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Seattle startup Replify acquired by ABC Fitness to bring agentic AI to more gyms and wellness centers

Replify’s software handles phone calls, emails, chats, and texts for health and wellness businesses, including inbound customer messages as well as proactive outbound marketing.” Read More

Podcast

From the dot-com boom to AI security: F5 at 30, with CEO François Locoh-Donou

F5 has remade itself in every era of computing — from the early web to the cloud — and at 30 it’s doing it again. CEO François Locoh-Donou joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss the company’s evolution and its latest initiative: a platform for AI security. Read More

F5 expands further into AI security with SurePath AI acquisition

F5 is buying SurePath AI, a Denver startup that helps companies find the AI tools their own employees are using, and folding it into a growing lineup of AI security products. CEO François Locoh-Donou explained the strategy on this weekend’s GeekWire Podcast.
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Eli Lilly to acquire Seattle-area biotech in $1.5 billion bet on next-generation shingles vaccine

Eli Lilly agreed to acquire Bothell, Wash.-based Curevo Vaccine for up to $1.5 billion in cash. The deal centers on a next-generation shingles vaccine that reduced side effects by more than half in a Phase 2 study. Read More

Seattle startup Ambassador acquires ad platform Humming, eyes more deals amid AI shakeout

Seattle customer engagement startup Ambassador has acquired the operating assets of Tacoma-based programmatic ad platform Humming, part of a roll-up… Read More

Snap acquires assets from Rec Room as social gaming platform announces shutdown

Snap has acquired select assets from Rec Room Inc., with some employees joining the Spectacles hardware subsidiary, as the Seattle-based social gaming company shuts down its platform on June 1. Read More

Seattle-area startup Included acquired by Phenom in HR software deal

Included launched five years ago in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the widespread move by companies nationwide to better support racial and ethnic diversity throughout their operations. Read More

Joon Care, a Seattle-based mental health startup serving youth, acquired by Handspring Health

Seattle-based mental health startup Joon Care was acquired by Handspring Health. The companies both launched to provide online care for youth and young adults. Read More

Seattle’s Parse Biosciences to be acquired by Qiagen for $225M

Seattle’s Parse Biosciences is teed up for an acquisition by Qiagen, a Netherlands-based holding company, in a $225 million cash… Read More

Smartsheet cuts jobs shortly after departure of longtime CEO

Smartsheet has cut more than 120 jobs amid a leadership transition and its $8.4B private equity takeover, as the Bellevue-based software company accelerates its push into artificial intelligence. Read More

Seattle-area company with climate friendly ‘mechanical cows’ for digesting waste is acquired

Chomp, a company building devices that turn food waste into fuel and liquid fertilizer, today announced its acquisition by Martin… Read More

T-Mobile to acquire digital advertising leader Vistar Media for $600M

T-Mobile reached a $600 million deal to acquire Vistar Media, a leading provider of solutions for digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising,… Read More

Seattle cybersecurity company WatchGuard snaps up threat analysis startup ActZero

Seattle cybersecurity company WatchGuard Technologies has acquired ActZero for an undisclosed sum, the parties announced this week. WatchGuard has bought… Read More

deal of the year

Vote for Deal of the Year: Four startups raise cash and a biotech giant acquires a UW spinout

Four big startup fundraising rounds and one major acquisition in the biotech space make up the finalists in this year’s… Read More

Pfizer wins regulatory approval for its $43B acquisition of Seattle-area biotech giant Seagen

Pfizer’s plan to acquire Seagen for $43 billion has cleared the necessary regulatory hurdles, the pharma titan announced Tuesday. The… Read More

FTC files injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint in court Monday to block Microsoft’s acquisition of video game developer Activision… Read More

UK’s rejection of $69B Activision Blizzard deal leaves Microsoft fighting battles on two continents

Fifteen months after Microsoft started its journey to join forces with Activision Blizzard, another boss is now standing in its… Read More

Aizen acquires Kurvv, a Seattle startup that helps predict equipment failure

Bellevue, Wash.-based Kurvv, which sells AI tools that predict equipment failure, is being acquired by Aizen, an AI-focused fintech startup… Read More

Elon Musk

Report: Elon Musk plans to gut Twitter workforce by 75% after acquisition

Elon Musk’s plan to purchase Twitter would bring with it massive cuts to the social media company’s workforce, according to… Read More

Life sciences data intelligence startup Amplion acquired by Science and Medicine Group

Amplion, a Bend, Ore,-based life sciences data intelligence company, is being acquired by data and publishing company Science and Medicine… Read More

Elon Musk in VAB

Elon Musk moves to back out of $44B Twitter bid

Elon Musk is attempting to back out of his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, according to a filing with… Read More

Online learning platform CreativeLive acquires Wildist, provider of courses in outdoor photography

CreativeLive, the Seattle-based company which teaches online classes in photography, video, design, music and more, is acquiring Wildist, another online… Read More

Seattle family organization app Cozi acquired by co-parenting app OurFamilyWizard

OurFamilyWizard, a co-parenting app for families living separately, is acquiring Seattle-based Cozi, a family organizing app founded in 2005, the… Read More

Report: Prudential’s $2.35B acquisition of Seattle insurance tech startup Assurance has gone ‘sour’

When Prudential Financial acquired Seattle-area startup Assurance IQ for $2.35 billion in September 2019, the deal was heralded as one of the… Read More

Investment firm offers to buy Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech Zymeworks for $733M in cash

Global investment firm All Blue Capital has offered to buy Zymeworks, a public biotech company based in Vancouver, B.C., with… Read More

TV ad measurement startup iSpot grabs Tunity, its third acquisition in 14 months

iSpot, the Seattle-area startup that measures the reach and impact of television advertising, has made its third acquisition in the… Read More

Mina Yoo and Qliplet

Seattle inventor’s Heroclip gear-holding gadget acquired after raising $2M and selling 1M units

Heroclip, a unique gear-holding gadget invented by Seattle entrepreneur Mina Yoo, has been acquired by Gear Aid of Bellingham, Wash.… Read More

Microsoft Gaming head confirms Activision’s ‘Call of Duty’ will keep coming to PlayStation

New Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has confirmed that the best-selling video game series Call of Duty will continue to… Read More

Portland’s peer-to-peer adventure van renter GoCamp acquired by leading vehicle modifier

GoCamp, a Portland-based company whose platform enables camper van owners to rent their vehicles to other adventurous types, has been… Read More

Social media manager Hootsuite acquires conversational AI-platform Heyday for $48M

Hootsuite, the Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Heyday, a conversational AI platform, for… Read More

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