Articles from 2024 – Page 30 of 56

Data warehousing startup SDF, led by Microsoft and Meta vets, comes out of stealth mode

SDF Labs, a Seattle startup aiming to help software developers manage their enterprise data warehouse systems, this week announced public… Read More

Clearbrief, which uses AI to help lawyers find and verify facts in legal docs, raises $4M

Seattle legal tech startup Clearbrief is raising more cash to boost its technology aimed at helping lawyers find, summarize, and… Read More

Seattle Art Museum’s new CEO brings innovation mindset — with an openness to AI and other tech

Scott Stulen studied studio art in college. He’s a DJ and plays pickup baseball. Some of his notable accomplishments include… Read More

Former Amazon and Microsoft exec Marc Whitten named CEO at self-driving company Cruise

Marc Whitten, a longtime Seattle-area tech executive, was named CEO at Cruise, the GM-backed self-driving company. Whitten was most recently… Read More

Legislation would honor Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture as a national museum ‘of great importance’

Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) is seeking a national designation through a bill introduced in Congress that would honor… Read More

Investors hope to bring expansion team to Seattle for new tech-fueled TGL golf league

Ackerley Sports Group, a sports-focused arm of Seattle-based investment firm Ackerley Partners, is among the backers revealed this week of… Read More

Topicflow raises $1.8M to rethink performance reviews, with help from AI

Vancouver, B.C.-based startup Topicflow raised $1.8 million from Seattle venture capital firms Founders’ Co-op and Ascend to fuel growth of… Read More

Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items

Living Computers Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a hands-on showcase… Read More

Digital youth safety startup k-ID raises $45M to help developers comply with age regulations

k-ID, a startup headquartered in Singapore and Seattle that’s building tools for online youth safety, announced Tuesday that it raised… Read More

Amazon Prime Day set for July 16-17, as annual sales event falls into predictable schedule

Amazon seems to have figured out a consistent approach to scheduling Amazon Prime Day, with the 10th installment in the… Read More

‘Greatest setting in college football’ gets the LEGO treatment with fan’s elaborate Husky Stadium build

Husky Stadium is often called the “greatest setting in college football.” Now the iconic University of Washington football venue might… Read More

Seattle-area transit riders can now add ORCA payment cards to Google Wallet

Transit riders hopping on a bus or ferry across the Seattle area can now use a digital ORCA card via… Read More

Report: Amazon developing AI chatbot that would compete with ChatGPT and others

Amazon is developing its own consumer-focused AI chatbot that would compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and could be revealed later this… Read More

Meet the climate startup helping other climate startups fund their ventures with lower cost loans

Government grants and publicly funded projects have been a boon to climate tech and clean energy businesses. But while companies… Read More

Former Amazon colleagues raise $2.8M to help equipment rental companies run online stores

BoxedUp, a startup founded by ex-Amazon employees to help equipment rental companies set up and run online stores, raised $2.85… Read More

Default alive: Tech startups focus on survival and slower growth in new era defined by profitability

Tech startups have gone through a major mindset shift in the past few years. The era of growth-at-all-costs and easily… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 16, 2024

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of June 16, 2024. Read More

Podcast

AI, venture capital, and the next big opportunity in tech, with ‘Startup Project’ host Nataraj Sindam

As the creator and host of the “Startup Project” podcast, tech senior product manager Nataraj Sindam talks with a wide… Read More

‘Blue screen of death’ at the ballpark: How the Mariners tapped a tech nerve in viral rally video

While some Major League Baseball teams call on a monkey for help, or try to chop their way to a… Read More

Here are the 18 members of Washington state’s new Artificial Intelligence Task Force

Eighteen should be a lot more manageable than 42. That’s one of the takeaways from the announcement Friday morning of… Read More

AI has trouble identifying sarcasm from Seattle satirical news site The Needling

AI can’t handle The Needling. The Seattle-based satirical news site that describes itself as “Seattle’s Only Real Fake News” is… Read More

Real estate vets launch accelerator and advisory firm to fuel underrepresented founders

After working decades in real estate, Katherine Winston and Kenya Burrell-VanWormer were tired of the statistics showing how the majority… Read More

Tech Moves: Superhuman hires CTO; Getty Images founder departs board; Xbox vet joins Unity

Chris Bee, a tech exec who previously worked at Lessen, Zillow, and Uber, joined AI email startup Superhuman as chief… Read More

Can you spot deepfakes? New quiz tests how well people can identify manipulated images and videos

A new quiz from Seattle-based AI nonprofit TrueMedia tests how well people can spot deepfake images, videos and audio clips,… Read More

Amazon scraps 95% of the plastic air pillows used in delivery packaging in North America

Amazon on Thursday announced that it has eliminated 95% of the inflated plastic pillows that it uses to cushion goods… Read More

Climate tech funding dip poses threat for capital-intensive startups — but it’s not time to panic

In a webinar Tuesday on the future of climate tech, Alan Neuhauser of Axios kicked off the questions by asking… Read More

E-commerce vets raise $50M seed round for new startup that aims to reimagine online shopping

A new startup founded by longtime e-commerce leaders is using artificial intelligence in a bid to shake up the way… Read More

Shift AI Podcast: How AI is shaking up the worlds of media, marketing, and startups

How is artificial intelligence making marketers more productive? How are journalists approaching the ethical dilemmas inherent to AI content creation?… Read More

Aurion Biotech gets FDA approval to speed development of vision restoring treatment

Seattle’s Aurion Biotech announced Wednesday that it received special designations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that should speed… Read More

Climate projects land $75M to boost environmental justice, job training in Washington state

The Washington State Department of Commerce and the City of Seattle this week allocated close to $75 million in funding… Read More