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Y Combinator to open research lab in Seattle, hires former Microsoft exec Qi Lu for new China arm

Y Combinator is extending its reach in both Seattle and China. The famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator announced today that… Read More

Breaking News founders launch Factal, delivering real-time news and incident alerts to companies

When NBC News shut down its popular Breaking News website and app in late 2016, the team heard not just from… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Shop the Change sees purchases as ‘votes’ for companies and items you believe in

When you buy something, you’re voting with your dollar, giving your support to whatever brand you’re purchasing and the vendor… Read More

TLDR: Amazon’s Whole Foods grocery pick-up service, Magic Leap’s mixed reality headset, Ofo bike graveyard

Today’s featured stories Amazon to offer Whole Foods drive-up grocery pickup for the first time, starting at two stores  Hype… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Nori is creating a blockchain marketplace open to all to reverse climate change

Seattle-based startup Nori is hoping to deliver what Al Gore, the Paris climate accord and others have not: a market-driven… Read More

TLDR: Apple becomes a $1 trillion company, Starbucks & Alibaba launch delivery service, George Takei joins TraceMe

Today’s featured stories Apple becomes first American public company to be worth $1,000,000,000,000 — briefly Starbucks and Alibaba to integrate… Read More

Vicis lands $15M to boost production of high-tech football helmets and expand beyond gridiron

Vicis, the Seattle-based company known for high-tech helmets used in the NFL, NCAA, high school and youth football, has raised… Read More

Mindshare Medical launches AI cancer screening tech that can see data ‘beyond our perception’

You might think diagnosing cancer is easy: Someone either has a cancerous tumor or they don’t. In practice, it’s much… Read More

TLDR: Self-flying planes, Cat celeb Lil Bub lends poop to biotech startup, Facebook tool that tracks your time in the app

Today’s featured stories Boeing to open research center in Boston area, focusing on autonomous aircraft Cat celebrity Lil Bub lends… Read More

How Arlan Hamilton turned her hustle and grit into a minority-focused VC fund investing millions

Arlan Hamilton, founder of the venture capital fund Backstage Capital, says that she’s come out twice. First, as a lesbian,… Read More

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GeekWire 200 update: It’s the era of giant funding rounds, and Seattle-area startups are benefiting

It’s a good time to be raising venture capital in the Pacific Northwest, and startups on the GeekWire 200 are… Read More

Nintex acquires New Zealand process mapping company Promapp

Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex has acquired Promapp, a New Zealand firm that helps companies identify and automate their business processes. The companies… Read More

Real estate investment platform CrowdStreet raises $8M to develop new products and services

Portland, Ore.-based CrowdStreet, the crowdfunding commercial real estate investment platform, has raised $8 million in a Series B funding round… Read More

DreamBox Learning raises $130M, adds former U.S. Education Secretary to board

DreamBox Learning, the Bellevue, Wash., maker of an adaptive K-8 math education platform, announced Tuesday that it has raised a… Read More

Steth IO raises $1.23M to expand smartphone-based intelligent stethoscope to new markets

StratoScientific, the Seattle-based startup that makes the Steth IO smart stethoscope, has raised $1.23 million to expand the use of… Read More

Working Geek: Skilljar CEO Sandi Lin taps insights from Amazon to help run her startup

Sandi Lin left Amazon five years ago to launch her own startup, but her experience at the retail and cloud… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Profitable ad automation startup focuses on product development, not VC funding

A lot of businesses outsource to cut costs. But the CEO of Seattle-based startup Advangelists says that keeping all of… Read More

Horse-monitoring startup Magic AI acquires Victory Parade to bolster its machine learning stable

Magic AI, the startup using artificial intelligence to better understand and care for horses, is adding more talent to its… Read More

Marketing vet Shauna Causey joins Madrona Venture Labs, heads up new kids clothing startup

Long-time Seattle marketing veteran Shauna Causey has joined Madrona Venture Labs. Causey will become a partner at the startup studio… Read More

An inside look at Create33: Madrona’s new ‘founder center’ attempts to spark Seattle entrepreneurs

Micah Baldwin answers quickly when asked about the vision for Create33, a new “founder center” opening next month on the… Read More

Ignition’s John Connors: Seattle is becoming the most important tech market behind Silicon Valley

Seattle’s tech scene has a lot of mojo going on right now. That’s the word from John Connors, managing partner… Read More

Network monitoring giant Gigamon acquires Seattle security startup ICEBRG

Gigamon has acquired Seattle startup ICEBRG to strengthen its networking and security technology. Gigamon, previously a publicly-traded company that was… Read More

Stealthy Carewave Medical raises cash for pain relief device using ‘Pulsed Heat Technology’

Carewave Medical, a stealth mode startup backed by big names in Seattle’s biotech industry, has raised just over $3 million… Read More

Clinical drug screening startup A-Alpha Bio awarded Small Business Innovation Research grant

  A-Alpha Bio, a startup aiming to speed up the development of new drugs, announced Tuesday it has won a… Read More

RFP response automation software startup RFPIO raises $25M

RFPIO, a Beaverton, Ore.-based startup that develops request-for-proposal response automation software, has raised a $25 million funding round from K1… Read More

On-demand storage startup and WeWork partner Livible raises $16M to expand nationwide

Seattle-based startup Livible has raised an additional $16 million in funding to fuel a nationwide expansion of its storage service.… Read More

Artificial intelligence startup DefinedCrowd raises more cash

DefinedCrowd is raising more investment for its artificial intelligence training platform used by Fortune 500 enterprises across the world. The… Read More

Why this new Silicon Valley seed-stage VC firm thinks it can win — and why it’s focusing on Seattle

David Rosenthal knows about the dearth of early-stage financing options available to entrepreneurs in the Seattle region. The venture capitalist… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Skillspire helps immigrants build tech skills in a supportive environment

Despite his background in computer science, one of Yasmin Ali’s students had been stuck working warehouse jobs. The man is… Read More

TLDR on location: Prime Day breaks record, Bill Gates invests in Alzheimer’s initiative, Wanderlust Society

Today’s featured stories Prime Day tops 100M products sold, becomes ‘biggest shopping event in Amazon history,’ despite glitches Investors including… Read More

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