Black Dot, a business incubator for black-owned enterprises, is celebrating its new, bigger home in Seattle’s Central District. The expanded space will provide room for black innovators, artists, youth and business… Read More
There’s a lot of chatter these days about the “consumerization of the enterprise” — this notion that business software will follow the path of consumer-oriented technologies with new products that… Read More
This is a new one. It’s an accelerator inside an incubator. 9Mile Labs, the newly-formed startup accelerator that’s focusing on hatching new B2B companies, has picked SURF Incubator in downtown… Read More
Fledge, which is taking a TechStars-like approach to incubating startups that make the world a better place, has landed $307,000 in financing that it will use to bankroll its next group… Read More
Geoff Entress has the BC bug. The Seattle angel investor is partnering with HootSuite founder Ryan Holmes and others to create a new startup incubator in Vancouver, B.C. dubbed Invoke… Read More
The hiring crunch for developers in the tech industry is a pain point we hear about nearly every day. Now, a San Francisco startup called Twice — that specializes in selling… Read More
McKinstry is expanding its clean tech incubator program, adding an additional 18,000 square feet of space and a conference center at its facility in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood and opening a… Read More
Michael “Luni” Libes has spent the past 20 years building software companies, creating new upstarts such as Ground Truth, Medio Systems, 2Way and Nimble Corp. But Libes is now switching… Read More
StudentRND has been gathering geeky and entrepreneurial high school and college kids for weekend hackathons for three years now. Now, co-founder Edward Jiang is looking to expand his growing empire,… Read More
It’s 45 degrees outside, and a cold rain pounds against Seattle’s Exchange Building. But on the 8th floor of this historic 22-story art deco office — a concrete edifice that once… Read More
Now, we’ve heard some wild concepts over the years. But the latest idea getting some buzz in Silicon Valley (not to mention cash from well known angel investor Peter Thiel)… Read More
Future graduates of TechStars will have the option to walk away with a little more cash in the bank as part of a new program being announced today. The high-tech… Read More
Let’s get one thing cleared up right away. TeachStreet founder Dave Schappell’s investment in General Assembly does not indicate that the New York City-based startup incubator, co-working space and technology… Read More
We’ve talked before about how Google has Portland fever — using the Rose City to test new products like Google Offers and real-time transit information. Now, the search giant is… Read More
The Portland Incubator Experiment, also known as PIE, is looking to hatch a new batch of startups this fall with the help of some of the biggest corporate brands on… Read More
I just finished reading Wired’s in-depth piece on Y Combinator, the 6-year-old Silicon Valley incubator which in the words of author Steven Levy offers an “unmatchable entrée into the otherwise… Read More
There’s a Les Schwab tire shop across the street. A flower distribution warehouse around the corner. And a distributor of hydraulic fittings and hose next door. Welcome to Georgetown, the… Read More