Seattle Startup

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

Check your inbox to discover a popular use of AI-powered sales enablement. Business email optimization is booming. 24 January 2023 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Dropbox, Inc. (NASDAQ: DBX), today announced it has acquired FormSwift, a cloud-based service that gives individuals and businesses a simple solution to create, complete, edit, and save critical business forms and agreements. "At Dropbox, we're building tools to help our customers succeed in today's virtual-first world by modernizing manual workflows and digitizing tasks," said Dropbox Vice President and General Manager of Document Workflows Group, Chetan Dandekar. "As part of this, we're focused on building an end-to-end agreement workflow experience, most recently with simple, secure tools like Dropbox Sign, Dropbox Forms, and DocSend. With a similar customer base of small businesses and freelancers, and a library of commonly used forms and agreement templates, we firmly believe that FormSwift is a strong addition to our document workflows product suite, and will help us bring even more value to our customers." ...

Despite continuing talk about a possible recession, slumping tech stocks and a slowdown in the world of startup investing, the business of funding was positively humming last week. After slowing way down last spring, venture outfits disclosed a stunning $8 billion in new capital commitments in the span of just five days. Consider the following: NEA revealed that it closed its two newest funds adding up to $6.2 billion; Cowboy Ventures announced two funds totaling $260 million; and FJ Labs also disclosed two funds totaling $260 million. Then there's Sapphire Sport (it closed a second fund of $181 million), Volition Capital (it announced $675 million for its fifth fund), Kearny Jackson ($14 million) and Dimension ($350 million). Even non-U.S. outfits got into the act, including Highland Europe, which announced a new €1 billion fund, and a Japanese chemical giant that revealed a $100 million fund. So what's going on exactly? Are ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

It might be difficult for advertisers to turn their backs on Google completely but it's getting a lot easier for them to look away these days. Antitrust challenges from the U.S. Department of Justice tend to have that sort of effect — especially when there's a bigger than usual chance that this one could actually subvert Google's influence over ad dollars. It's Google's most serious antitrust challenge to date. Not only is it anchored to a real harm — the fact that Google's ads business has foisted a heavy tax on struggling digital publishers — it also outlines how this behavior has hurt users.  The latter point harks back to Sections 1 and 2 of The Sherman Act, articles the DOJ along with eight Attorneys General filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in a 139-page lawsuit last week. Here's the short version: Google's sell-side tools are the target. The DoJ is demanding divestiture of Go...

January 12, 2023 Communications & Stakeholder Relations Contact: Nicole Ortega, Information Officer (916) 795-3991 - newsroom@calpers.ca.gov SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CalPERS has appointed Peter Cashion as managing investment director (MID) for Sustainable Investments. Cashion's role will be to set the vision, strategy, and governance for CalPERS' sustainability work and be responsible for leading all aspects of the fund's efforts to develop and implement an economics-based ESG research and data framework to support environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration into the investment decision-making process. "CalPERS has been a pioneer in its advocacy of climate solutions and sustainable investing, and our focus on that work has only intensified over the years," said CalPERS Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Nicole Musicco. "That makes this a critical position to us. Peter's long record of impact investing across global markets...

Developers have lined up $63 million in funding for a new Garland apartment community. Anthem Development is building the 340-unit Lofts iThirty rental project north of Interstate-30. Debt and equity financing for the 10-acre development was arranged by Los Angeles-based Nova Capital for Anthem Development, a Beck Ventures Co. "We were able to close on the financing during a period of volatility in the economy and capital markets where other groups are having difficulty getting their projects financed, especially development deals," Steven Yazdani, Managing Director of Nova Capital, said in a statement. "As the market continues to evolve, financing deals will be more difficult as many lenders are on the sidelines and/or providing conservative financing terms. "Equity groups and lenders are being very conservative with their underwriting assumptions and cautious with new investments." Anthem Development has a track record of apa...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Disney Advertising expands EDO, Samba TV measurement ...    FierceVideo Disney Advertising expands EDO, Samba TV measurement ... - FierceVideo

January 12, 2023 Communications & Stakeholder Relations Contact: Nicole Ortega, Information Officer (916) 795-3991 - newsroom@calpers.ca.gov SACRAMENTO, Calif. – CalPERS has appointed Peter Cashion as managing investment director (MID) for Sustainable Investments. Cashion's role will be to set the vision, strategy, and governance for CalPERS' sustainability work and be responsible for leading all aspects of the fund's efforts to develop and implement an economics-based ESG research and data framework to support environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration into the investment decision-making process. "CalPERS has been a pioneer in its advocacy of climate solutions and sustainable investing, and our focus on that work has only intensified over the years," said CalPERS Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Nicole Musicco. "That makes this a critical position to us. Peter's long record of impact investing across global markets...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ruth Newton Obituary (1937 - 2023)    Legacy.com Ruth Newton Obituary (1937 - 2023) - Legacy.com

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Disney Advertising expands EDO, Samba TV measurement ...    FierceVideo Disney Advertising expands EDO, Samba TV measurement ... - FierceVideo

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Meet the 2023 Power Leaders 250 – Part 1: Banking & Finance and ...    The Business Journals Meet the 2023 Power Leaders 250 – Part 1: Banking & Finance and ... - The Business Journals

[unable to retrieve full-text content] New WA labor council president April Sims brings lived experiences    The Seattle Times New WA labor council president April Sims brings lived experiences - The Seattle Times

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Disney Advertising expands EDO, Samba TV measurement ...    FierceVideo Disney Advertising expands EDO, Samba TV measurement ... - FierceVideo

Established in 2013, following NATO's 2010 Strategic Concept and the relocation of the Combined Air Operations Centre to Torrejon (Spain), the role of the DACCC has developed over the past decade to remain relevant in the new geo-political landscape and shifting dynamics of the international order. More recently, the DACCC's ability to deploy to the Eastern flank of Europe has become increasingly crucial to support the projection of Air Power and provision of vital command and control capabilities I strongly believe we have to work hard in realizing true Multi Domain Operations. To a lesser extent to same applies to fully exploiting the capabilities of fifth generation weapon-systems and modern technology The ceremony started with a speech of the first Commander of DACCC, General (retired) Mirco Zuliani; he said: "my task along with the staff at that time was to start shaping this new entity, trying to give content that could be useful to the alliance in the years to follo...

Tennis Australia's AO Startups program has announced five of the seven startup involved in its pioneering new accelerator program. The startups were chosen from among 165 applications to the program, which is designed to help early-stage companies pilot cutting-edge technologies at the Australian Open (AO) and tennis more broadly. Tennis   Australia  Head of Innovation Dr Machar Reid said AO Startups is designed streamline corporate processes that can often stifle innovating at speed, and provide an opportunity for future investment via Tennis   Australia 's venture capital fund, Wildcard Ventures. And it's not just about sportstech – the ideas involved span climate tech and food, clothing, equality, and generative AI. Tailor-made compression The first of the five announced so far is compression garment manufacturer CAPE Bionics . It's having its products introduced to player...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

AuditClub, the Audit Service Center and creator of the innovative auditors-as-a-service model, has announced new and enhanced weekly passes that allow members to subscribe to AuditClub professionals with an experience level geared to the support they need during the upcoming busy season and beyond.  Members experience convenience and peace of mind by reducing the panic created by today's talent exodus. In addition to its existing AuditClub Chiefs passes, the company now offers its AuditClub Crew passes for CPA firms and companies to access virtual crew members with up to six years of experience who perform and review audit procedures based on a member's solutions requests. The company has also enhanced its existing AuditClub Chiefs passes to provide greater simplicity and week-to-week convenience. These passes offer access to the company's fractional partners and managers who continu...

Anna Pineda runs an education business that helps scientists to be more productive and to improve their writing skills. Credit: Pilar Pineda Today is the end of the financial quarter, and I'm at my home office processing invoices for my accountant. In a few weeks, I'll hear how much value-added tax I need to pay for my business activities. Five years ago, I had no idea about any of this. I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen, pursuing a career path that ends with a professorship. I'd constantly be immersed in the struggles of data analysis, or anxiously awaiting a manuscript decision. Back then, I didn't look at the year in terms of financial quarters. Now, I run an education business, 'I focus and write', helping other scientists to improve their productivity and writing skills. It all started when I was failing to find a -tenure-track position. After wondering during my postdoctoral p...

Accord, a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord's total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup's engineering, sales and marketing teams. Accord was co-founded in early 2020 by brothers Ross and Ryan Rich. Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud. The brothers say that they discovered the challenges of modern B2B sales firsthand as their teams scaled from a handful of reps to thousands on the go-to-market team. "We started Accord to solve frustrating challenges in B2B sales," Ross told TechCrunch in an email interview. "Customers don't want to talk to sellers. B2B buyers have been conditioned by the business-to-consumer, Amazon-...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

[unable to retrieve full-text content]

Molly Baker, CEO & Founder of Indie Consulting . As we begin 2023, I can confidently say that digital marketing is now just "marketing." This blurs the lines between funnel objectives and channel selection, increases the ever-growing need for a variety of digital content and demands an always-on approach to measuring the art and science that is marketing today. In the aftermath of the big boom of direct-to-consumer brands and marketplaces, along with their accompanying marketing tactics (think Facebook advertising), I am seeing a refocus on the importance of brand awareness and upper-funnel tactics. While it plays an important role in any brand's marketing mix, performance lower-funnel marketing is not the single key to growth. As the founder of a marketing consulting company, and in studying how brands are approaching this matrixed ecosystem, I have identified three widely used approaches. Approach No. 1: The Performance Model ' I've...

BAM BIZHUB and BAM Executive Partner Angel Garcia and President Michael Crain pose for a photo in BAM's offices in Midland. BAM BIZHUB is offering an entrepreneurial certification program through Odessa College. They also offer expertise and mentoring for new business owners. (Ruth Campbell | Odessa American) MIDLAND BAM BIZHUB in Midland now offers an Entrepreneurial Certification Program through Odessa College and it's planning to place the program in other colleges around the region. Michael Crain, president of BAM, said the first class was offered in June of last year. BAM BIZHUB is the nonprofit side of the company that offers business classes and BAM is the for-profit side that works with clients to develop their businesses. "We actually put it in motion with Odessa College and Howard College and I have a pretty good prediction and that we're going to be able to play it in to other colleges before it's all over with," Crain said. He added that t...