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Funding News: Enzyme design startup lands $33M; addiction recovery company...
Inside Arzeda’s labs in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / James Thorne) — Protein design company Arzeda raised $33 million, the Seattle startup announced Wednesday. The company generates new enzymes for...
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Tech’s rising stars: Vote for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire...
GeekWire Awards 2022 Young Entrepreneur of the Year nominees, clockwise from top left: Tori Dunlap, Esha Joshi and Varun Puri, Shane Kovalsky, Nancy Xiao, and Michael Petrochuk. While they may seem...
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New recycling process idea for plastic wins top prize at UW environmental...
The first, second, and third place teams hold their prizes after the UW’s annual Environmental Innovation Challenge. (Photo courtesy of University of Washington) The University of Washington Foster...
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Q&A with Seattle investor Naynika Chaubey, whose clean tech firm just raised...
Evok Innovations partners, clockwise from top left: Naynika Chaubey, Mike Biddle, Jane Kearns and Marty Reed. (Evok Innovations Photos) The venture capital firm Evok Innovations this week announced a...
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Vote for Next Tech Titan: 5 Seattle companies on the verge of becoming a...
Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader accepting recognition as the “Next Tech Titan” during the 2016 GeekWire Awards. The Seattle startup scene has been sizzling, and there are several up-and-coming companies are...
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Inside the AI2 Incubator: Microsoft co-founder’s unfinished legacy fuels...
As a key figure in the PC revolution, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen understood the power of new technologies to create world-changing companies. Later in life, Allen saw the same promise in...
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Vote for Startup CEO of the Year: GeekWire Awards finalists focus on...
Startup CEO of the Year finalists in the 2022 GeekWire Awards, clockwise from upper left: Raghu Gollamudi of Included; Ambika Singh of Armoire; Justin Beals of Strike Graph; Linda Lian of Common Room;...
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Find Ventures and Washington Dept. of Commerce name cohort for ‘Equitable...
Elizabeth Scallon, Find Ventures co-founder and board chair. (LinkedIn Photo) A new accelerator program that prioritizes Washington state entrepreneurs from underserved and historically marginalized...
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Seattle startup raises $9.7M for clinical trial to test inhaled CBD as...
Receptor Life Sciences CEO Mark Theeuwes. (Receptor Photo) Seattle startup Receptor Life Sciences has raised $9.7 million to move its CBD-based therapeutic candidate for acute anxiety through clinical...
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Startups are back on campus: UW job fair brings out big crowd for internship...
UW Startup Career & Internship Fair. (GeekWire photo / Julie Emory) The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and CoMotion hosted the University of Washington Startup Career & Internship Fair this...
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Words with AI: Language and the future of work, with Textio CEO Kieran Snyder
Textio CEO Kieran Snyder (via LinkedIn) What’s the impact of the words we use? Augmented writing platform Textio uses machine learning and natural language processing to take the guesswork out of...
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Meet Blake Resnick, the 22-year-old engineer who just moved his fast-growing...
Blake Resnick holding a Lemur drone. (GeekWire Photo / Julie Emory) After the 2017 mass shooting in his hometown of Las Vegas where more than 50 people were killed, Blake Resnick wondered how...
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Portland cloud infrastructure company Puppet to be acquired by Perforce Software
Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar. (Puppet Photo) Perforce Software, a Minneapolis-based company that offers tools for developers, will acquire Portland, Ore.-based cloud automation company Puppet. Terms of...
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A lazy, fashion-challenged shopper decided to try clothing rental as a fix....
Items from my Armoire case included a black blouse that my husband found a little “Cabaret”-esque and a dress for spring break. I’m a crap shopper. I’m easily overwhelmed by the experience and not...
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Funding news: Former Amazon VP raises $3M for beauty shopping startup;...
Alex Perez-Tenessa. (LinkedIn Photo) — Trendio, a stealthy Seattle startup building a video shopping service focused on beauty products, raised $3 million. The company is led by Alex Perez-Tenessa, a...
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Cell therapy biotech raises $120M to advance therapy to treat common cornea...
Hazy vision is a symptom of corneal edema secondary to endothelial dysfunction. (Aurion Biotech Image) Aurion Biotech has raised $120 million to advance its cell therapy for an eye disorder that...
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Rad Power Bikes lays off 100 employees, about 14% of staff, after raising...
Rad Power Bikes CEO Mike Radenbaugh. (GeekWire File Photo) Rad Power Bikes is slashing 100 jobs from its 725-person workforce as part of what the Seattle e-bike business describes as a restructuring....
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What this Seattle tech CEO learned after moving to a fully remote workforce...
Textio’s Kieran Snyder (above, at the GeekWire Awards 2019), closed offices due to COVID in March 2020. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Prior to the pandemic, Textio CEO Kieran Snyder believed in the...
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Funding news: Fintech startup for freelancers lands $8M; electric car data...
Formations co-founders Uri Bar-Joseph (left) and Shahar Plinner. (Formations Photo) — Bellevue, Wash.-based financial services firm Formations raised $8 million. The startup provides services and...
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Solving the ‘Prime problem’: Shipium lands $27M to help online retailers...
Shipium co-founders Mac Brown and Jason Murray. (Shipium Photo) Delivery speed is a top priority for online shoppers. But it can be difficult for retailers not named Amazon to ship products to your...
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