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  • Last published Oct 15

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Arrived Homes launches $100-share crowdfunding platform for rental-property investing, founded by ex-Simply Measured and Sprout Social executives

Arrived Homes, a Seattle startup founded by tech veterans Ryan Frazier, Kenny Cason and Alejandro Chouza with CFO Joel Mezistrano, launched a crowdfunding platform that lets people buy $100 shares in rental properties and earn passive income while the company handles acquisition, renovation and management. The team uses tech and big data to select properties and has posted its first homes for investment after over a year of development and regulatory work.

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Jonathan Sandals launches Sook Chrome extension to aggregate local Seattle boutique inventory and counter Amazon’s search advantage

Jonathan Sandals, who moved to Seattle in 2019, built Sook, a Chrome extension that aggregates product listings from many small local store websites so shoppers can browse and buy from multiple boutiques in one place. He designed Sook to require no extra work from store owners and to make buying local as easy as shopping on major corporate sites like Amazon.

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Temporal raises $20M Series A led by Sequoia to commercialize open-source microservices orchestration

Temporal, a Seattle startup founded by former Uber engineers and cloud veterans, raised $20 million in a Series A led by Sequoia to commercialize its open-source microservices orchestration platform that improves developer productivity and reliability. Major customers include Snap, Box, Checkr, HashiCorp, and Coinbase, and investors include Madrona, Addition, Amplify and Snowflake ex-CEO Bob Muglia.

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98point6 Raises $118M Series E Led by L Catterton and Activant After 274% Membership Surge

Seattle telemedicine startup 98point6 raised $118 million in a Series E led by L Catterton and Activant Capital after membership grew 274% this year; the company offers AI-supported virtual primary care to over 3 million patients and serves employers and health plans. The round follows a $43 million Series D in April and comes amid a surge in digital health funding during the pandemic.

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Skilljar raises $33M Series B led by Insight Partners as pandemic boosts demand for its customer education platform

Seattle-based Skilljar, founded by Sandi Lin and Jason Stewart, raised $33 million in a Series B led by Insight Partners as demand for its customer education software surged during the pandemic; total funding exceeds $50 million and the platform has delivered over 10 million instructional hours to 300+ customers including Tableau and Cisco. The company provides cloud-based training, assessments, certifications, analytics and integrations to help companies build onboarding and customer education programs.

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Seattle’s HDT Bio raises $3M seed (updated to $6M) to fund replicating-RNA COVID-19 vaccine HDT-301 and clinical trials

Seattle biotech HDT Bio raised about $3 million in seed funding to advance its replicating RNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate HDT-301 and hire staff with clinical trial experience; the company reported promising preclinical results and plans human trials beginning in Brazil this month with U.S. and India trials possible later in the year. An update notes an additional $3 million raised, bringing the round to $6 million led by Zoic Capital to support three products entering clinical trials.

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Madrona leads $3.9M seed for Strike Graph to automate SOC 2 compliance, promises 45-day certification

Seattle startup Strike Graph, spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, raised $3.9 million in a seed round led by Madrona Venture Group to help B2B companies automate and accelerate SOC 2 compliance. The five-person team, led by CEO Justin Beals and co-founder Brian Bero, says its platform can deliver SOC 2 Type 1 certification in 45 days and save customers roughly $50,000 in consultant fees.

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Uber Freight raises $500M led by Greenbriar, valuing the unit at $3.3B

Uber Freight raised $500 million in a funding round led by Greenbriar that values the trucking logistics unit at $3.3 billion, and the business reported $211 million in adjusted net revenue for Uber’s most recent quarter with a $49 million quarterly loss. The unit operates a digital freight marketplace with about 65,000 carriers and competes with startups like Convoy, which recently raised $400 million at a $2.7 billion valuation.

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Boost Sport raises $1.3M seed led by TitletownTech to sell AI video-analysis to basketball teams

Seattle startup Boost Sport raised a $1.3 million seed round to expand its AI and video-analysis software for basketball teams, which extracts data insights from footage without in-venue cameras or wearables. TitletownTech led the round; Boost is led by CEO Mustafa Abdul-Hamid and co-founder Inga Nakhmanson, has run five pilots, signed Pepperdine, and is selling two-year contracts despite pandemic-related revenue impacts.

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire

Scener raises $2.1M seed round as social TV demand grows; backed by SeaChange, Glaser Investments and others

Scener, a two-year-old Seattle startup spun out of RealNetworks, raised $2.1 million in seed funding to expand its virtual co-watching platform that supports up to 1 million viewers and playback on at least 10 major streaming services. The company, backed by SeaChange, Glaser Investments and others, is nearing 500,000 active installs and about 14 million minutes of weekly co-watching as social TV gains traction among streaming providers.

Taylor Soper / GeekWire

HaptX wins $1.5M NSF grant to build ForceBot full-body haptic exoskeleton with Virginia Tech and UF

Seattle startup HaptX won a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a full-body haptic system called ForceBot over four years with Virginia Tech and the University of Florida, combining its microfluidic touch-feedback gloves with a robotic exoskeleton. The 20-person company, which raised $12 million in December and leases VR gloves to customers like Volkswagen, says production remains on track despite pandemic-related challenges.

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