The Riveter has a taken on another champion for working women with the acquisition of a marketplace platform originally geared toward freelancing moms. Brooke Markevicius is now chief product officer… Read More
The Riveter is getting back into the co-working business, but in a very different way. The company, which raised about $20 million to launch a national network of women-oriented co-working… Read More
— Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product… Read More
— Amy Nelson is getting back into co-working. The founder and former CEO of The Riveter announced Tuesday that she is the president of SaksWorks, a new partnership between Saks… Read More
— Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has been appointed the Edward V. Fritzky endowed chair in leadership at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business for… Read More
Update: In a court filing on Jan. 10, 2024, federal prosecutors vacated the prior guilty pleas of Christian Kirschner and Kyle Ramstetter in connection with these allegations, describing prosecution as… Read More
Seattle-based startup The Riveter, which set out to build a national network of women-oriented co-working spaces, is shutting down all nine of its locations due to the ongoing uncertainty caused… Read More
— Since the coronavirus outbreak, many employees have been working from home. That means meetings and appointments over video conferencing software. It can be difficult to make sure you’re presenting… Read More
Seattle-area companies grabbed 13 spots on a list from Forbes on Tuesday that calls out “America’s Best Startup Employers.” The inaugural ranking from the magazine, in partnership with market research… Read More
— Facebook dominates the social media space and is one of the most recognizable entities in the world today. It allows people to share things with long-distance friends or find… Read More
— In 2017, news of sexual harassment problems at Uber made national headlines and investigations led to the ousting of the company’s leader. Since then, a spotlight has shone on… Read More
The WeWork fallout isn’t having any negative effects on The Riveter, a Seattle-based startup that has grown its women-focused co-working business rapidly over the past year. GeekWire caught up with… Read More
Seattle is in the midst of a boom in co-working, from giants like WeWork taking every piece of available space to homegrown startups embarking on major expansion. The result: The… Read More
Since launching in Seattle two years ago, The Riveter has been steadily opening new female-focused co-working spaces in cities around the country. Now, the startup is expanding into a new… Read More
The Riveter is heading to Portland. Today the Seattle-based co-working space announced its first location in Portland, Ore., at the Washington High School Landmark Building. Like the company’s other locations,… Read More
— Natural language processing expert Jacob Eisenstein is taking a gig as a research scientist with Google AI in Seattle. Eisenstein is an associate professor at Georgia Tech and has… Read More
Competition is heating up among co-working spaces geared toward women. The Riveter pioneered the model, launching a female-focused coworking space in Seattle in 2017 and the business quickly took off.… Read More
A quick gander at the GeekWire 200, our index of Pacific Northwest startups, shows the density of up-and-coming tech companies based in this region. That’s what makes the five nominees… Read More
Update, Jan. 29: The Riveter announced plans for new locations in Dallas, Denver, Portland, Ore., Minneapolis – St. Paul, and Atlanta. Original story: Fresh off a $15 million investment round,… Read More
Coworking just became coflying. Seattle-based coworking space provider The Riveter announced Tuesday that it’s partnering with Seattle-based Alaska Airlines to exchange membership benefits over the coming year. Among the mutual rewards:… Read More
Olly Downs, who previously founded AI-powered marketing startup Amplero, has joined Zillow Group as the company’s new senior director of artificial intelligence. In the new role, Downs leads “AI-focused applied… Read More
The Riveter has opened its largest Seattle-area location, in Bellevue, Wash. The company, which operates a network of female-focused co-working spaces, had its sights set on the Eastside long before… Read More
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of opinion pieces in which GeekWire invites members of the tech community to critique our coverage. The Seattle landscape has changed… Read More
Howard Schultz had just returned from a trip to Poland, where he had a sobering experience at the Auschwitz concentration camp. At the time, he was on the eBay board of… Read More
After Tesla CEO Elon Musk got emotional during a market-moving interview this month, Amy Nelson, CEO and founder of The Riveter, says she can understand the kind of stress he’s under.… Read More
Coworking. Accelerators. Virtual offices. The nature of work is changing rapidly, and the communities built around these new workplaces are growing just as quickly. Seattle Startup Spaces: GeekWire’s list of co-working… Read More
It’s summer in Seattle, and we’re excited to bring everyone together next week, on Thursday, Aug. 23, for a special event: a recording of our GeekWire podcast and radio show,… Read More
Arlan Hamilton, founder of the venture capital fund Backstage Capital, says that she’s come out twice. First, as a lesbian, then as an entrepreneur. “I used to think I was… Read More
Throughout her career on Wall Street, in the courtroom, and at non-profits, Amy Nelson wondered where the women were. She graduated from law school with a class split evenly on… Read More
The 2018 winner of the GeekWire Awards‘ Geek of the Year will join the ranks of Northwest heavy hitters working to do good using technology. That includes last year’s pick,… Read More