The five finalists for Startup CEO of the Year at the GeekWire Awards are leading companies with big ambitions to improve food quality, develop better therapeutics, address mental health needs,… Read More
Amid a shaky venture capital market last year, there were still plenty of startups that gained momentum and reached new heights. That’s true for the five finalists up for the… Read More
Andrew Peterson’s interest in technology started in Seattle as a young computer lab associate at his elementary school, just as the internet was proliferating. Several decades later — after a… Read More
Optimize Health, a Seattle-based startup that sells remote patient monitoring software, announced Ryan Clark as its new CEO. Clark, based in Ottawa, Canada, was previously a senior vice president and… Read More
Seattle-based money expert and self-described financial feminist Tori Dunlap credits TikTok with transforming her business, HerFirst100k, an education platform that helps women gain financial knowledge and independence. Amin Shaykho is… Read More
Textio laid off 14 employees this week, or 16% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring. The company confirmed the cuts to GeekWire on Thursday. It has now has… Read More
Joseph Sirosh, a former corporate vice president at Microsoft who was most recently at Amazon leading search and Alexa efforts, just launched a new startup that aims to let creators… Read More
Seattle-based Interlune officially lifted the curtain today on its plans to build a robotic harvester that could extract helium-3 from moon dirt and send it back to Earth for applications… Read More
The tech giants known as The Magnificent Seven — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla — all share something in common, beyond driving a disproportionate amount of value into… Read More
A good idea, preliminary data, and credentials in the field are all key components of landing a small business grant from the U.S. government to launch or expand a company.… Read More
Bellevue, Wash.-based Lumen Orbit, a startup that’s only about three months old, says that it’s closed a $2.4 million pre-seed investment round to launch its plan to put hundreds of… Read More
DocNow, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup, raised a $2.5 million seed round to expand its platform that provides electronic medical records, helping providers connect patients to care needed after hospital stays.… Read More
Rick Bergman, former executive vice president at semiconductor giant AMD, joined Seattle-area mobile connectivity company Kymeta as its new CEO, effective April 1. Bergman left AMD in September after four… Read More
New name, new funding: CODA Farm Technologies, an agtech company founded by two brothers with farming roots, has changed its name and landed some cash. The startup, based north of… Read More
Seattle-based Cap Hill Brands, which raised more than $250 million to acquire and grow e-commerce shops, has merged with Juvo+, a company that focuses on developing and selling its own… Read More
Companies building artificial intelligence models into their software products need a lot of computation power, also known as “compute.” But this can be a costly expense. That’s why the AI2… Read More
Anthropic, one of the most valuable privately held AI companies going head-to-head in the generative AI race with OpenAI, is expanding its presence in the Seattle area. The company currently… Read More
PreemptiveAI came out of stealth mode this week, announcing $6.4 million in seed funding that will help the Seattle startup build what it describes as the “most predictive large medical… Read More
Seattle-based investment group Alliance of Angels is gearing up to raise a new fund that will help support a new batch of startups across the Pacific Northwest. The fund will… Read More
Seattle biotech startup Phase Genomics is receiving $1.5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund research into two important areas: killing drug-resistant bacteria and battling methane-producing microorganisms… Read More
Seattle-based 3D laser engraver maker Glowforge is making another pitch to home crafters with another lower-priced machine, the company announced Tuesday. Less than a year after the release of the… Read More
Building hardware is hard. It can be especially challenging in the early part of product creation, when designers need to set parameters and requirements, also known as the “definition phase.”… Read More
Loopie, the Seattle peer-to-peer laundry service, announced the acquisition Monday of Bidbud, a gig economy platform that allows clients to post job opportunities that can be bid on by freelancers… Read More
Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Kellan Carter, founding partner at Bellevue, Wash.-based venture capital firm FUSE. On a recent trip to India, something caught my attention inside… Read More
The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington is a startup factory, spinning out companies developing new protein-based therapeutics, industrial enzymes, materials, biosensors and more. A key to… Read More
With all the makings of a buddy road trip adventure, two longtime Seattle friends and tech veterans have teamed up to breathe new life into a popular travel app under… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — At precisely 2 p.m. Pacific time on a recent Monday afternoon, employees of the technology startup Statsig were alerted to their regular standup meeting not by a… Read More
— Harshit Shah, a former head of engineering at Amazon Web Services, is now chief technology officer at Boston, Mass-based healthcare software company Kyruus Health. Shah, based in the Seattle… Read More
A new wave of layoffs at video game mega-studio Electronic Arts has multiple impacts on the Pacific Northwest gaming industry, including the end of development on a Star Wars video… Read More
A decade ago, University of Washington oceanographers Julian Sachs and Alex Gagnon were working in a tropical paradise, studying the impacts of climate change on coral reefs surrounding remote islands… Read More