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Pizza, soda, Oreos and breathing: 7 key lessons I learned in the startup...
PitchBook CEO John Gabbert accepts the award for Deal of the Year at the GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire Photo). Becoming a startup CEO was never an explicit career goal. I started PitchBook because of a...
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UW honors long-time entrepreneurship program leader Connie Bourassa-Shaw at...
Attendees at the 20th annual UW Business Plan Competition give a standing ovation to longtime Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship Director Connie Bourassa-Shaw. (GeekWire photos) The University of...
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Molecule filter maker Membrion wins top prize at University of Washington...
Scott Thornbury, Ryan Kastilani, Greg Newbloom and Robert Nelson pose with their $25,000 award at the UW Business Plan Competition. (Photo by Taylor Soper/GeekWire) A team of chemical engineering and...
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Startup Spotlight: Microsoft cybersecurity vets launch Seklarity to help...
Seklarity’s Adam Larson, Devdatta Waghdhare, and Joe Donahue. (Seklarity Photo) During the years Joe Donahue spent running Microsoft’s cybersecurity threat detection team, he observed a recurring...
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Wireless tech company Rigado raises $3M to expand overseas and grow IoT...
Rigado CEO Ben Corrado. (Rigado Photo) Rigado, a Portland company that provides wireless services for Internet of Things (IoT) companies, has secured $3.3 million in seed funding from Oregon Angel...
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Media Partners raises $1.1M to produce ‘Hollywood-grade’ training videos
A shot from a Media Partners video about employee theft. (Screenshot Via Media Partners) Pretty much everyone has, at some point in life, been sequestered in a room and made to watch a series of...
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Startup Spotlight: Spotted Places maps out travel recommendations from friends
Spotted Places co-founders Bryant Hawthorne and Dan Taylor. (Spotted Places Photo) Bryant Hawthorne and Dan Taylor met as neighbors and quickly bonded over a love of travel and similar careers in the...
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Mysterious Seattle digital marketing startup New Engen, led by former Zulily...
New Engen, a digital marketing startup led by veterans of online retailer Zulily, has raised $8 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. GeekWire previously...
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Snapchat parent Snap acquires location analytics startup Placed for more than...
Placed CEO David Shim. Snapchat parent Snap has acquired Placed, a Seattle-based startup that operates a consumer location analytics platform, GeekWire has learned. Placed, which employs more than 100...
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Crowd Cow takes its crowd-funding beef business national, opens up delivery...
(Crowd Cow Illustration) Crowd Cow’s crowd of cow-tipping beef lovers just got a lot bigger. The Seattle-based startup announced Tuesday that it is expanding its reach and will now deliver its...
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Here’s why Snap just paid more than $200M to acquire Seattle startup Placed
How Placed helps advertisers measure the offline impact of their mobile ads and reveal insights into consumer behavior in the physical world. (Via Placed) Snap just made one of its largest acquisitions...
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Wicket labs raises $2M to help companies understand the new media landscape,...
Wicket Labs, a Seattle startup founded by former executives of Comcast-owned thePlatform, has raised $2 million to arm media companies with the data they need to succeed in this era of endless choices...
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How a huge fire and a competitor nearly took down Modumetal — and why the...
Modumetal CEO Christina Lomasney gives a keynote speech at the University of Washington Business Plan Competition. (Photo by Taylor Soper/GeekWire) Modumetal CEO Christina Lomasney took to the stage...
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Startup Spotlight: Vault launches app that helps people save for retirement...
Vault CEO Randy Fernando. Photos via Vault. There are a few financial challenges we all face, and saving for retirement is one of the biggest. But the process is confusing and often expensive, meaning...
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Docker set to open Seattle-area engineering center, latest Bay Area tech...
Docker CEO Steve Singh and COO Scott Johnston at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (GeekWire photos / Kevin Lisota) Another Silicon Valley tech company is set to open an office in the Seattle area. This...
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New site ‘Capital & Growth’ aims to be the ‘Stack Overflow for startup...
Capital & Growth founder Jasper Kuria. (Capital & Growth Photo) Jasper Kuria’s story will resonate with many startup founders. He spent several years in engineering and program management at...
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Seattle-based workplace morale management startup TINYpulse cuts 10% of staff
The TINYpulse company dashboard. (TINYpulse Photo) TINYpulse, a Seattle startup that offers technology to assess employee morale, has cut about 10 percent of its staff, the company confirmed. The...
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Healthcare startup Carena raises $6M to fuel technology behind virtual...
Carena’s Virtual Clinics support virtual doctors appointments. (Carena Photo) When you have the flu or a child with an earache, just getting into a doctor’s office can be an incredible hassle. But...
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AxonVR raises another $2M, lands patent for haptic tech that simulates...
AxonVR was issued a patent for life-like haptic technology. AxonVR just landed more funding and a new patent for its haptic technology that allows users to move through virtual environments and feel...
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Polyarc, led by ex-Bungie developers, debuts first game for PlayStation VR at E3
Via Polyarc. Polyarc made its debut on one of gaming’s biggest stages. At Sony’s press conference from the big E3 video game show in Los Angeles on Monday, Seattle-based Polyarc lifted the hood off its...
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