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UK data center startup Nscale bets big on Bellevue for U.S. engineering hub amid AI boom

AI infrastructure company Nscale is expanding its presence in Bellevue with a new U.S. engineering headquarters, adding to the Eastside’s growing role as a hub for artificial intelligence talent and cloud computing infrastructure. Read More

Fresh off $225M raise, live shopping company Whatnot will boost Seattle headcount in Amazon’s backyard

The Los Angeles-based company, now valued at $11.5 billion (up from $5 billion a year ago), said the Seattle expansion is one of its largest talent investments to date. Read More

Zoom lands in Microsoft’s backyard with new Bellevue office

Zoom is the latest tech company to open a satellite office in the Seattle region, planting a flag nearby rivals… Read More

Meta’s new Seattle leader: ‘The road to the metaverse passes through the Pacific Northwest’

In Paresh Rajwat‘s 20-year journey across the tech landscape, he’s held leadership positions at Apple, Criteo, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. For… Read More

Property services platform Lessen opening new Seattle office as it raises $170M in fresh funding

Lessen, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company that runs a marketplace platform for property services, is growing in Seattle as it gets… Read More

Data and AI company Databricks growing Seattle engineering presence with two new offices

Databricks, a San Francisco-based data and artificial intelligence company, is expanding its presence in the Seattle region and growing its… Read More

Amazon e-commerce competitor Wayfair opening Seattle office with plans for 200 tech roles

Wayfair, the home products company that competes with Amazon for e-commerce customers, is opening a corporate office in Seattle with… Read More

Q&A: Facebook’s new chief in Seattle on 23 years at Microsoft and the future of engineering centers

Rajeev Rajan first came to the Seattle area as a Microsoft intern in 1994, and ended up staying with the… Read More

Armed with $3.4B in new capital, Robinhood says it will open offices in Seattle and NYC

Robinhood will open new offices in Seattle and New York City after raising $3.4 billion in fresh capital following a… Read More

DoorDash plans to hire 100 for Seattle engineering center led by ex-Uber and Microsoft director

In the midst of a major shift to remote work across the tech industry, DoorDash is setting up an engineering… Read More

Facebook grows to 5,000 employees in Seattle region, opens its 18th office at downtown tower

Facebook’s footprint in the Seattle area continues to grow as the social media giant now employs more than 5,000 people… Read More

San Francisco’s Sift Science opens new Seattle engineering center, led by Amazon vet

Sift Science, a heavily-funded San Francisco-based company that builds software to fight fraud online, is opening up a Seattle outpost,… Read More

Advertising tech company Adbrain opens Seattle engineering outpost, scoops up Microsoft veterans

Advertising and marketing technology company Adbrain is the latest tech company to open an outpost in Seattle, and it’s already tapping into… Read More

Inside Pinterest’s new Seattle hub: How the company is trying to stand out in a sea of engineering centers

Mukund Narasimhan is a well-traveled tech industry veteran, having worked as an engineer at places like Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook,… Read More

Analytics startup Mixpanel opens Seattle office as it nears billion-dollar valuation

Another Bay Area tech company is setting up shop in Seattle. This time it’s analytics startup Mixpanel, which recently opened its first remote… Read More

Inside Best Buy’s new Seattle technology development center

It’s only been a few months since Best Buy opened a technology development center in Seattle, but the company is already seeing… Read More

Salesforce to ‘go big’ in Seattle area, will double regional presence and consolidate in Bellevue

Salesforce has been growing its workforce around the Seattle region for years with a new hire here, and an acquisition there.… Read More

Exclusive: Snapchat has a secret Seattle outpost — and you’ll never guess how we found it

A small team of Snapchat engineers has been working behind a locked door and fogged glass inside a Seattle co-working space… Read More

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