The biotech pioneer could have relaxed at his oceanside home in Maine, played a little golf. Or, if he wanted, he could have made loads of money at... Read more »

  Luke Timmerman5/13/13

  • National

  • BioBeat

  • people

  • startups

• Life After PowerPoint: Prezi Zooms Ahead in Digital Storytelling

  Not every speech is improved by visual aids. Abraham Lincoln made do without PowerPoint at Gettysburg (though wags have tried to reimagine that), and Franklin Roosevelt’s voice on the radio in 1933 calmed a nation rattled by the Great Depression... Read more »

  Wade Roush5/10/13

  • National

  • xperience

  • IT

  • startups

• Salesforce Collects Flake and His Seattle Startup Clipboard

  Clipboard, the Gary Flake-led startup that aimed to give people a way to privately organize their online lives, is being acquired by Salesforce.com and will shutter its service at the end of June.

  The “bittersweet news” is disclosed on Clipboard’s website... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/9/13

  • Seattle

  • Startup

  • M&A

• Seattle Seeks to Stir Up More Startups With New McGinn Initiative

  Seattle is the latest big city government to throw its weight behind the technology startup community, as mayors and economic development officials across the country grasp at an elusive formula for fostering more new companies with potential to create jobs.

  From... Read more »

  Benjamin Romano5/9/13

  • Seattle

  • startups

  • Government

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