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Vouched, an identity verification startup backed by Zulily co-founders,...
Vouched investor Darrell Cavens (left) and Vouched CEO John Baird. (Vouched Photo) Vouched, a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, raised $6.3 million. The funding round was led by...
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Sales startup Outreach to lay off 70 employees, 7% of workforce, and slow...
Outreach reached unicorn status in 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) Outreach is laying off 70 workers, about 7% of its workforce, marking the second round of cuts the Seattle sales software...
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Ex-Amazon Pharmacy manager leads new startup aiming to help contractors save...
From left: Otis leaders Luke Nilles, Aaron Bach, and Steve Moses, with Pioneer Square Labs investor T.A. McCann. A new startup born out of Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle wants to help independent...
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Madrona backs WaFd Bank spinout developing consumer software for regional banks
From left: President Dustin Hubbard, Developer Kateryna Masiuk, Production Support Vlad Vasic, Automation Tester Varsha Chaurasia, Solutions Architects Sreedhar Pamidiparthi and Prasad Mandadapu,...
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Temporal, a developer productivity startup led by former Uber engineers,...
(Temporal Image) The news: Temporal, a Seattle startup that helps companies write and run cloud applications, raised $75 million. The details: The complexity of maintaining code becomes harder as more...
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Microsoft and Google back Typeface, an enterprise generative AI startup led...
Users can create AI-generated content with the tone and style of their brand. (Typeface Photo) A new generative AI startup with ties to Seattle just raised $65 million from Microsoft’s M12 and others...
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Drone startup Brinc prepares for take off with ex-Amazon engineers and...
Brinc founder and CEO Blake Resnick at the company’s headquarters in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. (Brinc Photo) Key Takeaways Brinc unveiled its new Lemur 2 drone and in-house manufacturing...
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Pacific Northwest startup funding activity is down 80% so far this year
Seattle’s South Lake Union with Mount Rainier in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) The latest venture capital data highlights an ongoing slowdown as interest rates remain high and expenses...
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Secretive new startup focuses on off-road autonomous vehicles, led by UW...
An autonomous Polaris vehicle equipped with sensors and computers developed by researchers at the University of Washington. (Photo courtesy of the University of Washington RACER team) A University of...
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Wildfire restoration startup DroneSeed creates parent brand, acquires...
A fir tree seedling with a Mast Restoration drone in the background. (Mast Photo) DroneSeed, a Seattle startup using technology to help restore forests scorched by wildfire, announced Tuesday that it...
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Seattle-area startup using AI for mental health screening tech raises $8M
Aiberry co-CEOs Linda Chung (left) and Johan Bjorklund. (Aiberry Photos) The news: Seattle-area healthcare startup Aiberry raised $8 million for its AI-powered software that analyzes audio, visual,...
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T-Mobile vets lead startup selling AI-powered tech that reminds customers to...
(KredosAI Photo) A Seattle-area startup wants to help enterprises send more effective reminders to customers to pay their bills. Former T-Mobile execs Balaji Sridharan and Dave Thoms are the...
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Seattle VC firms tell startups to assess positions with Silicon Valley Bank...
(SVB Photo) Venture capital firms in Seattle are advising portfolio companies to reconsider their positions with Silicon Valley Bank amid potential funding troubles at the tech-focused bank. Shares of...
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Security hardware giant Allegion backs Latchel, a platform to manage...
Latchel co-founders from left to right: Will Gordon, Ethan Lieber and Jullian Chavez, (Latchel Photo) The news: Latchel raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Allegion Ventures, the corporate...
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Regulators close Silicon Valley Bank in stunning downfall for financial...
Employees based in Silicon Valley Bank’s downtown Seattle office were instructed to work from home after regulators announced Friday that they were taking over the bank. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek)...
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Tech startup leaders concerned about making payroll following Silicon Valley...
Silicon Valley Bank’s downfall is creating a financial crisis for some startups. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Simply meeting payroll was likely not atop the to-do list for most founders earlier this...
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Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse is an ‘absolute meltdown’ of unparalleled...
The closure of Silicon Valley Bank by financial regulators is causing startups to scramble. (Bigstock Photo.) What was previously a point of pride on Silicon Valley Bank’s website now reads like a...
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Startups and investors relieved after U.S. vows to fully protect Silicon...
Silicon Valley Bank worked with many of the Seattle region’s startups. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Updated with reaction from Seattle-area startup leaders and investors. The Federal Deposit Insurance...
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The ripple effects from the Silicon Valley Bank fiasco on startups and investors
Silicon Valley Bank worked with an estimated 80% of venture-backed startups in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) While many startup founders and investors slept easier Sunday night knowing their...
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Madrona Venture Group investor on helping founders navigate the Silicon...
Hope Cochran. (LinkedIn Photo) Hope Cochran began her career as a senior auditor at Deloitte before serving as CFO of Clearwire and King Digital. She’s a finance expert. But the tech veteran has never...
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