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Microsoft and Nathan Myhrvold invest in Atlas, a search engine for your digital footprint

Microsoft and Nathan Myhrvold are some of the backers behind a new Seattle startup that wants to create a search engine… Read More

Crowd Cow

The taste of success: We bite into a Crowd Cow burger as the startup eyes big growth

More than a year after launching Crowd Cow, the startup with a mission of delivering quality beef to meat eaters… Read More

After cutting its 500-person workforce in half, Porch focuses on profitability over revenue growth

In its early days, Porch was a small, scrappy startup, doing a lot with a little. The Seattle home improvement data company used… Read More

Looking for a job in Seattle tech? Check out these picks from our GeekWork job board

MedBridge, a video-based education platform for medical professionals, is currently hiring several engineers to join its 50-person team based in… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Venture Kits helps expose kids to entrepreneurship with ‘business in a box’ toy

Most young children don’t say “CEO,” when asked what they want to be when they grow up. Leslie Feinzaig wants… Read More

Microsoft vets raise $2M to manage internet-connected devices in commercial buildings

  Four Microsoft veterans have teamed up to create Optio3, a Seattle-based startup aimed at building a web-based service that helps… Read More

Advertising tech company Adbrain opens Seattle engineering outpost, scoops up Microsoft veterans

Advertising and marketing technology company Adbrain is the latest tech company to open an outpost in Seattle, and it’s already tapping into… Read More

Q&A: Soon-to-be VC Bob Kelly on Microsoft-Amazon rivalry, cloud computing in Seattle and Alice in Wonderland

Bob Kelly, a 21-year Microsoft vet who left that company in September to start as a managing partner with Seattle’s… Read More

Cloud exec Bob Kelly leaves 21-year ‘accidental’ Microsoft career, joins Ignition Partners to grow modern business apps

Imagine a millennial — raised with always-on fast internet, smartphones and the cloud — reporting to work, sitting down at a… Read More

Simply Measured co-founder joins marketing automation startup Siftrock

Adam Schoenfeld already helped grow one marketing company into a top Seattle startup. Now he’s trying to do it again. The Simply… Read More

Marty Roberts, former co-CEO of ThePlatform, emerges with new API monitoring startup

Media and entertainment companies today are using more and more application program interfaces — APIs — to deliver their video products online and on mobile… Read More

Meet the 13-year-old entrepreneur who wants to raise $100 million for Washington schools

For most 11-year-olds, their experience with entrepreneurship ends at the summertime lemonade stand. But for Belle Pan, refreshing drinks and… Read More

GeekWork Picks: WhitePages seeks principal architect of data services as it continues to grow its engineering team

WhitePages, a leading contact information resource for North America, is adding several members to its Seattle team. One open position is the Principal… Read More

Red Ventures acquires Seattle’s Soda.com, operator of The Simple Dollar and Reviews.com

Soda.com, a Seattle media company that operates consumer sites like The Simple Dollar and Reviews.com, has sold to Red Ventures.… Read More

Why this prominent Seattle entrepreneur decided to take a job on Amazon’s fast-growing Alexa team

Seattle entrepreneur Ford Davidson has been around the startup block a few times, selling his phone backup service Dashwire to… Read More

Event management software startup Hubb raises $3M for platform used by Microsoft, Tableau, others

Event management can be a real pain, and Hubb wants to help. The Vancouver, Wash.-based startup today announced a $3 million… Read More

Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum, led by former Google engineers, raises $29M

Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum has raised $29 million in a Series C round, led by Canaan Partners with participation from Kleiner… Read More

Q&A: Meet the 30-year-old entrepreneur who just sold his profitable e-commerce company for $75M

Etailz is almost a too-perfect-to-be-true startup success story. The company grew out of a college business plan competition at Gonzaga… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Vidpal is an on-demand marketplace for videographers

Two years ago, John Ortega founded a service for travelers to request videos from locals at their destination. He quickly… Read More

New Seattle peer leadership group aims to help startup leaders scale their companies

There is a myriad of resources in Seattle that incubate and mentor fledgling startups — Techstars, 9Mile Labs, and Madrona Venture… Read More

Hashtag aggregator Tagboard to acquire Capture, a social media publisher used by newsrooms

Tagboard today announced that it will acquire Capture, a social media publishing platform used by news media based out of… Read More

Bootstrapped success: Profitable online retailer Etailz sells for $75M

Etailz, a digital marketplace consultant and online retailer that operates sites such as Ecomom, EveryCasa and GreenCupboards, was acquired today… Read More

4 weeks, $200, 1 idea: This Seattle entrepreneur has an ambitious plan to get more women to launch startups

Avni Patel Thompson had a great idea for a business — a vetted, on-demand childcare service — but like many women… Read More

Jill Angelo

Q&A: Ex-Microsoft exec Jill Angelo, on why she traded her laptop for a lube company

Jill Angelo was a longtime Microsoft executive who spent a good portion of the 2000s leading the marketing agenda for the tech… Read More

Barack Obama at Frontiers Conference

President Obama explains why Washington D.C. will never run like Silicon Valley

It’s a comment we hear all the time: Government should run more like a startup, to be more agile, efficient… Read More

The hottest startups in Seattle: Nominations now open for The Seattle 10

What are the hottest startup companies in Seattle? We’re about to find out, and we need your help! It’s that time… Read More

Voyager and Microsoft Ventures invest $9M in business text messaging platform Zipwhip

With the proliferation of so many messaging apps, from Facebook Messenger to WhatsApp to Snapchat, it may seem like SMS texting is… Read More

How a sense of entitlement makes millennials more entrepreneurial

By now, we’re used to hearing complaints about the millennial generation. They’re cocky. They’re entitled. They’re never satisfied. They want… Read More

Shazam adds music videos thanks to partnership with Portland-based Vadio

Shazam, which has attracted more than 120 million monthly active users with its music recognition app, is getting into video. The… Read More

Demo Day: Our favorite pitches from B2B accelerator 9Mile Labs

After four months of hard work, valuable mentorship, and plenty of late nights, another cohort from 9Mile Labs graduated on… Read More

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