Follow-up: Watch the show and read a recap of the winners here
The anticipation is building. The champagne is on ice. We are moments away from the sold out 2022 GeekWire Awards, taking place live in-person for the first time in three years at the Showbox SoDo in Seattle. You can watch the live stream of the show starting at 7 p.m. (PT) here.
If you are attending the in-person festivities, make sure to check out the FAQ on the event site here.
This year, we are announcing winners and honorees across 15 categories, everything from Startup of the Year to Next Tech Titan to Workplace of the Year. The winners were chosen after a months-long community nomination and voting process. A big thanks to Astound Business Solutions for its longtime support of the GeekWire Awards.
You can read about all of the 2022 GeekWire Awards’ finalists and honorees in these category posts or click on the link of each category in the listing below. The awards appear in the order of presentation at tonight’s ceremony. Here’s a link to the livestream.
Startup of the Year, presented by Meridian Capital
- Common Room
- Copper
- DexCare
- Logixboard
- WhyLabs
Young Entrepreneur of the Year, presented by ALLtech
- Tori Dunlap, Her First $100k
- Esha Joshi and Varun Puri, Yoodli
- Shane Kovalsky, Mystery
- Michael Petrochuk, WellSaid Labs
- Nancy Xiao, Mason
Public Policy Champion for Innovation, presented by the WTIA
- Washington State Senator Sharon Brown
- Washington State Senator Reuven Carlyle
Deal of the Year: Fundings, presented by Wilson Sonsini
- Esper: DevOps for device fleets: Esper raises $60M to manage devices used in retail, healthcare, schools
- Place: Real estate startup Place comes out of nowhere with $100M round, led by Goldman at $1B valuation
- Shelf Engine: ‘We make our customers rich’: Shelf Engine raises $41M to help grocery giants manage their orders
- Symbl: Symbl lands $17 million for its “conversational intelligence” software used by developers to build speech, text, and video services.
- Tomo: Tomo, a ‘PayPal for the mortgage industry’ fintech startup, lands $40M at $640M valuation
Deal of the Year: IPOs, M&A and Mega Funding Rounds, presented by Wilson Sonsini
- Ally: Microsoft acquires collaboration software startup Ally to bolster employee experience platform Viva
- ExtraHop: Seattle cybersecurity startup ExtraHop to be acquired by private equity firms in $900M deal
- Rec Room: Seattle VR startup Rec Room raises $145M, reaches $3.5B valuation
- Remitly: Remitly prices IPO at $43/share; Seattle fintech giant valued at nearly $7B
- Zipwhip: Twilio to acquire Seattle business texting startup Zipwhip for $850 million
Innovation of the Year, presented by Astound Business Solutions
- Eviation
- First Mode
- Helion
- Spaceflight
- StormSensor
- A-Alpha Bio
- Parse Biosciences
- Tasso
- Truveta
- University of Washington Institute for Protein Design; RoseTTAFold
UX Design of the Year, presented by Blink UX
- Crelate
- Genba
- Humanly
- SecureSave
Workplace of the Year, presented by JLL
- Edifecs
- F5
- Flyhomes
- Icertis
- Uplevel
STEM Educator of the Year, presented by DreamBox Learning
- Johanna Brown, teacher at Pullman High School
- Devina Khan, computer science and information technology instructional designer at the West Valley Innovation Center
- Stephanie Winslow, teacher at South Kitsap High School
Geeks Give Back Award, presented by BECU
- The Black Boardroom Initiative
- Coding Dojo
- COVIDWA.com
- Carbon Robotics
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Pallet
- Picnic
- Wyze
Next Tech Titan, presented by Fuel Talent
- fabric
- Highspot
- iSpot
- Karat
- OctoML
Startup CEO of the Year, presented by Aon
- Justin Beals, Strike Graph
- Raghu Gollamudi, Included.
- Linda Lian, Common Room
- Gaurav Oberoi, Lexion
- Ambika Singh, Armoire
CEO of the Year, presented by RSM US
- Maria Colacurcio, Syndio
- Anoop Gupta, Seek Out
- Sandi Lin, Skilljar
- Bill Richter, Qumulo
- Karl Siebrecht, Flexe
- Xiao Wang, Boundless
