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Seattle tumbles to No. 20 in global ranking of startup ecosystems
Seattle is still considered an “ideal breeding ground for future unicorns,” according to Startup Genome. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle fell 10 spots to No. 20 in Startup Genome’s...
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‘We know something big is happening’: Tech vets encourage experimentation,...
Joseph Sirosh (left), former Amazon and Microsoft exec now leading a new startup called CreatorsAGI, and Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI and currently the CEO of TrueMedia, a...
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Seattle cooking startup raising more cash to help fuel ‘culinary medicine’...
Seattle chef and Homemade CEO Joel Gamoran is the host of online cooking classes and a TV series on PBS. (Belathee Photography Photo) Seattle chef Joel Gamoran is raising more money to fuel his...
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City and state leaders in talks to create Seattle-based AI-focused incubator...
Washington state Sen. Joe Nguyen speaks at a Seattle AI Week event on Monday at the Seattle NFT Museum. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) Entrepreneurs building AI-fueled startups may soon have a new...
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Cyrus Biotech spins out company to expand reach of versatile drug development...
Levitate Bio’s CEO Sam DeLuca, left, and Karen Khar, executive vice president of sales and business development. (LinkedIn Photos) Seattle startup Cyrus Biotechnology is spinning out a business that...
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Flyhomes buys tech from real estate startup backed by Sam Altman to fuel AI...
(Flyhomes screenshot) Seattle startup Flyhomes is beefing up its real estate search capabilities with the acquisition of technology from ZeroDown, a San Francisco startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam...
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Tech Moves: Microsoft CVP joins Google; Remitly hires compliance chief; and more
Spyro Karetsos, Remitly’s new chief compliance officer. (Remitly Photo) — Digital remittance company Remitly hired Spyro Karetsos as its new chief compliance officer. Karetsos previously held the same...
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What’s missing from Seattle’s startup ecosystem?
From left: Francisco Olmedo, partner at K&L Gates; Ken Horenstein, founder and partner at Pack Ventures; Heather Redman, co-founder managing partner at Flying Fish Partners; Kirby Winfield,...
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Former Facebook, FanDuel execs lead Seattle startup aiming to build Gartner...
Cypher co-founders Sachin Goyal (left) and Vinay Narayan. (Cypher Photos) Companies of all shapes and sizes need to secure their infrastructure. But it’s not always clear what type of cybersecurity...
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Corporate spending software giant Brex plans to open office in downtown Seattle
Brex is opening an office in downtown Seattle. The Salt Lake City-based fintech giant operates as a “remote-first” company and a spokesperson said the Seattle office will be used “in a hybrid capacity...
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Seattle entrepreneurs are building autonomous robots to deliver hassle-free...
Syd Manna, Autev’s co-founder and chief operations officer, standing near the startup’s first prototype for its autonomous, fast-charging robot for electric vehicles. The device will also have a...
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Tech Moves: Former Amazon Prime Air leader lands at Torc Robotics; Microsoft...
Eric Berlinberg spent more than 10 years at Amazon. (LinkedIn Photo) Eric Berlinberg, who spent the past decade at Amazon and was a key leader on the company’s Prime Air team, is moving on from the...
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Seattle indie game studio Galvanic Games is shutting down
Galvanic Games’ booth at last year’s Penny Arcade Expo was one of the largest at the show, made to promote its then-upcoming dungeon crawler Wizard With a Gun. (GeekWire Photo / Thomas Wilde) Galvanic...
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Don’t say AI: Why some investors say startups should avoid overusing the...
From left: Vivek Ladsariya, managing director at Pioneer Square Labs; Heather Redman, co-founder and managing partner at Flying Fish; Anoop Gupta, CEO at SeekOut; and Vikram Chalana, CEO at Pictory....
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Google vet leads new startup studio in Seattle spinning out B2B software...
Stephen Konig leads Mudita Studios, the Seattle-based startup studio of Mudita Venture Partners. (Mudita Photo) Another startup studio with roots in Seattle is incubating ideas and spinning out...
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AI without prompting: This startup just joined Techstars to make generative...
DeltaGen co-founders, from left: COO Casey McCullar; CEO Rene Bystron; and CMO Abdullah Raja. Not pictured: CTO Avinash Uddaraju. (DeltaGen Photo) Rene Bystron spent hundreds of hours at his last...
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Butterflies takes flight with $4.8M, launches social media platform combining...
iPhone screenshots of the Butterflies AI app. (App Store Images) Butterflies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based social media platform that combines human and AI-generated content, launched Tuesday after raising...
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Aurion Biotech gets FDA approval to speed development of vision restoring...
An Aurion Biotech researcher working in the startup’s Cambridge, Mass., laboratory. (Aurio Photo / Melissa Blackall) Seattle’s Aurion Biotech announced Wednesday that it received special designations...
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Shift AI Podcast: How AI is shaking up the worlds of media, marketing, and...
How is artificial intelligence making marketers more productive? How are journalists approaching the ethical dilemmas inherent to AI content creation? And how can scrappy startups hope to compete with...
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E-commerce vets raise $50M seed round for new startup that aims to reimagine...
Daydream co-founders, from left: Matt Fisher, Dan Cary, Julie Bornstein, Richard Kim, Lisa Green. (Lonnie Webb Photo) A new startup founded by longtime e-commerce leaders is using artificial...
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