Dozens of environmental activists this morning blocked the entrances at Amazon’s Day 1 building at its Seattle headquarters. A Washington-based group called the Troublemakers organized the action, calling on the… Read More
“Does it still have that new spaceship smell?” That was the quip from Dave Boone, walking past the GeekWire office in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood last week as Javier Luraschi pulled… Read More
OpenPipe, a Seattle startup that wants to make it easier and cheaper for companies to train and deploy large language models, announced a $6.7 million seed round. The company, part… Read More
Andrew Huff and Oliver Jones aren’t done trying to build software for the trucking industry. The entrepreneurs are the co-founders of Manifold Freight, a new Seattle startup that is part… Read More
Office-to-residential conversions are frequent fodder in discussions of the post-pandemic city, downtown regeneration, and hopes to contain rising housing costs. Remote work is here to stay, especially in hybrid form… Read More
SPOKANE, Wash. — Jack Githens didn’t plan to stay here after college. A senior at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Githens grew up in Issaquah, Wash., in a part of the… Read More
After she was laid off in September, Jenny Richards didn’t expect to spend more than six months trying to find her next job. She had worked in product management roles… Read More
Aditi Sinha was working at Amazon, as the worldwide marketing leader for Prime Day and other global shopping events for the e-commerce giant, when she reached a tipping point on… Read More
— Longtime Microsoft exec Pavan Davuluri is taking on a new role leading the company’s Surface and Windows divisions, according to a report from The Verge. Following last year’s departure of… Read More
Editor’s note: This is a guest analysis post written by S. “Soma” Somasegar, managing director at Madrona Venture Group and a former Microsoft executive. GeekWire occasionally runs opinion and analysis… Read More
After a seven-year gap, a total solar eclipse is once again due to make a coast-to-coast run across North America, boosting popular interest (and airfares) to astronomical proportions. The track… Read More
Sonoma Biotherapeutics on Monday hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony at its new research and development center and office space on Seattle’s waterfront. The biotech company, which has a second location… Read More
A new waterfront attraction in Seattle will bring the popular video game and film franchise “Tomb Raider” and its protagonist Lara Croft to life in an immersive, escape-room-style entertainment experience.… Read More
Nala has a nose for electronics. But she’s not your run-of-the-mill tech geek with a passion for gear and gadgets. A specially trained electronic storage detection (ESD) K9, Nala is… Read More
Drone technology is already being used in Washington state to help fight wildfires and aid police. Now state transportation officials will use drones to address graffiti vandalism. Gov. Jay Inslee… Read More
Pandion, a Seattle startup that helps online retailers deliver orders to customers, raised a $41.5 million Series B round. Founded in 2020 by former Amazon and Walmart executive Scott Ruffin, Pandion… Read More
Scientists have verified that a method to look for cellular life on Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, just might work. The technique could be put to the test in… Read More
As Amazon founder Jeff Bezos funnels $60 million into support for alternative meats, Rebellyous Foods founder Christie Lagally has some suggestions, one entrepreneur to another. “We have the recipes for… Read More
Goodbill, a startup working to reduce medical costs to patients and a subset of insurers, has raised $2 million in new capital and expanded its market. The Seattle-based company is… Read More
For Sunny Gupta, the inspiration behind Apptio started with a simple question: What are you struggling with? After selling two companies, Gupta wasn’t really looking to launch another startup. But… Read More
When Microsoft design chief Jon Friedman‘s son Judah needed help with a children’s book he wanted to write, Friedman went from Copilot to coauthor, of sorts. Friedman, a 20-year vet… Read More
Microsoft unveiled what it described as its first AI-powered Surface PCs for businesses, the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, with Intel Core Ultra processors and Neural Processing Units… Read More
The finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2024 GeekWire Awards include software veterans working on a variety of enterprise problems, from helping companies manage contracts, to better analyzing… Read More
While the reality of affordable fusion energy is still an atom-smashing twinkle in physicists’ eyes, the state of Washington is moving ahead with plans to support the nascent commercial fusion… Read More
— Startup veteran Jen Haller has been named partner at Ascend, the Seattle-based pre-seed venture capital firm. Haller first joined the firm in January 2022 as chief of staff, and the… Read More