Out of her own startup's failure, Leslie Feinzaig started the Female Founders Alliance, a space where women in tech could lift one another up. Now, they're looking for up to 12 companies from across North America to take part in a program called Ready Set Raise, aimed at helping startups founded by women to find investors.
Many tech companies are enlightened enough to see the value in providing a daily ray of sunshine in their employees’ lives in the form of free food. Here are a handful of them — and they’re all hiring in Seattle.
Nancy Wang has worked as a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, a Google product manager and a Deloitte consultant. Nowadays, she’s a lead product manager for Rubrik, a Silicon Valley-based cloud management company, and has founded Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) in an effort to address the tech gender gap.
Seattle Internet of Things startup Seeq announced a $23 million Series B, and plans to use the funding to significantly expand its development, marketing and sales arms.
New York-based automated conversation company LivePerson just announced a big expansion to Seattle, with plans to create a North American Advanced Technology Center in South Lake Union.
The Seattle company today announced an oversubscribed $10 million Series A. The funding brings in more than double the company’s previous two rounds combined for its data protection software, to help companies comply with GDPR and other regulatory laws.
In many ways, B2B services are the engine rooms of business, providing the commercial and operational foundations for the brands consumers know and love. And as B2B businesses leverage the full power of technologies like artificial intelligence, big data and the cloud, the field is only heating up from here.
From the Pilgrims to potato famine refugees from Ireland, foreign-born techies to escapees of the world’s current war zones, the United States has long been considered a land of sanctuary and opportunity — but life is still hard for new arrivals. We went in search of Seattle tech companies helping to make life easier for immigrants here.
Real life is starting to resemble sci-fi novels by the likes of Octavia E. Butler, Ernest Cline or Philip K. Dick, and we think the tech coming out of these six Seattle companies might deserve a starring role.
