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Cloud-management startup CloudCoreo scores $2.9M in seed round
Left to right: CloudCoreo’s Jason Needham, CMO; Paul Allen, CTO; Soma Somaseagar, venture partner; and Tom Hull, CEO. Madrona Venture Group photo. CloudCoreo, a Seattle-based startup in the...
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The startup side of Sears: Retail giant’s WallyHome sensor company grows...
Parag Garg, Wally Labs chief technology officer and chief product officer, and vice president of Sears Holdings; and Ryan Ciovacco, Sears president of Connected Living and WallyHome, with the new...
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Startup Spotlight: VR storytelling content management startup VIAR proves the...
VIAR CEO Jernej Mirt. By the summer of 2015, VIAR was nearly bankrupt. The product — virtual reality tours to help architects show clients future construction — just wasn’t gaining traction. The end...
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How this ‘startup studio’ quickly axed 22 ideas and spun out three companies...
Pioneer Square Labs co-founder Greg Gottesman (left) interviewed by GeekWire reporter Taylor Soper at the 2016 GeekWire Summit. Photo by Dan DeLong/GeekWire. “Fail fast” seems to be the theme at...
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The Martha Stewart of pot? Seattle entrepreneur JJ McKay launches cannabis...
The Fresh Toast President and COO Eric Snow, Editor-in-Chief Kelly Barbieri, and Founder and Publisher JJ McKay at the launch party in New York City. JJ McKay and an impressive suite of investors...
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Startup Spotlight: CharityCheckin aims to be ‘world’s largest giving engine’...
The CharityCheckin team. Photo via CharityCheckin. When Marsh Sutherland lost his wife to a battle with cancer, he started looking for ways to raise awareness for his personal causes. That’s when he...
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Demo Day: Our favorite pitches and business models from B2B accelerator 9Mile...
9MileLabs co-founder Sanjay Puri speaks at Demo Day on Thursday in Seattle. (GeekWire photos) After four months of hard work, valuable mentorship, and plenty of late nights, another cohort from 9Mile...
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Shazam adds music videos thanks to partnership with Portland-based Vadio
Vadio CEO Bryce Clemmer. Shazam, which has attracted more than 120 million monthly active users with its music recognition app, is getting into video. The company inked a deal this week with...
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How a sense of entitlement makes millennials more entrepreneurial
Richard Wang, Ben Gilbert, and Leen Kawas. (Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire). By now, we’re used to hearing complaints about the millennial generation. They’re cocky. They’re entitled. They’re never...
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Voyager and Microsoft Ventures invest $9M in business text messaging platform...
The Zipwhip management team. Photo via Zipwhip. With the proliferation of so many messaging apps, from Facebook Messenger to WhatsApp to Snapchat, it may seem like SMS texting is not relevant anymore....
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The hottest startups in Seattle: Nominations now open for The Seattle 10
An artist at work on a past Seattle 10 cocktail napkin What are the hottest startup companies in Seattle? We’re about to find out, and we need your help! It’s that time of year again where pick The...
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President Obama explains why Washington D.C. will never run like Silicon Valley
President Barack Obama speaking the White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh. Photo: White House. It’s a comment we hear all the time: government should run more like a startup, to be more agile,...
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Q&A: Ex-Microsoft exec Jill Angelo, on why she traded her laptop for a lube...
Jill Angelo. (Via genneve) Jill Angelo was a longtime Microsoft executive who spent a good portion of the 2000s leading the marketing agenda for the tech giant. But she always had a passion for female...
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4 weeks, $200, 1 idea: This Seattle entrepreneur has an ambitious plan to get...
Poppy founder Avni Patel Thompson. Avni Patel Thompson had a great idea for a business — a vetted, on-demand childcare service — but like many women considering taking the startup plunge, she faced...
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Bootstrapped success: Profitable online retailer Etailz sells for $75M
Josh Neblett with Etailz co-founders Sarah Wollnick and Tom Simpson. (Photos via eEailz.) Etailz, a digital marketplace consultant and online retailer that operates sites such as Ecomom, EveryCasa and...
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Hashtag aggregator Tagboard to acquire Capture, a social media publisher used...
Capture helps news media gather social media posts. Tagboard today announced that it will acquire Capture, a social media publishing platform used by news media based out of New York City. Founded in...
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New Seattle peer leadership group aims to help startup leaders scale their...
Randy Ottinger, founder of iInnovate Network. Photo via iInnovate Network. There is a myriad of resources in Seattle that incubate and mentor fledgling startups — Techstars, 9Mile Labs, and Madrona...
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Startup Spotlight: Vidpal is an on-demand marketplace for videographers
Two years ago, John Ortega founded a service for travelers to request videos from locals at their destination. He quickly learned that the travel space was too broad and narrowed his focus to a...
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Q&A: Meet the 30-year-old entrepreneur who just sold his profitable...
Etailz co-founder and CEO Josh Neblett. Photo via Etailz. Etailz is almost a too-perfect-to-be-true startup success story. The company grew out of a college business plan competition at Gonzaga...
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Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum, led by former Google engineers, raises $29M
Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum has raised $29 million in a Series C round, led by Canaan Partners with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Shasta Ventures. It’s a big round for the startup...
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