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AI for greenhouses: Seattle startup IUNU raises $20M for tech that monitors...
Cameras mounted on IUNU’s Trolley Mast Imaging System capture daily images inside a greenhouse where tomatoes are being grown. (IUNU Photo) IUNU, a Seattle startup using AI and machine vision to...
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Seattle startup Potato lands $4.5M to automate science experiments using AI...
Potato co-founders Nick Edwards, left, and Ryan Kosai. (Potato Photo) With $4.5 million in fresh funding, Seattle-area startup Potato is sprouting big plans to disrupt scientific research with a fully...
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Detecting deepfakes: Seattle startup Loti lands $16.2M to give celebs,...
Loti CEO Luke Arrigoni. (Loti Photo) Public figures see both opportunity and threats from generative AI. Seattle startup Loti is helping them navigate both. The company on Tuesday announced a $16.2...
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Filing: Seattle VC firm Ascend raising third fund to back more startups in...
Ascend founder Kirby Winfield. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Seattle venture capital firm Ascend is raising its third fund, according to new SEC filings made public Tuesday. Ascend founder...
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Climate-focused venture firm Stepchange raises $7M to back startups with...
Stepchange co-founders Anay Shah, left, and Ben Eidelson. (Stepchange Photo) Seattle-based venture firm Stepchange announced that it closed its first fund, raising $7 million to invest in...
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Geeks Give Back: These community builders help strengthen Seattle’s tech...
The 2025 GeekWire Awards Geeks Give Back honorees, from left: Chaitra Vedullapalli, Aviel Ginzburg and Emer Dooley. Being part of a community is what the GeekWire Awards are all about — the chance to...
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TrueMedia is back: Deepfake detection tool revived, now managed by Georgetown...
(TrueMedia.org Image) TrueMedia.org, the nonprofit founded in Seattle that built AI tools to identify and combat deepfakes, is being revived. Researchers at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of...
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Portland startup Graze raises $1M to help people build Bluesky feeds
Graze co-founders Peat Bakke (left) and Devin Gaffney. (Graze Photo) Graze, a Portland startup looking to capitalize on the growth of Bluesky, raised $1 million in a pre-seed round led by Betaworks...
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Seattle hardware startup Mason navigates tariff uncertainty with ‘elastic’...
Mason CEO Jim XIao. (LinkedIn Photo) Seattle startup Mason is seeing impacts from the tariff chaos on multiple levels. The company, which sells customized mobile devices for businesses with frontline...
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Startup radar: Early stage companies use AI to boost coaching, data analysis,...
From top left, clockwise: Trellis Health CEO Estelle Giraud, SelfFull CEO Anya Smith; Eve Wealth CEO Sadie Raney; Tursio CEO Alekh Jindal; and Omnivista CEO Anand Tyagi. From AI to crypto, to voice...
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Companies can leverage the true value of meetings with AI by building an ‘LLM...
Many companies invest heavily in leadership meetings but lack an effective system to capture, organize, and leverage the resulting insights and decisions. (BigStock Illustration) Are you getting more...
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University of Washington students step into the ‘VC mindset’— and compete on...
From left: Ankit Anand, Nick Bedbury, Ilya Veil, Jaisav Bajoria, and Fargol Araghi. (Photo via UW) It’s not easy figuring out the ins and outs of venture capital without founding a startup or landing...
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High-tech fridge startup Tomorrow shuts down, founder cites consumer hardware...
Andrew Kinzer. (Tomorrow Photo) Tomorrow, a Seattle startup that aimed to build a high-tech refrigerator to extend the life of produce, is shutting down. In a LinkedIn post, Tomorrow founder Andrew...
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Plug and Play selects 10 startups for first accelerator program out of new...
Plug and Play first Seattle-area accelerator program will provide free office space for participating companies out of SNBL Global Gateway in Everett, Wash. (SNBL Photo) Plug and Play is off and...
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Khosla and Madrona back a Seattle startup reimagining internal help desk support
Ravenna co-founders Kevin Coleman (left) and Taylor Halliday. (Ravenna Photo) Seattle startup Ravenna has raised $15 million from top-tier venture capital firms and notable angel investors to...
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Solar power servicing company Omnidian raises $87M to spark growth
Solar panels. (American Public Power Association Photo used via Unsplash) Omnidian, a Seattle company that manages solar power performance and services the panels for commercial and residential...
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Cybersecurity startup Chainguard lands $356M at $3.5B valuation, up from...
Chainguard founders, from top left, clockwise: CEO Dan Lorenc, CPO Kim Lewandowski, CTO Matt Moore, and distinguished engineer Ville Aikas. (Chainguard Photos) Follow-up: Chainguard doesn’t have an...
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Chainguard doesn’t have an office. Here’s how the $3.5B cybersecurity startup...
Chainguard hosts two company-wide retreats per year, including this one in Nashville. (Chainguard Photo) Chainguard has more than 350 employees, just raised $356 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion...
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The ‘triangle’ model that Madrona’s Matt McIlwain uses to assess founders and...
Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain at the firm’s 30th anniversary celebration last month in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) It’s fascinating to learn how venture capitalists decide which...
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Araceli Biosciences raises $11.2M for imaging and AI analysis systems to help...
Matt Beaudet, CEO of Araceli Biosciences. (LinkedIn Photo) Portland-based biotech company Araceli Biosciences raised $11.2 million in new funding to fuel the expansion of its high-content imaging...
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Tech Moves: F5 taps new CISO; Auger gets a chief AI scientist, WRF CEO retiring
Christopher Burger. (LinkedIn Photo) — Christopher Burger is now chief information security officer for F5, a Seattle-based networking and security giant. Burger will lead cybersecurity strategy,...
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Seattle’s newest VC fund: Fortson raises $50M to invest in early stage...
From left: Cole Younger, founder & general partner at Fortson VC; Melissa Alexander, chief of staff; and Cade Younger, associate. (Fortson Photo) Seattle’s got a new venture fund. Fortson VC has...
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Palo Alto Networks to acquire Seattle cybersecurity startup Protect AI
From left: Protect AI CTO Badar Ahmed; President Daryan Dehghanpisheh; and CEO Ian Swanson. (Protect AI Photo) Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks plans to acquire Protect AI, a Seattle startup...
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Spokane startup Gestalt Diagnostics raises $7.5M to advance AI-enabled cancer...
Dan Roark, CEO of Gestalt, at the company’s Spokane HQ in February 2024. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Gestalt Diagnotistics, a Spokane, Wash.-based healthcare startup, has raised $7.5 million...
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Marketers are ‘freaking out’ about AI search. This Seattle startup just...
Gumshoe co-founders Todd Sawicki (left) and Patrick O’Donnell. (Gumshoe Photo) Seattle startup vets Todd Sawicki and Patrick O’Donnell are teaming up to solve a critical challenge for marketers:...
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Seattle startup EDEN raises $3.7M to help residential contractors generate...
EDEN CEO Ben Phillips. (LinkedIn Photo) Seattle-based real estate startup EDEN announced $3.7 million in fresh funding to bolster its software aimed at boosting business for residential contractors....
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Seattle legal tech startup Supio lands $60M to help lawyers streamline data...
Supio co-founders Kyle Lam (left) and Jerry Zhou. (Supio Photos) Seattle startup Supio raised $60 million in a Series B round to fuel growth of its software that helps lawyers quickly sort, search,...
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Retail returns business BuyWander raises $2M and plans warehouse near Seattle
Members of the BuyWander team, including co-founders Brock Kowalchuk and Jordan Allen, celebrate with the company’s 10,000th customer in Spokane, Wash., last week. (BuyWander Photo) BuyWander, the...
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Longtime Seattle investor Martin Tobias raises $10.5M for early stage B2B...
Martin Tobias. (Incisive Photo) Incisive Ventures, a pre-seed venture firm led by veteran startup investor Martin Tobias, closed a $10.5 million fund that will support nearly 30 enterprise software...
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Startup radar: Seattle-area tech companies build software for robotics, real...
From top left, clockwise: Vercept CEO Kiana Ehsani; Chassy CEO Chuka Okoye; Haply CEO Prasad Anguluri; Context Nature CEO Ephi Banaynal dela Cruz; and Axtrolite CEO Atul Alatkar. Startup radar time!...
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‘Just got our first tariff bill’: Seattle-area hardware startup Wyze reveals...
Wyze sells an array of smart home devices, including this Wyze Cam Floodlight v2. (Wyze Photo) Wyze Labs, a Kirkland, Wash.-based maker of popular smart home devices, went viral this week after...
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Tech Moves: Google VP joins Tenable; Semperis hires Microsoft vet; DexCare...
Eric Doerr. (Tenable Photo) — Longtime Microsoft leader Eric Doerr is now chief product officer for Tenable, a Maryland-based cybersecurity company. Doerr most recently served as vice president of...
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Recycling gets smarter: AI robots from Amazon-backed startup are sorting...
The accordion tube ending in an air-powered suction cup is the robotic arm of Glacier’s recycling robot. It uses AI vision to watch for its plastic target, then pounces. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa...
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Childhood friends turn a coffee shop meeting into a Seattle legal tech...
Supio founders Jerry Zhou (left) and Kyle Lam. (Supio Photos) Supio’s startup journey started in a Starbucks with a simple premise. “We wrote down all the problems that pissed us off,” said Supio CEO...
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Statsig lands $100M at $1.1B valuation, aiming to unify product development...
Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji at the company’s Bellevue headquarters. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) We have a new unicorn. Four years after it was founded by a former Facebook engineering leader,...
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