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Tech Moves: Remitly’s new CFO; Zillow adds SVP; Aquagga CEO steps down;...
Remitly CFO Vikas Mehta. (Remitly Photo) Vikas Mehta knows how to assess the financial health of a business, having been a finance leader at companies including PayPal, Microsoft, Walmart, Nike,...
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Does ‘Carbon Sound’ have a ring to it? How Seattle area can become the...
Jonathan Azoff, co-founder of the recently launched climate venture fund SNØCAP, makes his pitch for “Carbon Sound” at an event Thursday at the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds at the University of...
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This virtual reality game encourages rhythmic breathing to help with mental...
(Deepwell DTX Image) At first glance, Deepwell DTX’s Zengence (pronounced like “vengeance”) is what video game fans might call a rail shooter. At the start of the game, you’re sent down a one-way path...
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Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet named CEO at Vouched; Sana hires chief...
Vouched CEO Peter Horadan. (Vouched Photo) — Peter Horadan, a seasoned Seattle tech executive who was an executive at Avalara and later founded an accounting software startup called Lockstep, joined...
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Ex-Microsoft engineers raise $25M for legal tech startup that uses AI to help...
Supio co-founders Kyle Lam (left) and Jerry Zhou. (Supio Photos) Supio, a Seattle startup founded in 2021 by longtime friends and former Microsoft engineers, raised a $25 million Series A investment...
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Wyze’s new AI feature lets users search across footage from security cameras
Wyze says its new video search feature works with a wide variety of queries. (Screenshot via Wyze video) Wyze Labs is rolling out a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to let users search...
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Betting on buckwheat: Supplement startup aims to boost immune system with...
Austin Perlmutter, Big Bold Health’s managing director of science, research, and development, holding a Himalayan Tartary buckwheat plant in front of the company’s Bainbridge Island, Wash., offices....
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Tech Moves: Microsoft leader joins Shopify as CTO; StraighterLine taps...
Mikhail Parakhin. (Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. The Toronto-based e-commerce giant called Mikhail Parakhin “one of the...
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West Point grads lead new Seattle investment firm using AI-fueled model to...
Rob Hammond (left), partner at Gray Line, and Eddie Kang, managing partner at Gray Line. (Gray Line Photo) Two longtime tech and finance executives who graduated from the United States Military...
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Inside the controversial world of full-body health scans: We tested a...
Ezra uses Ai to produce detailed reports following MRI scans. The yellow coloring indicates a “non-urgent follow-up.” (Ezra Photo) There’s a recent trend of venture-backed startups offering full-body...
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Startup bet: Former Nike exec launches new app using AI to help NFL fans get...
Portland-based Field Vision bills itself as “football’s first predictive analytics app that is built for every fan.” (Field Vision Image) Just in time for the start of another NFL season, a new...
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Founders at Seattle studio Hopoo Games, which made ‘Risk of Rain,’ are...
Risk of Rain 2. (Gearbox/Hopoo Games Image) The original creators of the Risk of Rain video game series are sunsetting both their current project and their studio, in order to go work for Bellevue,...
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Jeff Bezos and Satya Nadella show two sides of ‘Founder Mode’ debate on...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (left) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. (Space Foundation and Microsoft Photos) The buzz in tech circles over the past few days is all about “Founder Mode.” Sparked by a recent...
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This sustainability startup just raised cash to convert chopsticks into...
The ChopValue team, with CEO and founder Felix Böck third from right. (ChopValue Photo) Vancouver, B.C.-based ChopValue, which has turned more than 176 million chopsticks into furniture and...
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Data observability startup Revefi raises $20M to fuel new ‘AI data engineer’...
Revefi co-founders Sanjay Agrawal (left) and Shashank Gupta. (Revefi Photo) Seattle startup Revefi raised $20 million in a Series A round to support growth of its software platform that helps...
View ArticleSeattle’s Sonoma Biotherapeutics receives $45M milestone payment
Sonoma Biotherapeutics on Wednesday announced that it received a $45 million payment from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for meeting a significant milestone in its efforts to research, develop and...
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Most of America’s AI engineers are in Silicon Valley and Seattle
Seattle and San Francisco are the top hubs for of AI talent. (GeekWire Photos / Kurt Schlosser) If you’re looking for AI talent, look West. The Bay Area and Seattle are home to a majority of the...
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ZipBio, a new Seattle biotech startup aiming to compress proteins, raises $4M
ZipBio CEO and co-founder Roee Farber. (ZIpBio Photo) Seattle-based biotech startup ZipBio announced its official launch on Thursday and revealed $4 million in a seed funding round led by NFX. Founded...
View ArticleCorporate expense software startup Center lays off workers
Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Center laid off eight workers, or about 4% of its workforce. Center CEO Naveen Singh confirmed the cuts to GeekWire, calling it a “reorganization.” “This decision was...
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Nori, a Seattle-based carbon removal marketplace that raised $17M, shuts down...
The Nori team at a Techstars demo day in 2019. (Nori Photo) Seattle-based carbon removal startup Nori has shut down after operating for seven years and raising $17.25 million from investors. Nori...
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