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Climate tech funding dip poses threat for capital-intensive startups — but...
Julian Sachs, co-founder and chief technology officer for Banyu Carbon, gives a demo of a reversible photoacid. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) In a webinar Tuesday on the future of climate tech,...
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Tech Moves: Superhuman hires CTO; Getty Images founder departs board; Xbox...
Chris Bee. (LinkedIn Photo) Chris Bee, a tech exec who previously worked at Lessen, Zillow, and Uber, joined AI email startup Superhuman as chief technology officer. Bee was most recently CTO at...
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Real estate vets launch accelerator and advisory firm to fuel...
Equity Angels co-founders Kenya Burrell-VanWormer (left) and Katherine Winston. (AJ Canaria / Inman Connect Photo) After working decades in real estate, Katherine Winston and Kenya Burrell-VanWormer...
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Default alive: Tech startups focus on survival and slower growth in new era...
Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash. Tech startups have gone through a major mindset shift in the past few years. The era of growth-at-all-costs and easily accessible venture capital is over. The...
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Former Amazon colleagues raise $2.8M to help equipment rental companies run...
Members of the BoxedUp team, including co-founder and CEO Donald Boone, rear center in hat. (BoxedUp Photo) BoxedUp, a startup founded by ex-Amazon employees to help equipment rental companies set up...
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Meet the climate startup helping other climate startups fund their ventures...
Enduring Planet’s co-founders, from left: Chief Technology Officer Joshua Krafchin, CEO Dimitry Gershenson, and Chief Operating Officer Erin Davis. (Enduring Planet Photo) Government grants and...
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Digital youth safety startup k-ID raises $45M to help developers comply with...
(k-ID Image) k-ID, a startup headquartered in Singapore and Seattle that’s building tools for online youth safety, announced Tuesday that it raised a $45 million Series A funding round. Billed as a...
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Topicflow raises $1.8M to rethink performance reviews, with help from AI
Topicflow founders, from left: Maxime Parmentier, Amin Palizban, and Tony Angerilli. (Topicflow Photo) Vancouver, B.C.-based startup Topicflow raised $1.8 million from Seattle venture capital firms...
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Clearbrief, which uses AI to help lawyers find and verify facts in legal...
Clearbrief CEO and founder Jacqueline Schafer. (Clearbrief Photo) Seattle legal tech startup Clearbrief is raising more cash to boost its technology aimed at helping lawyers find, summarize, and...
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Data warehousing startup SDF, led by Microsoft and Meta vets, comes out of...
The SDF team. (SDF Photos) SDF Labs, a Seattle startup aiming to help software developers manage their enterprise data warehouse systems, this week announced public availability of its product and...
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Loti, a Seattle startup that helps public figures spot and squash deepfakes,...
(Loti screenshot) Seattle startup Loti raised $5.1 million to grow its technology platform that helps public figures scour the internet for fake social media accounts, fake endorsements, or deepfakes...
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Next-gen battery startup Sila raises $375M to fund completion of Eastern...
Artist rendering of the Sila manufacturing facility being built in Moses Lake, Wash. (Sila Image) Battery startup Sila has raised $375 million, which will help fund the completion early next year of...
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Cancer screening tech startup Ezra opens two locations in Seattle area
Ezra produces reports for customers after they do a full-body MRI scan. (Ezra Image) Ezra, a New York City-based health technology startup offering cancer screening, opened two locations in the...
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Another logistics startup emerges in Seattle as former Amazon, Flexport execs...
Freightmate founders, from left: Yingwei (Jason) Zhao, Bryan Lacaillade, and Rishab Gadroo. (Freightmate Photo) The list of Seattle-area logistics startups continues to grow with the addition of...
View ArticleSeattle-based RareCyte raises $20M for cell analysis products
Seattle-based life sciences company RareCyte announced $20 million in new funding to advance its applications for the analysis of cells. RareCyte sells imaging-based liquid and tissue biopsy analysis...
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Tech Moves: Google exec departs; Syndio adds engineering leader; JPMorgan CTO...
Nimrod Vered. (Syndio Photo) — Nimrod Vered, a longtime engineering leader in Seattle, joined Syndio as senior vice president of engineering. Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights...
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Amazon hires founders from well-funded enterprise AI startup Adept to boost...
(GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Amazon is amping up its AI efforts by hiring executives from Adept, a San Francisco-based startup building “agents” that automate enterprise workflows. Adept...
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Tech Moves: Tomo co-founder steps down; Usermind co-founder joins Ironclad;...
Carey Armstrong. (Tomo Photo) — Carey Schwaber Armstrong, the former Zillow exec who co-founded real estate startup Tomo four years ago, has stepped down from the company. “Leaving your startup...
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Phaidra raises $12M for AI software that helps manage data center energy...
Phaidra founders, from left: CTO Vedavyas Panneershelvam, CEO Jim Gao, and COO Katherine Hoffman. (Phaidra Photo) Phaidra, a Seattle startup selling a “virtual plant operator” that uses artificial...
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Clean aviation startup ZeroAvia lands deal with American Airlines to buy 100...
ZeroAvia’s Dornier 228 taking off for its 10th flight test of a prototype ZA600 engine in July 2023. (ZeroAvia Photo) American Airlines plans to buy 100 hydrogen electric engines from clean aviation...
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