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Harvey Mudd’s Maria Klawe joins Glowforge board, ushering in new era for 3D...
Dr. Maria Klawe at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit. (Fortune Photo / Krista Kennell) Glowforge, the Seattle startup that rebounded from early setbacks to become a fast-growing 3D laser printer...
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Not just another robot idea at CES, Picnic pizza platform will churn out real...
Freshly sliced pepperoni is delivered via conveyer belt onto a pizza by Picnic’s robot. (GeekWire Photo / James Thorne) The only thing more attention grabbing than the technology at the annual...
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HaptX raises $12M, partners with Advanced Input Systems, to develop next...
HaptX gloves help users move through virtual environments. (HaptX Photo) HaptX announced a $12 million fundraising round Thursday, allowing the Seattle startup to develop its next generation of...
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Microsoft’s M12 backs AI-powered contract management startup Evisort in $15M...
(Nate Gowdy Photo) Microsoft is getting behind Evisort, a startup that makes artificial intelligence software to automate processing and tracking of corporate contracts. Microsoft’s investment arm M12...
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GeekWire Update: New team members, and the next phase in this media startup...
As we brought the GeekWire team together last week at our offices in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, recapping the past year and looking ahead to the next, we were struck by the number of people in...
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What happened to Vicis: Inside the collapse of the high-tech helmet maker, as...
A display inside the Vicis headquarters building in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Inside the lobby of Vicis‘ headquarters in Seattle this week,...
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Vicis lays off more than 100 employees in latest blow to troubled football...
Vicis headquarters building in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle startup Vicis officially eliminated the jobs of more than 100 employees on Friday,...
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How Karat’s engineering chief gets things done and runs effective meetings by...
Zach van Schouwen, vice president of engineering at Karat. (Karat Photo) Zach van Schouwen, vice president of engineering for Karat, landed his job through a Craigslist ad. It was 2016 and he was on...
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Seattle game studio led by ArenaNet co-founder and ex-Undead Labs engineer...
(One More Game Photo) Seattle’s already robust gaming scene is getting even stronger. One More Games, a studio started earlier this year by a pair of veterans of the gaming industry who also spent...
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Inspired to help parents manage kids’ use of internet, this startup monitors...
Yuan Karppanen, CEO and co-founder of UNpkl. (UNpkl Photo) To make the pitch for her Seattle-based startup, Yuan Karppanen poses some basic questions for our tech-enhanced world: Do you know what your...
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Silicon Valley powerhouse VC firm Greylock just backed this stealthy Seattle...
Falkon co-founders Mona Akmal, Aakash Kambuj, and Josh Zana. (Falkon AI Photo) A stealthy Seattle startup has raised seed funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock and Bellevue,...
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GeekWire 200 update: Heavily funded startups climb the list of top Pacific NW...
Inside the headquarters of Convoy, the Seattle-based digital freight network, which climbed into the top 10 of the GeekWire 200 index this year. (Convoy Photo) At first glance, the GeekWire 200 might...
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Startup Style-At-Iz helps shoppers create and purchase personalized wardrobes...
Part of the Style-At-Iz team, from left to right: fashion stylist and designer Jessica Singh, co-founder Swati Padmarah Angolkar, and co-founder Ritesh Desai. (Style-At-Iz photo) U.S. clothing sales...
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: Interview with Outlook product chief; comic...
— How did Outlook’s mobile app reach 100 million users since launching in 2015? Hear from Outlook Mobile team leader and longtime Microsoft employee Michael Palermiti talk about his learnings at the...
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Wyze data leak: Key takeaways from server mistake that exposed information...
Seattle-area startup Wyze offers low-cost video security cameras and other IoT devices. (Wyze Photo) Post updated at 6 p.m. on Dec. 29. Seattle-area startup Wyze, a provider of home video cameras and...
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Magic AI shuts down after failing to corral sufficient market for AI-powered...
Magic AI founder and CEO Alexa Anthony, third from right, with her team at the Seattle-based startup. (Michelle Moore Photo) It was a good ride for Magic AI. But Alexa Anthony’s love for horses and...
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Seattle startup Trainiac raises $2.2M to match people with personal trainers
From Left: Stephanie Hughes, founding product designer; Akshay Ahooja, co-founder and CEO; Aurora Sekine, director of personal training; and Frank Fan, co-founder and CTO (Trainiac Photo) Like many...
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Look at this crazy cap table: Nearly 400 investors backed Vicis before...
Former Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin, one of hundreds of investors in Vicis, is pictured in the entry of the company’s headquarters building in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)...
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A big year for Pacific Northwest startups: Unicorn births, key exits, and...
Traffic snakes past downtown Seattle on Interstate 5. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) It was a big 2019 for startups across the Pacific Northwest. GeekWire 200 update: Heavily funded startups climb...
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The decade when tech turned dark: Learning from the mistakes of the past 10...
GeekWire Illustration / Time Magazine Covers The arrival of 2020 is a chance to look back on the past decade and what it has meant for the world of technology. Recent security problems with security...
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