Artificial intelligence startup Read AI raised $21 million in new funding from Goodwater Capital and Madrona Venture Group, and expanded its feature set by adding AI-generated recaps of email conversations… Read More
Read AI, a Seattle startup that applies artificial intelligence to online meetings, is expanding beyond its automated recaps of single meetings — using AI to summarize and glean insights from… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring a panel discussion from the recent GeekWire Summit in Seattle, with three technology and business leaders offering first-hand insights into the new… Read More
“The future of work will be less monotonous. AI will take care of it on the back end and free up time to do more critical thinking…you will challenge yourself… Read More
— David Shim, founder of Seattle startup Placed, is stepping down as CEO of Foursquare after about a year in the role. Board member Gary Little will take over as… Read More
— Location data companies Foursquare and Factual are merging. The combined company will be led by Placed founder David Shim under the Foursquare brand. Shim was named CEO of Foursquare… Read More
David Shim’s entrepreneurial journey took a wild turn in 2019. The longtime Seattle techie sold his location analytics startup Placed to Snapchat parent Snap in 2017 for a reported $135… Read More
— David Shim, founder and former CEO of Seattle startup Placed, was appointed CEO and a member of the board of Foursquare, which acquired Placed from Snap in May. Shim… Read More
In business, some deals go well and others go badly. But that’s never the whole story. Microsoft bought Seattle-based advertising technology firm aQuantive for $6.3 billion in 2007 in what… Read More
Smartphones today certainly can do more than just make a call or send a text — they also double as personal GPS devices that can monitor our precise movements. The ability to… Read More
After two years of hard work, a name-change and an incredible amount of data crunching, Placed has become the first company to offer a ratings service to help understand where people are going… Read More
App developers can already monetize location data of its users, but often times it comes with messy and disruptive advertisements. Placed, a Seattle location analytics startup, has a better solution. Today the… Read More
Mobile phone usage is soaring, meaning people are consuming information while on the go at increasing rates. But where are those mobile users really consuming the content, and how can… Read More