POSaBIT announced Friday plans to abandon its acquisition of three cannabis compliance software firms after a third-party proposal resulted in a “superior offer” to its original bid. The Seattle-area fintech… Read More
— Seattle-based fintech company Remitly added two new board members: Ryno Blignaut and Phyllis Campbell. Blignaut is an investor with Silicon Valley venture firm Khosla Ventures and previously served as CFO… Read More
Corporations worldwide are committing to shrinking their carbon footprints. But it can get complicated when companies try to calculate how much carbon they’re responsible for, and figure out how to… Read More
Another out-of-town venture firm is looking at Seattle for new startup investments. Los Angeles-based Bonfire has backed three Seattle-area startups and more could be on the way. “It’s an incredible… Read More
The world of sustainability has changed quite a bit since Scope 5 first got off the ground more than a decade ago. Founded in 2011, the Seattle-based company provides sustainability… Read More
A group of students at the University of Washington are launching a startup that helps farmers monitor and upkeep their fertilizer volumes. Warren Weissbluth and Ronan Nopp founded Freyr, a… Read More
Benji Barash and Yves Albers-Schoenberg experienced the challenges of robotics development while working on Amazon’s ambitious drone project. Now the engineers are leading a new startup aiming to address some… Read More
CTFusion, a spinoff from the University of Washington, has flipped off the reactor and folded up shop. But the startup’s expertise is not lost: three of its four co-founders have… Read More
If there’s any doubt that 2023 is the Year of Artificial Intelligence, this should put it to rest. Novel and clever inventions and implementations of AI, robotics, automation, and productivity… Read More
A trio of tech leaders joined forces to promote the creation of robotics startups in the Pacific Northwest, encouraged by the advancements in artificial intelligence and the growing demand for… Read More
Longtime Seattle-area tech mainstay Minh Le has joined Stifel Bank as managing director, following a 14-year career with Silicon Valley Bank. “It’s been a wild last few weeks, and I… Read More
Property managers and consumer lenders are dealing with a reported increasing amount of application fraud. A Seattle startup wants to help. Income verification startup Payscore recently raised $2.2 million. The… Read More
The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation;… Read More
The newest startup accelerator from Amazon aims to attract companies building generative AI technologies. The Amazon Web Services accelerator, revealed Tuesday, is a 10-week program aims to “empower companies applying… Read More
Seattle-area startup TipHaus landed $3.5 million in new funding to streamline how businesses pool and distribute tips to employees. Launched in 2018, TipHaus sells software to hospitality companies to help… Read More
A trio of former Dell EMC engineers are building a fleet of rentable robots to help companies crank out monotonous tasks amid a lingering labor shortage. Aivot is a Seattle-based… Read More
Humans have become increasingly vulnerable to technology that grabs our attention, by design, often pulling us away from more meaningful and fulfilling moments in our lives. Can technology itself be… Read More
Textio, the Seattle-based augmented writing platform, conducted a “broad team reorganization” this week, according to co-founder and CEO Kieran Snyder. Snyder said the 9-year-old startup adjusted the balance of its… Read More
The finalists in this year’s GeekWire Awards category for Startup CEO of the Year are taking on a range of tech and innovation challenges, in disciplines that include plant-based meat… Read More
The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round. The context: Large language models,… Read More
Read AI, the Seattle startup whose software measures engagement and sentiment of participants on video meetings, is taking a page out of ESPN’s “SportsCenter” playbook with its latest product. Much… Read More
Don’t be scared to pitch big. That’s the advice Graham & Walker Founder and Managing Director Leslie Feinzaig said she would give to women looking to navigate the world of… Read More
Real estate ownership. Legal contracts. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software. Machine learning monitoring. The finalists for Startup of the Year at this year’s GeekWire Awards come from a variety of… Read More
After a series of pandemic-induced pivots, Mystery was looking for the thing that would stick. And in becoming an employee engagement company, the startup was focused on helping companies boost… Read More
The news: Sonoma Biotherapeutics is partnering with Regeneron to co-develop cell therapies for Crohn’s disease and other autoimmune conditions. The agreement comes with a $75 million upfront payment and a… Read More
First Citizens Bank has agreed to purchase all deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced late Sunday. Depositors of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, the… Read More
— Barry Crist is now board chair of Perth, Australia-based software company Buildkite. Crist is the former CEO and board chair of Chef, a Seattle-based automation technology company that was… Read More
Founders who had venture debt lines with Silicon Valley Bank are trying to find new types of loans or debt capital in the fallout of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. “Real… Read More
PitchBook unveiled a new machine learning tool this week that predicts the likelihood of a VC-backed startup having a successful exit. The VC Exit Predictor uses PitchBook’s database — which includes… Read More
Seattle studio Polyarc Games announced an open playtest for its next project, a new multiplayer VR game set in the same universe as its award-winning VR adventures Moss and Moss:… Read More