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Rover expands dog-sitting business to Europe, takes aim at more segments of...
Rover is going global. The Seattle-based pet-sitting marketplace company today announced the launch of its service in the United Kingdom starting this July. It’s the first expansion outside of North...
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Former Microsoft, Oracle execs raise $3M for digital identity enterprise...
Trusted Key CEO Amit Jasuja. (Photo via Trusted Key) A new Seattle startup is using blockchain technology to help companies in finance, healthcare, and other industries identify their users securely...
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Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud...
A partial Upbound team photo including (L to R) Matt Heilman, product designer; Bassam Tabbara, founder and CEO;, Illya Chekrygin, founding member and engineer; Luke Weber, founding engineer. (Upbound...
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Startup and researchers get $3.1M grant to bring personalized,...
An SEngine Precision Medicine employee in the company’s lab. (SEngine Precision Medicine Photo) Every patient’s cancer is unique and every patient responds to cancer drugs differently. But right now,...
View ArticleTLDR: Jeff Bezos and philanthropy, $6 lunch pickup service, 8-year-old coder
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View ArticleTLDR:Amazon responds to proposed tax, Gates Foundation commits $158M to...
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Startup Spotlight: Node offers airy energy efficient homes that aim for easy,...
A pre-fabricated home built by Seattle startup Node. (Node Photo) It’s pretty ambitious to launch a business that’s trying to address one of the big challenges confronting the world. A Seattle startup...
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10 things I’ve learned in 10 years of entrepreneurship with 10-yr-old twins
Peter Chee hiking with his 10-year-old twin sons on a past trip to Zion National Park, Utah. He marked 10 years of entrepreneurship on May 1. (Photo Courtesy Peter Chee) [Editor’s Note: Peter Chee is...
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U2’s Bono and The Edge revealed as investors in Convoy on-demand trucking...
U2’s Bono and The Edge in concert Friday night on the 2018 Experience + Innocence Tour in St. Louis. (Photo by Remy, via U2 Start, Creative Commons License 4.0) Seattle-based on-demand trucking...
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‘Startups are really hard’: GiftStarter founder shares lessons learned after...
Arry Yu. (Photo via ArryinSeattle.com) Find your “AJ.” Watch out for assholes. And know when to call it quits. Arry Yu closed the book last week on GiftStarter, her 4-year-old Seattle startup that...
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Zembula raises more cash to help marketers capture emails
Zembula CTO Carl-Einar Thorner and CEO Robert Haydock. Photo via Zembula. Zembula has raised another round of investment to help marketers acquire more email addresses. The Portland startup just closed...
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Food safety monitoring tech startup wins first place at Madrona machine...
The HyperAI team, from left to right: Benji Barash, Yves Albers, Dave Matthews, and Elizabeth Nelson, with TiE Seattle board member Shirish Nadkarni and Madrona Venture Labs CTO Jay Bartot. (Not...
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Meet the 2018 finalists for EY’s Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year...
EY’s annual Entrepreneur of the Year program recognizes top business leaders and there is certainly no shortage of potential nominees from the Pacific Northwest region. EY announced the 20 regional...
View ArticleTLDR: Cortana-Alexa integration, Bono invests in Seattle startup, Oculus Go...
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Startup founder unleashes new venture: SniffSpot looks to connect dog owners...
David Adams, founder of the Seattle-based startup SniffSpot, with his dog Soba, at a property in the city where they had access to a fenced-in yard. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) When David Adams...
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ModCloth co-founder aims to create ‘world’s most-used cryptocurrency’ with...
Merit CEO and co-founder Adil Wali. (Photo via Merit) You’ve probably read or heard about cryptocurrency in the news. Maybe your techie friend owns some Bitcoin. But you likely don’t own any digital...
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Univ. of Washington spinout takes on $5.2B hospital scheduling problem with...
(Bigstock Photo)stock Hospitals have to solve a thousand logistical challenges every day, but perhaps none are more difficult than operating room schedules. Surgeries can be difficult to predict — in...
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The Portland Incubator Experiment returns after 3 years with new startups and...
PIE Program Manager Chevonne James. Since 2009, the Portland Incubator Experiment has gone through multiple iterations but maintained a common goal: help founders build their businesses. After shutting...
View ArticleLIVE: 2018 GeekWire Awards
We’re on the scene at MoPOP in Seattle for the 10th anniversary of the GeekWire Awards, presented by Wave Business, where we’ll recognize Pacific Northwest innovators in 13 categories — including Deal...
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Revealed: Winners of the 2018 GeekWire Awards
Trish Millines Dziko, co-founder and executive director of Technology Access Foundation, accepts the Geeks Give Back award as TAF’s Tyrone Cunningham and Shaunte Nance-Johnson and Bank of America’s Kim...
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