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Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon sports leader lands at DraftKings; Seattle tech vet...
Dave Cotter. (Dave Cotter Photo) — Dave Cotter, a longtime Seattle tech leader who sold a startup to Nordstrom and most recently led product at Leafly, launched a new advisory firm called D3 Advisors....
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Fuse leads $6M round for Quindar, which uses AI for satellite support and is...
A screenshot shows Quindar’s spacecraft management platform at work. (Image via Quindar) A space-centric startup called Quindar says it has successfully closed an oversubscribed $6 million funding...
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Seattle startup Protect AI acquires Laiyer AI, makers of LLM Guard
Seattle cybersecurity startup Protect AI announced that it acquired Laiyer AI, which makes open source software called LLM Guard that protects large language models.
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Tango Card, a Seattle software startup that helps companies offer digital gift cards and rewards to customers and employees, agreed to be acquired by Blackhawk Network, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based...
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Point-of-sale tech startup CHEQ, which ran Bite of Seattle, acquired by...
CHEQ CEO Thomas Lapham. (CHEQ Photo) CHEQ, a Seattle startup that sells point-of-sale software to sports stadiums and entertainment venues, announced Thursday it was acquired by Cantaloupe, a...
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Medsense Health, which sells sensors for remote medication management, raises...
Medsense CEO Matthew Tabakin. (LinkedIn Photo) Seattle-area startup Medsense Health raised $500,000 in new investment to fuel growth of its tech aimed at helping patients and providers with remote...
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Ex-Amazon and Airbnb engineers raise $1.25M for enterprise AI agent developer...
Cimba co-founders Vishal Das (left) and Subu Biswas. (Cimba Photos) Seattle startup Cimba.ai emerged from stealth mode and announced a $1.25 million pre-seed investment to accelerate development of...
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Validated, a Seattle startup that uses AI to generate ads for product...
Validated co-founders Rahul Bhardwaj (left) and Zean Tsoi. (Validated Photos) Rahul Bhardwaj‘s entrepreneurial ambitions date back to his college years, when he launched a Kickstarter for a...
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Glowforge lays off more employees after funding round falls through at 3D...
Glowforge co-founder and CEO Dan Shapiro with the company’s new Aura laser printer/engraver at the startup’s offices in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood in July 2023. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser)...
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Will any Seattle startups go public this year? Analysts see better climate...
Remitly was one of the last Seattle tech startups to go public via traditional IPO — more than two years ago. (Remitly/Nasdaq Photo) Seattle’s tech industry is in an IPO drought. Not a single tech...
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Birdhouse maker with an eye for Apple design ready to take flight with...
The egg-shaped smart birdhouse The Peep Show is designed to stream video of baby birds in their nest to viewers’ phones. (The Peep Show Photo) Flock around the television next week — a smart birdhouse...
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Former Blue Origin president’s startup raises funding to go after moon resources
Space industry executive Rob Meyerson speaks at a 2016 space conference. (ISPCS via YouTube) A stealthy space venture co-founded by the former president of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says...
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Seattle-area game developer Hidden Path Entertainment lays off 44 workers
Hidden Path Entertainment’s Defense Grid 2: The Awakening. (Hidden Path Image) Hidden Path Entertainment, an independent game studio based in Bellevue, Wash., has laid off 44 employees. The layoffs...
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Portland startup expands to Seattle to help schools, businesses slash their...
Bold Reuse works with the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers. (Portland Trail Blazers / Justin Tucker Photo) Portland, Ore.-based Bold Reuse, a startup providing reusable dishes and food containers paired...
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Can AI improve your dating game? Startup’s speech analysis tool offers...
(BigStock Image) The days of talking into a mirror to psych yourself up to ask someone on a date have given way to artificial intelligence. Yoodli, the Seattle-based AI-enabled software platform that...
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ProfoundBio raises $112M to support clinical-stage oncology pipeline
ProfoundBio CEO Baiteng Zhou. (ProfoundBio Photo) ProfoundBio raised $112 million to support development of its pipeline of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), agents that recognize a molecular target...
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Tech accelerator for Washington and Oregon startups encourages underserved...
Devon Horace, director of the RAIN Tech Accelerator. (Photo courtesy of Devon Horace) RAIN Catalysts, a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups, is...
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Seattle game studio Threshold Games shuts down
(Threshold Games logo) Seattle’s Threshold Games, a remote-first independent game developer, has shut down due to “extenuating circumstances.” The announcement was made via Threshold’s LinkedIn page...
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Meet Seattle’s newest seed fund: Breakwater Ventures emerges to back early...
Peter Mueller, left, and William Finney, founding partners at Breakwater Ventures. (Breakwater Ventures Photo) There’s a new Seattle-based investment firm looking to support software startups across...
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Techstars Seattle startup Planette raises $2.4M for AI-boosted climate...
Planette co-founders Hansi Singh, left, and Kalai Ramea. (Techstars Photo) Planette, a climate tech startup that just graduated from Techstars Seattle’s latest accelerator, has raised $2.4 million....
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