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Seattle-area climate consulting and analytics startup Earth Finance acquires...
A portion of the Earth Finance team. The Seattle company employs about 40 people. (Earth Finance Photo) Earth Finance, a Seattle-area company founded last year that helps businesses globally reduce...
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Microbiome and diagnostics startup Viome lands $25M and hires former Amazon...
Kal Raman, chief operating officer for Viome. (Viome Photo) Viome, a company selling microbiome products and health diagnostics, announced Tuesday that it raised $25 million from investors and hired...
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Seattle cloud migration company SkyKick acquired by IT management firm...
Todd Schwartz (left) and Evan Richman, co-founders and co-CEOs of Skykick. (Skykick Photo) ConnectWise, a Tampa, Fla.-based IT management company, announced that it acquired SkyKick, a Seattle-based...
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EV charging infrastructure startup OpConnect lands $5.3M to expand geographic...
OpConnect CEO and founder Dexter Turner. (OpConnect Photo) Portland, Ore.-based OpConnect raised nearly $5.26 million to expand its sales of hardware and software for electric vehicle charging...
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Outreach CEO Manny Medina steps down, a decade after founding sales...
Outreach CEO Manny Medina. (GeekWire File Photo) Manny Medina has stepped down as CEO of Outreach, the Seattle-based sales automation software company he helped start a decade ago. Abhijit Mitra, who...
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Climate tech startup program aims to help underrepresented founders find a...
Ashley Vaughn, the founder of EVALV (Electric Vehicle Adapter Lease Vending), presenting their idea at an event hosted by 45Camp in March. (VertueLab Photo) Ashley Vaughn last year found themselves in...
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Sustainable aviation startup ZeroAvia lands $130M
ZeroAvia CEO Val Miftakhov in front of a massive ground-test truck with two of its 900-kW (kilowatt) engines and a Q400 propeller. The startup gave a demonstration of its engine on May 1, 2023 at...
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Artificial intelligence tools offer substantial benefits, challenges for...
Chris Berta is a partner at Laurel Group, a Seattle-based executive search firm. The recruitment landscape is being reshaped by the rapid adoption of AI and generative AI technologies, which are...
View ArticleIBM to acquire Accelalpha, a Seattle-area firm that helps companies manage...
IBM announced Monday that it plans to acquire Accelalpha, a Bellevue, Wash.-based services provider that specializes in managing Oracle Cloud applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The...
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Amperity lays off 13% of staff in latest cuts for customer data startup
(Amperity Photo) Seattle startup Amperity is laying off 13% of its workforce, the company confirmed Thursday. “We are streamlining our operational and corporate functions while better prioritizing our...
View ArticleWave power, carbon capture, battery materials startups land $37M in...
Washington’s Department of Commerce announced 46 recipients of grant dollars to support the development of climate technologies and clean energy installations at schools and other buildings around the...
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How to pick a founder: What to consider when searching for a startup partner
Early stage venture firm Ascend hosted its annual Founders Bash in Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) One of the most crucial decisions for an entrepreneur is picking the right...
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Tech Moves: SheerID adds revenue chief; Sana CFO stepping down; Seattle HR...
Rebecca Grimes. (SheerID Photo) Portland, Ore.-based identity verification company SheerID named Rebecca Grimes as its new chief revenue officer. Grimes previously was chief sales and marketing...
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Seattle startup Arzeda raises $38M to create proteins for food, pharma, and...
(Arzeda Photo) Arzeda, a protein design startup that generates new enzymes for industrial, agricultural and other applications, announced a $38 million investment round. The Seattle-based company...
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Tech Moves: Fortive SVP joins Microsoft; Pictory hires CMO; Starbucks exec...
Kirsten Paust. (Fortive Photo) Kirsten Paust, a longtime leader at publicly traded manufacturing giant Fortive, took a new job at Microsoft as a corporate vice president focusing on continuous...
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Edera, a cloud infrastructure startup founded this year, raises $5M to...
The Edera team. (Edera Photo) Seattle-based startup Edera announced a $5 million seed round from venture capital firms and angel investors include Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda. Founded in April,...
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Meet Grasshopper, an underwater robot helping restore critical eelgrass meadows
Reefgen’s Grasshopper robot is ready for deploying into Washington’s Puget Sound where it’s helping with an eelgrass restoration effort. (Reefgen Photo) The initial launch of the marine robot into the...
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Group14 lands $200M grant to build factory to make key ingredient for battery...
In February, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (left) joined Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell (second from right) and Gov. Jay Inslee (right) in a visit to Group14’s manufacturing facility...
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Thoughts on Amazon’s full return to the office from a CEO who knows the value...
Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji implemented an in-office policy when the startup was founded in 2021. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) As a former big-tech exec who’s now running a startup, Vijaye Raji...
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Twelve lands $645M to finish building sustainable aviation fuel facility in...
Gov. Jay Inslee (second from left) speaks at the Twelve groundbreaking in Moses Lake, Wash., in July 2023. Joining him are company co-founders, from the left: Etosha Cave, chief science officer;...
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