Startups – Page 193 of 312

Apr 21, 2015, 10:43 AM

Is $70K the new normal? Tech leaders weigh Seattle CEO’s pledge

Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price made big headlines when he announced plans to implement a minimum annual salary of $70,000 at the… Read More

Apr 21, 2015, 10:42 AM

Here’s what two Seattle startup vets learned from the inaugural White House Tech Meetup

It was an eye-opening, humbling, and re-energizing few days for Brett Greene and Red Russak at the first-ever White House Tech… Read More

Apr 21, 2015, 8:00 AM

Gates Foundation-backed Livestories raises $1M to help governments, non-profits visualize data

Adnan Mahmud knows that most people in the world aren’t experts at analyzing and visualizing large sets of data — particularly… Read More

Apr 20, 2015, 2:00 PM

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Next Tech Titan

The Pacific Northwest is already home to a handful of groundbreaking technology companies. Who will establish themselves as the Next… Read More

Apr 17, 2015, 10:00 AM

GeekWire Awards: Vote for CEO of the Year

Patton. Eisenhower. Bradley. Grant. Lee. Great generals all have different leadership tactics on the field of battle. And it’s no… Read More

Apr 16, 2015, 6:52 PM

Startup Spotlight: Mowdo digitizes lawn care with on-demand pricing and service

The home services market may be on the brink of disruption. Amazon recently made headlines with the official roll out of… Read More

Apr 16, 2015, 10:26 AM

Fresh off a $6M round, Portland-based Nvoicepay expands B2B payment platform

The electronic payment industry for consumers has certainly shifted over the past few years, with the advent of smartphone apps like… Read More

Apr 15, 2015, 10:02 AM

Poachable closes $1.8M seed round for ‘Tinder-meets-LinkedIn’ anonymous career matchmaker

Poachable, the Seattle-based startup that helps passive job candidates find new jobs both privately and anonymously, has raised another $750,000.… Read More

Apr 15, 2015, 9:59 AM

Let the GeekWire Awards voting begin! Cast your ballot for Startup of the Year

We’re kicking off the GeekWire Awards voting today, and we’re starting with a big one: Startup of the Year. One… Read More

Apr 14, 2015, 4:22 PM

Meet CookBrite: An app that recommends meals based on ingredients in your kitchen

Court Lorenzini already helped change the way companies ink digital signatures as the co-founder of Docusign. Now the Seattle entrepreneur… Read More

Apr 11, 2015, 7:13 AM

Heavily-funded maker of eco-friendly plastic cups abruptly closes

MicroGreen Polymers, a clean tech startup that was developing eco-friendly plastic cups, has shut its doors and laid off about… Read More

Apr 10, 2015, 9:00 AM

Crowd Supply raises $580K to develop ‘highly-curated’ version of Kickstarter

A new Portland startup wants to be the highly-curated, more reliable version of Kickstarter — and now it has more… Read More

Apr 9, 2015, 1:09 PM

3 reasons getting sued was the best thing to ever happen to my startup

Editor’s note: Following news of Lifestyle Lift (a national chain of cosmetic surgery centers known primarily for aggressively advertising a… Read More

Apr 9, 2015, 10:27 AM

SkyWard raises more cash to build enterprise software for drones

SkyWard is raising more cash to help develop software for running networks of drones. The Portland-based startup has raised $3.3 million of… Read More

Apr 9, 2015, 9:18 AM

Meet the 10 startup grads from the Portland Seed Fund

A new crop of startups from across Oregon graduated today from the Portland Seed Fund. The companies just completed a… Read More

Apr 9, 2015, 8:00 AM

Wells Fargo awards $1M to environmental startups for new ‘innovation incubator’

Wells Fargo is funding startups that are developing technologies to benefit the environment and today it announced the first set of companies… Read More

Apr 8, 2015, 9:15 PM

WordPress security startup Wordfence launches tool to help publishers prevent password hacks

WordPress accounts for about one quarter of all Web sites on the planet, which means the popular content management system… Read More

Apr 8, 2015, 5:00 AM

Oyster takes aim at Amazon with new e-book store, lands all ‘Big Five’ publishers

Oyster launched a new version of its e-book platform today that puts it in even closer competition with Amazon. The… Read More

Apr 7, 2015, 7:00 PM

Startup Spotlight: How this entrepreneur built Rhino Camera Gear from a kitchen

Rhino Camera Gear is on its way to another Kickstarter success. The Seattle-based company launched its sixth crowdfunding campaign on Tuesday,… Read More

Apr 7, 2015, 4:29 PM

Wally home monitoring system ties into the rest of the web with IFTTT integration

Wally, the home sensing system produced by Seattle-based SNUPI Technologies, became a whole lot more useful today by adding support… Read More

Apr 7, 2015, 1:58 PM

Unicorn envy: Where is Seattle’s next billion-dollar idea?

View image | gettyimages.com Once upon a time, there was an exclusive club that only allowed technology companies worth $1 billion… Read More

Apr 7, 2015, 6:00 AM

Ex-Amazon engineers launch Kickstarter for stove knobs that control temperature automatically

As I drop a quartet of refrigerated, uncooked rice balls into a pot of bubbling oil, the stove knobs below my hands… Read More

Apr 6, 2015, 3:19 PM

Former Isilon manager raises $1.7 million for cloud security startup Praesidio

A new cloud security startup — founded by a veteran tech executive who previously worked at Isilon Systems, RealNetworks and… Read More

Apr 6, 2015, 12:17 PM

Health and fitness tracker EveryMove cuts additional staff

EveryMove, which helps employees track fitness metrics and receive rewards for hitting goals, has eliminated a number of non-engineering employees… Read More

Apr 6, 2015, 10:57 AM

This big data startup just raised cash to analyze driver behavior, creating ‘safety scores’ for individual motorists

Truck drivers, motorcyclists and daily commuters may navigate the same routes each day, but not all motorists have the same… Read More

Apr 3, 2015, 3:30 PM

Startup Spotlight: Evalise launches line of fashion-foward wearables for women

Wearables are arguably the most talked-about tech of 2015. Apple is dominating the recent conversation with its Apple Watch announcements,… Read More

Apr 3, 2015, 11:56 AM

GeekWire 200 update: Where Seattle VC firms are placing their bets

We’re back with an update to the GeekWire 200, our list of the hottest up-and-coming privately-held technology companies in the… Read More

Apr 2, 2015, 9:00 AM

Founder’s Co-op raises $20M, looks to spark more innovative startups in the Northwest

Over the past seven years, Founder’s Co-op has trumpeted the benefits of the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial community more than most,… Read More

Apr 1, 2015, 7:29 PM

Bigleaf Networks raises $1.5M to help businesses manage multiple Internet connections

Bigleaf Networks, a Portland-based Internet redundancy and optimization service, has raised a $1.5 million Series A round led by Oregon… Read More

Mar 31, 2015, 8:10 AM

Seattle cosmetics startup Julep cuts 8% of staff

Julep, the heavily-funded Seattle cosmetics startup led by Jane Park, laid off eight percent of its staff or 17 employees… Read More