The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has attracted another top player in the AI world. Doug Raymond, a longtime AI leader and entrepreneur who most recently led new initiatives for… Read More
Jensen Harris, co-founder and chief technology officer for Seattle’s Textio, has a passion and talent for classical music — and a music degree from Yale to back it up. But Harris… Read More
If you needed another reminder of Seattle’s robust startup scene, take a look at the finalists for this year’s Startup of the Year category at the GeekWire Awards. Over the… Read More
They run companies across various industries, from AI training to text analysis to wireless networks. But all five of our GeekWire Awards candidates for CEO of the Year share a similar… Read More
Toward the end of last year, a report named seven Pacific Northwest startups — all of them near the top of the GeekWire 200 — that could go public in 2017. In… Read More
Chris Picardo has joined Madrona Venture Group as the firm’s newest senior associate, GeekWire has learned. Picardo, a Seattle native, most recently served as director of finance and business intelligence at New York startup… Read More
Using the right language in job postings has its benefits. And whatever benefits your company is boasting about providing can pay off, too, especially when it comes to the speed… Read More
The competition between North American cities looking to woo Amazon and land the e-commerce giant’s second headquarters could turn into a race for the eventual winner — a race to… Read More
Cameron Borumand, a Seattle venture capitalist and co-founder of the new venture fund Curious Capital, has joined Ignition Partners as an investment associate in the firm’s Bellevue, Wash., headquarters. The… Read More
Leave it to the experts in machine learning to figure out that “machine learning” has lost its oomph. When it comes to terms in job postings which help fill those… Read More
I always knew I should have looked for work in Hawaii. After all, that’s where the “magic happens” according to a new study by Seattle startup Textio which identifies the… Read More
This time, it seems like it’s actually going to happen. We’ve been hearing promises about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are going to change the world for decades, but… Read More
Textio, the Seattle startup that provides an “augmented writing” platform to help companies put together better job postings, has raised $20 million to expand its offerings to other types of… Read More
Your place of work might be an equal opportunity employer, but if you want to fill a job in Seattle in 2017, skip “eoe” and go with “gender identity” to… Read More
As most of us settle in with a big glass of egg nog for the holidays, many of the top startups in the Pacific Northwest are busy putting big funding rounds… Read More
When Textio arrived on the scene a couple years ago, it addressed two big pain points for the tech industry. “How can we recruit the best talent” and “how can we… Read More
In an email back to our new Geek of the Week, who happens to have a PhD in linguistics and once helped build spell-checkers at Microsoft, I told her I’d be… Read More
Picking the right words is a key component of many jobs, and most of the time, we rely on our own vocabulary. But a new feature from Seattle-based tech startup Textio uses the… Read More
Textio has made plenty of headlines recently as companies like Twitter, Microsoft, Starbucks and Square have publicly talked about how they’re using technology from this 10-person Seattle startup to attract… Read More
Twitter raised the bar for the conversation around diversity in the technology industry on Friday, not just releasing its own women and minority statistics — but publicly setting goals for… Read More
It’s only been five months since Kieran Snyder and Jensen Harris left corporate jobs for the startup world, but they’ve already landed some funding for their new company. Harris confirmed that Textio just closed a $1.5… Read More
What if recruiters could know, before posting a job listing, if the specific language in the job description will actually attract the types of candidates they want? Or if someone launching a Kickstarter campaign could submit… Read More
Kieran Snyder, a linguistics expert who previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft’s Bing unit, and Jensen Harris, who spent 16 years at Microsoft, including stints running the user experience team… Read More