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Glympse raises more cash to fuel growth of real-time location sharing platform
Glympse CEO Bryan Trussel. (GeekWire file photo) Glympse is raising more cash as the startup continues to add new customers and grow its employee base. The Seattle-based company has reeled in $11.1...
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ReplyYes raises an additional $6.5M for its text message retail platform
The ReplyYes platform. ReplyYes, a chat commerce startup that spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, has raised $6.5 million of a $9.3 million Series A round. CEO Dave Cotter confirmed the investment but...
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Boutique fashion e-commerce platform Garmentory raises $2M as it takes on...
Garmentory has raised more cash as the company grows its e-commerce platform for independent fashion boutiques and designers. Garmentory CEO John Scrofano. Photo via Garmentory. The 2-year-old...
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ChoiceMap raises funds to use cognitive science to help patients and...
Jonathan Jackson, founder and CEO of ChoiceMap. (ChoiceMap Photo) Jonathan Jackson may not be an expert in treating cancer, but he knows a lot about how people think. In 2011, shortly after completing...
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Startup helps City of Seattle make sense of the noise to tackle housing...
Seattle faces a housing affordability crisis as residents debate the best ways to deal with growth. (Harold Hollingsworth Photo via Flickr) Seattle is grappling with an unprecedented affordability...
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Why these Microsoft vets decided to launch an e-commerce startup in Rwanda
A Kasha customer tests the mobile app. (Kasha Photo) In July, Joanna Bichsel left a high-level job at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to move from Seattle to Kigali, Rwanda with her husband and...
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Super Bowl startup competition: NFL accepting applications for $150K sports...
Calling all sports tech startups: The NFL wants to hear your ideas. The league is hosting 1st and Future, its annual Super Bowl startup competition, next month in Houston on Feb. 4, the day before...
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A look at the 20 biggest venture capital deals of 2016 in the Pacific Northwest
VC investing in WA state has slowed, meaning fewer dollars for startup companies Photo via Shutterstock On the GeekWire podcast this week, I was asked to recap the state of the Seattle startup...
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Startup Spotlight: VIA Global Health wants to be ‘the Amazon of the medical...
VIA Health co-founder Noah Perin. (VIA Health Photo) As Commercialization Officer for the Seattle global health non-profit PATH, Noah Perin observed a big gap in the worldwide healthcare market....
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Fred Hutch announces $1M in grants to commercialize cutting-edge cancer and...
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center president Dr. Gary Gilliland speaks at the Life Science Innovation Northwest conference in Seattle. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, which has spun-out...
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Stuffstr turns unused stuff into sustainable treasure, proving the power of...
According to Stuffstr co-founder John Atcheson, you probably have $7,000 worth of unused stuff sitting in your house. And the total may have gone up over the weekend, as new gifts rendered some of...
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Opal raises more cash to help brands create and produce marketing campaigns
Opal Labs CEO Steve Giannani. Opal is raising more cash. A new SEC filing reveals that the Portland startup, previously known as Opal Labs, has raised $12 million of a larger investment round. Opal CEO...
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The state of Seattle startups: Silicon Valley tech giants are sucking up...
(Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire) “It’s not a real sexy story right now.” That’s how GeekWire co-founder John Cook described the Seattle startup scene during our recent podcast about the past year in...
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Startup Spotlight: FreeFunder takes on Kickstarter with no-fee crowdfunding...
FreeFunder founder John Symonds. Crowdfunding is designed to help people who are low on cash bring their ideas to life and finance big ticket items they couldn’t otherwise afford. It’s a valuable...
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Health insurance e-commerce site GetInsured acquires Array Health, will open...
Array Health CEO Jonathan Rickert. GetInsured, a Bay Area based company that helps people shop for healthcare, today announced the acquisition of Array Health, a Seattle startup that provides group...
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Here’s what five venture capitalists are predicting for 2017
(BigStock Image) With 2016 now in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to take a quick moment to forecast what might be looming on the horizon in the near year. Who better to ask than a group of venture...
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This light-weight ‘smart sock’ measures how far and fast you’ve run, but is...
Sensoria’s new smart sock. (Photo via Sensoria) LAS VEGAS — Athletic socks used to be something you’d pick up last minute at the sporting goods store, kind of an afterthought. But that’s no longer the...
View ArticleGeekWire CES Dispatch, Day 2: High-tech celebrities, Alexa in the fridge, and...
LAS VEGAS — The final CES media day was packed with surprises, reveals, and more than anything, Amazon’s Alexa. As GeekWire’s Taylor Soper reports, the voice activated Amazon assistant seemed to be...
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Samsung partner Voicebox makes major job cuts in wake of Note 7 discontinuation
Voicebox Technologies, which provides natural-language understanding technology for Samsung devices including the discontinued Galaxy Note 7, is cutting a significant portion of its workforce, citing...
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Listen up, pet parents — Seattle’s Rover talks wearables and more dog tech...
LAS VEGAS — In the Pacific Northwest, people love their dogs. The stereotypical Seattle office, with its jeans-and-a-T-shirt dress code and pooches roaming the hallways, is just one of many ways that...
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