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Seattle Seahawks star Bobby Wagner on tackling venture capital and business...
All-Pro NFL linebacker Bobby Wagner may best be known for his smart reads on the gridiron. But the anchor on the Seattle Seahawks defense also is tackling a side career as a venture partner at Fuse...
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Seattle venture capitalist Daniel Li leaves Madrona to launch new startup...
Chloe Qi and Dan Li, co-founders of Plus. (Plus and Madrona Photos) Daniel Li is leaving Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group to launch a new startup. Li, who joined Madrona in 2015 and...
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Strix Leviathan spins out Makara, a robo-advisor company that helps people...
Jesse Proudman. (Strix Leviathan Photo) The news: Seattle cryptocurrency startup Strix Leviathan has spun out a new robo-advisor company called Makara. The tech: Makara aims to make it more simple to...
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Dapper Labs, the Vancouver B.C. startup behind NBA Top Shot NFT craze, raises...
(Dapper Labs Photo) New funding: Dapper Labs raised $305 million at a reported $2.6 billion valuation. The Vancouver, B.C., startup powers NBA Top Shot, a popular NFT-based digital trading card game...
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GeekWire 200 update: Top Pacific Northwest tech startups hold their ground...
(GeekWire Photo Illustration / Canva Pro) Companies such as Big Fish Games, Cheezburger Network, and Tableau Software once sat atop the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the Pacific Northwest’s...
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Seattle biotech startup Outpace Bio raises $30M to fight cancer with...
Outpace Bio CEO (Outpace Photo) New funding: Outpace Bio raised a $30 million Series A investment round to design custom cell and gene-based therapies. The science: Founded in November, the Seattle...
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Amgen to acquire Seattle biotech company Rodeo Therapeutics for $55M
Rodeo Therapeutics CEO Thong Le. (Accelerator Life Science Partners Photo) The news: Pharmaceutical giant Amgen agreed to acquire Rodeo Therapeutics, a Seattle biotech startup creating small-molecule...
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Seattle biotech OncoResponse raises $40.6M to create antibody-based...
Clifford Stocks. (OncoResponse Photo) New funding: OncoResponse raised a $40.6M Series C investment round as it continues to develop antibodies that fight cancer. The science: The company examined the...
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OceanGate selects its support ship for this summer’s submersible trips to the...
OceanGate Expeditions will use the offshore support vessel Horizon Arctic during expeditions to the Titanic. (OceanGate Photo) Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate Expeditions has taken one more giant leap...
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Seattle startup Common Room emerges from stealth mode with $52M in funding
Common Room founders, left to right: Tom Kleinpeter; Viraj Mody; Francis Luu; and Linda Lian. (Common Room Photo) The news: Common Room, a year-old startup based in Seattle, is coming out of stealth...
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Seattle-area AI startup Darklight raises $5.1M to help companies automate...
Darklight CEO Dan Wachtler. (Darklight Photo) New funding: Seattle-area startup Darklight raised a $5.1 million round. Investors listed on an SEC filing include Jay Lee of Agile Defense and Tom...
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These startups are solving Amazon’s potty problem, helping delivery drivers...
A rendering of Throne bathroom facility designed for mobile workers. (Image via Throne) Amazon stepped into an unexpected public relations mess recently when company officials claimed that its workers...
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Portland startup ConductorOne raises $5M for platform to automate IT access...
ConductorOne announced a $5 million seed round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel. Fuel Capital, Fathom Capital and Active Capital also participated. Founded late last year by veterans of...
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Seattle tech vet launches startup accelerator exclusively on Clubhouse with...
Plenty of tech personalities and veterans have turned to the popular invite-only conversation app Clubhouse for insights related to the industry. Now a new startup accelerator is using the platform to...
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Former Facebook exec Vijaye Raji leads new startup Statsig to help developers...
Vijaye Raji (left) and the Statsig team. (Statsig Photo) New startup: Vijaye Raji, a tech vet who previously led Facebook’s 5,000-person engineering outpost in Seattle, is CEO and founder of Statsig,...
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Univ. of Wash.-spinout Icosavax raises $100M to fund vaccine development...
Icosavax creates virus-like particles with technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. (Icosavax Photo) New funding: At a moment when vaccines are on...
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Outreach founders raise $1.7M to build ‘Sims for the enterprise’ with new...
An example of a virtual GeekWire office built with Spot. (Spot Photos) New funding: Spot, a year-old company led by the founders of billion-dollar startup Outreach, has raised $1.7 million. Company...
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Tyler Technologies acquires ReadySub, which makes scheduling software for...
ReadySub, a Seattle-based maker of a cloud-based scheduling platform for school districts, has been acquired by Tyler Technologies, a company that provides software and technology services to the...
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Why this Seattle tech CEO pulled his company out of downtown, and isn’t...
Ad Lightning CEO Scott Moore on the third floor balcony outside his former office in Seattle, after a downtown Seattle shooting in January 2020. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) “Until there’s a...
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Seattle biotech firm Impel NeuroPharma files for $75M IPO
Impel CEO Adrian Adams. (Impel Photo) Seattle-based biotech company Impel NeuroPharma is set to go public. The company, which develops drugs for central nervous system disorders such as migraines and...
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