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Women’s clothing rental service Armoire raises more cash, moves into new HQ...
Armoire CEO Ambika Singh. (Armoire Photos) Armoire is growing. The high-tech clothing rental startup just reeled in more cash to complete a $3.9 million seed round and is set to move into a new 7,500...
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Techstars Seattle leader Chris DeVore to step down, will focus on Founders’...
Techstars Seattle Managing Director Chris Devore will step down next month. (GeekWire File Photo) After nearly five years leading Techstars Seattle as managing director, Chris DeVore is stepping down...
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‘AWS for blockchain’: ArcBlock aims to build, manage and deploy decentralized...
Robert Mao, CEO and founder of ArcBlock, presenting at the Make the Impossible Possible Conference in Vietnam in July 2018. (ArcBlock Photo) If you’re still wrapping your head around blockchain 1.0...
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Salesforce’s $15.7B Tableau deal is a defining moment for the West Coast tech...
Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Salesforce surprised the tech world this week with its agreement to acquire Tableau Software for $15.7 billion — although maybe it...
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Here are the Pacific Northwest region winners for EY’s 2019 Entrepreneur of...
The EY winners, from left to right: Stay Alfred CEO Jordan Allen; nutpods CEO Madeline Haydon; Myers Container CEO Kyle Stavig; Concord Technologies CEO Chris Moore; Gourmondo CEO Alissa Leinonen;...
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Joydrive raises more cash, reaches 14 states as startup aims to move...
(Joydrive Photo) Thanks to the rise of e-commerce, buying a car on the internet has become as easy as ordering food or booking a hotel. Seattle startup Joydrive is riding this trend and just raised...
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Acumatica acquired by UK private equity firm in bid to take on Oracle,...
Acumatica CEO Jon Roskill. (Acumatica Photo) In what it calls an attempt to take on global enterprise software giants including Microsoft, Oracle and Sage, Bellevue, Wash.-based Acumatica announced...
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Uber reportedly wants to acquire Seattle computer vision startup Mighty AI to...
(Mighty AI Photo) Uber is reportedly eyeing Seattle startup Mighty AI as an acquisition target. Mighty AI CEO Daryn Nakhuda. (Mighty AI Photo) Three anonymous sources tell The Information that Uber...
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Crowd Cow expands with new local beef program, lands more investment from...
(Crowd Cow Photo) Crowd Cow, the Seattle-based startup with a mission of bringing higher quality, more sustainably raised meat to consumers, is doubling down on hyper-local farms with the launch of...
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Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel building mysterious biotech startup, backed by...
Sujal Patel. (GeekWire File Photo) Sujal Patel has seen a world-changing trend coming before. In 2001, in his mid-20s, he founded data storage technology company Isilon Systems in Seattle, correctly...
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Digital prescription marketplace Xealth closes $14M round as healthcare...
Xealth’s platform allows caregivers to prescribe digital health solutions. (Xealth Screenshot) The healthcare industry is racing toward a future in which both your general health and diseases will be...
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Glowforge partners with WeWork to install 3D printers at co-working locations
(Glowforge Photo) Seattle startup Glowforge today announced a partnership with WeWork to place its 3D laser printer at co-working spaces across the world. WeWork will provide access to printers from...
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Want fashion advice from Angelina Jolie’s personal stylist? This Seattle...
GlamHive CEO Stephanie Sprangers. (GeekWire File Photo) Smartphones and social media apps have changed the way people find fashion inspiration. The ability to quickly scroll through various clothing...
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This startup from a small city in Oregon wants to revolutionize the metal...
Matt Cibula, seated at the computer, and Nathan Pettinger, working on technology for Ampere Scientific, company providing tools for metals processing. (Ampere Scientific Photo) Disruptive technology...
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Procurify raises $20M to help companies track organizational spending
(Procurify Photo) Procurify, a Vancouver, B.C. startup that makes cloud-based software to help companies manage their spending, raised $20 million to expand internationally and beef up sales and...
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Can virtual assistants make healthcare more human? Startups create voice tech...
Ryan Plasch, vice president of growth and strategy at Saykara, and CEO Harjinder Sandhu. (GeekWire Photo) Peek into a random hospital room in the U.S. today, and you might see something that makes you...
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Uber acquires Seattle startup Mighty AI to fuel its push into self-driving cars
One of Uber’s self-driving vehicles outside the company’s facility in Pittsburgh. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Uber just made its first acquisition of a Seattle startup, swooping up Mighty AI,...
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This Seattle startup helps direct-to-consumer brands ‘take a page from...
The SoundCommerce team. (SoundCommerce Photos) Be like Amazon. That’s the mantra for SoundCommerce, a new Seattle startup which just raised $6.8 million to help online retailers improve their...
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How to save Rupert Murdoch’s finger, and other startup lessons from...
Serial entrepreneur T.A. McCann speaks at The Playbook event on Wednesday in Seattle. (GeekWire Photos / Kevin Lisota) Not every entrepreneur can say they helped save Rupert Murdoch’s finger from...
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As demand for learning English grows, Seattle’s Lana pairs native speakers...
Part of the Lana team from left to right: Cynthia Hannon, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder Paul Neville, CEO and co-founder Tina Tran Neville, Makayla Sonstelie, Zhuo Shan, Sarthak Turkhia, Juan...
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