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Lessons from a startup shutdown: Round CEO on building community, and the...
From left: Round co-founders Brian Jansen, Ryan Fuller, and Mani Gill. (Round Photo) When Seattle startup Round announced a $12 million Series A investment two years ago, it was a moment to celebrate....
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Brinc launches unified ‘LiveOps’ software for public safety drones, incident...
Brinc’s new LiveOps software integrates drone fleet management with live streaming, real-time maps, call placing and recording, and data storage. (Brinc Photo) Public safety technology company Brinc...
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Pandion, an e-commerce delivery startup led by Amazon Air founder, lands $41.5M
Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash. Pandion, a Seattle startup that helps online retailers deliver orders to customers, raised a $41.5 million Series B round. Founded in 2020 by former Amazon and...
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Former Convoy engineers take another swing at trucking tech with new Seattle...
Manifold Freight co-founders Andrew Huff (left) and Oliver Jones. (Manifold Freight Photo) Andrew Huff and Oliver Jones aren’t done trying to build software for the trucking industry. The...
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Tech Moves: Smartsheet co-founder will leave board; Pandion hires logistics...
Brent Frei helped start Smartsheet in 2005. Now he’s leading a rock-picking tech startup called TerraClear. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Smartsheet on Friday announced several changes to its board of...
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Sunny Gupta on Apptio’s lightbulb moment, and the key questions behind the...
Sunny Gupta, co-founder of Apptio, spoke at an event in Seattle last week about his entrepreneurial journey. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) For Sunny Gupta, the inspiration behind Apptio started with...
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Sonoma Bio celebrates new Seattle waterfront R&D center for autoimmune...
Claire Page, a senior associate scientist in process development, working in a fume hood at Sonoma Biotherapeutics recently opened new R&D center on Seattle’s waterfront. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa...
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Seattle startup OpenPipe raises $6.7M to help companies reduce costs for LLM...
OpenPipe co-founders Kyle Corbitt (left) and David Corbitt. (OpenPipe Photo) OpenPipe, a Seattle startup that wants to make it easier and cheaper for companies to train and deploy large language...
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BirchAI, spinout from Seattle’s AI2 Incubator, acquired by health-tech...
BirchAI CEO and co-founder Kevin Terrell. (BirchAI Photo) Seattle-based BirchAI, a startup that builds software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies, announced Tuesday that it is...
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Goodbill raises $2M and expands customer base to unearth and challenge...
Goodbill co-founders Patrick Haig, left, and Ian Sefferman. (Goodbill Photo) Goodbill, a startup working to reduce medical costs to patients and a subset of insurers, has raised $2 million in new...
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Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for...
Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader accepts the Next Tech Titan award at the GeekWire Awards in 2016. Eight years later, Smartsheet is a publicly traded company valued at more than $5 billion, recently...
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Pockets of opportunity: Seattle startup’s clothing line looks to end...
Point of View, a new women’s clothing label started by two founders with experience at Amazon, offers pockets that accommodate smartphones, along with other design features meant to make it more...
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From timber to tech: Spokane’s startup scene is ready for its big breakthrough
SPOKANE, Wash. — Jack Githens didn’t plan to stay here after college. A senior at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Githens grew up in Issaquah, Wash., in a part of the region that people in Seattle call...
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Vote for Workplace of the Year: Startups employ various methods in their...
Francis Lo, chief people officer at Adaptive Biotechnologies, accepts the Workplace of the Year Award at the 2023 GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Respect. Inclusion....
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Seattle’s Soundry AI creates text-to-sample generator to help prompt enhanced...
The Soundry AI founders, from left: CPO Diandre Ruiz, CEO Mark Buckler, and CTO Justin Parus. (Soundry AI Photo) The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI, a platform that uses generative artificial...
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Ag-tech startup TerraClear raises $15M to grow its end-to-end solution for...
TerraClear’s TC80 Rock Picker working a field. (TerraClear Photo) TerraClear raised $15 million in new funding for its rock-mapping and picking technology solutions for farmers. The startup, based in...
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Vote for UX Design of the Year: Finalists help users across investing, data...
Ophir Ronen, founder and CEO of CalmWave, accepts the award for UX Design of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) The finalists for UX Design of the Year at the...
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Startup building tech for patient portals spins out of Providence incubator...
Screen grab of the Praia Health home page. New startup, new funding: The Providence health tech incubator has spun out Praia Health as an independent company, and the startup on Tuesday announced $20...
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Read AI raises $21M from Goodwater and Madrona, adds AI summaries for email...
Read AI’s latest feature will summarize emails and messages across platforms by topic. (Read AI Image) Artificial intelligence startup Read AI raised $21 million in new funding from Goodwater Capital...
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Pollen Systems raises $2.4M and expands global reach of its crop analysis...
Wine grapes grown in Eastern Washington. (Photo by Samantha Levang, via Flickr, Creative Commons.) New funding, new hires: Pollen Systems, a Seattle-area ag-tech startup, has raised $2.4 million in...
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