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This is a big year for SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies). The way a SPAC works is…

Over the next few weeks, Madrona is publishing our 2020 investment themes. We expect to see significant growth in these areas over the next five to ten years and are searching for new investment opportunities...

The PNW got its newest unicorn last week, as Qumulo raised a $125M Series E at a $1.2B valuation! This is the 37th startup (according to The DL’s unicorn tracker) to reach a $1B+ valuation in the PNW...

Last week, I pointed out that the tech stocks are hitting all-time highs and asked you to predict which one would hit a $2T and $10T market cap first.

Accolade went public on July 2, and it was Seattle’s first IPO of the year! Geekwire wrote a great article on the IPO and interviewed Accolade’s CEO, Raj Singh.

Stratechery wrote a great article this week on the future of Slack. He starts by going back to that time Slack took out a full page NY Times ad to throw shade on Microsoft Teams (and points out that now Teams has 75M DAUs, while S

Here are the PNW startups that announced new fundraising rounds in the month of June. These 20 companies raised more than $1.1B last month!

Of course, Reddit was quick to point out that Batman’s mask doesn’t cover his mouth or nose. 😆

Here’s a cool chart from The Economist showing all of the deals that the big tech companies have done over the last decade. Interestingly, the last three multi-billion dollar acquisitions were all Microsoft and Amazon deals.

Last week, Amazon released Honeycode, a new service that lets people build apps without writing code. (btw, check in with The DL’s favorite “VP in Purgatory” to get his take on the name)