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Pacific Northwest tech startup deals: The top 15 funding rounds during Q3
Data from GeekWire’s fundings list. Venture capital funding to Pacific Northwest startups saw signs of positive momentum in Q3. Privately held tech companies in the region raised more than $2 billion...
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Seattle startup raises $1.25M for electric bike used on golf courses
Fairway Bikes CEO Alex Wunderlich (left) and founder Jim Billmaier. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Seattle-area startup Fairway Bikes raised a $1.25 million seed round to fuel development of its...
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Seattle startup Live Aware raises $4.8M for new AI-powered game developer...
From left: Live Aware Labs founders Nathan Wheeler, David Berger, and Sean Vesce. (Live Aware Labs Photo) Seattle-based startup Live Aware Labs raised $4.8 million in a seed funding round to continue...
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Phone spam-fighting startup Hiya rolls out Chrome extension that detects...
(Hiya Image) Seattle-startup Hiya is joining the growing list of companies using AI against AI to detect misinformation. Hiya announced the launch Thursday of its Deepfake Voice Detector as a free...
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Tech Moves: Expedia names new CTO; F5 adds board members; Humanly hires sales...
Ramana Thumu, chief technology officer for Expedia Group. (Expedia Photo) Ramana Thumu has taken the role of chief technology officer for Expedia Group. Thumu will oversee engineering operations at...
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Chirping smoke detectors light a fire in startup founder to build ultimate...
At the end of his wits — and mitts — Adam Doppelt attends to a smoke detector in his Seattle home. False alarms from the devices are the chief complaint in online reviews. (Photo courtesy of Adam...
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Tech Moves: Ex-Yahoo CMO joins Starbucks; Shape Therapeutics’ CEO steps down;...
Tressie Lieberman, executive vice president, global chief brand officer at Starbucks. (Starbucks Photo) Tressie Lieberman is Starbucks’ new executive vice president and global chief brand officer....
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Future of farming? Carbon Robotics raises $70M for AI robots that blast weeds...
Carbon Robotics’ machine uses AI technology to zap weeds in farms across the globe. (Carbon Robotics) Seattle startup Carbon Robotics raised $70 million in the latest vote of confidence from investors...
View ArticleHealth tech company Medbridge acquires motion capture specialist Rehab Boost
Medbridge, a Seattle-area health technology company, has acquired Rehab Boost, a Miami, Fla.-based startup that develops motion capture technology for physical rehabilitation program providers and...
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Crypto startup Coinme alleges Coinstar misused trade secrets for competing...
An image included in Coinme’s lawsuit against Coinstar shows a “virtually identical purchasing process” between Coinme’s interface and CINQ, a new product from Coinstar. (Screenshot via lawsuit)...
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Virtual assistant for HR: Google’s AI-focused venture fund invests in Seattle...
From left: Gradient Partner Eylul Kayin; Cascade AI CTO Pulak Goyal; and Cascade AI CEO Ana-Maria Constantin. (Cascade Photo) Trying to find answers to HR-related questions can be a time-consuming and...
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Seattle’s Electric Era deploys EV chargers at Costco after opening big, new...
Electric vehicles juice up at an Electric Era fast charger recently installed at a Costco in Southwest Washington. (Electric Era Photo) When EV charging startup Electric Era moved this summer to a...
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Microsoft signs deal with ocean carbon removal project operating on...
Ebb Carbon is using ocean alkalinity enhancement to remove carbon from seawater. It has a pilot plant in Sequium, Wash. (Ebb Carbon Photo) Microsoft today announced a deal with a marine carbon removal...
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Startup radar: Early stage tech companies making moves in Seattle
From top left, clockwise: Alice CEO Karan Gupta; Maelstrom CEO Neal Fachan; Clearly AI CEO Emily Choi-Greene; Silurian AI CEO Jayesh Gupta; Rome CEO Ana Malhotra; and Ravenna CEO Taylor Halliday....
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Seattle startup Read AI raises $50M to fuel ‘copilot everywhere’ vision for...
From left: Read AI co-founders Rob Williams, David Shim, and Elliott Waldron. (Read Photo) Read AI is on a roll. The Seattle startup, which sells enterprise productivity software tools fueled by...
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Potato’s AI research assistant digs through publications for science...
Potato co-founders Nick Edwards, left, and Ryan Kosai. (Potato Photo) Science can reward its practitioners with thrilling eureka moments — with an emphasis on “moments.” A lot of research is slogging...
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Tech Moves: Amazon grocery exec will join Marc Lore’s Wonder; AI2 Incubator...
Tony Hoggett joined Amazon in January 2022. His last day as SVP of the company’s worldwide grocery stores business will be Nov. 1, 2024. Tony Hoggett, the Amazon senior vice president overseeing the...
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Seattle startup Moondream, led by AWS vets, raises $4.5M for vision language...
Jay Allen. (LinkedIn Photo) Moondream, a new Seattle startup building a large language model for visual-related use cases, raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed round. VentureBeat reported on the funding....
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Inside the ‘Stranger Things’ house that a Seattle real estate startup bought...
Bret Neuman, left, and Alejandro Chouza of Arrived Homes sit in front of a recreation of the famed Christmas lights/alphabet wall in the Byers house near Atlanta that their company now owns. (Arrived...
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‘I really want to fix this’: Microsoft vet launches Seattle startup to...
Priyanka Kulkarni, CEO and founder of Casium. (Casium Photo) Priyanka Kulkarni loved her decade working at Microsoft. She believed she was contributing to meaningful projects, but they weren’t hers....
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