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Mar 6, 2025, 10:24 AM

American Express to acquire Center, a Seattle-area expense management startup

American Express announced Thursday that it plans to acquire Center, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup that helps businesses manage expenses. Terms… Read More

Mar 5, 2025, 9:00 AM

Cybersecurity startup SpecterOps, which has an office in Seattle, raises $75M

SpecterOps, an Alexandria, Va.-based cybersecurity startup that helps companies fend off identity-based threats, raised $75 million in a Series B… Read More

Mar 5, 2025, 8:00 AM

This Seattle AI startup watches you work — then automates the tedious back-office tasks

A Seattle startup hatched out of AI2 Incubator is emerging from stealth today, announcing a $5 million seed round to… Read More

Mar 4, 2025, 2:00 PM

Is AI hype out of control? Assessing AI-related marketing tactics on the GeekWire 200

Editor’s note: Ryan Sloan, a data scientist based in Seattle, wrote this guest post after assessing the GeekWire 200, our… Read More

Mar 4, 2025, 10:17 AM

Tech Moves: Starbucks names CFO; Avanade bolsters C-suite; Tune Therapeutics gets CEO

— Starbucks announced Cathy Smith as its chief financial officer. Smith was most recently at Nordstrom for two years, and… Read More

Mar 4, 2025, 8:30 AM

Anthropic, which opened a Seattle office last year, now valued at $61.5B after raising $3.5B

Anthropic is adding more rocket fuel to its engine as the high-flying San Francisco startup behind the Claude chatbot and… Read More

Mar 4, 2025, 7:38 AM

Security startup Oleria launches its own ‘copilot’ in latest example of AI assistant proliferation

Oleria, a Seattle-based security startup that manages employee access to applications and data, rolled out its new “Oleria Copilot” that… Read More

Mar 4, 2025, 7:11 AM

More moonshots, less humility: How to supercharge Seattle’s startup ecosystem

Seattle’s startup scene needs more swag and more big swings. Better storytelling and highly ambitious entrepreneurs are two ingredients that can… Read More

Mar 3, 2025, 7:53 PM

Seattle gaming startup Rec Room lays off 16% of staff — read CEO’s memo to employees

The eponymous Seattle-based company behind the virtual hangout app Rec Room has cut 16% of its workforce. “This wasn’t an… Read More

Mar 3, 2025, 10:58 AM

Newly launched Seattle cancer therapy startup Callio Therapeutics raises $187M

Biotech-focused investment firm Frazier Life Sciences has launched Callio Therapeutics, a cancer treatment startup with headquarters in Seattle and Singapore.… Read More

Mar 3, 2025, 8:00 AM

OCOchem prepares to flip the switch on tech for turning captured CO2 into industrial chemicals

OCOchem, a startup turning captured carbon dioxide into a valuable industrial chemical, is completing construction of its pilot plant in… Read More

Mar 1, 2025, 8:48 AM

Social commerce startup led by Seattle-area sisters uses AI to connect brands with younger shoppers

As everything gets more virtual, younger shoppers crave tangibility and personal engagement — or at least the perception of real… Read More

Feb 28, 2025, 7:00 AM

Tech investors on why AI makes this a great moment for startups — with one caveat

There’s no better time to build a startup — but be ready for some fierce competition. That was one takeaway… Read More

Feb 28, 2025, 7:00 AM

New head of Alliance of Angels excited to hit ‘refresh’ on longtime startup investment group

Angie Parker is the new executive director of Alliance of Angels, the Seattle-based investment group. A University of Washington Foster… Read More

Feb 27, 2025, 11:47 AM

Tech Moves: UW professor wins prestigious honor; T-Mobile board shuffle; and more

— Mary-Claire King, a groundbreaking innovator in genetics, has received The National Academy of Sciences’ most prestigious metal, the Public… Read More

Feb 27, 2025, 10:12 AM

Automating ‘science of war’: Exia Labs raises $2.5M to build AI for military operations

Jonathan Pan spent five years in the U.S. Army and then ventured into the video game industry. Now he’s combining… Read More

Feb 27, 2025, 7:00 AM

GeekWire 200 CEO survey: Tech startup leaders on the economy, RTO, AI, and key priorities for 2025

Interest rates remain high, tech IPOs are still sparse, and uncertainty looms around regulatory action and funding constraints. But startup… Read More

Feb 27, 2025, 6:50 AM

Nautilus Biotechnology lays off 16% of workforce, plans release of commercial platform in 2026

Nautilus Biotechnology has laid off about 16% of its workforce, reducing its headcount to 133 employees and helping provide a… Read More

Feb 26, 2025, 1:00 PM

Inspectify acquires Aloft in Seattle real estate startup deal

Inspectify, a Seattle startup that sells home inspection software, announced the acquisition of Aloft, another Seattle real estate startup that… Read More

Feb 26, 2025, 9:21 AM

These colorful AI aliens could be your new virtual best friend as startup lands $10M to launch Tolan

The promise and potential of artificial intelligence to be more than just a disembodied voice or text bubble took another… Read More

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Feb 26, 2025, 8:00 AM

Lumen Orbit changes its name to Starcloud and raises $10M for space data centers

Redmond, Wash.-based Starcloud got its start just last year under a different name — Lumen Orbit — but the newly… Read More

Feb 26, 2025, 7:38 AM

CarbonQuest, which captures carbon emitted from industrial sites, closes $20M round

CarbonQuest has closed a $20 million investment round led by Riverbend Energy Group. GeekWire previously reported on the funding in… Read More

Feb 26, 2025, 5:00 AM

Bridgetown, a Seattle startup that uses AI agents to automate research tasks, raises $19M

Bridgetown Research, a Seattle-based startup that uses AI to help investment firms and corporate teams supercharge their research efforts, raised… Read More

Feb 25, 2025, 2:41 PM

Spokane startup that gives labs a green seal of approval raises $5M

Impact Laboratories, a startup verifying the environmental bona fides of some 3,800 labs worldwide, announced nearly $5 million in funding… Read More

Feb 25, 2025, 11:00 AM

Opal, a Vancouver startup that automates back-office tasks for ad agencies, raises $1.5M

Vancouver, B.C.-based startup Opal raised a $1.5 million pre-seed round led by Seattle venture firm Founders’ Co-op and Exit North… Read More

Feb 25, 2025, 7:00 AM

Microsoft’s venture fund M12 leads $15M round for Seattle cloud infrastructure startup Edera

Edera, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies secure their Kubernetes and AI workloads, raised a $15 million Series A round… Read More

Feb 25, 2025, 3:00 AM

Zillow vets launch HouseWhisper, giving real estate agents an AI assistant to help with workload

Three veterans of Zillow Group who helped turn the Seattle real estate company into a tech powerhouse have joined forces… Read More

Feb 22, 2025, 9:03 AM

Qualterra raises $4.5M to turn organic waste into carbon-trapping, crop-boosting biochar

There’s a pleasing circularity to Qualterra’s ag-tech operations. The Eastern Washington company takes crop and forestry wastes, applies a patented… Read More

Feb 21, 2025, 10:56 AM

Kapta Space, a Seattle startup working with the Department of Defense, raises $5M

Kapta Space, a radar technology startup based in Seattle, raised $5 million in a seed round led by MetaVC Partners.… Read More

Feb 21, 2025, 9:10 AM

Tech Moves: Zillow promotes execs; ZoomInfo CTO resigning; ESS CEO steps down

— Seattle’s Zillow Group promoted two leaders to senior vice president positions. Michael Sherman is now SVP of Zillow Rentals.… Read More

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