Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle’s startup ecosystem

How the startup studio’s “validation engine” has made it one of the best company builders in the business.

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Grove just raised $8 million to make traditional financial planning affordable to pretty much everyone

Financial advisors aren’t cheap to use. They aren’t always seen as trustworthy, either, with many advisors receiving — or perceived as receiving — incentives for recommending certain products over others. Grove, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup, is taking on both of these issues through software that makes it easier to its own financial advisors – […]

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Veteran VCs Trae Vassallo and Neil Sequeira attract $151 million to their new firm, Defy Partners

 They’re back. After staying heads down for the past year, Trae Vassallo and Neil Sequeira, two longtime venture capitalists whose individual brands are well-known to Bay Area startup founders, are finally taking the wraps off their new venture firm, Defy Partners. As part of the big reveal, they say they’ve closed their debut fund with $151 million in capital commitments,… Read More

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