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Startups vie for gadget greatness: Vote for the best hardware innovation at...
Hardware can be a tough world, but the Pacific Northwest is replete with ambitious gadget makers looking for creative solutions to problems of all sorts. Private email servers, heart monitors, smart...
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Real estate startup Showdigs raises $3M to build and expand apartment showing...
Showdigs interfaces for property managers, users and brokers. (Showdigs Photo) Another new Seattle startup has raised cash to fix problems in the complicated world of real estate. Showdigs raised a $3...
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GeekWire Awards 2019: Here’s what makes these Startup CEO of the Year...
The Startup CEO of the Year finalists, from left to right, clockwise: Leen Kawas, Athira Pharma; Scott Moore, Ad Lightning; Ambika Singh, Armoire; Milkana Brace, Jargon; and Forest Key, Pixvana....
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Stripe for ID verification: Investors bet on new Madrona Venture Labs...
Vouched CEO John Baird. (Vouched Photo) Vouched, a Seattle startup using AI to verify people’s identities online, has joined the Madrona Venture Labs accelerator. The 3-month accelerator program...
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Startup Spotlight: Couples say ‘I do!’ to Everly’s digital alternative for...
One of the happy couples who got hitched with Everly’s help. (Catalina Jean Photography) Before launching a digital solution for wedding planning, Juliet Horton decided to start a business doing it...
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New female-focused co-working spaces crop up in Seattle to take on The Riveter
Knack co-founders Mariah Lincoln and Catherine Bye. (Knack Photo) Competition is heating up among co-working spaces geared toward women. The Riveter pioneered the model, launching a female-focused...
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: Science fiction literature, biases in AI, and...
(Norwescon Image) — “We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” That statement seems eerily on point for what’s going on in the world right now, but it’s actually a quote from “The...
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More cash for Pacific Northwest startups: Founders’ Co-op raises $25M fund,...
Founders’ Co-op Managing Partners Chris DeVore and Aviel Ginzburg. (Founders’ Co-op Photo) More investment dollars are flowing into the Pacific Northwest startup ecosystem thanks to a new fund from...
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GeekWire Awards: Rising startup founders highlight Young Entrepreneur of the...
The Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalists, clockwise from left to right: Rad Power Bikes co-founders Mike Radenbaugh and Ty Collins; Loftium co-founder Yifan Zhang; Slope co-founder Brian Bosché;...
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This startup wants to bring commercial real estate investing to the masses
Sean Hsieh. (Flowroute Photo) Less than a year after selling his telecommunications startup, Flowroute founder Sean Hsieh has embarked on a new venture that aims to open up the world of commercial...
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New unicorn in Seattle: Outreach raises massive $114M round, pushing...
(Outreach Photo) Seattle has a new unicorn. Sales automation startup Outreach has reeled in a huge $114 million investment round that pushes its valuation to $1.1 billion, joining an elite club of...
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Fancy rentable dog houses with air conditioning and a ‘puppy cam’ arrive in...
(DogSpot Photo) The nation’s fanciest dog houses are coming to the most dog-friendly city in the U.S. DogSpot, the maker of shared dog houses that you can rent by the minute, is launching in Seattle...
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Flickr founder, top VCs invest in Seattle startup that sells used kids...
Kids on 45th CEO Elise Worthy. (Kids on 45th Photo) Kids on 45th had long been Seattle’s most well-known and oldest children’s consignment store. But in 2017, nearly 30 years after it opened, the tiny...
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invests in $25M round for Naveen Jain’s...
(Viome Photo) Viome, a wellness startup from entrepreneur Naveen Jain, has raised $25 million in funding from a crop of investors that includes Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Jain said the new cash,...
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EY reveals Pacific Northwest finalists for 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year
Winners of the 2018 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) EY on Thursday revealed the Pacific Northwest region finalists for its annual Entrepreneur of the Year program...
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Convoy launches new marketplace to help small trucking businesses compete...
(Convoy Image) After years of development and testing, Convoy today launched a new marketplace that helps small trucking companies get access to potential business traditionally available to only...
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: Open source project led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee;...
— When he invented the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee had a specific vision for how it would evolve, and things haven’t gone exactly as he planned. At its inception, the web was supposed to be a...
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Growing like weed: Pot tech startups bloom as Pacific NW becomes hub for...
An example of iUNU’s computer vision technology for monitoring cannabis and other indoor agriculture operations. iUNU’s cameras and AI monitors minute movements in plants to increase greenhouse...
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Seattle cybersecurity startup Critical Informatics raises $9.6M and changes...
CI Security’s Kraken Signal on the wall of its office. (CI Security Photo) A cybersecurity startup that pairs software with analysts who review and investigate attacks raised $9.6 million to continue...
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How a Seattle startup turned a low-tech, thrift-store inspiration into a...
Nancie Weston, founder and CEO of Raiin. (Raiin Photo) Inspiration can come from unlikely places. For Nancie Weston, it sparked in a Goodwill thrift store. Seven years ago, Weston co-founded Grayl, a...
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