Francois Ajenstat, who spent 13 years at Tableau including more than seven as chief product officer, is launching Golden Analytics with $7M in seed funding to build an AI-native business intelligence platform. Read More
Glacis, a Seattle startup building tamper-proof records of AI behavior, has hired longtime Microsoft Azure exec Rohit Tatachar as co-founder and CTO and is launching new open-source tools for monitoring and controlling AI agents. Read More
“We’re shaping the vision, building the team, defining the culture. The slate is clean. The sky is open. And we are having an absolute blast,” Cape wrote on LinkedIn. Read More
Choosing where to build a startup is as important as choosing what to build, and there are big differences between Seattle and the Bay Area, said Yifan Zhang, AI2 Incubator co-managing director addressing founders at the Seattle AI Startup Summit. Read More
Microsoft names a corporate VP for Identity & Network Access, while a CVP of product management departed for Zoom. Amazon loses an exec to Google Cloud. Read More
Data visualization veterans Ellie Fields and Jeffrey Heer are launching Ridge AI from stealth with $2.6M from Madrona and high-profile angels, aiming to help SaaS companies present interactive analytics to their customers. Read More
Eric Howard is the Onewheel-riding founder and chief dog runner at Dog Tired, a dog-exercising service outside of Seattle that operates at a different speed. In five years he’s taken about 5,000 dog runs across 17,000 miles. Read More
Tyler Swartz, a Seattle native and cycling enthusiast, was laid off from his tech job at Reddit and wanted to start something that served Seattle’s community of e-bikers. Read More
Convoy co-founder and Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dan Lewis drew on his experience building the one-time unicorn trucking startup to share lessons for entrepreneurs at this week’s Seattle AI Startup Summit. Read More
Founded by former AWS energy leaders, British Columbia-based Soma Energy emerged from stealth with $7 million and tech to optimize the power grid for data centers and utilities. Read More
The company was inspired by old paper dolls, where pants, shirts, jackets and other items can be moved around. In this case, clicking on images creates instant digital paper dolls. Read More
This award takes notice of the next dominant force in Pacific Northwest tech, and the finalists are: Overland AI, Carbon Robotics, Stoke Space, Chainguard, and MotherDuck. Read More
University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs selects its second climate tech cohort. Meet the eight startups tackling EV adoption, biochar and sustainable packaging. Read More
The Sustainable Innovation Award finalists this year are energy companies Helion, OCOChem and TerraPower; fashion recycler Ravel; and agtech startup IUNU. Read More
Seattle startup Oumi launched a commercial platform to help companies build custom AI models, betting that smaller, specialized models will beat general-purpose alternatives from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. Read More
Redmond, Wash., startup Starcloud has raised $170 million and hit a $1.1 billion valuation building solar-powered data centers that operate in space. Read More
Software giant Smartsheet makes four C-suite changes, all with ties to its CEO, while Armoire names a machine learning lead, plus other tech moves. Read More
Edo spent five years building tech to turn commercial buildings into virtual power plants, and with the grid buckling under data center demand and extreme weather, utilities and building operators are taking notice. Read More
Ideas from Pay-i, Cascade, Autessa and GemaTEG were pitched to the crowd and a panel of judges, with Pay-i founder David Tepper emerging as winner and most impressive under pressure. Read More
The finalists for Innovation of the Year are Alpenglow Biosciences; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; RevealDx; Starcloud; and VerAvanti. Read More
The startup. os building what it calls a “skills operating system” aimed at helping workers translate their real-world experience into language employers can use. Read More
Guardian is the world’s first Starlink-connected drone. It pairs with a robotic charging nest that automatically swaps batteries and helps the drone quickly redeploy. Read More
Ten founders pitched VCs at B.E.L.L.E’s Seattle AI Startup Showcase, covering everything from property management and housing development to fraud prevention and R&D compliance. Read More
Despite world-class AI-biotech research, a Nobel Prize-winning protein design lab and proximity to global AI expertise, Washington’s life sciences sector is still learning to tell its story. Read More
For this installment in our Agents of Transformation series, GeekWire examined the rising trend of vertical AI agents — tools built to do one job exceptionally well by combining models with domain-specific data, workflows, and context. Read More
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