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Seattle Startup Friday Harbor Raises $6M to Help Smaller Mortgage Lenders Compete Using AI

Seattle startup Friday Harbor raised $6 million in seed funding to provide AI-driven software that helps smaller mortgage lenders identify loan file issues earlier and compete with industry giants like Rocket and United Wholesale Mortgage. Its product, launched in October, is used by 16 enterprise customers to reduce loan processing time and cost by detecting risks such as undisclosed debts and employment discrepancies.

Seattle Startup MotherDuck Raises $52.5M Series B at $400M Valuation to Expand DuckDB-Based Analytics Platform

MotherDuck, a Seattle-based analytics startup founded by former Google engineer Jordan Tigani, raised $52.5 million in a Series B round at a $400 million valuation to advance its collaborative serverless analytics platform built on DuckDB. The funding follows prior rounds led by Andreessen Horowitz and Redpoint Ventures and aims to offer a simpler, cost-effective SQL analytics solution for businesses without petabyte-scale data.

Underestimated: 'Bootstrapped VC' Arlan Hamilton

Hey GeekWire Podcast listeners, we hope you enjoy this latest episode of our new podcast, Numbers Geek with Steve Ballmer, featuring the remarkable story of Arlan Hamilton, who went from homeless to running her own venture capital firm, investing in "underestimated" founders. To listen to every episode of the new podcast, go to geekwire.com/numbersgeek. We'll be back soon with a new GeekWire Podcast episode. Thanks for listening! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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