Startups – Page 41 of 312

Jul 2, 2024, 7:56 AM

Phaidra raises $12M for AI software that helps manage data center energy consumption

Phaidra, a Seattle startup selling a “virtual plant operator” that uses artificial intelligence to manage industrial operations, raised $12 million… Read More

Jul 1, 2024, 1:53 PM

Tech Moves: Tomo co-founder steps down; Usermind co-founder joins Ironclad; ex-Google director back at Microsoft

— Carey Schwaber Armstrong, the former Zillow exec who co-founded real estate startup Tomo four years ago, has stepped down… Read More

Jun 28, 2024, 12:32 PM

Amazon hires founders from well-funded enterprise AI startup Adept to boost tech giant’s ‘AGI’ team

Amazon is amping up its AI efforts by hiring executives from Adept, a San Francisco-based startup building “agents” that automate… Read More

Jun 27, 2024, 12:58 PM

Tech Moves: Google exec departs; Syndio adds engineering leader; JPMorgan CTO leaves F5 board

— Nimrod Vered, a longtime engineering leader in Seattle, joined Syndio as senior vice president of engineering. Vered was most recently… Read More

Jun 27, 2024, 12:07 PM

Seattle-based RareCyte raises $20M for cell analysis products

Seattle-based life sciences company RareCyte announced $20 million in new funding to advance its applications for the analysis of cells.

Jun 27, 2024, 10:21 AM

Another logistics startup emerges in Seattle as former Amazon, Flexport execs reveal Freightmate

The list of Seattle-area logistics startups continues to grow with the addition of Freightmate.ai, a new company that came out… Read More

Jun 27, 2024, 9:00 AM

Cancer screening tech startup Ezra opens two locations in Seattle area

Ezra, a New York City-based health technology startup offering cancer screening, opened two locations in the Seattle area this week.… Read More

Jun 27, 2024, 8:26 AM

Next-gen battery startup Sila raises $375M to fund completion of Eastern Wash. factory

Battery startup Sila has raised $375 million, which will help fund the completion early next year of its manufacturing facility… Read More

Jun 26, 2024, 8:14 AM

Loti, a Seattle startup that helps public figures spot and squash deepfakes, raises $5.1M

Seattle startup Loti raised $5.1 million to grow its technology platform that helps public figures scour the internet for fake… Read More

Jun 26, 2024, 8:00 AM

Data warehousing startup SDF, led by Microsoft and Meta vets, comes out of stealth mode

SDF Labs, a Seattle startup aiming to help software developers manage their enterprise data warehouse systems, this week announced public… Read More

Jun 26, 2024, 7:00 AM

Clearbrief, which uses AI to help lawyers find and verify facts in legal docs, raises $4M

Seattle legal tech startup Clearbrief is raising more cash to boost its technology aimed at helping lawyers find, summarize, and… Read More

Jun 25, 2024, 7:30 AM

Topicflow raises $1.8M to rethink performance reviews, with help from AI

Vancouver, B.C.-based startup Topicflow raised $1.8 million from Seattle venture capital firms Founders’ Co-op and Ascend to fuel growth of… Read More

Jun 25, 2024, 6:00 AM

Digital youth safety startup k-ID raises $45M to help developers comply with age regulations

k-ID, a startup headquartered in Singapore and Seattle that’s building tools for online youth safety, announced Tuesday that it raised… Read More

Jun 24, 2024, 12:25 PM

Meet the climate startup helping other climate startups fund their ventures with lower cost loans

Government grants and publicly funded projects have been a boon to climate tech and clean energy businesses. But while companies… Read More

Jun 24, 2024, 9:20 AM

Former Amazon colleagues raise $2.8M to help equipment rental companies run online stores

BoxedUp, a startup founded by ex-Amazon employees to help equipment rental companies set up and run online stores, raised $2.85… Read More

Jun 24, 2024, 9:12 AM

Default alive: Tech startups focus on survival and slower growth in new era defined by profitability

Tech startups have gone through a major mindset shift in the past few years. The era of growth-at-all-costs and easily… Read More

Jun 21, 2024, 7:00 AM

Real estate vets launch accelerator and advisory firm to fuel underrepresented founders

After working decades in real estate, Katherine Winston and Kenya Burrell-VanWormer were tired of the statistics showing how the majority… Read More

Jun 20, 2024, 12:46 PM

Tech Moves: Superhuman hires CTO; Getty Images founder departs board; Xbox vet joins Unity

Chris Bee, a tech exec who previously worked at Lessen, Zillow, and Uber, joined AI email startup Superhuman as chief… Read More

Jun 20, 2024, 7:42 AM

Climate tech funding dip poses threat for capital-intensive startups — but it’s not time to panic

In a webinar Tuesday on the future of climate tech, Alan Neuhauser of Axios kicked off the questions by asking… Read More

Jun 20, 2024, 5:00 AM

E-commerce vets raise $50M seed round for new startup that aims to reimagine online shopping

A new startup founded by longtime e-commerce leaders is using artificial intelligence in a bid to shake up the way… Read More

Jun 19, 2024, 2:00 PM

Shift AI Podcast: How AI is shaking up the worlds of media, marketing, and startups

How is artificial intelligence making marketers more productive? How are journalists approaching the ethical dilemmas inherent to AI content creation?… Read More

Jun 19, 2024, 1:39 PM

Aurion Biotech gets FDA approval to speed development of vision restoring treatment

Seattle’s Aurion Biotech announced Wednesday that it received special designations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that should speed… Read More

Jun 18, 2024, 3:15 PM

Butterflies takes flight with $4.8M, launches social media platform combining AI and human content

Butterflies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based social media platform that combines human and AI-generated content, launched Tuesday after raising $4.8 million in… Read More

Jun 18, 2024, 9:18 AM

AI without prompting: This startup just joined Techstars to make generative AI easier to use

Rene Bystron spent hundreds of hours at his last startup building an app that helps teach people how to use… Read More

Jun 18, 2024, 7:36 AM

Google vet leads new startup studio in Seattle spinning out B2B software companies

Another startup studio with roots in Seattle is incubating ideas and spinning out fledgling tech companies. Mudita Venture Partners, a… Read More

Jun 17, 2024, 8:00 AM

Don’t say AI: Why some investors say startups should avoid overusing the trendy term

AI startups accounted for 40% of total venture funding in May. So it may seem strategic for startups to include… Read More

Jun 14, 2024, 12:37 PM

Seattle indie game studio Galvanic Games is shutting down

Galvanic Games, the independent Seattle-based developer behind video games such as Some Distant Memory, Rapture Rejects, and last fall’s Wizard… Read More

Jun 14, 2024, 9:15 AM

Tech Moves: Former Amazon Prime Air leader lands at Torc Robotics; Microsoft vet joins Meta

Eric Berlinberg, who spent the past decade at Amazon and was a key leader on the company’s Prime Air team,… Read More

Jun 14, 2024, 8:46 AM

Seattle entrepreneurs are building autonomous robots to deliver hassle-free EV charging

The founders at Autev envision a future where EV drivers simply park their vehicles in a garage, open an app… Read More

Jun 14, 2024, 8:34 AM

Corporate spending software giant Brex plans to open office in downtown Seattle

Brex is opening an office in downtown Seattle. The Salt Lake City-based fintech giant operates as a “remote-first” company and… Read More