Leslie Feinzaig knows how hard it is to let go of a failed startup idea. In 2016 she launched Venture Kits, a tech company that helped introduce entrepreneurship to kids.… Read More
— Films based on characters from Marvel comics have dominated the box office for the first half of the year. Avengers: Endgame is even getting a re-release in the hopes… Read More
It’s a common problem for podcasters: you’ve got a passionate, loyal audience, but at a time when it seems everyone is producing an audio show, your weekly musings haven’t exactly… Read More
NextStep is raising more cash to build out its platform for recruiting and training healthcare workers and funneling them to employers. Coming off a $3.3 million round last year, the… Read More
Plenty of television fans entertain themselves by trying to figure out what might happen week to week on HBO’s popular fantasy series “Game of Thrones.” The fantasy goes a bit… Read More
Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs has spun out another company — its fourth this year — using the increasingly popular strategy of applying machine learning technology to problems in an… Read More
Medical data startup Sentinel Healthcare has raised $2 million in funding round led by PSL Ventures, Pioneer Square Lab’s investment arm. The company is up and running with a platform that… Read More
Finance executives everywhere know all about the pain, expense, and time that can come from the manual accounting process of reconciliation. Now a new Seattle startup wants to help with… Read More
When Erina Malarkey looks at how commercial real estate stakeholders are spending money on marketing efforts, she’s in disbelief. “You have the largest asset class in the world and it… Read More
Companies that spun out of Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs over the past few years dabble in industries such as esports, cloud computing, real estate, advertising, sales tax, and virtual… Read More
When Nick Huzar started OfferUp, it was almost a disadvantage to be based in the Seattle area. “Investors didn’t really understand the consumer world as much,” Huzar said this week, recalling… Read More
Bobby Figueroa knows what brands should do to optimize their presence on Amazon’s marketplace, perhaps better than almost anyone. The product marketing veteran spent the past four years leading global operations… Read More
A new startup called NextStep Interactive has spun out of Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs and raised $3.15 million to help people who have been displaced by advances in… Read More
Two pervasive trends in modern enterprise computing could work out very nicely for Shujinko. The Seattle startup is launching Tuesday with $2.8 million in seed funding after a stint inside… Read More
Pioneer Square Labs hires CFO ExtraHop CFO Palvi Mehta has joined Pioneer Square Labs as CFO. Mehta spent more than seven years at ExtraHop, a Seattle IT analytics startup that launched in 2007,… Read More
There’s a lot of movement in Amazon’s vast world of entertainment, gaming and audio programming, with industry veterans coming in and going out at Amazon Game Studios, Amazon Studios and… Read More
Taunt, a Seattle-based startup that allows esports fans to interact and predict game outcomes, announced Thursday that it has closed a $3 million seed financing round, led by Foundry Group. Taunt… Read More
Pioneer Square Labs just added some serious entrepreneurial clout to its managing director lineup. The Seattle startup studio today named T.A. McCann as its fifth managing director, joining Geoff Entress, Mike… Read More
Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs is launching a new $80 million venture fund, expanding beyond its original company-building model and promising a new infusion of capital into the region’s… Read More
Zoe Sheill hasn’t completed her senior year at Mercer Island High School. But she can’t wait for school to start next year. That’s because the 17-year-old has been accepted by… Read More
The Oscars and the Grammys have passed, but awards season is far from over. We’re just a few weeks away from the 2018 GeekWire Awards, and today we’re opening voting… Read More
After nine years of building a robust cloud services business with thousands of customers, Geeman Yip was ready to raise venture capital. But when the BitTitan founder began knocking on… Read More
As Managing Director of Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs, Geoff Entress is always looking to the future. It’s necessary as he connects founders with the innovations of tomorrow. But… Read More
Pioneer Square Labs has raised an additional $15 million to support the growth of its startup studio model that spun out nine companies in two years. Previous investor Foundry Group… Read More
Pioneer Square Labs has raised a new investment fund, money that will add a much-needed injection of fresh capital into the Seattle startup ecosystem. A SEC filing from Friday reveals a $40.8 million… Read More
Pioneer Square Labs has brought on longtime technology executive and entrepreneur Jamie Miller as an entrepreneur in residence, GeekWire has learned. Miller most recently started the content and connected services business… Read More
John Keister, a well-known Seattle area entrepreneur and investor, is now taking the reins at San Diego-based network analytics platform PacketSled. In tandem with Keister’s addition, PacketSled announced $3.5 million in… Read More
It can take anywhere from nine months to three years for a would-be immigrant to the U.S. to receive feedback on a marriage-based green card application — and that’s after… Read More
As Russell Wilson describes the ethos of his new startup, it feels like you’re inside his Seahawks huddle, driving down the field in the fourth quarter. His words become sharp;… Read More
Esports is a $700 million global industry, and growing rapidly. And while traditional sports fans may scoff at professional video gamers dueling in heated on-screen matchups of League of Legends or Overwatch, these… Read More