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Fresh off Domino’s delivery partnership, Rad Power Bikes rolls out new $1,299...
Domino’s inked an exclusive deal with Rad Power Bikes to use its e-bikes for pizza deliveries across the U.S. (Domino’s Photo) It’s been a big month for Rad Power Bikes. The Seattle startup made...
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Cloud services company Skytap lays off 25 workers in first major change under...
Skytap CEO Bradley Schick. (Skytap Photo) Enterprise cloud services company Skytap is laying off 25 employees, or around 12 percent of its workforce, in an effort to “optimize” its operations, the...
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Why Nestlé just bought a personalized vitamin startup in Washington state
(Persona Image) A small startup from the mountains of the Pacific Northwest is now part of a global food and beverage behemoth. Nestlé Life Science this month acquired Snoqualmie, Wash.-based Persona...
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Intellectual Ventures spinoff Xinova lays off staff as invention network...
Xinova CEO and founder Edward Jung. Seattle-based “invention network” company Xinova cut staff today, GeekWire has learned. A company spokesperson declined to provide details about how many employees...
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Y Combinator grad Preclusio automates how companies comply with tech privacy...
Preclusio co-founders John and Heather Wade. (Preclusio Photo) The scary truth about many technology companies is that for years they’ve been vacuuming up vast quantities of personal data without even...
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No poop required: Researchers devise blood test for gut microbiome diversity...
Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle developed a way to test for microbiome diversity from a blood sample. (Artist rendering courtesy of ISB) If you want to know what’s going on...
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Would you trust this startup to plan a mystery date for you? We did — and...
Each Mystery date includes at least one activity. Experience host Jordan Hanssen, pictured above, rowed us from Lake Union to Lake Washington in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / James Thorne) It’s 6:30 p.m....
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Suplari raises more cash for ‘enterprise insights system’ that helps...
The Suplari team. (Suplari Photos) Top venture capitalists and the investment arm of Workday are putting more dollars behind Suplari, a Seattle startup that uses artificial intelligence to help...
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Microsoft acquires cloud migration startup Movere to help companies...
Movere CEO Kristin Ireland. (Movere Photo) Microsoft didn’t have to go far for its latest acquisition. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant today announced that it acquired Movere, an 11-year-old...
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Three Seattle startups make LinkedIn’s 2019 list of 50 hottest companies to...
(LinkedIn Image / Ben Ingham) LinkedIn’s 2019 list of the 50 Top Startups in the U.S. once again includes three companies from Seattle, with two unicorns and one fast-growing customer data platform...
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Pulumi takes on cloud juggernauts with flagship product for deploying...
Pulumi executive chairman Eric Rudder, left, and CEO Joe Duffy. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Seattle startup Pulumi is formally launching its technology for programming the underlying infrastructure...
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Prudential to buy Seattle-area insurance tech startup Assurance for $2.35B
Assurance CEO and founder Michael Rowell. (Business Wire Photo) Prudential Financial agreed to acquire Seattle-area startup Assurance IQ for $2.35 billion, the companies announced Thursday. The...
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GeekWire Elevator Pitch returns! An insect farmer, detergent maker and wine...
GeekWire Elevator Pitch entrepreneurs Keith McCall of Pollen Systems; Virginia Emery of Beta Hatch; and Christoph Krumm of Sironix Renewables. (GeekWire Photos / Dan DeLong) Welcome to Smith Tower!...
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How a stealthy insurance tech startup bootstrapped its way to a $2.35B...
Michael Paulus (left) and Michael Rowell co-founded Assurance in early 2016. Less than four years later, they sold the company for $2.35 billion. (Assurance Photo) It started as conversations between...
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Studio216 pivots to mixed reality startup, raises $1.1M and looks to build...
Altoura CTO Bharat Ahluwalia; CEO Jamie Fleming; and COO Charlie Choo. (Altoura Photo) Jamie Fleming launched studio216 in 2005 and helped build the digital content agency for more than a decade. But...
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Corrio aims to reduce recidivism with messaging technology for incarcerated...
Alex Peder, CEO and founder of Corrio. (Corrio Photo) Life without readily available cell, text and email communication is unimaginable for most of us. But for people who are incarcerated, those basic...
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LTN Global will acquire Seattle startup Make.TV to bolster live video...
Make.TV CEO Andreas Jacobi. (Make.TV Photo) LTN Global has agreed to acquire Make.TV, a 3-year-old Seattle startup that builds live video streaming technology. Savage, Md.-based LTN Global sells...
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Y Combinator grad Brave Care raises another $5.2M for tech-fueled urgent care...
Brave Care CEO Darius Monsef, CTO Asa Miller, COO Maryam Taheri and CMO Dr. Corey Fish (Brave Care Photo) Brave Care is attracting so much investor attention that it didn’t even need to pitch at Y...
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Uber doubles down on trucking venture, will invest $200M in new Uber Freight...
Heads up, Convoy: Uber is doubling down on its trucking venture. Uber announced Monday that it will invest $200 million annually and hire thousands at a new Uber Freight headquarters in Chicago,...
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Techstars Seattle grad Rammer.AI raises $1.8M to democratize ‘conversational...
Rammer.AI co-founder Surbhi Rathore pitches at Techstars Seattle Demo Day in May. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Rammer.AI wants to help put “conversational intelligence” capabilities in the hands of...
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