Articles from 2021 – Page 40 of 77

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 13, 2021

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of June 13, 2021. Read More

From Microsoft to Expedia to Zillow: Behind the scenes with Rich Barton on NPR’s ‘How I Built This’

Like many entrepreneurs, Rich Barton is a fan of NPR’s “How I Built This.” He says it has long been… Read More

Researchers create ‘Shadow Figment’ cybersecurity decoy tech that lures attackers into a fake world

Over the past several years, hackers have increasingly targeted the physical systems we rely on to run our society. Electrical… Read More

Study ranks Washington as biggest abuser of jargon in job ads; startup CEO tells us why words matter

A new study on the use of jargon in job ads has identified the worst offenders in the U.S. And… Read More

After years of shifting gears, online car sales platform Tred settles on model and lands $3M

If making customers happy was the only secret to success, Grant Feek would have been an entrepreneurial winner years ago.… Read More

Immunotherapy startup Umoja lands $210M, less than a year after raising $53M

New funding: Just seven months after announcing a $53 million Series A round, Umoja Biopharma has raised an additional $210… Read More

Tech Moves: Adriane Brown joins KKR board; AI2 adds HR exec; Ossia and LevelTen hire CFOs; more

— Adriane Brown, managing partner at Seattle VC firm Flying Fish, joined the board of global investment firm KKR. This… Read More

Q&A: In CEO shuffle at OfferUp, two leaders offer up what’s working, what’s next for mobile marketplace

Todd Dunlap has experience launching new products and scaling businesses. In a long career at Microsoft, Dunlap got the original… Read More

Neiman Marcus will acquire Stylyze, a Seattle startup that helps online home and fashion retailers

Luxury retail giant Neiman Marcus Group this week announced that it will acquire Stylyze, a Seattle startup that sells “merchandising-as-a-service”… Read More

Podcast

Amazon’s ‘turnover machine’: Inside the NYT’s investigation into the tech giant’s HR practices

Amazon’s direct workforce rose by 500,000 people in 2020 — that’s half a million people — to nearly 1.3 million… Read More

Good To Go! — or not: Washington state’s tolling software switchover will take 2 weeks, but why?

When the Washington State Department of Transportation announced that both the Good To Go highway toll payment system and its… Read More

Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas placed on leave, shares sink more than 30%

Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas has been placed on temporary leave until the Seattle area biotechnology company completes a review… Read More

Seattle marijuana startup Leafly raises $23M as recent legalization boosts cannabis market

Seattle-based online cannabis marketplace Leafly has closed $23 million in new funding, GeekWire confirmed with the company. The fresh cash infusion… Read More

Seattle’s Recompose is raising more cash as human composting startup plans locations in other states

Recompose is rebounding after some trying times during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seattle-based startup which turns human remains into soil… Read More

Google settles with Washington AG for $423K over political ads

Without conceding it broke state law, Google paid the Washington attorney general’s office $423,659 to settle a lawsuit over the… Read More

OfferUp hires former Booking.com managing director Todd Dunlap as new CEO

Seattle-area startup OfferUp has a new CEO. The popular mobile marketplace hired former Booking.com managing director Todd Dunlap to lead… Read More

Curiosity brings out the crowds at opening of Amazon’s first full-size cashierless grocery store

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The first full-service Amazon Fresh grocery store to take advantage of the retailer’s “Just Walk Out” cashierless… Read More

Silicon Valley firm Khosla Ventures makes a rare Seattle investment, leading $11M round for Lexion

Lexion is on a roll. The Seattle startup that helps legal teams use AI to sift through contracts has quadrupled… Read More

Mouse brains and more in 3D: Seattle microscopy startup lands $4M to visualize medical specimens

New funding: Lightspeed Microscopy, a Seattle startup spun out of the University of Washington, raised $4 million in a Series… Read More

Electric trike, electric bike, urban freight lab

Experimental zero-emissions last-mile delivery hub launches in Seattle as a test for urban logistics

Seattle’s first neighborhood delivery hub is now live. The hub, in a parking lot near the Space Needle, brings together… Read More

Microsoft names CEO Satya Nadella chairman of the board

Microsoft announced Wednesday that CEO Satya Nadella will take on the dual role of chairman of the company’s board, replacing… Read More

Pioneer Square Labs pairs with Dance Church to build out Seattle company’s on-demand platform

Pioneer Square Labs is trying out some new moves when it comes to spinning a company out of the Seattle… Read More

Coinme, a Seattle startup that is ‘crypto-enabling’ legacy financial services, raises $10M

Seattle-based cryptocurrency startup Coinme raised $10 million in new funding from existing investors, the company confirmed to GeekWire. Coinme allows… Read More

Podcast

Prime Day preview: Economic hangover from pandemic raises stakes for Amazon’s big event

Prime Day is almost here. Actually, it’s two days. But who’s counting? Well, Amazon sure is. Scheduled for June 21… Read More

Amazon commits $100M to help build affordable housing near Seattle-area light rail stations

Amazon is committing $100 million to help create up to 1,200 affordable housing units across the Puget Sound region as… Read More

New ‘murder hornet’ reported in Washington state, but specimen’s origin puzzles entomologists

They’re baaaack? Hopefully, not quite. Less than a year after the Washington State Department of Agriculture located and eradicated a… Read More

Seattle now requires food delivery companies to ink partnership agreements with restaurants

The Seattle City Council put new limits on third-party food delivery services such as DoorDash and Uber Eats that would… Read More

Invest in a rental home for $100/share: VC arms of Bezos, Benioff back Seattle startup Arrived

New funding: Seattle startup Arrived Homes raised $10 million in equity and $27 million in debt financing to help scale its… Read More

‘Data process automation’ startup Super.AI lands $12M to help companies supercharge AI efforts

New funding: Super.AI, a “data process automation” startup led by veterans of MIT, AWS, Google, Microsoft, and SAP, raised $12 million… Read More

Rethinking referrals: Seattle startup Candidate raises more cash to help companies with hiring

New funding: Candidate launched out of beta on Wednesday and closed a $4 million seed funding round. The Seattle startup pays… Read More