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Pet project: Seattle startup studio’s new app connects neighbors through their dogs

Amish Patel’s newest venture — born out of his Conduit Venture Labs startup studio in Seattle, is Sniff, an iOS app that turns the everyday moment two dogs greet each other on a walk into a lasting connection between their humans. Read More

New leash on life: Why this Tableau vet walked away from tech to roll with the dogs

Eric Howard is the Onewheel-riding founder and chief dog runner at Dog Tired, a dog-exercising service outside of Seattle that operates at a different speed. In five years he’s taken about 5,000 dog runs across 17,000 miles. Read More

Can your dog keep up with Tyler Lockett? Seattle Seahawks great teams with Rover in new contest

Tyler Lockett has run plenty of routes in his 10-season career as a Seattle Seahawks wide receiver. Now he wants… Read More

Rover acquires cat-sitting marketplace to further expand its growth across Europe

Rover has gotten its paws on another pet-sitting marketplace. The Seattle-based pet-care company announced the acquisition Thursday of Cat in… Read More

A growing pet project: Offleash’d raises fresh cash and integrates AI to connect animal lovers

Offleash’d is making a run — at more funding and improved features — to attract more users to the app that… Read More

Amazon’s Super Bowl ad starring a dog ranks highest among tech commercials

Amazon, the pet friendly tech giant where employees get to bring their dogs to work, scored high among Super Bowl… Read More

A year after going public via SPAC, Rover rings the Nasdaq bell and aims for international expansion

A group of managers, investors, employees — and of course, dogs — from Seattle-based pet care giant Rover descended on Times… Read More

Pet sitting marketplace Rover grabs a bone, valued at $1.3 billion in latest SPAC deal

Another day, another SPAC. Today, we’ve learned that Seattle online pet sitting marketplace Rover plans to join the public ranks… Read More

‘MeowTalk,’ an app that translates cat sounds, is a pet project for this former Alexa engineer

Plenty of technological advances may be regarded as the cat’s meow. Here’s one that claims to actually understand what cats… Read More

Dating app Charmr invites users to ‘push the paw’ to find pet-loving potential partners

Instead of swiping right, a new dating app asks lonely hearts to “push the paw” to find a potential match.… Read More

This startup could be a dog owner’s best friend as it uses machine learning to help guide key decisions

After adopting his first dog last year, Patrick Opie was struggling with figuring out what Orin, his mini Australian shepherd,… Read More

Inside Rover’s pet friendly Seattle HQ: People and dogs stretch out as company aims for more growth

Rover’s new headquarters has already gone to the dogs — and about 375 people, as the pet-sitting startup has just… Read More

Geek of the Week: Trupanion’s David Jaw uses machine learning to help facilitate better pet care

Plenty of people have a pet project that they are drawn to or consider themselves particularly good at. As the leader… Read More

Barking up the right tree? Wowzer, a dating app for dog-loving humans, launching in Seattle

Seattle can be rough when it comes to dating, we’ve heard. How ruff the city is clearly led to the… Read More

Jon Snow’s best friend: Rover creates sitter profile for Tormund after he watched Ghost on ‘Thrones’

When Jon Snow inevitably abandons his direwolf Ghost again, in purely-for-the-imagination future episodes of “Game of Thrones,” at least he’ll… Read More

Dog lovers at Rover try a new trick and officially expand into pet-sitting services for cats

Rover, the Seattle startup that built a thriving international business around dog sitting and walking, is barking up a new… Read More

Seattle is the most dog-friendly city in the U.S., according to data from Rover and Redfin

Seattle has gone to the dogs. Two Seattle-area tech companies — Rover, the network of dog walkers and pet sitters,… Read More

We’ll miss you, Scout: In a city where dogs at work are the norm, GeekWire loses a best friend

Like any self-respecting Seattle workplace, especially those tied to tech these days, GeekWire is a dog friendly environment. Like any… Read More

Can tech make your dog smarter? Seattle startup raises cash to build brain games for pets

Pet owners are spending more and more on their furry friends. But will they pay for high-tech tools that supposedly… Read More

The Ellen effect: Dog camera startup sees sales soar after endorsement on The Ellen Show

Christmas came early for the folks at Tomofun. The Bellevue, Wash.-based startup and maker of Furbo, a popular AI-powered dog… Read More

At dog friendly Amazon, could data on breeds set one city apart from the HQ2 pack?

While some 50,000 Amazon humans could someday populate the company’s planned second headquarters, HQ2 will also be home to thousands… Read More

Eclipse

Portland-area pet care startup Vetsource raises $50M from Bain Capital

News Brief: Gresham, Ore.-based Vetsource has raised a $50 million investment from Bain Capital. Founded in 2005, the company provides… Read More

Once a startup runt, Rover laps up $155 million for tech-fueled pet care marketplace

When Rover started seven years ago, many in the startup community snickered. There was no real business model, they said. A… Read More

SniffSpot

Startup founder unleashes new venture: SniffSpot looks to connect dog owners with safe play spaces

When David Adams moved back to Seattle, he settled in an apartment on the seventh floor of a building in… Read More

In dogged pursuit of more business, Rover’s ‘Walk It Out’ ad campaign pairs happy pets and people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umlfvg29Rzc Rover, the network for pet sitters and dog walkers, is all about finding the perfect match between humans and… Read More

Rover

Pet-sitting startup Rover and ex-‘Baywatch’ actress named in lawsuit after woman’s dog is run over

Update, Monday, 6:30 p.m. PT: This story has been updated throughout with comments from a Rover representative. A Los Angeles… Read More

Startup Spotlight: An AI-enabled, treat-tossing doggie camera launches Tomofun’s success

Entrepreneur Victor Chang is going to let you in on the secret of how to rocket to Amazon’s top sellers… Read More

Dog

Beyond pet friendly: New Trupanion poll shows just how much millennials love their dogs and cats

Millennials are willing to adjust where they live, who they date and what tattoo they get all it the name… Read More

This startup is raising funds to build a telehealth service — for the family pet

Pet owners are very invested in their animal companions, and now more than ever they are turning to technology to… Read More

Rover pet sitters

Pet owners and sitters who use Rover in New York City are barking mad over legality of the service

Pet sitters in New York City who use the popular app from Seattle-based Rover.com are apparently breaking the law and… Read More

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