Seattle-area IoT software startup Elevāt raises $9.5M for manufacturing...
Elevāt co-founders Bill Hill and Adam Livesay. (Elevāt Photos) Mukilteo, Wash.-based startup Elevāt raised $9.5 million to fuel growth of its IoT software used by industrial manufacturers to monitor...
View ArticleSeattle biotech firm Silverback Therapeutics sets terms for IPO, looks to...
Laura Shawver, CEO of Silverback Therapeutics. (Silverback Photo) Silverback Therapeutics plans to raise up to $151.8 million in its initial public offering, the Seattle-based company said Monday in...
View ArticleStartup founded by ‘Love Lab’ experts releases new platform and tech tools to...
(Affective Software Image) Affective Software Inc., the startup founded by the leaders of the famed Gottman Institute, is releasing a new portal and products to harness technology in assessing and...
View ArticleSeattle startup Flexe raises $70M as e-commerce rise fuels demand for...
The Flexe team, pre-pandemic. (Flexe Photo) Flexe is raising more capital ahead of schedule as the pandemic-driven e-commerce boom spurs faster-than-expected growth for its warehousing technology...
View ArticleSeattle startup Wyze launches another product, unveils $20 smartwatch with...
(Wyze Image) Wyze continues to pump out new products that undercut competitors on price. The latest from the Seattle-area startup is a $19.99 smartwatch called Wyze Watch that debuted Tuesday. Wyze...
View ArticleFormer Sumo Logic and Auth0 exec raises $2M for stealthy new security startup...
ZeroWall founder Joan Pepin. (ZeroWall Photo) Longtime cybersecurity leader Joan Pepin just raised $2 million for a new Portland, Ore.-based startup that aims to rethink how chief information security...
View ArticleNew data shows how much cash Seattle-area tech startups received in PPP loans
(Bigstock Photo) The Small Business Administration released new data this week showing the exact amount of money companies received from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program. The...
View ArticleTech CEO moves $9B cybersecurity company’s HQ to Seattle area, says S.F. is...
Tanium CEO Orion Hindawi recently moved the company’s headquarters to Kirkland, Wash. (Tanium Photo) Orion Hindawi was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, and helped build two successful companies...
View ArticleTech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board;...
Janine Corey. (Qumulo Photo) — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the...
View ArticleWhy NBA legend Detlef Schrempf joined Cameo, and what it says about the...
Former Seattle Supersonics star Detlef Schrempf. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Nearly two decades after he played his last game in the NBA, former Seattle Supersonics star Detlef Schrempf is...
View ArticleCoreStack raises $4M to help companies manage cloud infrastructure cost,...
CoreStack founders, from left to right: Thiruvalluvar NB; Sabapathy Arumugam; Ezhilarasan Natarajan; and Krishnakumar Narayanan. Seattle-area startup CoreStack raised another $4 million as the company...
View ArticlePreAct raises $1.6M from Sony, others to help prevent car accidents with...
(PreAct Photo) Car accidents kill about 1.35 million people worldwide each year. Despite more advanced collision warning systems now built into cars, crashes in the U.S. have risen more than 12% since...
View ArticleAdvice for women who want to join a board — and why gender balance in the...
From top left, clockwise: Jocelyn Mangan, Jessie Woolley-Wilson, Magdalena Yesil, and Charlotte Guyman. (Women on Boards Photos) The percentage of women on company boards across the Russell 3000 list...
View ArticleBattery Ventures makes majority investment in Seattle enterprise security...
DomainTools CEO Tim Chen at the GeekWire Awards 2017. Longtime investment firm Battery Ventures announced a majority investment in DomainTools, a Seattle startup that helps companies mitigate security...
View ArticleAgriculture tech startup iUNU raises $7M for greenhouse computer vision system
iUNU CEO Adam Greenberg. (iUNU Photo) Seattle startup iUNU raised another $7 million to help grow its AI and computer vision tech used in greenhouses. The 7-year-old company will use the fresh funding...
View ArticleEx-Amazon engineer raises $500K to grow voice tech platform used by...
Picovoice CEO Alireza Kenarsari. (Picovoice Photo) Vancouver, B.C. startup Picovoice raised a $500,000 investment from Seattle-based Founders’ Co-op for its platform that lets companies build their...
View ArticleRecurrent raises $3.5M to power the data science behind its reports on used...
The Recurrent team, including co-founder and CEO Scott Case, top center, during a video chat. (Recurrent Photo) Recurrent, the Seattle-based startup that provides independent reports on the condition...
View ArticleBizible founder Aaron Bird raises $5.1M for new Seattle B2B startup studio...
Aaron Bird. After selling a startup and traveling around the world with his family, Aaron Bird set out to build the next great Seattle tech company. He had a lot of promising enterprise...
View ArticleTech Moves: Slalom and WTIA add diversity leaders; Seattle mayor won’t seek...
Iesha Berry. (Slalom Photo) — Seattle-based consulting firm Slalom announced Iesha Berry as its first chief inclusion and diversity officer. Based in the Dallas area, Berry was most recently SVP of...
View ArticleFreespira raises $10M for tech platform that aims to ease panic attacks and PTSD
Freespira’s flagship product. (Freepsira Photo) In a year rife with anxiety, a Seattle-area startup called Freespira has raised $10 million to support its efforts to develop and deploy a technology...
View Article