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National and regional VC numbers show Seattle faring better than the rest of...
National VC investing trends, from a preliminary PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report Thursday. Venture capital investments in the U.S. declined more than 23% to $62 billion in the second quarter,...
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Seattle startup raises $14M to fuel ambitious plan for a social network built...
Peer leaders, from left: COO Heath Abbate; CEO and founder Tony K. Tran; Chief Design Officer Kyle Hay; Chief Science Officer Thomas Nguyen. (Peer Photo) Metaverse. Web3. Cryptocurrency. Blockchain....
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Q&A with former NFL star Doug Baldwin about his new role as CEO of a Seattle...
Doug Baldwin at the 2019 GeekWire Summit 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Since retiring from the NFL in 2019, former Seattle Seahawks star Doug Baldwin has dipped his toes in the tech industry,...
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How remote work is changing tech pay: Seattle startup comp equals Silicon...
From Space Needle to Golden Gate and beyond, U.S. startup pay is becoming more uniform, a recent study says. (Photos by Kevin Lisota, GeekWire; and Mark Gunn, via Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0) Remote...
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Spinning out science startups: UW’s Institute for Protein Design brings...
IPD’s commercial impact in Seattle. Spinouts are Monod Bio, Arzeda, Icosavax, Neoleukin Therapeutics, Cyrus Biotechnlogy, PvP Bio, A-Alpha Bio, and Mopac Bio. IPD scientists are co-founders and...
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Uplevel, a Seattle startup that measures engineer productivity, raises $20M
(Uplevel Image) The news: Seattle startup Uplevel landed $20 million to fuel growth. The 5-year-old company helps engineering teams analyze the effectiveness of their developers by pulling data from...
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Buyers wanted: Exit opportunities for venture-backed startups sharply decline...
(Bigstock Photo) It’s getting harder for an early-stage company to find a buyer. The exit value for U.S. venture capital-backed startups in the second quarter was the lowest it’s been in more than...
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GeekWire 200 update: Check out which Pacific Northwest startups are moving up...
The top ten GeekWire 200 startups at the end of 2021 and in the third quarter of 2022. The latest update to the GeekWire 200 rankings shows four newcomers to the top 10 and several startups making big...
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BC’s green construction unicorn Nexii raises $35M, opens U.S. manufacturing site
A crane moves a section of a Starbucks cafe being built by Vancouver, B.C.-based Nexii. The climate-tech company constructs energy-efficient buildings made from less carbon-intensive materials than...
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Phaidra, which sells AI tech to industrial customers, raises $25M from...
From left: CTO Vedavyas Panneershelvam, CEO Jim Gao, and COO Katherine Hoffman. (Phaidra Photo) Phaidra, a startup building artificial intelligence tools for industrial customers ranging from vaccine...
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Tech Moves: Zillow’s former longtime economist returns; GoFundMe hires Xbox...
Dr. Skylar Olsen. (Zillow Photo) — Dr. Skylar Olsen is back at Zillow Group. Olsen spent eight years at the real estate giant, most recently as senior principal economist, from 2012 to 2020. She...
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Startup building software that helps airlines upsell customers raises $25M
From left: Linda Bryndísardóttir, VP Business Development; Stephen Grabowski, co-founder and CEO; Joe Aarre, co-founder and CTO; Reed Gilbert, VP Operations. (Jonathan Wu Photo) Gordian Software,...
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Seattle startup aims to make it easier to invest in social or environmental...
From left: CEO and co-founder Josh Hile; Marshall Dunford CTO and co-founder. (Citizen Mint Photo) A former finance executive and a veteran software engineer are teaming up to build a platform that...
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Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes cuts 20% of staff, citing ‘uncertain...
Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg. (Flyhomes Photo) Flyhomes is the latest tech startup to cut jobs. The Seattle real estate company laid off approximately 20% of its staff, a spokesperson confirmed to...
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Online media vets launch The Cool Down, a platform aspiring to be America’s...
From left: The Cool Down co-founders Dave Finocchio, CEO, and Chief Content Officer Anna Robertson. (TCD Photos) Dave Finocchio, co-founder and CEO of the popular sports media outlet Bleacher Report,...
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Seattle-area cybersecurity startup led by former Amazon principal engineer...
Strac founder Aatish Mandelecha. (Strac Photo) The news: Strac, a software startup building tech that plugs into a company’s website or mobile app to secure sensitive customer data, raised $3.5...
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Cosmetic treatment review platform RealSelf lays off 11 employees
(Logo courtesy of RealSelf) RealSelf, the Seattle-based cosmetic treatment review platform, laid off 11 employees, or about 4.7% of its workforce this week. Chief Marketing Officer Hailey Sullivan...
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Rad Power Bikes cuts about 10% of staff, citing economic uncertainty and...
Rad Power Bikes co-founder and CEO Mike Radenbaugh. (GeekWire File Photo) Rad Power Bikes is laying off 63 employees, citing an effort to be a more “self-sustaining business” amid the broader economic...
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Health care startup 98point6 lays off 10% of workforce, but says it’s still...
(98point6 Image) Seattle-based 98point6 recently laid off 10% of its workforce, but the telemedicine startup remains in “growth mode,” according to a human resources executive at the company. The...
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‘AWS for the travel industry’: Spotnana, backed by Madrona, lands $75M
New York City startup Spotnana announced a $75 million Series B round led by Durable Capital Partners LP. Founded by Sarosh Waghmar and Shikhar Agarwal in 2020, the company offers a platform for...
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