TerraClear raised $15 million in new funding for its rock-mapping and picking technology solutions for farmers. The startup, based in Issaquah, Wash., and Grangeville, Idaho, will use the cash to focus… Read More
The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI, a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is part of the latest cohort at the startup accelerator Y… Read More
Respect. Inclusion. Satisfaction. Employee-centric. Our judges for the Workplace of the Year category at the 2024 GeekWire Awards used a number of different words and phrases to describe what makes… Read More
SPOKANE, Wash. — Jack Githens didn’t plan to stay here after college. A senior at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Githens grew up in Issaquah, Wash., in a part of the… Read More
Aditi Sinha was working at Amazon, as the worldwide marketing leader for Prime Day and other global shopping events for the e-commerce giant, when she reached a tipping point on… Read More
Which company will be the next tech titan to emerge from the Pacific Northwest? GeekWire’s startup coverage seeks to answer this fundamental question every day, at least implicitly. But once… Read More
Goodbill, a startup working to reduce medical costs to patients and a subset of insurers, has raised $2 million in new capital and expanded its market. The Seattle-based company is… Read More
Seattle-based BirchAI, a startup that builds software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies, announced Tuesday that it is being acquired by Sagility, a Denver-based health-tech company. BirchAI was spun… Read More
OpenPipe, a Seattle startup that wants to make it easier and cheaper for companies to train and deploy large language models, announced a $6.7 million seed round. The company, part… Read More
Sonoma Biotherapeutics on Monday hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony at its new research and development center and office space on Seattle’s waterfront. The biotech company, which has a second location… Read More
For Sunny Gupta, the inspiration behind Apptio started with a simple question: What are you struggling with? After selling two companies, Gupta wasn’t really looking to launch another startup. But… Read More
Smartsheet on Friday announced several changes to its board of directors, including the departure of co-founder Brent Frei and the addition of Katie Rooney, CFO and COO at HR software… Read More
Andrew Huff and Oliver Jones aren’t done trying to build software for the trucking industry. The entrepreneurs are the co-founders of Manifold Freight, a new Seattle startup that is part… Read More
Pandion, a Seattle startup that helps online retailers deliver orders to customers, raised a $41.5 million Series B round. Founded in 2020 by former Amazon and Walmart executive Scott Ruffin, Pandion… Read More
Public safety technology company Brinc announced a new software platform called LiveOps for managing and monitoring drone fleets, with live streaming, real-time maps, communications, and evidence storage. The browser-based software… Read More
Seattle-based game studio Reflection Games is raising investment to help support development of its debut project. A new SEC filing reveals that the company has raised about $2 million in… Read More
Offleash’d is making a run — at more funding and improved features — to attract more users to the app that connects pet friendly people over shared interests. Offleash’d has raised… Read More
After she was laid off in September, Jenny Richards didn’t expect to spend more than six months trying to find her next job. She had worked in product management roles… Read More
A new venture firm based in the Seattle region wants to support early stage tech startup founders that may be overlooked by other investors. Isaac Kato, a longtime entrepreneur and… Read More
SingleFile, a legal tech startup based in Seattle that helps companies file compliance reports with government agencies, raised a fresh round of capital to support its growth. The 5-year-old startup,… Read More
When Seattle startup Round announced a $12 million Series A investment two years ago, it was a moment to celebrate. Its community-based platform that helped tech leaders connect with one… Read More
Portland, Ore.-based Jama Software, makers of a product development platform, has agreed to be acquired by technology investment firm Francisco Partners in a $1.2 billion deal, the company announced Monday.… Read More
The five finalists for Startup CEO of the Year at the GeekWire Awards are leading companies with big ambitions to improve food quality, develop better therapeutics, address mental health needs,… Read More
Amid a shaky venture capital market last year, there were still plenty of startups that gained momentum and reached new heights. That’s true for the five finalists up for the… Read More
Andrew Peterson’s interest in technology started in Seattle as a young computer lab associate at his elementary school, just as the internet was proliferating. Several decades later — after a… Read More
Optimize Health, a Seattle-based startup that sells remote patient monitoring software, announced Ryan Clark as its new CEO. Clark, based in Ottawa, Canada, was previously a senior vice president and… Read More
Seattle-based money expert and self-described financial feminist Tori Dunlap credits TikTok with transforming her business, HerFirst100k, an education platform that helps women gain financial knowledge and independence. Amin Shaykho is… Read More
Textio laid off 14 employees this week, or 16% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring. The company confirmed the cuts to GeekWire on Thursday. It has now has… Read More
Joseph Sirosh, a former corporate vice president at Microsoft who was most recently at Amazon leading search and Alexa efforts, just launched a new startup that aims to let creators… Read More
Seattle-based Interlune officially lifted the curtain today on its plans to build a robotic harvester that could extract helium-3 from moon dirt and send it back to Earth for applications… Read More