— A little more than a year after joining dockless bike- and scooter-sharing startup Lime as chief program officer, Scott Kubly is moving on. Kubly first jumped to Lime from… Read More
Trucking startup Convoy has been busy building out its data science team, which now counts more than 40 members — roughly four times larger than it was just six months… Read More
Some of Seattle’s hottest startups are taking big checks from a major investment firm that rarely bets on private companies. But if you haven’t heard the name Lone Pine Capital,… Read More
Seattle has a new unicorn, Outreach, the sales and marketing automation company that raised a $114 million funding round, pushing its valuation to $1.1 billion. The news sends GeekWire co-founder… Read More
After years of development and testing, Convoy today launched a new marketplace that helps small trucking companies get access to potential business traditionally available to only large carriers. The Seattle… Read More
Two Seattle companies made an appearance in Uber’s IPO prospectus that published Thursday as potential threats to its business. The transportation giant revealed its financials and other details as the… Read More
Show me the money! Venture capital investment in Washington state last year reached the highest level since 2000, at $2 billion across 175 deals, according to a report from PwC… Read More
When you’re a billion-dollar startup looking to disrupt an $800 billion industry, you need engineers. Good ones. Trucking platform Convoy plans to double its more than 100-person tech team this… Read More
Dan Primack is one of my favorite journalists on the startup and venture capital beat, and his Pro Rata newsletter at Axios is a must read each morning, if you… Read More
Atlanta is on the short list for Amazon HQ2. But the Georgia capital has already landed the east coast hub of another fast-growing Seattle tech company. Trucking startup Convoy reaches… Read More
Convoy’s latest investment round was the largest for a Seattle-area startup in the past three years. Trucking startup Convoy reaches $1B valuation after huge $185M investment led by Google VC… Read More
After serving 14 years for the Royal Canadian Navy, Ira Lawrence was ready for a new adventure. He and his wife decided to start a trucking company in 2017, but… Read More
Outreach is on a roll. The enterprise software startup raised $65 million this spring, announced it was moving into a new headquarters space this summer and on Thursday was the… Read More
Seattle-based on-demand trucking technology startup Convoy already counts several rock stars of the tech world among its investors — including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Salesforce CEO… Read More
One of five companies is about to join an exclusive club. Past winners of GeekWire’s Next Tech Titan award have completed successful IPOs, landed huge funding rounds and emerged as… Read More
John Scrofano, a longtime Seattle entrepreneur and executive who most recently served as CEO of Seattle startup Garmentory, joined startup Remitly as director of new initiatives. Scrofano co-founded and served… Read More
On-demand trucking startup Convoy announced two new additions to its financial leadership team: Former Zillow executive and Amazon manager Tony Small joins the company as its chief revenue officer, and longtime… Read More
Convoy is trucking along. The Seattle startup now has more than 225 employees and 100,000 truckers on its platform that matches truck drivers with available jobs. That’s up from 120… Read More
Plenty of Pacific Northwest startups raised big funding rounds this year to fuel their growth in 2017 and beyond. The largest round was a $115 million cash infusion for Remitly, which… Read More
Toward the end of last year, a report named seven Pacific Northwest startups — all of them near the top of the GeekWire 200 — that could go public in 2017. In… Read More
MicroVision, the Redmond, Wash.,-based maker of laser projection technology, is under new leadership. The company announced that longtime technology executive Perry Mulligan is taking over the CEO role, replacing former… Read More
Amazon is looking to speed up the process for trucks to get in and out of its massive warehouses with a new app called Relay. CNBC first spotted the app and… Read More
Three business leaders have exited Seattle-based Convoy in recent weeks even as the heavily funded on-demand trucking startup has added new executives to position itself for further growth. The departed leaders… Read More
Seattle-based trucking startup Convoy today announced a multi-year strategic partnership deal with Anheuser-Busch to help the brewing giant move its product across the country. Convoy will serve as a key… Read More
After a short-lived stint at the top of the GeekWire 200 list of privately held Pacific Northwest startups, Redfin has departed following its initial public offering on Friday. That leaves… Read More
GeekWire reporters explored the frontiers of technology in some unusual locations this week — visiting a truck stop in North Bend, Wash., to learn about the future of logistics and… Read More
Exit 34 off Interstate-90 near North Bend, Wash., isn’t the typical pit-stop for most motorists who quickly zoom by on their way to pristine hikes in the Cascade Mountains, skiing… Read More
There’s been a lot of talk about self-driving trucks and how autonomous technology will impact the freight industry, even before potential changes to consumer vehicles. This topic certainly came up… Read More
It’s a warm summer afternoon at the TA Seattle East truck stop in North Bend, Wash., and Jerry Brooks is waiting for business. The 60-year-old driver from South Carolina wants… Read More
It’s always a daunting proposition when a multi-billion dollar juggernaut enters your startup turf. That happened this week for Seattle-based Convoy when Uber launched Uber Freight. The two companies do essentially… Read More
