For startups, cash is king during an economic crisis. The more dollars in the bank, the longer a company can survive as revenue dries up. More than half of Seattle-area… Read More
A new business accelerator focusing on blockchain startups has kicked off in Seattle with support from the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) and the Canadian government, signaling that interest isn’t… Read More
— Keyana Corliss, Tableau’s director of corporate communications & global public relations, is departing to join female-founded unicorn Guild Education. The Denver-based company partners with employers to offer education benefits… Read More
For her first 18 years, Arry Yu was selectively mute. Due to a childhood trauma, she spoke very little, but watched the people and interactions around her very much. She… Read More
A new group of startups, tackling everything from business networking to marijuana data analytics, has joined the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) Founder Cohort Program. The year-long experience is geared… Read More
The chance to more than double your income after 18 months of free training sounds almost too good to be true — except that it’s actually happening for graduates of… Read More
E-commerce analytics startup Metricstory added Docusign founder Tom Gonser its board of directors. Gonser is also a partner at Bend, Ore.-based venture capital firm Seven Peaks Ventures. He serves on… Read More
Venture investor Heather Redman is the new chair of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), a business association and advocacy group. Redman was named vice chair of WTIA for a… Read More
Tyler Walser needed a new direction. A born and bred Seattleite, Walser’s studies and career have taken him to a variety of places, starting in the military, then to film… Read More
They are building businesses in blockchain, AI, augmented reality, sports, real estate, education, and even laser insect monitoring. But now they all have one thing in common: the inaugural startups… Read More
Being a startup founder can be a lonely experience. Now the Washington Technology Industry Association wants to help. The WTIA is launching a “Founder Cohort Program” as part of its… Read More
Seattleites do not always play well with others. There’s the notorious “Seattle freeze” — a personality trait that puts a chill on forming new friendships. There’s the massive influx of… Read More
New research from the Washington Technology Industry Association shows how wide the gender gap is among the state’s startup founders. WTIA collected data on 400 active tech companies in Washington… Read More
Roscoe Bass could easily have been passed over by the technology industry. “I don’t have much history in tech,” said the 35-year-old Shoreline, Wash., resident. “Before this, I was a… Read More
This week on the GeekWire podcast, we explore the dynamic, high-stakes and often controversial intersection of technology, public policy and the innovation economy. Our guest is Michael Schutzler, the CEO… Read More
Today, the Washington Technology Industry Association unveiled a voter guide to help members of the Seattle tech community decide who to vote for in the upcoming mayoral and City Council… Read More
Seattle is having what City Club Executive Director Diane Douglas describes as a “pregnant moment.” The city’s population is growing at a breakneck pace due, in part, to its booming… Read More
The first cohort of apprentices to come out of Apprenti, a program run by the Washington Technology Industry Association, will be honored by Gov. Jay Inslee during a special event… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association‘s Board of Directors has a new chairman: John Suk, a Harvard and University of Chicago graduate with a 20-year career in tech leadership in the Seattle… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced today that its apprenticeship program, Apprenti, was awarded a $7.5 million contract from the Department of Labor to expand its services nationally. Although apprenticeship programs… Read More
The inaugural season of the IT Sports League has wrapped up with a team from Simply Measured taking the softball championship. League organizer Steve Mayeda said it took some effort to… Read More
If participants in Tuesday’s Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) conference get their wish, there’s going to be a new topic for water-cooler conversations at Seattle-area tech businesses: stopping sex trafficking. The… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state’s Equal Pay Act dates to the 1940s, requiring men and women to receive the same pay for the same work. More than seven decades later, a bill up… Read More
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Business interests lined up Monday against two Washington House bills that seek to ban some or all non-compete provisions from employment contracts. The Washington Technology Industry Association,… Read More
To help quantify the recent history of the Seattle technology ecosystem in visual form, Madrona Venture Group and the Washington Technology Industry Association today unveiled the “Seattle Tech Universe” map, a massive… Read More
On January 1, two state tax breaks expired that were decades old, and have been described as fundamental to Washington’s innovation economy. Leaders in the tech and biotech industries were… Read More
Seattle-based coding bootcamp Code Fellows has launched a quarter-million dollar scholarship fund for minorities, women and veterans, covering more than half the tuition cost toward the program that guarantees a job to… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) will offer its members insurance against cyber attacks — a program that the Seattle-based organization describes as the first of its kind for a tech trade… Read More
There’s certainly no question that the technology industry is transforming Seattle. (Just take a look at the skyline in South Lake Union or a stroll through Pioneer Square if you… Read More
Kirkland Analytics, a startup that helps commercial buildings manage water use, won the top prize of $10,000 at Tuesday’s WTIA Fall First Look Forum. The Spokane-based company says it helps customers “manage water… Read More