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Tech Moves: Former Chef CEO joins Buildkite board; Salesforce hires Code.org...
Barry Crist. — Barry Christ joined the board of Perth, Australia-based software company Buildkite. Crist is the former CEO and board chair of Chef, a Seattle-based automation technology company that...
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First Citizens Bank is buying Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits and loans
The deal with First Citizens may provide some market stability following a tumultuous past few weeks since Silicon Valley Bank went down. (GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) First Citizens Bank has agreed to...
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Sonoma Bio inks $75M deal with Regeneron to advance cell therapies against...
Sonoma’s therapies harness regulatory T cells (Tregs), shown here in red interacting with another type of immune cell, in blue. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH Photo) The...
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Employee engagement startup Mystery rebrands as Glue and uses software and AI...
The Glue crew. Seattle employee engagement company Glue now employs almost 50 people. (Glue Photo) After a series of pandemic-induced pivots, Mystery was looking for the thing that would stick. And in...
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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs
Real estate ownership. Legal contracts. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software. Machine learning monitoring. The finalists for Startup of the Year at this year’s GeekWire Awards come from a...
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The hurdles women-founded startups face in venture capital — and advice to...
Leslie Feinzaig (left), Graham & Walker founder and managing director, and Charlotte Newman, head of global business development, underrepresented founders and investors, Amazon Web Services. They...
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SportsCenter for meetings: Seattle startup uses GPT to create meeting...
Read Highlights replaces manual meeting notes and recaps with automated text summaries and video highlights. (Read AI Image) Read AI, the Seattle startup whose software measures engagement and...
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Google and Apple vets raise $17M for Fixie, a large language model startup...
Fixie co-founders, from left to right: Hessam Bagherinezhad, Matt Welsh, Justin Uberti, Zach Koch. (Fixie Photo) The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large...
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GeekWire Awards: Meet the 5 finalists for Startup CEO of the Year
Startup CEO of the Year finalists, clockwise from top left: Christie Lagally of Rebellyous Foods; Prem Kumar of Humanly; Grin Lord of mpathic; Ivan Liachko of Phase Genomics; Emily Pesce of Joon Care....
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Augmented writing startup Textio restructures; CEO says generative AI ‘more...
Textio CEO Kieran Snyder. (Textio Photo) Textio, the Seattle-based augmented writing platform, conducted a “broad team reorganization” this week, according to co-founder and CEO Kieran Snyder. Snyder...
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GeekWire Podcast: Reclaiming our lives through more mindful use of technology
Humans have become increasingly vulnerable to technology that grabs our attention, by design, often pulling us away from more meaningful and fulfilling moments in our lives. Can technology itself be...
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Robots for hire: Dell EMC vets lead Seattle startup aiming to automate...
From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. (Aivot Photo) A trio of former Dell EMC engineers are building a fleet of rentable robots to...
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TipHaus, which helps companies distribute tips, raises $3.5M and launches...
TipHaus CEO and co-founder Leif Magnuson. (TipHaus Photo) Seattle-area startup TipHaus landed $3.5 million in new funding to streamline how businesses pool and distribute tips to employees. Launched...
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Amazon Web Services launches startup accelerator for generative AI companies
(GeekWire File Photo) The newest startup accelerator from Amazon aims to attract companies building generative AI technologies. The Amazon Web Services accelerator, revealed Tuesday, is a 10-week...
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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards
CEO of the Year finalists in the 2022 GeekWire Awards, clockwise from upper left: François Locoh-Donou, of F5 Networks; Maria Colacurcio of Syndio; Luis Ceze of OctoML; Chris Diorio of Impinj; and...
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Payscore, a startup that helps property managers and car dealerships verify...
Payscore co-founders CTO Stephen Arifin (left) and CEO Mark Fiebig. (Payscore Photos) Property managers and consumer lenders are dealing with a reported increasing amount of application fraud. A...
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Minh Le, former Silicon Valley Bank leader in Seattle, joins Stifel Bank as...
Minh Le, a longtime Silicon Valley Bank leader in the Seattle region, is joining Stifel Bank. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Longtime Seattle-area tech mainstay Minh Le has joined Stifel Bank as...
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Tech leaders form alliance to help fuel robotics work in the Pacific Northwest
The Northwest Robotics Alliance aims to drive the creation of automation startups in the Pacific Northwest. (Northwest Robotics Alliance Photo) A trio of tech leaders joined forces to promote the...
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AI makes its mark in ‘Innovation of the Year’ category at the 2023 GeekWire...
Finalists for the 2023 GeekWire Innovation of the Year award, clockwise from upper left: the Yoodli team; Byron Boots of Overland AI; Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev of Temporal; Ghostwriter developer...
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Energy startup CTFusion folds as co-founders land at rival Zap
The former CTFusion team, from left to right: CEO Derek Sutherland; Chris Ajemian, vice president; Kyle Morgan, scientist; and Aaron Hossack, chief technology officer. They’re standing alongside the...
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