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
Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch are tackling a wide range of problems — with plenty of help from artificial intelligence. The companies include: Founded in… Read More
Marble, a Seattle startup building software-enabled rental management systems for smaller landlords, raised $2 million. The company was co-founded in 2020 by Daniel Li, a former software engineer at Facebook,… Read More
The news: Strac, a software startup building tech that plugs into a company’s website or mobile app to secure sensitive customer data, raised $3.5 million. The team: The Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More
New funding: Seattle-based startup Dendron has raised $2 million in seed funding for its open source note-taking tool that helps users manage any amount of information. The founders: Kevin Lin… Read More
Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who leads the OpenAI artificial intelligence company, is joining the Expedia Group board. Expedia Group is expanding the board to 12 members… Read More
The scary truth about many technology companies is that for years they’ve been vacuuming up vast quantities of personal data without even knowing what they’ve collected, how it’s being stored… Read More
The University of Washington has one of the world’s best computer science programs. MBA recruiters recently ranked the UW’s business school No. 2 for entrepreneurship reputation. Its CoMotion innovation center… Read More
It’s Day 1 again for Seattle-based Spiral Genetics. The decade-old DNA analysis startup has left its parent company Fabric and is sparking its re-launch by partnering with Microsoft to analyze… Read More
Y Combinator is extending its reach in both Seattle and China. The famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator announced today that it has hired former Microsoft and Baidu executive Qi Lu… Read More
The folks at Y Combinator have seen a lot startups succeed and fail, so it’s probably worth listening to their advice if you’re launching your own company. The renowned Silicon… Read More
Amazon is still tinkering with the checkout-free technology behind its Amazon Go retailer concept, but Palo Alto, Calif. startup Standard Cognition is moving to the front of the line, releasing… Read More
The Federal Communications Commission voted last month to begin rolling back net neutrality rules, and some major names in tech aren’t happy about it. Several groups, Fight for the Future, Free… Read More
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leading a $30 million investment round in the social petition site Change.org, and he is joined by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Sam Altman, president… Read More
Seattle-based wedding planning startup Joy began almost by accident, as a side project by then-Microsoft employees Vishal Joshi, Michael Bach and Adobe engineer Kaiwalya Kher, after creating an early version of their… Read More
Ben Huh, the Seattle entrepreneur who became famous with his Cheezburger Network of comedy websites, is now San Francisco based and he’s taking on a decidedly more serious challenge. Y Combinator,… Read More
Meet Joy: a stylish designer, a networking master, and wedding planner. She can coordinate the pattern on the invitations with the iced flowers on the cake, and remind Uncle Joe to silence his… Read More
Seattle-based Deako has raised $1.8 million to help fuel growth of its smart-home light switch product. The 15-person company raised the fresh cash from a mix of angel investors and… Read More
Amazon is working with some of the top startup programs and investors in the country on a new initiative called Amazon Launchpad, saying it wants to make it easier for fledgling companies to… Read More
Rogue restaurant websites linked to the OrderAhead delivery service have been quietly getting makeovers, causing them to look considerably less like official restaurant sites than they did as recently as a few days ago. The… Read More
Startup accelerator Y Combinator is known for being the birthplace of startups that go on to do big things, like Reddit, Instacart and Airbnb. Now, Microsoft is offering companies that… Read More
Sam Altman has a pretty sweet deal for entrepreneurs that would like to take a class on startup lessons but don’t necessarily have the dough to pay for one. The Y… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO–When Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham took the stage at the Launch Festival in San Francisco, he had a lot of advice for startup founders. As the head of… Read More
The hiring crunch for developers in the tech industry is a pain point we hear about nearly every day. Now, a San Francisco startup called Twice — that specializes in selling… Read More
The last time I caught up with Wesley Zhao and Ajay Mehta, the 19-year-old entrepreneurs were working from the home of Mehta’s parents in Bellevue on an online gift card… Read More
FutureAdvisor co-founder Bo Lu could have built his startup company in Silicon Valley, and he certainly felt the pressure to do just that after graduating from the prominent startup incubator… Read More
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to start their respective companies, relying on their enormous intellect and technology experience to change the world. But Sergey Brin and… Read More
Y Combinator’s Paul Graham asks companies to take the patent pledge. The concept? Big companies shouldn’t use patents to bully small startups. “The patent pledge is in effect a narrower… Read More
I just finished reading Wired’s in-depth piece on Y Combinator, the 6-year-old Silicon Valley incubator which in the words of author Steven Levy offers an “unmatchable entrée into the otherwise… Read More