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Booster Fuels brings mobile gas delivery service to Seattle region as part of...
(Booster Fuels Photos) As a designated “chief fueling officer” of the family, Frank Mycroft found himself at his local Seattle gas station, sitting in line for the second time in a day. There had to...
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Ex-Amazon execs raise more cash to grow e-commerce startups Ideoclick and...
Replenium CEO Tom Furphy and Ideoclick CEO Justin Leigh. (Replenium/Ideoclick Photo) There’s a whole cottage industry of startups eager to help retailers crack the e-commerce code. Two of those...
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ZoomInfo acquires Komiko, a Seattle-area CRM startup founded by Microsoft...
(Komiko Screenshot) Vancouver, Wash.-based marketing software firm ZoomInfo bought Komiko, a 4-year-old Seattle-area startup that improves the customer relationship management (CRM) process with data...
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Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B valuation amid trucking recession and Uber...
Convoy CEO Dan Lewis at the company’s Seattle headquarters, with its mission statement on the wall. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) It’s another busy day for Dan Lewis. He’s just come out of a big...
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SheerID raises $64M to help marketers offer online deals to students,...
SheerID co-founders David Shear and Jake Weatherly. (SheerID Photo) Marketing verification startup SheerID just raised $64 million of fresh funding in a round led by CVC Growth Partners with...
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Moving app Dolly blocked by Washington regulators in ongoing gig economy dispute
Dolly’s main service is no longer available for customers in Washington state. (Dolly Photo) Washington state residents who rely on Dolly for the Seattle-based startup’s peer-to-peer moving service...
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Software development startup DjangoForce wins clients by pulling back the...
DjangoForce co-founders Patrick Falvey (left) and Jason Martin. (DjangoForce Photo) DjangoForce, a software development company, is by all measures a tech startup. But the CEO of the Boise-based...
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These 20 Seattle-area tech companies made CNBC and Deloitte’s new rankings
(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Seattle tech scene is well-represented on a pair of new rankings of the fastest growing companies in North America and startups to watch, another sign of the...
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Cannabis testing lab Confidence Analytics raising cash to expand to California
Confidence Analytics tests cannabis samples. (Confidence Analytics Photo) Confidence Analytics, the self-proclaimed first cannabis lab to test a sample under Washington state’s legal recreational...
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Jeff Bezos-backed vertical agriculture startup Plenty ‘hibernates’ plans for...
Plenty’s next-generation vertical farm called Tigris. (Plenty Photo) Plenty is rethinking its growth strategy. The indoor agriculture startup backed by high-profile tech executives — including Amazon...
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: TEDxSeattle, hacking for good, science improv, and...
— Since its founding in 1984, TED has become the most prolific provider of expert talks on a wide range of topics. TEDxSeattle, now in its 10th year, has given local artists, activists, and scientists...
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A guide for startups to prepare for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
(BigStock Photo) This week, Microsoft announced that it will be implementing the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) for all customers in the U.S. This is a big deal. The CCPA has...
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Seattle startup Crowd Cow raising more cash to beef up meat marketplace
Crowd Cow co-founder Joe Heitzeberg grabs a burger featuring his company’s beef during a menu tasting at T-Mobile Park in Seattle earlier this year. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Crowd Cow is...
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Extra cheese, please: Restaurant tech startup Picnic lands $5M for pizza robot
Picnic’s robot assembles pizza at a rate of 300 per hour. (GeekWire Photo / James Thorne) Seattle startup Picnic, which makes robots for the restaurant industry, raised $5 million in a seed round led...
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Female Founders Alliance grad Give InKind raises $1.5M for social support...
Give InKind CEO Laura Macolm. (Give InKind Photo) When people need support during big life events — whether it be a family member passing away, or a newborn baby — fruit baskets and flowers sometimes...
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CI Security raises another $6.4M to help hospitals implement cybersecurity tech
CI Security CEO Garrett Silver. (CI Security Photo) New funding: CI Security, a 85-person cybersecurity startup with offices in Seattle, Bremerton, and Ellensburg, Wash., has raised an additional $6.4...
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Rising Pacific Northwest startups show that financial technology is about...
Subsplash’s app helps churches collect money with a full engagement and donation system. (Subsplash Image) Key Takeaways Seattle-area startups are building fintech offerings centered around...
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Shield Compliance nabs $5M for cannabis banking platform
Shield Compliance CEO Noah Carey. (Shield Compliance Photo) New funding: Seattle-based Shield Compliance raised $5 million in Series A funding to build out its platform that helps pot companies and...
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Why the WeWork fallout isn’t affecting women-focused co-working startup The...
The Riveter CEO Amy Nelson. (The Riveter Photo) The WeWork fallout isn’t having any negative effects on The Riveter, a Seattle-based startup that has grown its women-focused co-working business...
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Seattle-area startup Quantivate raises cash for risk and compliance platform
Quantivate CEO Andy Vanderhoff and CTO Paul Rorberg. (Quantivate Photos) New funding: Woodinville, Wash.-based Quantivate, which sells software for risk management and compliance, raised an...
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