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Oct 23, 2016, 5:10 PM

Meet the 13-year-old entrepreneur who wants to raise $100 million for Washington schools

For most 11-year-olds, their experience with entrepreneurship ends at the summertime lemonade stand. But for Belle Pan, refreshing drinks and… Read More

Oct 21, 2016, 8:43 AM

GeekWork Picks: WhitePages seeks principal architect of data services as it continues to grow its engineering team

WhitePages, a leading contact information resource for North America, is adding several members to its Seattle team. One open position is the Principal… Read More

Oct 20, 2016, 1:44 PM

Red Ventures acquires Seattle’s Soda.com, operator of The Simple Dollar and Reviews.com

Soda.com, a Seattle media company that operates consumer sites like The Simple Dollar and Reviews.com, has sold to Red Ventures.… Read More

Oct 19, 2016, 3:45 PM

Why this prominent Seattle entrepreneur decided to take a job on Amazon’s fast-growing Alexa team

Seattle entrepreneur Ford Davidson has been around the startup block a few times, selling his phone backup service Dashwire to… Read More

Oct 19, 2016, 9:00 AM

Event management software startup Hubb raises $3M for platform used by Microsoft, Tableau, others

Event management can be a real pain, and Hubb wants to help. The Vancouver, Wash.-based startup today announced a $3 million… Read More

Oct 19, 2016, 8:12 AM

Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum, led by former Google engineers, raises $29M

Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum has raised $29 million in a Series C round, led by Canaan Partners with participation from Kleiner… Read More

Oct 18, 2016, 3:03 PM

Q&A: Meet the 30-year-old entrepreneur who just sold his profitable e-commerce company for $75M

Etailz is almost a too-perfect-to-be-true startup success story. The company grew out of a college business plan competition at Gonzaga… Read More

Oct 18, 2016, 1:55 PM

Startup Spotlight: Vidpal is an on-demand marketplace for videographers

Two years ago, John Ortega founded a service for travelers to request videos from locals at their destination. He quickly… Read More

Oct 18, 2016, 11:53 AM

New Seattle peer leadership group aims to help startup leaders scale their companies

There is a myriad of resources in Seattle that incubate and mentor fledgling startups — Techstars, 9Mile Labs, and Madrona Venture… Read More

Oct 18, 2016, 5:00 AM

Hashtag aggregator Tagboard to acquire Capture, a social media publisher used by newsrooms

Tagboard today announced that it will acquire Capture, a social media publishing platform used by news media based out of… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 4:37 PM

Bootstrapped success: Profitable online retailer Etailz sells for $75M

Etailz, a digital marketplace consultant and online retailer that operates sites such as Ecomom, EveryCasa and GreenCupboards, was acquired today… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 2:31 PM

4 weeks, $200, 1 idea: This Seattle entrepreneur has an ambitious plan to get more women to launch startups

Avni Patel Thompson had a great idea for a business — a vetted, on-demand childcare service — but like many women… Read More

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Oct 17, 2016, 1:04 PM

Q&A: Ex-Microsoft exec Jill Angelo, on why she traded her laptop for a lube company

Jill Angelo was a longtime Microsoft executive who spent a good portion of the 2000s leading the marketing agenda for the tech… Read More

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Oct 17, 2016, 12:32 PM

President Obama explains why Washington D.C. will never run like Silicon Valley

It’s a comment we hear all the time: Government should run more like a startup, to be more agile, efficient… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 9:23 AM

The hottest startups in Seattle: Nominations now open for The Seattle 10

What are the hottest startup companies in Seattle? We’re about to find out, and we need your help! It’s that time… Read More

Oct 17, 2016, 6:00 AM

Voyager and Microsoft Ventures invest $9M in business text messaging platform Zipwhip

With the proliferation of so many messaging apps, from Facebook Messenger to WhatsApp to Snapchat, it may seem like SMS texting is… Read More

Oct 14, 2016, 2:45 PM

How a sense of entitlement makes millennials more entrepreneurial

By now, we’re used to hearing complaints about the millennial generation. They’re cocky. They’re entitled. They’re never satisfied. They want… Read More

Oct 14, 2016, 12:02 PM

Shazam adds music videos thanks to partnership with Portland-based Vadio

Shazam, which has attracted more than 120 million monthly active users with its music recognition app, is getting into video. The… Read More

Oct 13, 2016, 9:25 PM

Demo Day: Our favorite pitches from B2B accelerator 9Mile Labs

After four months of hard work, valuable mentorship, and plenty of late nights, another cohort from 9Mile Labs graduated on… Read More

Oct 13, 2016, 3:30 PM

Startup Spotlight: CharityCheckin aims to be ‘world’s largest giving engine’ via branded check-ins

When Marsh Sutherland lost his wife to a battle with cancer, he started looking for ways to raise awareness for… Read More

Oct 12, 2016, 2:39 PM

The Martha Stewart of pot? Seattle entrepreneur JJ McKay launches cannabis lifestyle brand ‘The Fresh Toast’

JJ McKay and an impressive suite of investors believe there’s serious demand for a cannabis lifestyle brand that’s decidedly more Martha… Read More

Oct 12, 2016, 10:46 AM

How this ‘startup studio’ quickly axed 22 ideas and spun out three companies in one year

“Fail fast” seems to be the theme at Pioneer Square Labs. It’s been about one year since the Seattle-based “startup… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 3:38 PM

Startup Spotlight: VR storytelling content management startup VIAR proves the power of the pivot

By the summer of 2015, VIAR was nearly bankrupt. The product — virtual reality tours to help architects show clients future… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 8:43 AM

The startup side of Sears: Retail giant’s WallyHome sensor company grows rapidly after acquisition

One of the people who sometimes jumps into the Slack channel for the Seattle-based WallyHome sensor company is a colleague named Eddie… Read More

Oct 11, 2016, 8:00 AM

Cloud-management startup CloudCoreo scores $2.9M in seed round

CloudCoreo, a Seattle-based startup in the cloud-management arena, has received a $2.9 million seed-stage investment led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group,… Read More

Oct 10, 2016, 10:49 AM

Aviation vets raise cash for iJet Technologies, a data analytics platform for airlines

A group of aviation veterans just raised funding to fuel their startup that helps airline companies manage data and process… Read More

Oct 7, 2016, 12:47 PM

Entre-geography: Five Seattle entrepreneurs pick the place they’d build a company if they weren’t in the great Northwest

If you could pick anyplace to build your company — except for Seattle, of course — where would it be?… Read More

Oct 6, 2016, 1:34 PM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: IMMERSE VR Summit, Dan Price at Startup Grind, and more

Seattle’s virtual and augmented Reality community has boomed over the past few years, with a crop of promising VR and AR… Read More

Oct 5, 2016, 2:38 PM

OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar isn’t worried about Facebook Marketplace

  On Monday, Facebook announced Marketplace, an internal one-to-one e-commerce division, setting up the Silicon Valley giant for fierce competition with… Read More

Oct 4, 2016, 4:43 PM

Juno CEO: Washington state biotech is ‘going backwards,’ needs support from Olympia to catch up

While Washington state’s biotech industry is on the up and up, it still lags far behind hubs like San Francisco… Read More

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