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How to create an effective pitch deck: A data-driven analysis of what makes...
Matt Rubright. (Matt Rubright Photo) Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Matt Rubright, an operator turned banker at Silicon Valley Bank. Building an effective pitch deck is a unique topic of...
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Seattle-area Earth observation satellite factory LeoStella is open for business
LeoStella technicians work on the first of 20 satellites to be produced by the Tukwila, Wash.-based startup. (GeekWire Photo) When you hear the words “satellite factory,” LeoStella‘s operations in a...
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Univ. of Washington CoMotion innovation center chief Vikram Jandhyala to step...
Vikram Jandhyala. (UW Photo) After five years of leading the University of Washington’s innovation center, Vikram Jandhyala is stepping down. Jandhyala, executive director of CoMotion, told GeekWire...
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Startup backed by ex-NBA players raises cash to build software for high...
Scorebook Live CEO Dan Beach. (Scorebook Live Photo) Scorebook Live has reeled in another $2.5 million to help high school sports programs get access to the same level of technology that professional...
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Industrial augmented reality smart headwear maker RealWear raises another $5M
(RealWear Photo) Vancouver, Wash.-based startup RealWear has raised another $5 million in a round from existing investor Columbia Ventures Corporation to expand its global sales arm and invest in...
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Seattle biotech startup Good Therapeutics raises $11M to make smart cancer...
Good Therapeutics, a new Seattle biotech startup that aims to develop protein drugs that act only when needed, raised $11 million in an equity round seeking twice that amount, according to a new SEC...
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Marketing tech startup Lytics raises $35M to help companies learn more about...
Lytics CEO and co-founder James McDermott. (Lytics Photo) Lytics has raised more funding to help brands such as Nestlé, The Economist, Atlassian and others bolster their 1-to-1 customer marketing...
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‘Circle with Disney’ device maker raises $20M to help parents set screen time...
Circle with Disney parental control device. (Circle Photo) Circle Media Labs, maker of the Circle with Disney parental control device, has raised $20 million in new investment. The Portland-based...
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Amazon’s Alexa Fund joins $28M round for CTRL-labs, makers of neural...
CTRL-labs connects the human brain to a machine via a wrist-worn device. (CTRL-labs Photo) CTRL-labs, the New York-based startup that is reimagining how the human brain can connect with machines, has...
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The secret to Seattle’s success in tech, and what needs to happen to spark...
Seattle’s tech scene has been built based on nitty-gritty infrastructure. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Despite all its success, Seattle’s tech community needs an unprecedented win to take it to...
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Seattle startup’s path to greatness could be this captivating walk through...
GeekWire’s Kurt Schlosser and his son find their way through “Wonderfall: Tale of Two Realms,” a Hyperspace virtual reality experience at Pacific Science Center in Seattle. (Jeff Ludwyck Photo for...
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Seattle startup Small Run removes the mystery and hassle out of shopping for...
Small Run co-founders Sarah Ward, left, and Libby L. Gerber. (Small Run Photo) If you’ve graduated from tacking up posters — including the faux-fancy kind that are shrink wrapped on cardboard — and...
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How scorpion venom helps improve brain cancer surgery in children by making...
Blaze Bioscience’s “Tumor Paint” is a synthetic version of a peptide originally found in the Israeli deathstalker scorpion. (Alastair Rae Photo via Flickr) Seattle biotech company Blaze Bioscience has...
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Agriculture startup iUNU raises $7.5M to turn greenhouses into high-tech...
(iUNU Photo) Seattle startup iUNU has raised more cash to expand its platform that uses technologies such as artificial intelligence and computer vision to change the way commercial greenhouse...
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Dressed with data: Seattle fashion rental startup Armoire uses curation to...
The Armoire team has grown from four to 28 in the past two years. (Armoire Photo) If Armoire has its way, women can say goodbye to cluttered closets and hundreds of wasted hours shopping for clothes....
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‘Parallel reality’ display technology startup Misapplied Sciences raises more...
That’s actually just one display, reflected in an array of mirrors. This photo from technology startup Misapplied Sciences Inc. uses mirrors to show how a single “parallel reality” display looks from...
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AI2’s Oren Etzioni to entrepreneurs: It’s not too late to ride the...
Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, answers questions during a chat moderated by Mike Grabham, director of the Seattle chapter of Startup Grind. (GeekWire Photo /...
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‘Halo Light’ maker Illumagear lands $2.5M to make construction workers safer...
(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Illumagear, the maker of the workplace safety device Halo Light, raised $2.5 million of a $4 million round, led by an initial investment from Brick & Mortar...
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: The GeekWire Bash is a week away; International...
Did you spend years in your parents’ basement playing ping pong? Or foosball? Or Catan? If so, join the GeekWire team and 2,000 Seattle area geeks on March 7th for the annual GeekWire Bash — the most...
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Off the Record, a startup that helps drivers fight tickets, wins dispute...
Alex Guirguis, co-founder of Off the Record, holds the app up on his phone as he poses in 2016 with the car that has gotten him a few speeding tickets. (Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire) A Seattle startup...
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