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Here are more than 50 women VCs and angel investors backing startups in...
Studies show that women-led startups outperform their male counterparts in revenue. Other research indicates that companies with more gender diversity generate better financial returns. Yet less than...
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Lessons from Amazon: How working at the tech giant helped this founder shape...
Perfect Loop co-founders Greg Rutty, Joseph Shao, and Anupam Khulbe. (Photo via Perfect Loop) Amazon DNA flows deeply within Perfect Loop. The Seattle startup, which helps match job candidates with...
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Silverback Therapeutics raises $37.5M, unveils tech that targets therapies to...
Peter Thompson, co-founder and CEO of Silverback Therapeutics. (OrbiMed Advisors Photo) Silverback Therapeutics, a stealthy biotechnology startup, gave the first glimpse of its technology Wednesday as...
View ArticleTLDR: Nest secretly buys digital health startup
Today’s featured stories Nest’s digital health ambitions revealed in records from secretive purchase of Seattle startup Senosis Backed by Seattle firm, Canadian pot company Tilray sees value soar to...
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Wrench acquires rival Otobots to expand mobile car repair service nationwide
The Wrench team. (Photo via Wrench) Wrench is swooping up a rival company as it plans to expand nationwide. Ed Petersen. The Seattle car repair startup today announced the acquisition of Otobots, a...
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The power of ‘radical candor’ and 4 other unorthodox leadership tips from...
Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader, left, interviewed by GeekWire co-founder John Cook at The Playbook event at The Ninety in Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Providing feedback to your...
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Trucking startup Convoy reaches $1B valuation after huge $185M investment led...
Ira Lawrence runs his own trucking business and uses Convoy to find work. (Photo via Ira Lawrence) After serving 14 years for the Royal Canadian Navy, Ira Lawrence was ready for a new adventure. He and...
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LeadScorz raises cash to help marketers analyze sales leads with AI
LeadScorz CEO Pat Murphy. Seattle-based startup LeadScorz has raised cash to fuel growth of its software that helps marketers improve their lead acquisition process. The company just reeled in a...
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GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch Ep. 8: Which entrepreneur will win over the judges...
We’re in the home stretch of GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch, a fun new startup pitch competition that started earlier this year and will conclude with one winner who’ll be chosen live on stage at the...
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Highspot raises $35M to grow AI-fueled sales software used by Amazon,...
Highspot CEO Robert Wahbe. (Photo via Highspot) During the last stretch of a 16-year career at Microsoft, Robert Wahbe was responsible for equipping sales teams with necessary information to help craft...
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Pixvana’s new virtual reality production software lets you edit VR content...
Pixvana’s VR editing software lets users edit VR content while wearing a headset. (Photo via Pixvana) Seattle startup Pixvana today released the full version of its software platform SPIN Studio that...
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Here’s how Convoy’s $185M investment stacks up to other top rounds for...
Convoy’s latest investment round was the largest for a Seattle-area startup in the past three years. Trucking startup Convoy reaches $1B valuation after huge $185M investment led by Google VC arm The...
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Leafly removes CEO Chris Jeffery, less than one year after he joined...
Chris Jeffery. (Leafly Photo) Seattle-based marijuana strain and dispensary review startup Leafly says it removed CEO Chris Jeffery on Monday. Privateer Holdings, the Seattle marijuana investment firm...
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Can’t get enough sun? Startup launches light therapy booths to bathe users in...
Inside the Solius light therapy kiosk in Vancouver, B.C. The device delivers vitamin D without harmful UV radiation. Its launch is a first for the company. (Solius Photo) You walk into a small kiosk...
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Asset condition reporting startup Record360 acquired by private equity group...
Record360 co-founders Damon Haber and Shane Skinner. (Photo via Record360) Seattle startup Record360 has been acquired by Alpine SG, a Silicon Valley group that invests in software-as-a-service...
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Alexa, who has the best pitch? GeekWire teams up with VC firm for Amazon...
The first-ever Alexa Accelerator cohort after their 2017 Demo Night in Seattle on Tuesday. (GeekWire photos/Taylor Soper) For the past several years, I’ve watched entrepreneurs give polished pitches at...
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Startup MyPeopleNow features some of the oddest ‘odd job’ services that you...
Some of the services available through MyPeopleNow. If you need someone to help with a small move, cleaning services or assembling boxed furniture, you can browse any number of sites for help. But what...
View ArticleTLDR: Instagram’s co-founders are leaving the company
Today’s featured stories Instagram Co-Founder and CEO Kevin Systrom announces plans to leave LinkedIn aims to share its trove of intel on companies and workers through new Talent Insights too Can’t...
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New Seattle-based VC firm aims to help startups bridge gap between seed and...
Mike Self. (Photo via StagedotO) As Series A investment rounds continue to get bigger and bigger, Mike Self and Devin Wade see opportunity to fill a gap. The long-time finance and tech executives are...
View ArticleTLDR: Microsoft & Green Bay Packers win fight over domain name
Today’s featured stories Green Bay Packers and Microsoft win domain name fight after family sought cash, tickets and tablets Amazon sues over malicious ads, alleging a ‘sophisticated and widespread’...
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