Millions of independent contractors are making money in the gig economy, but many don’t have access to financial credit services to help grow their personal microbusinesses. Level wants to help.… Read More
The pandemic is causing a lot of stress for both renters and landlords. The Closing Docs wants to help. The Seattle startup sells income verification software to property managers, helping… Read More
Automation may be a means to replacing humans in specific types of jobs. But for Humanly, automation is a better way to help companies find the right people to fill… Read More
As Amazon drives online sales skyward, a 4-year-old startup in the tech behemoth’s backyard is helping brick-and-mortar retailers fine-tune their marketing. This month Seattle-based Observa won the 16th Annual Bend… Read More
When Shan Sundaram tried to purchase a boutique consulting shop, he was frustrated by how inefficient and outdated the process was. Likewise when Aravind Namasivayam was trying to buy a… Read More
If you want to buy a shirt directly from a merchant in China, the customs hurdles will vary depending on whether it’s made of cotton or wool. Or if you… Read More
After spending several years working at Google Cloud, Davor Bonaci and Ben Chambers saw an opportunity to help companies take better advantage of machine learning technology. Their idea turned into… Read More
Seattle startup Shared is cruising into the tumultuous bike-and-scooter sharing space with a “micro-vehicle” of its own design, a sort of stripped-down electric-powered moped with burly, super wide tires. Internally,… Read More
Before launching a digital solution for wedding planning, Juliet Horton decided to start a business doing it the old fashioned way. She helped some two-dozen couples tick the seemingly endless… Read More
For years, people have lamented the “Seattle Freeze” — the chilly reception that sometimes greets those looking to make friends in this area. Now a Seattle startup called Thaw offers… Read More
The challenge of fixing a leaky sink and delivering groceries might sound like two very different problems, but Will Gordon would tell you that’s wrong. For close to three years,… Read More
Life changed in an instant on November, 24 2015 for Stedman Bailey. The NFL wide receiver was shot in the head twice while sitting in his car with family in… Read More
A broken leg doesn’t typically lead to startup idea creation. But that’s what happened to Michele Mehl. The Seattle-based entrepreneur was well on her way to launching Excy’s first portable… Read More
Equipped with an experienced founding team and investment from a renowned artificial intelligence expert, OneClick.AI is on a mission to make AI accessible to businesses of any size and in… Read More
WeSolv is putting a new spin on today’s recruiting market, bringing together MBA students — and potential future employees — with Fortune 500 companies that need help solving real world… Read More
Unable to find a continuing education platform to learn new coding techniques, languages, and skills, Fahim ul Haq and Naeem ul Haq went out and built their own. The brothers left… Read More
If you just can’t stop playing your favorite PC game but need to be mobile, Rainway thinks it has an answer. The Atlanta-based startup has developed technology that lets gamers… Read More
Enthusiasm for a trip to the auto mechanic probably falls somewhere between a dentist appointment and retrieving the dry cleaning. And it’s not just the hassle of figuring out how… Read More
If the game Cards Against Humanity and those refrigerator poetry magnets had a digital baby bestowed with machine learning, it would look something like Botnik. This Seattle-based startup is actually… Read More
Gideon Mendels has spent the past three years in machine learning research, studying at Columbia University, building hate speech detection software at Google, and developing chat analytics app Groupwize with… Read More
Kids don’t need the latest and great new iPhone. But a mobile device that lets parents call their children and keep track of their whereabouts can serve a number of… Read More
Boulder entrepreneurs Anthony Claudia and Andrew Hahn made a name for themselves by developing an app that allows professionals to join conference calls with one tap. When a prominent executive… Read More
Melissa and Matt Hammersley got the idea for Novel Effect when they were expecting their first child, Eleanor. They wanted to create something that would help them bond as a… Read More
Gregg Semler has spent the past 17 years focused on innovations that can make civilization more sustainable, from energy and air to agriculture. That work revealed an underutilized resource for… Read More
If you drive an older car and you aren’t a parallel parking pro, you might be envious of friends with newer vehicles who get a little assist from their back-up… Read More
David Longdon and Justin Huff believe that the experience — not the data — is what drives people to continue exercise routines over time. That’s the premise for motion.social, a… Read More
It had been about a year since retailers in Washington state began selling recreational marijuana when Ryan Porter, a vet of the automotive technology industry, saw his opportunity. He had… Read More
There are a few financial challenges we all face, and saving for retirement is one of the biggest. But the process is confusing and often expensive, meaning millions of Americans… Read More
Bryant Hawthorne and Dan Taylor met as neighbors and quickly bonded over a love of travel and similar careers in the tech industry. As luck would have it, all three… Read More
During the years Joe Donahue spent running Microsoft’s cybersecurity threat detection team, he observed a recurring problem. The team helped Microsoft customers respond to cyber attacks, which often involved guesswork… Read More