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Startup Spotlight: Stackery envisions a server-less future with...
Stackery co-founders Chase Douglas and Nate Taggart are developing their startup in the Techstars Seattle accelerator. (Stacker Photo) Nate Taggart and Chase Douglas believe that server-less...
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Switch raises more cash to help users manage credit card payment information...
Photo via Bigstock. Switch continues to raise cash to build out its platform that helps people manage their credit card information online. Chris Hopen. The Seattle startup has reeled in another...
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Co-working space for women The Riveter is launching in Seattle to build...
Co-founders Kim Peltola and Amy Nelson are launching The Riveter co-working space in Seattle. (The Riveter Photo) Amy Nelson is in the midst of a career pivot. A former Wall Street lawyer, she and...
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Startup Spotlight: CuePath Innovation’s IoT device helps seniors stay on top...
The CuePath team is developing the startup at Techstars Seattle. (From left: Engineer Yagnik Vadher, Co-founder Ivan Spogreev, Co-founder Victor Lesau, Product Marketing Manager Jeff Nider, and...
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Atlas Informatics cuts staff as Napster co-founder’s startup sharpens focus...
Atlas Informatics CEO Jordan Ritter. Photo via Atlas. Atlas Informatics has cut nearly a third of its staff. Atlas CEO Jordan Ritter, who was previously a co-founder of Napster, confirmed the layoffs...
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SheerID reels in $2.9M to expand customer verification software platform
SheerID CEO Jake Weatherly. (SheerID Photo) SheerID is having a good run. The startup, based in Eugene, Ore., makes software that helps companies verify the identity of certain customer groups, and it...
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Appuri raises another $2M to help companies assess and predict customer behavior
(Appuri Photo) It’s been a busy start to 2017 for Appuri. Todd Owens. (Photo via LinkedIn) The Seattle-based startup just landed $2 million in funding from existing investors Divergent Ventures, Vulcan...
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Startup Spotlight: Valid8 takes the complexity out of analyzing financial...
The Valid8 team (from left: McGuire Mosley, James Sweeney, Chris McCall, Tod McDonald, and Tim Butorac) is developing the startup in the Techstars Seattle 2017 class. (Valid8 Photo) The idea for...
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Socedo raises another $1M for lead generation platform that analyzes social...
The Socedo team. Photo via Socedo. Socedo is raising more cash to build out its platform that helps companies target sales leads from social media activity. Socedo CEO Aseem Badshah. Photo via Socedo....
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How MassChallenge wants to create a ‘factory for startups’ and change...
MassChallenge founder John Harthorne speaks at InBIAs annual conference in Seattle on Monday. (GeekWire photo) You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger believer in the value of startups than John...
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How this legal software startup used its funding round to support legal aid...
MetaJure founder Marty Smith believes the company’s software can help legal aid providers be more efficient. (MetaJure Photo) Many tech companies wait until they grow into big corporations before...
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Former Clinton advisor on why the U.S. needs to promote entrepreneurship in...
Steven Koltai speaks at InBIA in Seattle on Monday. (GeekWire photo) Can entrepreneurship promote political stability and peace in countries around the world? Steven Koltai certainly believes so. The...
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‘Uber for car repair’ startup Wrench raises $4M for service that brings a...
Wrench says its mechanics serviced more than 1,000 cars during a test run this summer. (Via Wrench) Investors like what they see in Wrench. Ed Petersen. The Seattle-based on-site car repair startup...
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Cloud-based enterprise contract management company Icertis scores $25M
Samir Bodas, CEO of Icertis. (Image via Icertis.) Icertis, which helps large organizations such as 3M, Becton Dickinson, Cognizant, Daimler and Microsoft manage contracts, has landed a $25 million...
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Limitless partners with High Fidelity to let people build interactive...
Limitless today announced a partnership to integrate its character building technology into High Fidelity, the virtual reality “metaverse” created by Second Life founder Philip Rosedale. Limitless...
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Seattle wellness tracking startup EveryMove acquired by personal health...
EveryMove CEO Russell Benaroya shared news of the higi acquisition with GeekWire Wednesday. (GeekWire Photo) EveryMove, a Seattle startup that helps employers incentivize employee wellness, has been...
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Study: Startup ecosystems across the country are bouncing back — but there’s...
Studies show entrepreneurship is on the rise. (Shutterstock Photo) The Great Recession struck a major and lasting blow to entrepreneurship but the nation’s startup ecosystem appears to finally be...
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Ripl raises $3M to give small business owners ‘a marketing team in your pocket’
Ripl Chairman Andrew Wright and CEO Paul Ingalls. Ripl is raising more cash as the company sees more traction with its app that lets people create visual marketing content. The Seattle startup has...
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Startup Spotlight: Hazel wants to help managers be better leaders using software
The Hazel team. (Hazel Photo) As Wisam Abdulla and his co-founders were building Canadian payroll startup Rise, they encountered a common complaint from customers again and again. Help with payroll was...
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Guest Post: I launched the 2.19% Founders Alliance to help women in tech help...
VentureKits Founder Leslie Feinzaig launched the Seattle Female Founders Alliance to help women in tech get ahead. (Photo by Meryl Schenker) I don’t actually want to talk about how hard it is to be a...
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