Articles from 2021 – Page 10 of 77

Portland finally has a tech IPO again as Expensify shares rise 50% on first day of trading

Portland, Ore.-based expense management software company Expensify went public on Wednesday, with shares rising more than 50% on its first… Read More

Rapid COVID-19 test maker Anavasi Diagnostics lands funding from National Institutes of Health

The gist: Woodinville, Wash.-based startup Anavasi Diagnostics will advance the commercialization of its rapid COVID-19 test with $14.9 million in… Read More

Amazon-backed electric vehicle maker Rivian races to huge stock market debut after IPO

Rivian, the electric vehicle maker with substantial backing from Amazon, is arriving with a roar in its public debut on… Read More

Microsoft and Meta partner to integrate Teams and Workplace enterprise collaboration tools

Meta and Microsoft are teaming up. The company formerly known as Facebook is partnering with the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant… Read More

Zillow Group will sell 2K homes to investment firm as it winds down failed homebuying business

Zillow Group will sell around 2,000 homes across 20 markets to an investment firm as the real estate giant begins… Read More

Gut health startup Viome raises $54M to develop cancer diagnostics and sell microbiome kits

Viome Life Sciences has raised $54 million. The funding will bolster the company’s efforts to develop cancer diagnostics and support… Read More

Seattle-area startup Inventprise gets backing from Gates Foundation for pneumonia shot

Inventprise has been slowly growing in Redmond, Wash., expanding into four research and manufacturing facilities to support early development of… Read More

Swedish Health Services launches new cancer research center with $20M from Paul Allen

Swedish Health Services announced the launch of a new research center with $20 million from the late Seattle philanthropist and… Read More

Tornado warning hits mobile devices in Seattle after ‘overshoot’ of emergency alert target area

Severe weather moving across Western Washington and the Seattle region was unsettling enough on Tuesday. And then a shrieking smartphone… Read More

Microsoft, Boeing and Rubens family pledge new funds to Washington State Opportunity Scholarship

Marking its 10th anniversary Tuesday morning, the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship said it received new funding commitments totaling $30 million… Read More

Healthcare data startup Truveta showcases new platform and has now raised close to $200M

Seattle-area startup Truveta has released an early version of its health data platform and signed up three new partners to… Read More

Microsoft serves up a Google Chromebook rival with $250 Surface Laptop SE for students

Microsoft unveiled its lowest-priced Surface Laptop to date, the new Surface Laptop SE, starting at $249.99. It’s designed for students,… Read More

Washington governor mandates a state fleet switch to electric vehicles

The massive, Washington state-owned vehicle pool will begin the switch to electric power with the goal of having the whole… Read More

Burned by counterfeits, Amazon and Weber grill rogue sellers in suit over bogus BBQ covers

Amazon and Weber filed suit against 12 third-party sellers, alleging that they marketed counterfeit grill covers with the Weber logo… Read More

Ditch the dealership: Tred raises $25M to drive more car shoppers to its online marketplace

The news: Online peer-to-peer marketplace Tred has raised $25 million in new funding to further expand its platform aimed at… Read More

Salesforce sister companies Slack and Tableau look to bring Marc Benioff’s master plan to fruition

Tableau Software will launch new Slack integrations that let users interact with data and graphics inside the popular communication and… Read More

Blue Origin practices with a dummy version of its New Glenn orbital rocket in Florida

It’ll be at least another year before Blue Origin’s orbital-class New Glenn rocket gets its first launch, but Jeff Bezos’… Read More

Bill Gates shares upbeat take on global climate talks; Washington’s Inslee pledges carbon cuts

As the global climate talks in Scotland enter their second week, Bill Gates on Monday shared his customarily upbeat assessment… Read More

Amazon customers will be able to pay with Venmo next year

Starting next year Amazon customers will be able to pay on Amazon.com and Amazon’s mobile shopping app via Venmo, the… Read More

Petition aims to save Seattle’s beloved Cinerama as movie theater approaches two years since closure

It’s like the worst and longest cliffhanger in Seattle movie history: Will the beloved Cinerama theater ever reopen? When? …… Read More

Idol threat: Jeff Bezos jokes with Leonardo DiCaprio over video of actor meeting billionaire’s girlfriend

Jeff Bezos may be chasing the stars with his Blue Origin space venture, but he needs to keep an eye… Read More

Meet the startups that just joined Techstars Seattle’s 13th cohort

Another batch of startups is ready to experience Techstars Seattle. The accelerator revealed its 13th cohort made up of 12… Read More

DreamBox Learning sells majority stake to private equity firm as annual revenue tops $100M

Seattle-area education technology company DreamBox Learning sold a majority stake to Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., a tech-focused Silicon Valley affiliate… Read More

Neal Stephenson talks about his climate thriller — and why the metaverse didn’t match his vision

This whole metaverse thing hasn’t turned out exactly the way Seattle novelist Neal Stephenson thought it would when he came… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 31, 2021

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 31, 2021. Read More

The buzz about fusion energy: Expert explains industry’s ‘reinvigoration’ as tech attracts VC dollars

For decades, the promise of harnessing the power of fusion on a commercial scale to create vast amounts of carbon-free… Read More

Q&A: Finland’s transport and communications minister on 5G, smart regulation, and mobile data

Long before the Apple iOS and Android operating systems came to dominate the smartphone market, the early days of the… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Jane Park on SPACs, the immigrant ethos, and brands in the Amazon era

Jane Park, the CEO of newly public Athena Consumer Acquisition Corp., hadn’t imagined herself leading a special purpose acquisition company,… Read More

Seattle leads nation in office rent price increases, despite pandemic-fueled remote work changes

In spite of work-from-home changes within the tech workspace, the greater Seattle region led all markets nationally with a 15%… Read More

Who’s raising cash? Helion, OctoML, WhyLabs, Symbl, Doorsey, Owl latest startups to land funding

Here’s our latest rundown on recent startup investment news in the Pacific Northwest. — Seattle-based Symbl landed $17 million for… Read More