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WFH ‘pioneer’ Auth0 shares advice for managing a remote workforce and...
Auth0’s “Back to Office Guidelines” handbook includes guidance on social distancing in the lobby. (Auth0 Image) Remote work was the norm at Auth0 long before the COVID-19 pandemic forced companies...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures unveil winners of Female...
Four women-led startups will receive a total of $6 million to scale their innovations from Microsoft’s venture capital arm, Mayfield, and Pivotal Ventures, an organization founded by Melinda Gates....
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Seattle investors need to step up: Startup founder survey reveals frustration...
Blue Angels fly over Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Risk averse. Conservative. Hidden. Out of touch. When I started angel investing while working full time in the ‘90s and ‘00s, these words...
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Seattle’s newest billion-dollar startup: Qumulo reaches unicorn status with...
Qumulo CEO Bill Richter. (Qumulo Photo / Andy Rogers) Qumulo is joining an elite club of Seattle startups. The company just announced a $125 million funding round that propels its valuation to more...
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GeekWire Awards Preview: How plant-based meat startup Rebellyous Foods...
Rebellyous Foods CEO Christie Lagally speaks at the 2019 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire / Dan DeLong) Before the first-known U.S. coronavirus cases emerged in Rebellyous Foods’ hometown, Seattle, the...
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Portland cloud infrastructure automation startup Puppet raises $40M
Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar (Puppet Photo) Portland, Ore.-based cloud automation company Puppet today announced a $40 million funding round from BlackRock. Founded 15 years ago, Puppet helps customers...
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GeekWire Awards Preview: Neu founders forge ahead as travel fallout hits...
Kwame Boler, left, and Claudius Mbemba, co-founders of Neu. (NeuPhotos) Like many businesses entering 2020, Neu was riding a wave of optimism and growth. With its marketplace that connects Airbnb...
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Seattle’s Create33 and Microsoft form startup accelerator supporting...
Create33 in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo) The pandemic and racial justice movement are catalyzing a conversation about equity in this country and forcing industries such as technology to confront the lack...
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Seattle-based ‘alternative VC’ firm Lighter Capital lays off more employees
Lighter Capital cut half of its workforce in another round of layoffs. The Seattle-based “alternative VC” firm recently laid off 22 people, a company spokesperson confirmed. There are 23 employees...
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Amazon vets behind smart shopping cart startup face a familiar foe — their...
Shariq Siddiqui (left) and Umer Sadiq, co-founders of Veeve, with their AI-powered smart grocery cart at the GroceryShop conference in Las Vegas in September 2019. (Veeve Photo) With combined...
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Fintech startup Jirav raises $8.3M for financial planning and analysis software
San Francisco-based startup Jirav raised $8.3 million for its cloud-based financial planning software. Founded in 2015, the company helps more than 1,400 customers monitor, analyze, and forecast their...
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Seattle-area medical device startup CurvaFix raises $10.7M for curved bone...
Medical device startup CurvaFix raised $10.7 million to spur development of its technology that helps repair fractures in curved bones. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company is preparing to commercialize...
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GeekWire Awards: Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg on leading a real estate startup...
Flyhomes founders Stephen Lane and Tushar Garg. (Flyhomes Photo) It should’ve been a banner year for Flyhomes. As 2019 drew to a close, the real estate startup had $141 million in fresh funding to...
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Mobile auto repair startup Wrench ‘thriving’ amid pandemic, especially with...
(Wrench Photo) Wrench, the mobile vehicle maintenance and repair startup, has been cranking on business during the coronavirus pandemic as more customers are seizing on what was already a contactless...
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Shelf Engine raises $12M to help Whole Foods, Target, Kroger manage orders...
(Shelf Engine Photo) Food waste is a big problem amid the pandemic. Disruptions to the food supply chain and consumer purchasing changes have forced farms to destroy millions of pounds of fresh goods...
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Tasso raises $17M for self-sample blood test; CEO says pandemic increases...
(Tasso Photo) Seattle startup Tasso closed a $17 million investment round to help grow its at-home blood collection platform. The company’s blood sample device, called Tasso OnDemand, lets people take...
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French work collaboration startup iObeya plans Seattle-area headquarters
The iObeya team. (iObeya Photo) Work collaboration startup iObeya announced plans for a Seattle-area office Thursday that will serve as a dual headquarters with the company’s Massy, France, home base....
View ArticleRelive the GeekWire Awards, recognizing the best in Seattle and Pacific...
Watch a replay of GeekWire Awards above. Our annual celebration of the best in Pacific Northwest tech was virtual this year, but this was no boring Zoom meeting. We crowned the winners in a dozen...
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Startup founders at new 5G Open Innovation Lab explain how they’ve adjusted...
It’s certainly been a unique inaugural cohort for the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab), a new startup program funded by T-Mobile, Intel, and NASA. But participating entrepreneurs are making the most...
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GeekWire Awards 2020 revealed: Big winners, celebrities and surprises power...
Winners of the 2020 GeekWire Awards make their acceptance speeches on the live-streamed event. We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest...
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