Startups – Page 226 of 312

Oct 3, 2013, 10:33 AM

Battle of the Geek Bands: Get your tickets for this rockin’ after-party

In the spirit of Spinal Tap, Seattle’s tech community will be taking it “up to 11” on Friday, Oct. 25th… Read More

Oct 2, 2013, 11:57 AM

Ignorance is not bliss: Startup Day founder explains why you need to attend

I left Microsoft eight years ago to pursue life at a startup. I won’t bore you with the details, but… Read More

Oct 2, 2013, 11:47 AM

Tech Moves: Prevencio lands biotech vets; Lively hires music vets; DomainTools nabs Roberts

—Prevencio, an early-stage biotech company working on cardiac biomarker tests, has named H. Perry Fell as chairman and Rhonda Rhyne… Read More

Oct 2, 2013, 6:07 AM

Chart: The top U.S. cities for venture capital in Q3

Just yesterday, I heard from a Seattle entrepreneur who said he was moving his startup company to San Francisco. It’s… Read More

Oct 1, 2013, 5:55 PM

Cubtab wants to make email safe and easy for kids

Trying to figure out how to send an email using a service like Gmail or Yahoo is a little troublesome… Read More

Oct 1, 2013, 3:23 PM

Startup Spotlight: Ex-Amazonians helping teachers create and sell online courses with Everpath

Online learning has offered millions of people a new way to learn. It’s also opened the doors for instructors to… Read More

Oct 1, 2013, 9:53 AM

GeekWire Startup Day: Governor Jay Inslee to kick off our startup bootcamp

GeekWire Startup Day 2013 is less than a month away, and today we’re excited to announce that Washington state Gov.… Read More

Oct 1, 2013, 8:29 AM

A good showing: 26 venture-backed IPOs completed in Q3

The market for initial public offerings continued to accelerate in the third quarter as 26 venture-backed companies started trading on… Read More

Oct 1, 2013, 5:30 AM

AdReady finds a buyer, sells to digital media holding company CPXi

AdReady is getting a new home. The Seattle online advertising startup — founded seven years ago by Aaron Finn and bankrolled… Read More

Sep 30, 2013, 9:00 AM

Ride-sharing aggregator Red Ride launches app, taps Mike Fridgen as advisor

While city regulators may still be grappling with the legality of ride-sharing startups like Lyft and Sidecar, there’s no question… Read More

Sep 27, 2013, 11:07 AM

Home improvement startup Porch.com is raising a huge financing round, lines up big-time backers

Last week on the GeekWire podcast, Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman explained how he wants to build a very big company… Read More

Sep 27, 2013, 10:17 AM

Startup Spotlight: SimpleVerity helps create credit reports for startups

Not every startup or small business has credit information widely available. Seattle-based SimpleVerity wants to fix that. The Seattle company,… Read More

Sep 27, 2013, 8:10 AM

Ski lift ticket seller Liftopia carves fresh path with $5M from Spencer Rascoff, Marc Benioff and others

Some big names in tech are hitting the slopes. Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman,… Read More

Sep 26, 2013, 8:22 AM

Google picks 7 partners for new ‘Tech Hub’ initiative, snubs Seattle, NYC, Boston

Maybe Seattle’s startup community doesn’t really need Google’s help, or perhaps the search giant believes it is doing enough to… Read More

Sep 25, 2013, 9:44 AM

Quollective lets you capture, style and share quotes from Gandhi to your grandmother

Whether they inspire you to be great or just make you smile, quotes are certainly popular. As a way for… Read More

Sep 25, 2013, 9:28 AM

Report: Washington state looks to trim allocation for private equity

The Washington State Investment Board is looking to reduce its allocation in private equity, cutting the targets from 25 percent… Read More

Sep 24, 2013, 10:34 AM

Startup Demo Zone: Here’s a chance to show off your big idea at Startup Day

Want to showcase your startup to some of the region’s top angel investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and all-around geeks? Of… Read More

Sep 24, 2013, 8:26 AM

Paul Allen backs research project to restore hand, arm movement after spinal cord injuries

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is providing a $1.5 million grant to researchers at the University of Washington to… Read More

Sep 24, 2013, 7:47 AM

Ignition leads $15M round in private cloud startup BlueData

Ignition Partners has led a $15 million venture capital round in BlueData, a stealthy Mountain View, California startup that’s developing… Read More

Sep 23, 2013, 1:53 PM

Angel investing: The walls come tumbling down

Today is the first day it becomes legally permissible for startups and emerging companies to advertise their offerings. Or to tweet… Read More

Sep 23, 2013, 11:54 AM

Watch these entrepreneurs from StudentRND pitch their startup ideas

Here at GeekWire, we are big believers that a thriving technology ecosystem can only exist if the next-generation of tinkerers,… Read More

Sep 23, 2013, 7:19 AM

Seattle VC firm Madrona has a new home, with more room to incubate startups

Since 1995, Tom Alberg and the rest of the crew at Seattle venture capital firm Madrona have bankrolled startups from… Read More

Sep 20, 2013, 9:42 AM

The messy side of the JOBS Act, and the potential ‘death sentence’ for startups

The JOBS Act — or Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act — was supposed to have a very simple purpose when… Read More

Sep 19, 2013, 7:20 PM

Rich Barton and Bill Gurley Unplugged: The full GeekWire Summit session

I had a blast interviewing Zillow co-founder Rich Barton and Benchmark’s Bill Gurley on stage at the GeekWire Summit last… Read More

Sep 19, 2013, 10:39 AM

GeekWire Startup Day 2013: Tickets on sale for our biggest entrepreneurial event of the year

Everyone will tell you that “startups are hard.” And guess what? Having navigated the twists and turns at GeekWire for… Read More

Sep 18, 2013, 2:33 PM

Startup Spotlight: Circle helps parents monitor, manage their kids’ online activity

Once upon a time, families had one, maybe two Internet-connected devices in the home. The “family computer” made it easy… Read More

Sep 18, 2013, 8:51 AM

Meet Fork, an Instagram for food porn lovers to share their own meals

If you’re on Instagram or Facebook, you likely have those friends who just love posting pictures of food they eat. In… Read More

Sep 18, 2013, 7:40 AM

Business-intelligence tech company Extended Results acquired by Tibco Software

Redmond-based Extended Results, a privately held business-intelligence technology company known in part for its PushBI app for Windows 8, has… Read More

Sep 18, 2013, 4:30 AM

Nuiku raises $1.6M to build apps that act as voice-controlled virtual assistants

Sean Thompson was frustrated with how much time it took to work with a line-of-business system like Salesforce. This problem… Read More

Sep 18, 2013, 3:01 AM

Concur invests in Visage to help companies manage mobile devices

Concur is continuing to place bets in startup companies. The latest deal comes today as the Bellevue maker of travel… Read More