Seattle startup Levanta raised $22 million as brands increasingly turn to influencers to drive product sales, expanding its platform for connecting brands with influencers and managing affiliate partnerships across Amazon, Walmart and Shopify. Read More
Kevin Carlberg, who led AI research teams at Meta focused on wearable computing, has raised $10.25 million for Noosphere Labs, a stealth startup working on what it calls “human-centered physical intelligence.” Trilogy Equity Partners led the round, with major participation from Madrona. Read More
Wild Zebra raised $6 million to expand an AI learning platform for math and reading that asks students questions rather than just giving them answers. The company says it now reaches tens of thousands of students in grades 2 through 9. Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Seattle startup funding fell about 40% in the first half of 2026 as AI reshaped the venture market — plus a Kalshi court setback, Impinj’s 10 years on the Nasdaq, and could you go without your smartphone for five weeks? Read More
Former Amazon executive Dave Clark’s supply chain startup has raised $50 million in new funding, bringing its total to $150 million, as it builds a customer base that includes Meta, Fanatics, and Kimberly-Clark. Read More
Venice.ai, a privacy-focused AI startup led by CEO Erik Voorhees and Seattle-based president and CTO Jesse Proudman, has raised $65 million in its first outside funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company offers a private alternative to mainstream AI services, saying it doesn’t store users’ prompts or responses. Read More
CopilotKit, a Seattle startup with roots in Techstars Seattle, raised $27 million for technology that lets AI agents work inside existing software apps. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have adopted the company’s open AG-UI protocol. Read More
Cloud cost consultant Duckbill, known for co-founder Corey Quinn’s sharp takes on AWS, raises $7.75M and launches Skyway, a financial planning and forecasting platform for enterprise cloud spending. Read More
Seattle-area venture capitalists polled by GeekWire say there are clear signs of excess in early-stage AI startups, but they largely reject the idea of a catastrophic bubble and argue the technology is already delivering real value. Read More
Centific, a Redmond, Wash.-based startup founded in 2020 that helps organizations manage data pipelines to power advanced AI systems, raised… Read More
Microsoft is getting behind Evisort, a startup that makes artificial intelligence software to automate processing and tracking of corporate contracts.… Read More
Petabyte Technology, a Seattle-area startup building a cloud-based platform to modernize how veterinary clinics manage their practices, has raised $8… Read More
Bamboo Learning, a Seattle startup co-founded by ex-Amazon executive Ian Freed, wants to simplify education with interactive voice lessons. And… Read More
Confidence Analytics, the self-proclaimed first cannabis lab to test a sample under Washington state’s legal recreational marijuana law, is raising… Read More
