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Augmodo raises $21M to push its spatial AI beyond just retail toward the broader physical workforce

Customer demand is pulling the Seattle startup’s technology into warehouses, facility maintenance, delivery, and other parts of the physical workforce. Read More

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Inside the 2026 GeekWire Awards: Innovators reshaping how we work, build, and learn

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we hit the floor at the 2026 GeekWire Awards to talk with finalists about what they’re building and how AI is changing their work — plus a trivia deep dive into 15 years of GeekWire Awards history. Read More

GeekWire Awards: The machines of the future, from self-driving earthmovers to space robots

An emerging class of startups is pushing the boundaries of what machines can do in the physical world — retrofitting bulldozers to dig on their own, launching drones that beat police cars to 911 calls, outfitting retail workers with spatial computing badges, building robotic arms for spacecraft, and servicing satellites in orbit. Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft leader takes nonprofit CEO role; Google vet joins LinkedIn; Amazon leaders depart

Former Microsoft leader to run a nonprofit using AI to talk with animals; three Amazon leaders resign and a longtime Google engineer joins LinkedIn. Read More

Geeks on deck: Startup leaders chat about favorite AI use cases, and their uniquely human strengths

Chatbots are great, but good old human-to-human contact can’t be beat, and Thursday night at GeekWire’s Seattle HQ, we caught… Read More

Fresh off $37.5M round, Augmodo’s vision for spatial computing inside retail stores sharpens

Even after raising $37.5 million in a new funding round, Augmodo founder and CEO Ross Finman admits that his startup might not… Read More

Tech Moves: Gennev founder steps down; Aurion Biotech CEO is out; Temporal adds president

— Jill Angelo, founder and CEO of Seattle menopause startup Gennev, announced that her chapter with the business is ending.… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet and Zillow add VPs; Zenoti hires CFO; Meta taps product leader

Eva Schoenleitner joined enterprise software giant Smartsheet as vice president of partner. Schoenleitner has extensive experience working in Europe and… Read More

Inventory-tracking startup Augmodo raises $5.3M to monitor store shelves via wearable tech

Augmodo, the Seattle-based startup that wants to make it easier for retailers to keep track of inventory, raised $5.3 million… Read More

Former Niantic leader’s spatial computing startup aims to help retailers track shelf inventory

When Ross Finman and his wife set out to try to find baby formula during a critical shortage of the… Read More

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