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Bounce Exchange acquires Techstars Seattle grad GoChime
GoChime CEO Austin Evarts. Bounce Exchange, a New York-based marketing software company, has acquired direct marketing startup GoChime for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition was announced Tuesday...
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Bot that helps people in UK and NYC fight traffic tickets coming to Seattle...
Seattle may be the next city for a “robot lawyer” that has helped people beat more than 160,000 traffic tickets in the United Kingdom and New York City. According to VentureBeat, 19-year-old Stanford...
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Deako raises $3.5M for smart light switches; strikes deals for 10% of new...
Credit: Deako Seattle-based smart light switch builder Deako has raised $3.5 million in funding, and its technology will be used in close to 10 percent of new homes built in the Seattle area next year....
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Startup Spotlight: ActiveGiver wants to ‘level the playing field’ for...
ActiveGiver CEO Saar Safra Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid — and Barack Obama’s before him — proved the power of grassroots donations. But a wealthy minority still dominates the campaign finance game....
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UW CoMotion opening new HQ with space for virtual, augmented reality startups
The University of Washington’s CoMotion program will move its headquarters to this building at 4545 Roosevelt. (Credit: Conrado Tapado, University of Washington CoMotion) University of Washington’s...
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Virtual reality fireworks: Ex-Double Down CEO has a blast launching stealthy...
The “Fireworks Lady Liberty” app from Seattle’s Presence Labs. (Via Presence Labs) We won’t question your patriotism if you’re apprehensive about battling big crowds to take in a fireworks show this...
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Pebblebee Finder: Former Boeing engineers launch new Kickstarter for next-gen...
Pebblebee co-founders Nick Pearson-Franks and Daniel Daoura. (GeekWire Photo) In 2014, when former Boeing engineers Daniel Daoura and Nick Pearson-Franks launched Pebblebee, they marketed their...
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Ex-Microsoft exec Anoop Gupta’s new startup is rethinking messaging by...
Former Microsoft exec Anoop Gupta, CEO and co-founder, with Aravind Bala, CTO and co-founder. Their startup is developing a new messaging service called Telo. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Social...
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Google acquires French machine learning startup Moodstocks in...
Moodstocks’ team will work on image and item recognition features for Google. (Credit: goodluz / Shutterstock) Google announced today it has acquired Paris-based machine learning startup Moodstocks to...
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Synapse spin-out Osmosis raises $1.7M to enhance the live event experience...
Russ Stromberg. A stealthy new Seattle startup wants to use your smartphone and the “Internet of Things” to help sports fans, music lovers, and others enjoy a “VIP experience” each time they attend a...
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Study: Venture capital investment in unicorns hits all-time high, as startups...
Chart: Pitchbook. (Click for larger image) Billion-dollar unicorns like Uber and Snapchat are sucking up more investor money than ever, and early-stage startups are finding it tough to raise funds,...
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Machine learning startup Dato changes name to Turi after trademark battle
From GraphLab to Dato to Turi. Seattle-based machine learning startup Dato, which originally launched as GraphLab, announced today that it has changed its name again. Now, the company is known as Turi,...
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Seattle startup Presence Labs bets on virtual reality for the masses, led by...
The Presence Labs team works out of a studio in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. (Via Presence Labs) After Greg Enell left Double Down Interactive in January 2014, he got about halfway through a...
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Turi releases new features to make machine learning easier, faster for apps
Turi CEO Carlos Guestrin. Turi, formerly Dato, today released the newest version of its GraphLab Create platform and several other features designed to make it easier to add machine learning features...
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Socrata cuts sales and marketing staff, shifts focus to large governments
Seattle-based Socrata, which develops cloud-based offerings for open data governments, has spent the last six months shifting its focus to work closer with larger government organizations. As a result,...
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Shyft lands $1.5M from Madrona and top athletes to help employees easily swap...
Chris Pitchford (director of growth), Daniel Chen (CTO), Brett Patrontasch (CEO), Kyle Liu (lead mobile developer). Shyft Technologies, a Seattle-based startup that helps people trade shifts with...
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ShareGrid raises $1M to expand peer-to-peer marketplace for film and photo...
The ShareGrid team. ShareGrid, a marketplace where creatives can share professional equipment and shooting locations, announced $1 million in seed funding Wednesday. MHS Capital, a San Francisco VC...
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Tred brings its mobile and automated car dealership service to Portland
The TRED team. Photo via TRED. Tred is expanding to Portland. The Seattle startup is now operating in The Rose City, offering its mobile dealership service to car owners looking to sell their vehicles....
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This ‘smart helmet’ lets cyclists listen to music through their bones, not ears
Photos via Coros. While some cyclists enjoy listening to music with headphones on a bike ride, there are plenty of safety risks involved when you can’t hear anything else in the general vicinity except...
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Startup Spotlight: ‘Tinder for friends’ app Patook uses artificial...
Geosocial apps are having a bit of a moment. Tinder, Bumble, and a host of other services have emerged in recent years, promising to foster connections with real people, nearby. But online dating paved...
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