The Washington Technology Industry Association’s Industry Achievement Awards were held this week in Seattle. The annual awards are a fun night, celebrating the best of the best in the state’s… Read More
What’s it like inside the mind of an angel? I got to peer into that mysterious — yet all important world — as the moderator of TiE Seattle’s angel investment… Read More
Urban Airship, a Portland upstart that provides behind-the-scenes services like push notifications and in-app purchasing for mobile apps, has named former Skype Chief Strategy Officer Christopher Dean to the position of… Read More
Founder’s Co-op, the angel investment fund led by Andy Sack and Chris DeVore, has raised a new $8 million fund from some of the top names in the Seattle technology… Read More
Founder’s Co-op is among the new backers of Unbounce, a Vancouver, B.C.-based company that today announced an $850,000 investment from a large syndicate of investors. Unbounce has developed a new… Read More
Back in April, we discovered Gary Flake’s stealthy Internet startup Clipboard, reporting on the company’s $1.38 million venture round. At the time, however, we didn’t know who was bankrolling the… Read More
Some have gone out of business. Several have changed course. And most are still hanging their shingle in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, looking to transform everything from the way… Read More
Urban Airship, a Portland startup that specializes in push notifications and in-app transactions, has acquired San Francisco’s SimpleGeo in an all stock deal. The acquisition will add location-based technologies to… Read More
Three Seattle area venture capital firms are allying to back Portland’s AppFog, which has created new technologies that allow developers to quickly build Web applications. Ignition is leading the $8… Read More
Shane Kim has helped put some of the most recognizable gaming titles on the map, including Halo and Gears of War. Now, the former corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios… Read More
Affiliate commissions are a big (and frequently misunderstood) business on the Web. GlobalMojo, which has scored $550,000 from Founder’s Co-op and others, wants to insert itself in those transactions, allowing consumers… Read More
Seattle’s startup community partied Thursday night at the annual Seattle 2.0 Awards, a celebration of the region’s top tinkerers, geeks, designers and investors. Team GeekWire was there in full force,… Read More
Joining us for our latest GeekWire Podcast was Andy Sack of TechStars Seattle, Founders Co-op and Revenue Loan — the hard-charging startup guru whose clarion call for the Seattle tech… Read More
You may have heard of CPMs or CPCs. But Seattle startup BigDoor wants to start a movement around another online advertising acronym. It’s called the CPQ or Cost Per Quest.… Read More
Thinkfuse, a Seattle startup led by former Market Leader and iLike product manager Aydin Ghajar and former Microsoft software engineers Brandon Bloom and Steve Krenzel, has landed $500,000 in startup… Read More