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Mar 8, 2016, 6:14 AM

Tech vet Paul Maritz joins BoldIQ board, sees new era of smart scheduling for on-demand economy

Paul Maritz, the former CEO of VMware and Pivotal Software, has joined the board of BoldIQ, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company… Read More

Mar 7, 2016, 1:56 PM

Green angels: Clean tech investment leader predicts resurgence as group pumps $3.3M into startups in 2015

Angel investors of the Pacific Northwest collective Element 8, which focuses exclusively on early-stage clean tech companies, put nearly $3.3 million into 17… Read More

Mar 6, 2016, 4:30 PM

MultiModal Health creates VR games to boost occupational therapy for patients

  Almost two years ago, a team of University of Washington students won the university’s TechSandbox competition with a virtual reality… Read More

Mar 4, 2016, 10:55 AM

Biotech startup Engage wins the University of Washington’s first Health Innovation Challenge

The University of Washington held its first annual Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) Thursday—bringing innovators in entrepreneurship, business and health science… Read More

Mar 3, 2016, 5:52 PM

Trash-sorting robots; cloud-based DJ simulators and more novel ideas from the 9Mile Labs startup accelerator

Eleven startups graduated from Seattle startup accelerator 9Mile Labs today after a 14-week program, each with a different vision for business-to-business software… Read More

Mar 3, 2016, 3:00 PM

Seattle startup Jrrny launches user-generated online travel magazine

Six months ago, John Kueber was planning a cycling trip in the French Pyrenees Mountains. As he tried to make… Read More

Mar 3, 2016, 12:50 PM

Microsoft M&A exec Bob Kelly: Here’s the ‘dirty secret’ about Silicon Valley, and why Seattle startups have an advantage

There’s been an endless stream of chatter about the differences between the tech ecosystems of Silicon Valley and Seattle, so… Read More

Mar 2, 2016, 3:26 PM

StuffHopper helps people sell stuff online, operating as ‘a mirror image to Amazon’

The ranks of would-be Craigslist killers continues to grow, but one young Seattle startup is taking a different approach in… Read More

Mar 2, 2016, 3:15 PM

Zembula raises $1.1M, debuts enterprise marketing platform at Launch Festival

Zembula today announced a $1.1 million seed round it will use to further develop its enterprise marketing platform. The Portland-based startup,… Read More

goTenna
Mar 2, 2016, 1:39 PM

REI and startup goTenna team up so you can #optoutside and still get a cell signal

If you #optoutside and happen to wander further than the range of your cell signal, goTenna may be the device for… Read More

Mar 1, 2016, 5:49 PM

Heads up, female coders: Seattle startup Tune accepting applications for UW house

Tune, the Seattle-based mobile marketing analytics firm, is now accepting applications for its special interest, rent-free house that invites females studying computer science or… Read More

Mar 1, 2016, 12:58 PM

Startup lessons from the sea: Smartsheet’s Mark Mader shares 14 tips for smooth sailing in business

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader sometimes commutes to work in a used Sea-Doo that he purchased to avoid traffic. So who better to share… Read More

Mar 1, 2016, 4:43 AM

Bill Gates doesn’t like unicorns’ near future, says he’d short them

Lots of people have predicted that the tech sector’s seemingly endless supply of investor money will soon dry up. Add Bill… Read More

Crowd Cow
Feb 29, 2016, 10:46 AM

Meet Crowd Cow: Tech vets take the mystery out of buying good meat, turn customers into ‘steak holders’

“Where’s the beef?” may have found its calling as a catchphrase with a long shelf life in the 1980s, but… Read More

Feb 26, 2016, 2:22 PM

GeekWire Radio: Secrets of successful tech acquisitions, with Pioneer Square Labs co-founder and ‘Acquired’ co-host Ben Gilbert

Ben Gilbert knows startups and he knows tech acquisitions. This week on the GeekWire podcast, we asked him about both,… Read More

Feb 26, 2016, 10:19 AM

Founder’s Co-op invests in Giftbit, a B2B digital gift card company

Founders’ Co-op, a Seattle-based early-stage venture fund, has invested in Giftbit, a company that specializes in digital gift card campaigns for enterprise… Read More

Feb 25, 2016, 4:01 PM

Are you DTH? Seattle startup launches app for making plans with friends

This past weekend, nearly 100 people wandered around Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood looking for a unicorn. No, not one of the… Read More

Feb 25, 2016, 1:01 PM

GeekWire 200 February Update: CloudMoyo, Fun Bits Interactive, Sensoria and others rise in the startup ranks

February heralded some notable shifts in the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the top 200 privately-held technology companies in the Pacific Northwest, presented… Read More

Feb 24, 2016, 5:40 PM

Startup Spotlight: CPEsuite is a peer-to-peer marketplace for continuing professional education

Early last year, Evan Hiner, Gary Knopp, and Jassen Bowman connected at a Startup Weekend event over the shared goal… Read More

Feb 24, 2016, 3:44 PM

Better than Reddit? TopTopic lets users make money from upvotes in a respectful online community

TopTopic is a new online community with two main features that make it unique among the Reddits, Facebooks, YouTubes, and Tumblrs of the… Read More

Feb 24, 2016, 10:58 AM

TINYpulse launches new tool to disrupt annual performance reviews, hires startup vet Matt Hulett

TINYpulse already helps more than 1,000 companies improve how they assess employee morale. Now the Seattle startup is rolling out a… Read More

Feb 23, 2016, 9:00 AM

Northwest angel investment collective Keiretsu doles out $43.5M in 2015

The Keiretsu Forum Northwest announced today in a news release that its regional collective of angel investors poured $43.5 million into 57 companies… Read More

Feb 23, 2016, 9:00 AM

Here are the 9 startups in the Techstars Seattle 2016 class

Over the next three months, nine early-stage startups will hone their solutions under the mentorship of the Techstars Seattle accelerator. At… Read More

Feb 22, 2016, 1:06 PM

VoiceBox and Samsung announce partnership for S Voice technology

Language technology startup VoiceBox announced a partnership with Samsung to use VoiceBox’s Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology for Samsung’s S Voice services, including Samsung’s… Read More

Feb 22, 2016, 10:56 AM

Glympse strikes deal with Samsung to share location and ETA via Galaxy S7 smartphones

  Seattle-based location technology startup Glympse will have a key foothold on the new Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone under a… Read More

Feb 22, 2016, 10:03 AM

Cheezburger online comedy sites sold to unnamed buyer in acquisition of startup that made funny cat pictures famous

I can has acquisition? Cheezburger, the pioneering online comedy network that brought cat pictures and outrageous videos to millions around… Read More

Feb 20, 2016, 10:30 AM

Sales for startups: Limeade CEO Henry Albrecht’s tips for building a sales team and landing deals

Henry Albrecht, CEO of the Bellevue-based health and wellness technology company Limeade, believes that sales are the most important part of any startup’s success — a… Read More

Feb 19, 2016, 4:05 PM

Startup Spotlight: Jodone combines human intellect with robots to solve automation problems

When robots and humans work together, good things happen. That’s at least according to Jodone, a Boston-based startup that combines… Read More

Feb 19, 2016, 1:36 PM

Seattle startup DealTapp streamlines deal-posting for restaurants, bars and entertainment venues

Many startups have removed friction for consumers trying to cash in on an online deal. Deals sites like Groupon and… Read More

Feb 19, 2016, 10:54 AM

Tips from top investors: How startups can succeed in an uncertain economy

How should startups navigate turbulent economic times? That was one of the questions posed to a panel of investors at the recent… Read More

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