Haiku Deck, which makes an iPad app to make it simple to create and share presentations,announced it has raised $3 million in a Series A round. Trilogy Partnership led the round, which included participation from Madrona Venture Group, Founders Co-op and individual investors, including Sarah Leary (co-founder of Nextdoor). Haiku Deck had previously raised less than $1 million in seed funding.

GroupTalent Inc., a talent-as-a-service platform that focuses on hard-to-fill software design and development roles, has secured US$1 million in a seed-stage financing round from a mix of Canadian and US investors. The Seattle, Washington-based GroupTalent, founded in 2011, was backed in a deal led by Vancouver, British Columbia’s Version One Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm launched last year, alongside Founders’ Co-op., Menlo Ventures and a number of angel investors.

Seattle startup Thinkfuse is being acquired by Salesforce.com. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Thinkfuse investors include Ali and Hadi Partovi, SV Angel, and Founder’s Co-op. The company was founded by former Google and Microsoft engineers Brandon Bloom and Steve Krenzel. ANNOUNCEMENT Today, we are excited to share that the Thinkfuse team will be [...]

Founder’s Co-op, an early stage investor focused on mobile and Web startups, has raised $8 million for a second fund targeting entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle-based firm, managed by partners Chris DeVore and Andy Sack, closed its initial fund, a $2.5 million vehicle, in 2009. To date, it has backed more than 25 [...]

(Reuters) – The transformation of Seattle’s South Lake Union district stands as a metaphor for this city’s emergence as what some would argue is the West Coast’s second most important hub of technology and entrepreneurship. Many of the glass and steel buildings were built by Paul Allen, the second-richest — behind Bill Gates — of [...]

AppFog, provider of a cloud-based PHP PaaS hosting service, has added $8 million in new funding. Ignition Partners led the Series B round, with participation from return backers Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital and Founders Co-Op. The company has raised a total of $9.8 million, and will use the new money to expand its development team. AppFog is based in Portland. As a result of the round, Frank Artale, managing director at Ignition, will join the board.

AppFog said it raised an $8 million Series B round led by Ignition Partners. The cloud-based hosting service from Portland that was formerly called PHP Fog said the round saw participation from new investors Simon Crosby and Matt Ocko, and from previous investors Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital and Founders Co-Op. PRESS RELEASE AppFog [...]

PHP Fog, the cloud computing platform, secured a $1.8 million financing from Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital and Founder’s Co-Op, along with other angels. The company was founded in 2010 by Lucas Carlson.

Urban Airship, a Portland, Ore.-based startup whose technology powers mobile applications, is announcing it has raised a $5.4 million Series B round, which brings its total funding to $6.5 million. Boulder, Colo.-based Foundry Group led the financing, joined by True Ventures of San Francisco and Seattle-based Founders Co-op, led by serial entrepreneurs Andy Sack and Chris [...]

Geoff Entress has joined Founders Co-Op, a Seattle-based seed-stage venture firm, as a general partner. He will remain a venture partner with Voyager Capital, and before that spent eight years with Madrona Venture Group.