Seattle fintech Possible Finance hit a $125 million revenue run rate and its first annual profit after a pandemic-era stretch of flat growth and layoffs. The company is expanding its Seattle office and reuniting its founding team. Read More
UiPath, the AI automation giant expanding in Bellevue, submitted the winning $100k bid for a premium World Cup suite experience donated by Microsoft, raising money for Seattle Children’s Hospital through an auction organized by GeekWire. Read More
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
More than 300 members of the Pacific Northwest tech scene packed the Showbox SoDo to honor the year’s top startups, founders, leaders and deal makers across a dozen awards categories. Read More
Microsoft is donating a private suite at Lumen Field for the FIFA World Cup Round of 16 knockout match on July 6, with GeekWire running an online auction and 100% of the proceeds going to Seattle Children’s Hospital. Read More
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
The finalists for Innovation of the Year are Alpenglow Biosciences; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; RevealDx; Starcloud; and VerAvanti. Read More
Billion-dollar deals from OpenAI, Novo Nordisk, and Palo Alto Networks are among the finalists for the Deal of the Year in the 2026 GeekWire Awards, alongside a rare Seattle-area IPO and a $5 billion mega-round. Read More
Samir Bodas, co-founder of contract management software company Icertis, passed this week following a battle with cancer. He was 61. Friends and colleagues remember a leader who put culture and values at the center of one of the region’s most successful startups. Read More
The 2021 virtual GeekWire Awards were held this week, recognizing the top companies, innovators, entrepreneurs and technologies in the Pacific… Read More
Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia, T-Mobile, Zillow, Redfin, Smartsheet, Avalara. The list of tech giants from the Pacific Northwest continues to grow… Read More
