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GeekWire Calendar Picks: Stand-up mathematician; healthcare at home; geeky...
— Math is one of those subjects that seems to be divisive among students as they grow up. Basically, you love it or you hate it. There aren’t many middle-of-the-road opinions about it. And many...
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GeekWire Podcast: Bezos phone hack; Microsoft Surface innovations; Gottmans...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the re:MARS conference in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Did the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia really hack into Jeff Bezos’ phone? It sure looks that way,...
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Opendoor and MoxiWorks team up to arm real estate agents with cash offers for...
(Opendoor Photo) Seattle real estate tech startup MoxiWorks is teaming up with leading iBuyer Opendoor in a new partnership to help agents get cash offers for their clients’ homes. Opendoor, like...
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StormSensor lands more funding to help cities manage flooding and sewage...
StormSensor co-founder and CEO Erin Rothman. (StormSensor Photo) StormSensor continues to raise cash for its technology system that helps track stormwater data. The Seattle startup just reeled in...
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Ventec Life Systems raises $20M for multi-function ventilator
(Ventec Life Systems Photo) Ventec Life Systems has raised more than $20 million to fuel commercialization of its unique portable ventilator. The Bothell, Wash.-based company raised the Series E round...
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WTIA and Canadian government name 5 startups for Seattle-based blockchain...
Arry Yu, now chair of the Washington Technology Industry Association’s Cascadia Blockchain Council, speaks at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) A new business accelerator...
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Ex-Amazon, Oracle engineers raise $4M for robotic process automation startup...
Kloud.io today announced a $4 million seed round led by Unusual Ventures, with participation from Jason Calacanis and Firebolt Ventures. Founded in 2016, the Silicon Valley-based startup helps...
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Seattle startup SkyKick ‘pleased’ with ruling in EU trademark dispute with...
(L to R): Todd Schwartz and Evan Richman, co-founders and co-CEOs of Skykick. (Skykick Photo) Seattle startup SkyKick and the Comcast-owned broadcasting giant Sky are both upbeat about an important...
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GeekWire 200 update reveals trending startups in edtech, consumer tech, B.C....
There’s a growing cohort of education tech companies across the Pacific Northwest. A flurry of up-and-coming startups are sprouting up in British Columbia. And while Seattle is an enterprise software...
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: Race science, a speedy hackathon, modern mentorship,...
— As social beings, friendship is necessary for most of us in regard to our mental health. But recently, scientists have discovered the bond of friendship may be more important than other aspects of...
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Techstars Seattle reveals the 10 new startups in its 11th accelerator cohort
The 11th cohort of Techstars Seattle officially kicked off a 3-month journey today at the Seattle-based accelerator. Techstars Seattle, the third version of Techstars after Boulder and Boston, has...
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Remitly expands beyond remittances, launches new banking service for immigrants
The Remitly team. (Remitly Photo) Remitly, the well-funded Seattle startup that helps people send money overseas, is expanding beyond remittances for the first time and launching a new banking service...
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A startup built around building materials: Yesler marketplace is like Expedia...
Yesler founder and CEO Matt Meyers, left, and CTO Jeff Lubetkin. (Yesler Photo) Matt Meyers spent two decades at Weyerhaeuser dealing with product engineering, manufacturing, software engineering,...
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Gender balance: Why this investment firm is using a male-female co-led fund...
WestRiver Group managing directors, from left to right: Scott Maw, Lisa Stone, Erik Anderson, Richelle Parham, George Montgomery, Laurel Buckner, Anthony Bontrager, and Deepa Prasad. (WestRiver Group...
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Ex-Amazon, FedEx leaders raise $3M from Madrona and 8VC for Seattle trucking...
Marty Sinicrope (left), Farah Ali, and Will Payson, co-founders of Freightweb. (Freightweb Photos) Another Seattle startup is blending technology with logistics to change the way goods move around the...
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Element Data co-founder leads new holding company for customer loyalty...
Geoff McDonald, who previously co-founded and led Seattle startup Element Data, is heading up a new holding company that helps brands improve their personalized customer loyalty technology. i2 Holdings...
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Ex-Google Cloud engineers raise $8M for Seattle machine learning startup Kaskada
Kaskada CEO Davor Bonaci, CTO Ben Chambers and VP of Product Emily Kruger. (Kaskada Photo) Machine learning is all the rage in big tech, but still largely unavailable to most companies that don’t have...
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Seattle-based on-demand storage startup Livible merges with home transition...
Livible founder Terry Drayton. Seattle startup Livible, an on-demand storage service led by veteran entrepreneur Terry Drayton, is merging with Richmond, Va.-based WayForth, the largest provider of...
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Transparent Systems exits stealth mode with $22M in funding for...
The Transparent System’s team has grown to 25 over the past year. (Transparent Systems Photo) Transparent Systems announced its launch Wednesday following months of quiet fundraising and product...
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Sue Bird-backed Seattle startup Vermouth acquired by OurMilitary.com...
Jeff Lanctot is Valor Worldwide’s co-founder and CEO. (Valor Worldwide Photo) Valor Worldwide, the Seattle-based digital media company behind OurMilitary.com, announced its first acquisition with a...
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