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Oct 3, 2025, 7:31 AM

Pure Watercraft founder resurfaces with Seattle startup focused on autonomous craft for the military

Andy Rebele spent 13 years working on electric outboard motors aimed at disrupting the leisure boating industry, and he’s now shifted to defense tech. Read More

Oct 2, 2025, 12:05 PM

Tech Moves: Truveta co-founder joins GeneDX; Auger hires another Amazonian; Microsoft board change

Stay up-to-date on the latest personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech indudstry. Read More

Oct 2, 2025, 9:39 AM

Tech Vets: Motivated by the mission, ex-Army officer’s startup draws on military and gaming experience

Jonathan Pan served in Afghanistan after 9/11 and is now co-founder and CEO of Exia Labs, a Seattle-area company building AI software to improve military wargaming. Read More

Oct 2, 2025, 8:48 AM

How to avoid getting squashed by OpenAI, and other startup insights from the company’s strategy chief

At the Madrona IA Summit in Seattle, OpenAI strategy chief Jason Kwon outlined how startups can avoid getting “Sherlocked” by the AI giant, while also offering insights on AGI, profitability, and the company’s new push into e-commerce. Read More

Oct 2, 2025, 8:35 AM

Fertile ground for innovation: A list of agriculture tech startups in Seattle and Washington state

With top-tier tech talent and a deep farming heritage, Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest are emerging as one of the country’s key hubs for agriculture technology. Read More

Oct 2, 2025, 7:26 AM

Seattle startup introduces ‘Juno,’ a digital assistant to handle admin tasks for mental health clinicians

Alpyne Labs created its AI-powered tool to take care of benefits checks, billing, scheduling, notes organization and more to free up therapists to concentrate on patient care. Read More

Oct 2, 2025, 5:00 AM

Washington state port town becomes testing ground for ocean carbon removal technology

Ebb Carbon has launched its marine carbon removal pilot project on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in the city of Port Angeles. Read More

Oct 1, 2025, 9:24 AM

Seattle startup Temporal hits $2.5B valuation after $105M secondary round

Temporal, a developer tools startup based in Seattle, closed a $105 million secondary transaction led by GIC, pushing its valuation… Read More

Oct 1, 2025, 8:01 AM

Opendoor co-founder brings Seattle-area startup Summation out of stealth with $35M in funding

Seattle-area startup Summation has come out of stealth with $35 million in funding from Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins, aiming to… Read More

Oct 1, 2025, 7:00 AM

Fast-growing startups reshape the GeekWire 200 with innovations in AI, robotics, energy and more

Our quarterly ranking is a great way to help keep track of the region’s up-and-coming companies, along with established leaders. Read More

Oct 1, 2025, 3:00 AM

Amid Trump immigration crackdown, Seattle startup Boundless acquires European competitor

Amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Seattle startup Boundless acquires a European competitor. Read More

Sep 30, 2025, 8:30 AM

Software vet Kevin Marcus’ family joins in his latest startup adventure with new indie game studio

Kevin Marcus has always had fun building and innovating with the enterprise startups he helped launch. That feeling is intact… Read More

Sep 29, 2025, 10:14 AM

Paid, a new AI agent billing startup led by Manny Medina, raises $21M seed from Lightspeed, FUSE, others

Manny Medina, co-founder and former CEO of Seattle sales company Outreach, is off and running on his new startup adventure… Read More

Sep 29, 2025, 9:30 AM

Seattle startup Actual AI raises $3.2M to build AI agents for engineering managers

AI coding tools are redefining software development and speeding up code generation. They are also creating new management hurdles. Actual… Read More

Sep 29, 2025, 7:39 AM

Meet the key players in the Pacific Northwest’s fusion energy hub

The Pacific Northwest — a hub for the fusion energy sector — has kicked off its annual Seattle Fusion Week. Here are the region’s key players. Read More

Sep 26, 2025, 8:27 AM

New TiE Seattle president on how the $100K H-1B fee could snuff out entrepreneurial flame

Sonu Aggarwal is one of countless entrepreneurs and tech leaders who grew up abroad and immigrated to the U.S. to… Read More

Sep 25, 2025, 11:31 AM

Robotics pioneer Sidd Srinivasa on the ‘last mile problem,’ humanoid hype, and why he’s joining Madrona

GeekWire caught up with Srinivasa for a conversation about the state of robotics, opportunities for entrepreneurs, and why he believes Seattle can become a global leader in AI and robotics. Read More

Sep 25, 2025, 7:51 AM

Inside Recompose, where the human composting startup is ready to grow its formula beyond Seattle

Five years after Washington became the first state to legalize natural organic reduction, 13 more states have approved the death care process. Recompose founder and CEO Katrina Spade is eyeing the chance to expand to other parts of the country and world. Read More

Sep 25, 2025, 7:00 AM

Tech Moves: Yoodli, A-Alpha Bio, MoxiWorks add execs, TiE Seattle names president

Seattle startups Yoodli, A-Alpha Bio and MoxiWorks add to their C-suites, TiE Seattle names a president, and other Seattle-area tech moves. Read More

Sep 24, 2025, 10:00 AM

Flyhomes officially exits real estate brokerage business to focus on financing products

Seattle-area real estate startup Flyhomes is exiting the brokerage business as it doubles down on its flagship “Buy Before You… Read More

Sep 24, 2025, 9:14 AM

AI Toolbox: AI2 Incubator’s Yifan Zhang on her favorite tools to capture meetings, automate tasks

There are endless AI tools being released every week, but which ones are actually creating value and improving work? Our… Read More

Sep 24, 2025, 8:18 AM

This startup wants to help homebuyers submit purchase offers online — without an agent

A high-profile settlement to resolve nationwide antitrust lawsuits last year upended traditional real estate commission structures. Now a new startup… Read More

Sep 24, 2025, 7:31 AM

Slice of startup life: Seattle kitchen tech wizard creates ultrasonic knife for more effortless cuts

It’s taken more than 2.5 million years to get from the earliest sharpened-stone version of a knife to what Scott Heimendinger believes is a modern kitchen marvel. Read More

Sep 22, 2025, 9:26 AM

Is Seattle’s tech scene in trouble? WSJ report highlights concerning trends — with a potential opening for startups

Seattle’s tech scene got the national treatment this past weekend as the Wall Street Journal detailed the fallout from layoffs… Read More

Sep 22, 2025, 7:30 AM

AI scheduling assistant Howie raises $6M, launches publicly with 1,000+ paying customers

Earlier this week I was on an email thread with someone trying to schedule a video call. “@Howie can arrange… Read More

Sep 22, 2025, 7:30 AM

Startup Radar: Seattle founders automate emails, digitize recipes, showcase talent, and build AI agents

We’re back with another spotlight on up-and-coming early stage startups across the Seattle region. Read More

Sep 20, 2025, 12:19 PM

Startup leaders warn new $100K H-1B visa fee will hurt U.S. entrepreneurship and innovation

Longtime entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are sounding the alarm over President Trump’s new H-1B fee that would impact tech companies… Read More

Sep 19, 2025, 12:00 PM

Plug and Play’s second Seattle-area accelerator cohort includes six local startups

Plug and Play has selected the 10 startups participating in its second Seattle-based accelerator program, and six of the 10… Read More

Sep 19, 2025, 7:45 AM

Inside Founders Bash: 10 takeaways from our conversations with startup leaders in Seattle

We dropped by Ascend’s annual Founders Bash event last night in Seattle to assess how startup leaders are thinking about… Read More

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Sep 17, 2025, 5:49 PM

Hubble Network attracts $70M in fresh funding to scale up satellite Bluetooth network

Seattle-based Hubble Network says it has raised $70 million in additional investment to accelerate the growth of its satellite-powered Bluetooth… Read More

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