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Founded in 2003 by Francisco Martin, Strands has raised $55 million to date.
The Bellevue company, backed by Ignition Partners and led by former Classmates.com executive Anil Pereira, said that the weak U.S. dollar is driving interest among Canadians and British who are looking for second homes in the U.S.
The company is calling the site the first "social commerce network" for college students. Just like how Facebook started, inCampus limits participation to college students. It is currently available at the University of Washington with plans to expand to other campuses later this year.
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Recent entries
· Stealth startup of the week: Zipwhip
· Microsoft confirms Powerset search deal
· Education upstart SynapticMash gets $3 million
· Taking a break and a question
· What do you like to talk about?
· Etelos goes after file sharing
· iTunes in the crosshairs, Real unveils DRM-free music store
· Bill says goodbye
RSS/Web feeds (help)
Blogs
· Business 2.0
· Business Week
· Don Dodge
· Feld Thoughts
· Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
· John Ludwig
· Om Malik
· Market Velocity
· MocoNews.net
· Rain City Real Estate
· Seattle 2.0
· Steve Hall
· Silicon Valley Watcher
· Martin Tobias
· VentureBeat
· VentureBlog
· Venture Chronicles
· Who Has Time for This?
· Xconomy
Publications
· CNet News.com
· Private Equity Week
· Red Herring
· Corante
Organizations
· NW Entrepreneur Network
· Nat'l VC Assn.
· WSA
· Seraph Capital Forum
· Technology Alliance
Other VC links
· Topix.net VC News
· PWC MoneyTree Survey
· VentureOne
Seattle startup bloggers
· Avvo
· Marcelo Calbucci of Sampa
· Cleverset blog
· Mike Davidson of Newsvine
· Farecast blog
· Jobster blog
· Greg Linden
· LiquidPlanner
· Kevin Merritt of Blist
· Mpire
· Robert Pease of MessageGate
· Pluggd blog
· Redfin blog
· RescueTime
· Andy Sack
· Kelly Smith of Curious Office Partners
· David Xue of PixPulse
· Zillow blog
· WhitePages.com
| Company | Amount raised |
| Week of June 23 | |
| Immune Design | $18 mil. |
| Week of June 16 | |
| Cozi | $6-$8 mil. |
| Earth Class Mail | $3 mil. |
| Fridge Door | $.830 mil. |
| Veratect | undisclosed |
 Previous weeks | |
| Company | # of layoffs | |
| Zango | 68 | |
| Entellium | 10 | |
| SecondSpace | 8 | |
| Talyst | 11 | |
| Lumera | 29 | |
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Pacific Northwest venture capital and equity firms
Classmates (Canceled)
Clearwire (Priced March 7 2007)
First Financial Northwest (Priced Oct. 2007)
Imperium Renewables (Up to $345 million)(Delayed)
Intelius ($143 million filed Jan. 2008)
Light Sciences Oncology (Canceled)
Omeros ($115 million filed Jan. 2008)
Symetra (Up to $750 million) (Delayed)
Tully''s Coffee (Up to $50 million)(Delayed)
Venture Financial (Up to $46 million) (Delayed)
Varolii (Up to $86 million)(Canceled)
· Canadian telecom BCE, suitor agree on terms
· Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
· Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
· Adobe to make searching easier on Flash sites
· Ex-tech exec gets new judge in extradition case
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