Seattle biotech startup Phase Genomics is receiving $1.5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund research into two important areas: killing drug-resistant bacteria and battling methane-producing microorganisms… Read More
Seattle-based 3D laser engraver maker Glowforge is making another pitch to home crafters with another lower-priced machine, the company announced Tuesday. Less than a year after the release of the… Read More
Building hardware is hard. It can be especially challenging in the early part of product creation, when designers need to set parameters and requirements, also known as the “definition phase.”… Read More
Loopie, the Seattle peer-to-peer laundry service, announced the acquisition Monday of Bidbud, a gig economy platform that allows clients to post job opportunities that can be bid on by freelancers… Read More
Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Kellan Carter, founding partner at Bellevue, Wash.-based venture capital firm FUSE. On a recent trip to India, something caught my attention inside… Read More
The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington is a startup factory, spinning out companies developing new protein-based therapeutics, industrial enzymes, materials, biosensors and more. A key to… Read More
With all the makings of a buddy road trip adventure, two longtime Seattle friends and tech veterans have teamed up to breathe new life into a popular travel app under… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — At precisely 2 p.m. Pacific time on a recent Monday afternoon, employees of the technology startup Statsig were alerted to their regular standup meeting not by a… Read More
— Harshit Shah, a former head of engineering at Amazon Web Services, is now chief technology officer at Boston, Mass-based healthcare software company Kyruus Health. Shah, based in the Seattle… Read More
A new wave of layoffs at video game mega-studio Electronic Arts has multiple impacts on the Pacific Northwest gaming industry, including the end of development on a Star Wars video… Read More
A decade ago, University of Washington oceanographers Julian Sachs and Alex Gagnon were working in a tropical paradise, studying the impacts of climate change on coral reefs surrounding remote islands… Read More
When a spreadsheet gets big, your computer can get slow. Row Zero wants to help. The Seattle startup that describes its product as the “world’s fastest spreadsheet” just raised $3… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Three decades ago, Cecilia Aragon made aviation history as the first Latina to earn a place on the U.S. Unlimited Aerobatic Team. She went on to write… Read More
Glowforge, the Seattle-based maker of 3D laser engravers, has been tangled in a legal dispute with a Las Vegas man who claimed online for years that the startup is selling… Read More
Kieran Snyder, the co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based Textio, has launched her next project, less than two months after stepping back from the augmented writing startup. In an email… Read More
Gradial, a new Seattle startup using generative AI to help marketing operations teams increase productivity, raised $5.4 million in a seed investment round led by Madrona. Founded last year by… Read More
Entrepreneur and investor Chris DeVore had an inside view of Techstars Seattle as one of the original leaders of the local startup accelerator in 2010, before serving as its managing… Read More
Asha Sharma is headed back to Seattle full-time for a new role leading product for Microsoft’s AI platform. Sharma was most recently at Instacart, where she was chief operating officer… Read More
Venture capital firms and longtime tech execs are making a bet on Codified, a new startup out of Seattle that aims to help companies get a better handle on how… Read More
Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) and esteemed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Mayfield are teaming up to fund the next generation of AI-focused startups. The partnership combines the… Read More
Techstars Seattle helped launch more than 160 startups over the past decade, partnered with the likes of Microsoft and Amazon to spark even more startups, and led to the creation… Read More
Convoy’s digital marketplace is back on the market following the demise of the Seattle startup and subsequent technology acquisition by Flexport. Logistics giant Flexport this week launched the “Convoy Platform”… Read More
Techstars Seattle is done. What does it mean for the city’s startup ecosystem? That’s a question on our minds in the immediate aftermath of the surprising news this week from… Read More
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet on Thursday criticized a blog post penned by Chris DeVore, a longtime Seattle investor who ran Techstars Seattle as managing director from 2014 to 2019. In… Read More
Healionics, a Seattle-based medical technology company, raised $5.5 million in new financing aimed at helping the company complete an ongoing human trial and pursue regulatory clearance and commercialization of its… Read More
OpenTug, Seattle-based makers of marine transportation logistics software, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding, the company announced Thursday. The fresh cash will be used to further develop OpenTug’s maritime… Read More
Seattle startup Finpilot raised a $4 million investment round led by Madrona to help fuel its “ChatGPT for financial questions” software. The company’s aim is to help financial analysts speed… Read More
EigenLayer, a Seattle-based blockchain infrastructure startup, raised a $100 million Series B round from Silicon Valley heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Founded in 2021, EigenLayer is developing an Ethereum-related technology known… Read More
Techstars Seattle, one of the first accelerators to emerge from the Techstars program and a longstanding institution within Seattle’s tech ecosystem, is shutting down. Techstars will focus on markets “with… Read More
When Ross Finman and his wife set out to try to find baby formula during a critical shortage of the product in 2022, they ended up driving about 100 miles… Read More