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Accessibility-focused Assistiv Labs raises $1 million in pre-seed

Rick Turoczy on July 21, 2022

A local company with an experienced founding team and customers that include the UK government has garnered financial support to foster their work ensuring that the software that’s being built is accessible. Assitiv Labs has raised a $1 million pre-seed round.

There’s a new pre-Seed fund in the Pacific Northwest. Meet Startup Haven Venture Fund.

Rick Turoczy on April 6, 2021

In order to sustain a vibrant startup investor ecosystem, funds need to start, find success, and raise more funds. And should that success cause them to grow beyond their previous stage focus, then new funds need to start to backfill the gaps. So as many of the early stage funds in the Pacific Northwest achieve success and move downstream to Seed and Series A investments, it’s nice to see new funds stepping up to take the opportunity to support pre-Seed startups. Like the new Startup Haven Venture Fund.