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Tech Moves: OpenAI hires former Amazon Web Services leader to lead new Tokyo...
Tadao Nagasaki. (LinkedIn Photo) Tadao Nagasaki, a longtime tech exec who led Japan-related operations for Amazon Web Services and F5, is joining OpenAI to head up the company’s new hub in Tokyo, its...
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Portland startup goes national with service that finds residential properties...
Radious helps companies locate collaborative workspaces in homes or apartments or other residential locations. (Radious Photo) Radious, the Portland startup that runs a marketplace where residential...
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Tech Moves: Avalara names president; Microsoft vet launches AI forum; Common...
Ross Tennenbaum. (Avalara Photo) — Seattle-based tax software company Avalara named Ross Tennenbaum as its new president. Tennenbaum joined Avalara in 2019 and became its CFO a year later. He will...
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Washington Technology Industry Association names Kristen Forecki as new board...
Kristen Forecki. (WTIA Photo) The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) named longtime Seattle tech leader Kristen Forecki as the new chair of its board of directors. Forecki is currently...
View ArticleDigital ad content generator and testing service Validated raises more cash
Validated, a Seattle startup that uses AI to help companies figure out what product features and messaging resonates with customers, raised more investment and released a new product. The company this...
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In-home health screening startup Reperio raises $14M, inks deal with Uber
Travis Rush, co-founder and CEO of Reperio Health. (Reperio Photo) Travis Rush grew up in the tiny seaside town of Gold Beach in Southern Oregon. With a population of only 1,576 — as was proudly...
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Seattle tech vet calls rapidly growing ‘AI Tinkerers’ meetups the new...
Attendees at a hackathon presented by AI Tinkerers in Seattle last summer. (Photo courtesy of Joe Heitzeberg) Seattle tech veteran Joe Heitzeberg remembers seeing a random, AI-related tweet in...
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Atomo opens new roastery in Seattle to produce its beanless coffee for cafes...
Atomo’s new coffee roastery in Seattle. (Atomo Photo) Atomo, the Seattle-based beanless coffee maker, is marking Earth Day with the grand opening of a new roastery in its hometown that will produce...
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After personal experience with cyberstalking, tech founder launches startup...
Melissa Hutchins, co-founder and CEO of Certifi AI. (Certifi AI Photo) In January, pornographic deepfake images of Taylor Swift were viewed by millions of people on X and other social media platforms...
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Outpost, which manages semi-truck parking facilities, raises $12.5M
(Outpost Photo) Outpost, an Austin, Texas-based trucking parking facility operator that has an engineering center in Seattle, announced a $12.5 million Series A investment round. The company was...
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Zillow and Grubhub vets launch new Seattle-based advisory firm to help growth...
Scala Advisors co-founders Chad Cohen (left) and Ryan Domyancic. (Scala Photos) Longtime technology industry leaders Chad Cohen and Ryan Domyancic unveiled Scala Advisors, their new Seattle-based...
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FTC bans all new non-compete clauses and strikes down most existing agreements
Arisa Chattasa Photo via Unsplash. Goodbye, non-competes. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today released its final rules addressing non-compete clauses by banning all future agreements. Non-competes...
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98point6 hit by new layoffs in latest change at health tech startup
(98point6 Photo) Seattle-based digital healthcare startup 98point6 has conducted a new round of layoffs, the company confirmed Tuesday. 98point6 did not provide details on the number of employees...
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Former Amazon Prime Air employees raise $4.5M for stealthy solar airplane...
Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. (Radical...
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Good riddance? Critics of non-competes say tech companies may ultimately...
Amazon has gone to court several times in the past to enforce non-compete agreements with departing employees in Washington state, home of its Seattle-area headquarters. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt...
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Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, founders of podcast ‘Acquired,’ are raising...
David Rosenthal (left) and Ben Gilbert, co-hosts of the Acquired podcast. (Acquired Photo) The hosts of the popular business and technology podcast Acquired are raising a new fund to invest in...
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The UW’s Institute for Protein Design keeps boosting startups, fueling...
University of Washington Institute for Protein Design head David Baker (left) and assistant professor Neil King show off molecular models of proteins. (UW IPD Photo / Ian Haydon) The University of...
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Intrepid Oregon Fund launches with $4M from the state to invest in climate...
Portland Seed Fund’s Angela Jackson (left) and Steve Eichenlaub will manage the new Intrepid Oregon Fund, which will invest in climate and other tech startups from the state. (Portland Seed Fund...
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Seattle startup Dropzone AI raises $16.8M to develop autonomous agents for...
Dropzone AI founder and CEO Edward Wu. (Dropzone Photo) Dropzone AI, a Seattle-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies boost their Security Operations Centers (SOC), raised a...
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Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet Dave Parker named CEO of Entrepreneurs’...
Dave Parker (LinkedIn Photo) Veteran entrepreneur and startup advisor Dave Parker is taking over as CEO at global networking group Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Parker has been around startups for...
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