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Tech Moves: Google Cloud hires Microsoft exec Hayete Gallot in new president...
Former Microsoft executive Hayete Gallot’s new role at Google Cloud is part of an effort to become more nimble in helping customers implement AI solutions. (Photo courtesy Google Cloud) — Google named...
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Ex-Allen Institute for AI scientists form stealthy AI startup, with former...
Vercept’s founding team includes, L-R, Matt Deitke, CEO Kiana Ehsani, Ross Girshick, and Luca Weihs. Not pictured: Oren Etzioni. (Vercept Photo) A group of former Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) research...
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Official AI raises $2M for platform that enables authentic AI content...
Official AI CEO Dave Siegfried, left, and John Pletka. (Official AI Photo) Official AI, a Seattle startup whose platform helps brands and talent create and collaborate on AI-generated image and audio...
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Wildfire recovery and carbon capture company Mast Reforestation lands $25M
Mast Reforestation planter at a restoration site. (Mast Photo) Seattle’s Mast Reforestation announced today $25 million in new funding and an expansion of its operations into “wood vaulting” in which...
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Seattle startup group launches new program for founders that rethinks...
Derek Tu (left), who sold his Seattle startup Carbon to Perplexity, speaks with Aviel Ginzburg at a Foundations event. Ginzburg helped launch Seattle-based Foundations last year. (Foundations Photo)...
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New accelerator in Seattle area aims to help tech startups navigate Dept. of...
Areas of tech interest to the Department of Defense include logistical solutions, tactical electronic warfare and more. (Photo via Defense Innovation Unit) A new accelerator program aimed at...
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AI recruiting startup led by former Microsoft manager raises $16M
Ashwarya Poddar. (Linkedin Photo) ConverzAI, a Seattle startup founded in 2019 that aims to automate recruiting processes, raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Menlo Ventures. The startup,...
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Seattle-area company with climate friendly ‘mechanical cows’ for digesting...
Chomp’s engineering team in front of one of their anaerobic digestion devices, clockwise from top left: John Missey, CEO Tim Tiscornia, founder Jan Allen, Andrew Moss, Taylor Knoblock and Tim Murphy....
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Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis joins Microsoft in exec role leading work on...
Dan Lewis, former Convoy CEO and now a chief product officer at Microsoft, at the GeekWire Summit in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Dan Lewis, the former CEO of shuttered Seattle trucking startup...
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Meet the Seattle VC behind a new $6.6M fund focused on women’s health startups
Jessica Kamada, founder of Swizzle Ventures, speaks at a B.E.L.L.E entrepreneur event in Seattle. (B.E.L.L.E Photo) Jessica Kamada does not have a traditional startups and venture capital background....
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Tech Moves: Smartsheet names CTO; Outreach appoints CFO; Concord’s new CEO;...
Cynthia Tee, CTO for Smartsheet. (Smartsheet Photo) Cynthia Tee is now chief technology officer for Smartsheet. Tee was previously senior vice president of engineering at the Bellevue, Wash., company...
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As Trump spars with Canada, Seattle-area startup embraces talent and...
A Docugami in-person meet up in June 2023. Co-founder and CEO Jean Paoli is in the second row in pink. (Docugami Photo) As President Trump wields tariffs and strains relations with Canada, Seattle...
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AI will transform parts of healthcare — but slow adoption and sales cycles...
Nader Naini, managing partner at Frazier. (Frazier Photo) The rise of generative AI and other automation technologies will surely create efficiencies within the $4.5 trillion healthcare industry. But...
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Bill Gates-backed semiconductor startup Lumotive raises $45M
Lumotive’s Light Control Metasurface chips – example shown is smaller than a quarter – guide photons using the light-bending properties of metamaterial surfaces. (Lumotive Photo) Lumotive, a Redmond,...
View ArticleCompliance software startup SingleFile raises $9M
SingleFile Technologies, a legal tech startup based in Seattle that helps companies file compliance reports with government agencies, raised $9 million in new funding. LawSites first reported on the...
View ArticleFormer Intel leaders raise $21.5M for Portland startup AheadComputing
AheadComputing, a Portland, Ore.-based startup led by former Intel execs, raised $21.5 million in a seed round led by Eclipse. The company focuses on developing CPU technology related to RISC-V, an...
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Tech-enabled med spa startup Pinch expands to Seattle with its in-home...
Pinch offers in-home medical-grade concierge aesthetics services such as tox, chemical peels and microneedling. (Pinch Photo) Pinch, a Chicago-based, tech-enabled service that facilitates in-home...
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GeekWire 200 update: Here are the hot tech startups moving up our list for Q1...
The latest update to the GeekWire 200 reveals which companies are growing quickly and making moves up our list of top-ranked Pacific Northwest tech startups. Sales software company Highspot (No. 1)...
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Overland AI opens new factory in Seattle to manufacture off-road autonomous...
Inside Overland AI’s new factory in south Seattle. (Overland Photo) Seattle startup Overland AI is bringing manufacturing operations close to home with the opening of a 22,000 square-foot facility...
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Startup radar: Check out 4 up-and-coming tech companies from Seattle
Clockwise from top left: Privacy License founder Nabanita De; Mvue founder Payal Tiwana; Saturday founder Michelle Howe; and Pansophy founder Anshu Dwibhashi. We’re back with another spotlight on new...
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