— Diego Oppenheimer is now a partner and CEO-in-residence at venture capital firm and incubator Factory, which is opening a Seattle office. Oppenheimer was previously CEO and co-founder of Seattle… Read More
Seattle startup Algorithmia has been acquired by DataRobot, a Boston-based startup and leader in the machine learning operations sector. Founded in 2013, Algorithmia builds tools to help companies incorporate machine… Read More
If you’re stuck professionally in a COVID-19 rut, Diego Oppenheimer, CEO of Seattle-based Algorithmia, is ready with words of encouragement. “The way that I look at it, is just when… Read More
CB Insights released its annual list of 100 most promising artificial intelligence startups in the world and three Seattle-area companies made the cut. They include: Algorithmia: Founded in 2013, the… Read More
Rachel Potvin signed on with Microsoft-owned GitHub as vice president of engineering. Potvin most recently led the data insights group at Google Cloud. She previously ran DevOps teams at Google… Read More
— Vacation home rental company Vacasa added former OpenTable CEO Matt Roberts to its board of directors. Roberts led OpenTable through its IPO in 2009 and later served as CEO… Read More
Algorithmia announced Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in new funding to build out tools that make machine learning easier to implement. Norwest Venture Partners led the Series B… Read More
— Naria Santa Lucia announced that she’ll be stepping down from her role as executive director of the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship (WSOS). WSOS is a public-private partnership that gives… Read More
IPOs have thinned the ranks at the top of the GeekWire 200, our ranking of privately held Pacific Northwest tech companies, but even more companies are departing via acquisitions. So… Read More
Amazon VP of Physical Stores Tim Stone has been named Snap’s new chief financial officer, replacing Drew Vollero, who is stepping down from the role. Stone is a significant loss for the Seattle-based… Read More
Much of the discussion about blockchain technology to date has either lauded its transformational promises or snickered at the marketing hype undeterred by the lack of actual breakthrough applications. But… Read More
Researchers working on machine-learning algorithms now have a new incentive to try and help the artificial intelligence community: cryptocurrency. Algorithmia packed all the current hot tech buzzwords into a new… Read More
Algorithmia, a Seattle based marketplace for AI and machine learning algorithms, named prominent artificial intelligence executive Andy Jacques to its board of directors. The addition comes just a few months after… Read More
Algorithmia is adding a new service alongside its marketplace for artificial intelligence algorithms that helps data scientists focus on their work, rather than infrastructure. The company’s new AI Layer product… Read More
This time, it seems like it’s actually going to happen. We’ve been hearing promises about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are going to change the world for decades, but… Read More
Google’s new artificial intelligence investment arm has made one of its first bets, leading a $10.5 million Series A round in Seattle-based AI algorithm marketplace Algorithmia. Algorithmia is essentially an… Read More
Cloud computing is turning into a real business, but the pioneering work of the engineers and product teams at cloud companies is the reason for the economic opportunity. We’re proud… Read More
In January of last year, Liz Rush began studying software development in the first class of Ada Developers Academy, a tuition-free coding school for women. After successfully graduating from Ada, Rush worked… Read More
This year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a New Year’s resolution to build an artificial intelligence that helps out at work and home. We haven’t heard much about Zuckerberg’s progress… Read More
Last month, Microsoft developed a fun algorithm at How-old.net that guessed the age of the people in a given photo. Now, one Seattle startup is doing something similar — with a little less clothing. Algorithmia,… Read More
Algorithms are essential for many app developers, but they tend to be dispersed across obscure academic journals and are difficult to access for engineers in the private sector. That’s a pain point… Read More