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Our favorite startup pitches from Techstars Seattle Demo Day
Inside Techstars Seattle Demo Night at MoPop in Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) It’s a unique time to graduate from a startup accelerator. The 12 teams that just completed a...
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Former senator Reuven Carlyle launches climate consulting and finance venture...
Reuven Carlyle was a state lawmaker for 14 years until his retirement last month. He is now co-founder and chief sustainability officer of Earth Finance. Carlyle is pictured in the Washington State...
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Amperity lays off workers for second time in a year as part of restructuring
Barry Padgett. (Amperity Photo) Seattle-based customer intelligence startup Amperity conducted another round of layoffs, its second time trimming headcount in the past six months. A company...
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Scoop: Flyhomes acquires Loftium, combining two Seattle real estate tech...
Loftium co-founders Yifan Zhang (left) and Adam Stelle. (GeekWire File Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Flyhomes is broadening its suite of home-buying tools by acquiring the host-to-own platform Loftium...
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Brilliant Black Minds: Startup’s project backed by Serena Williams aims to...
Crystal Moore. (Karat Photo) As a middle school student in the small Mississippi town of Collinsville, Crystal Moore would spend lunch in her school’s computer lab. She also observed first-hand some...
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How this sales startup is using GPT-3 tech to boost lead qualification
Outreach CEO Manny Medina. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) The economic slowdown and tech layoffs have dealt a double blow to enterprise sales teams. Outreach CEO Manny Medina thinks AI can help....
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Seattle founder who sold company to Google says tech giant has ‘slowly ceased...
AppSheet CEO Praveen Seshadri. (AppSheet Photo) A former Google employee who just left the tech giant after three years says he witnessed a “gradual decay of a dominant empire” and said the company...
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Tech Moves: T-Mobile tech leader to retire; Curi Bio and CrowdCow appoint...
Elizabeth Liu. (Crowd Cow Photo) — Joe Heitzeberg is stepping down as CEO of CrowdCow, the Seattle-based meat and seafood marketplace he co-founded in 2015. Elizabeth Liu, the company’s vice president...
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Lightfox, the Seattle-based mobile game developer behind ‘Knight’s Edge,’...
Lightfox’s debut game, PvPvE raid arena Knight’s Edge, has a 4.8 user rating on the Apple Store. (Lightfox Games Image) Mobile gaming company Lightfox Games raised $6 million in fresh capital to help...
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Trucking startup Convoy lays off employees for third time in past year, will...
(GeekWire FIle Photo) Seattle startup Convoy conducted its third round of layoffs over the past year and said it would close its Atlanta office. The workforce cuts and real estate footprint reduction...
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Database giant Snowflake closes deal to acquire tools from Mobilize.net
(Snowflake Photo) Snowflake closed its deal to acquire a suite of migration tools called SnowConvert from Bellevue, Wash.-based software maker Mobilize.net. Mobilize’s SnowConvert helps companies...
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Tech Moves: Picnic CEO steps down; Expedia adds board member; Accolade exec...
Picnic CEO Clayton Wood. (Picnic Photo) — Picnic CEO Clayton Wood is stepping down from the food automation startup. The Seattle tech vet joined Picnic in 2018, helping the startup mature from the...
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Google for crypto: Seattle search engine startup Kaito raises $5.3M
Kaito’s user interface. (Kaito Photo) Kaito, an AI-powered search engine that scours the internet for crypto-related topics, raised $5.3 million in a round led by Dragonfly. The Seattle startup was...
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Blockchain observability platform Sentio raises $6.4M
Sentio, a Seattle startup building a tool to help developers monitor different layers of their blockchain-based applications, announced a $6.4 million round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The...
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Chipotle for pasta: Former Amazon manager leads fast-growing tech-fueled...
Due Cucina co-founders Filippo Fiori (left) and Davide Macchi. (Due Cucina Photo) Key Takeaways Seattle-based fast casual pasta chain Due Cucina raised $2.5 million to expand beyond Washington state...
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Education services company Perdoceo acquires coding bootcamp school Coding...
Richard Wang, CEO and founder of Coding Dojo. (Coding Dojo Photo) Coding Dojo, the Bellevue, Wash.-based software engineering bootcamp operator, has been acquired by Perdoceo, a publicly traded...
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Inspired by her family’s business in India, Seattle founder leads AI startup...
Loopr founder Priyansha Bagari. (Loopr Photo) While working at her family’s business in India, Priyansha Bagaria uncovered an issue: the insulation tape the company manufactured frequently had...
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Tech Moves: Avalara execs step down; Nike tech leader departs; UW professors...
(GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) — Sanjay Parthasarathy, a longtime Seattle tech executive who was most recently chief product officer at Avalara, has stepped down from the tax software giant....
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Seattle mayor encourages companies to hire people of color at inaugural Black...
From left: Google Cloud Senior Engineer Abuna Demoz; F5 Senior Manager Carl Mosby; Zillow Diversity & Inclusion Manager Makeda Hope-Crichlow; and Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell. (GeekWire Photo /...
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Oil changes for houses: Startup led by former Expedia director offers regular...
Key Takeaways Onder is a new startup that provides homeowners with twice-yearly checkups to help identify different maintenance tasks that need to be done on a house. The 8-person company is led by...
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