Articles about Pioneer Square

XBOW, the unicorn with a Seattle mailbox, raises another $35M for its autonomous hacking platform

XBOW, the cybersecurity startup founded by GitHub Copilot creator Oege de Moor, added $35M from NVIDIA, Samsung, SentinelOne, and others, bringing its Series C to $155M. The billion-dollar company lists Seattle as its HQ — but its address is a mailbox at a Pioneer Square coworking space, and its founder lives in Malta. Read More

Seattle startups combine: Inflection.io acquires Keyplay, reuniting longtime entrepreneurs

Inflection.io, led by CEO Aaron Bird, has acquired Keyplay, reuniting Seattle founders who have known each other for 15 years and invested in each other’s companies. Keyplay CEO Adam Schoenfeld joins as CMO. Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Travel to space with an astronaut; Tech and music in Pioneer Square; and more

Compete in a year-long televised contest. Beat out 36,000 candidates. Complete rigorous cosmonaut training in Russia. Then — travel through… Read More

RealSelf doubles Seattle footprint with new headquarters, plans hiring spree in 2017

RealSelf, an online community for people seeking cosmetic procedures and the clinicians that perform them, is on the move. The… Read More

Working Geek: Why QuoteWizard CEO Scott Peyree can’t fathom 60-hour work weeks

Scott Peyree isn’t afraid to unplug — and he doesn’t want his employees to be afraid, either. That commitment to… Read More

Valve founder Gabe Newell on Linux; geeky maps; and other top posts of the month

Well, GeekWire readers really must have a burning desire to study cartography. Maps were the hot topic on GeekWire during… Read More

Pioneer Square Tech Map: Where are tech companies hanging their shingles?

We’ve been writing a lot of about the tech renaissance going on in Pioneer Square, one of Seattle’s most historic… Read More

VIDEO: Touring the remodeled HUB Seattle

OK, so it wasn’t quite an episode of MTV’s CRIBS, but we did our own little house tour of the… Read More

City of Seattle looks to expand fiber leasing plan

Seattle’s excess fiber optic cabling is officially for sale. Mayor Mike McGinn released a request for information today to private… Read More

New Center for Impact and Innovation inks lease at Pioneer Square’s historic Masins furniture building

For nearly 80 years, the Masin family sold couches, tables and other fine-furniture from its Pioneer Square location. But now… Read More

Pioneer Square tower plan: Jenga puzzle meets Borg ship

For a while now we’ve been keeping an eye on developments in Pioneer Square as the Seattle neighborhood tries to… Read More

Mayor McGinn convenes startup roundtable: Could these 5 ideas transform Seattle’s startup community?

Can the City of Seattle do more to support startups? That was the question raised Tuesday night by Seattle Mayor… Read More

Isilon adding 200 jobs as it settles into Pioneer Square HQ

Isilon Systems, getting comfortable in its new digs in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, said today that it plans to add… Read More

Seattle’s Pioneer Square has tech, needs tribe

It’s happened a couple times now. I walk to my car from Zeitgeist Coffee or gaze up at the old brick… Read More

Comcast wins high-speed broadband contract for Seattle’s Pioneer Square

Comcast has won a high-profile contract to provide high-speed Internet access to businesses and residences in Pioneer Square, an important… Read More

Mayor McGinn promises high-speed Internet for parts of Pioneer Square

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn today laid out a proposal to encourage broadband Internet in a four-block area in Pioneer Square,… Read More

Pioneer Studios closure: So long to some of Microsoft’s sweetest digs ever

Good scoop from Jay Greene of CNet News.com this afternoon, reporting that Microsoft has shuttered Pioneer Studios, a group in Pioneer… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: 60 Minutes, Zynga, and what’s hot in computer science now

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we talk about the time we spent with a “60 Minutes” crew, the opening… Read More

Is the ‘Seattle Underground’ the key to solving Pioneer Square’s Internet woes?

The solution to Pioneer Square’s Internet connectivity problems may be found in a cavernous, mid-19th century underworld. The City of… Read More

Seattle’s hottest tech neighborhood offers crappy Internet service, drug dealers

Pioneer Square is undergoing a major transformation as high-tech companies such as Isilon, Zynga and Blue Nile set up shop… Read More

Exclusive: Zynga picks historic Pioneer Square building for office

Zynga, the fast growing maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other social games, plans to establish its new engineering center… Read More