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AI for AP: High school students create tool that acts as tech tutor for...
Professor AI co-founders Pradyu Kandala, left, and Abhay Chebium. (Professor AI Photos) Frustrated by inadequate resources to help students study for advanced placement courses, two Seattle-area high...
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Tech Moves: Matt Hulett steps down as PetMed Express CEO; Seattle startup...
Matt Hulett in Rosetta Stone’s Seattle office in 2018. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Matt Hulett, a veteran of the Seattle tech and startup scene, is stepping down as CEO and president of PetMed...
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This startup just raised funding to turn wood pulp into sustainable,...
A dish made from Bioform Technologies’ sustainable plastic. (Bioform Photo) A Vancouver, B.C.-based startup making biodegradable plastics out of wood pulp has raised up to $5 million from Brazil’s...
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Tribal company and Oregon battery startup create unique partnership in...
Madisen McCleary, Skip Tech’s vice president of engineering, makes a hydrophobic coating for the interior of a flow cell for the startup’s hydrogen bromine batteries. (Puyallup Tribe of Indians Photo...
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Portal Space Systems comes out of stealth with satellites that’ll be fired up...
An artist’s conception shows Portal’s Supernova satellite bus in orbit, using a propulsion system that focuses sunlight on a heat exchanger to produce thrust. (Portal Space Systems Illustration) A...
View ArticleSeattle startup Rippl acquires Kinto to boost dementia care services
Rippl, a Seattle startup that supports dementia care, acquired Kinto, a Boston startup that provides coaching services to family caregivers. Founded in 2018, Kinto uses AI to support and educate...
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Former Microsoft engineers raise $3M for cybersecurity startup StepSecurity
Ashish Kurmi (left) and Varun Sharma, co-founders of StepSecurity. (StepSecurity Photo) StepSecurity, a Seattle-area startup aiming to help developers secure their projects, raised a $3 million seed...
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New startup group in Seattle aims to support Black founders and investors
Jesse Posey (left) and Evan Poncelet, co-founders of Dreamward Ventures. (Dreamward Photos) A computer programmer and laboratory scientist are teaming up to help boost the number of Black founders and...
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Meet the startups that just graduated from Creative Destruction Lab’s...
Members of the Creative Destruction Lab team in Seattle. Back row, from left: Macey McGovern (Seattle), Dhwani Patel (Seattle), Emer Dooley (Seattle), Ramzy Huneidi (Seattle), Carter McDonald...
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Tech Moves: Docker and Qualtrics leaders join Seattle startup Mason; Beyond...
From left: Mason CEO Webb Stevens; Mason President Nancy Xiao; Mason founder Jim Xiao; and Mason CTO John Timsen. (Mason Photo) Mason, a Seattle startup that offers a turney hardware-software platform...
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Venture Mechanics aims to boost Seattle-area startup ecosystem with incubator...
Summit for Under-Represented Founders keynote speaker Aina Abiodun, president of VertueLab, speaks at an event held April 29 at Venture Mechanics’ Bellevue, Wash., venue. (Venture Mechanics Photo)...
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Riding bikes and making birdies: We played golf with an electric 3-wheeler...
Fairway Bikes’ electric bike features a detachable battery with a 20-mile range and golf-related accessories. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) There are a few ways to get around a golf course. You can...
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Outreach founders reveal new ‘buyer copilot’ AI startup that automates...
FullContext co-founders Gordan Hempton (left) and Wes Hather. (LinkedIn Photos) A new Seattle startup led by the co-founders of sales software giant Outreach is using AI to automate initial customer...
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Tech Moves: NanoString CEO and CFO depart; Remitly names HR chief; Temporal...
Brad Gray. (LinkedIn Photo) Brad Gray is stepping down from NanoString after 14 years leading the Seattle biotech company as CEO. NanoString this week completed its acquisition to life sciences...
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Legal-tech startup uses AI to search relevant case history to better predict...
Predict.law co-founders, from left: CEO Pat Wilburn, CPO Stan Zaporozhets, and CTO Dave Contreras. (Photos courtesy of Predict.law) Predict.law, a stealthy new Seattle-area legal-tech startup, is...
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Serial entrepreneur Gaurav Oberoi strikes again: Lexion’s sale to Docusign...
From left: Lexion founders Emad Elwany, Gaurav Oberoi and James Baird when the company launched in 2019. (Lexion Photo) Six years later, the floor inside a conference room at the AI2 Incubator in...
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Seattle startup wants to bring vision-impaired sports fans closer to the...
A vision-impaired fan uses a tactile/haptics device from Seattle startup OneCourt to follow the action via touch during a Portland Trail Blazers game in April. (Trail Blazers Photo / Stephanie...
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Seattle startup’s telerobotic ultrasound system brings specialist care to...
Dopl Technologies co-founder and CEO Ryan James at the Flywheel Investment Conference in Wenatchee, Wash. (Photo courtesy of Flywheel) Seattle startup Dopl Technologies has developed a telerobotic...
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QuickBooks for legal docs: Seattle startup Aerial raises $2M to help...
Aerial co-founders Doug Logan, left, and Michael Li. (LinkedIn Photos) Seeking to untangle the mess of documents and data that companies hold onto and wade through, Seattle startup Aerial raised $2...
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Bay Area investor Vivek Ladsariya moves to Seattle, joins Pioneer Square Labs...
Vivek Ladsariya. (PSL Photo) Seattle’s venture capital ecosystem is getting some fresh Bay Area talent with the addition of Vivek Ladsariya, a veteran investor who recently relocated from Silicon...
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