The Seattle tech scene is known for innovations in gaming and greentech, and companies within these industries and more made new growth moves last week. Catch up on the latest with the Built In Seattle Weekly Refresh.
Earth Finance got $14M. The climate tech company announced its launch alongside a round of seed funding from private investors. Founded by a former state senator, Earth Finance helps businesses lower their carbon footprint. The funding round represents a continued interest in climate technology despite a slowdown in general venture activity. [Built In Seattle]
Lightfox Games raised $6M. The moble game developer pulled in a seed funding round from investors like March Gaming and Hiro Capital. Lightfox has a player-versus-player raid game called Knight’s Edge under its belt and announced a new title is in the works. Details on the new game will be unveiled this summer. [GeekWire]
Seattle Tech Quote of the Week
“XetHub is a data storage and data management platform that enables teams to treat their data like they treated their code for the last 15 years. Put another way, we scale source control to hold your data as well. Or even simpler: we’re like GitHub, but for data.” — Rajat Arya, XetHub co-founder
Built In featured XetHub. While GitHub exists to help developers keep track of, share and work with source code, XetHub serves to do the same with data. Both elements are critical to building functional systems. XetHub recently emerged from stealth to streamline collaborative work and make accessing and building on these critical elements easier. [Built In Seattle]
Flyhomes acquired Loftium. Two Seattle-based real estate tech companies are joining forces. Flyhomes, which specializes in helping homebuyers present all-cash offers, bought Loftium, which offers a host-to-own program. Following the acquisition, Loftium will retain its employees, branding and customer base. [Puget Sound Business Journal]
