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Startup Spotlight: CharityCheckin aims to be ‘world’s largest giving engine’ via branded check-ins

When Marsh Sutherland lost his wife to a battle with cancer, he started looking for ways to raise awareness for… Read More

The Martha Stewart of pot? Seattle entrepreneur JJ McKay launches cannabis lifestyle brand ‘The Fresh Toast’

JJ McKay and an impressive suite of investors believe there’s serious demand for a cannabis lifestyle brand that’s decidedly more Martha… Read More

How this ‘startup studio’ quickly axed 22 ideas and spun out three companies in one year

“Fail fast” seems to be the theme at Pioneer Square Labs. It’s been about one year since the Seattle-based “startup… Read More

Startup Spotlight: VR storytelling content management startup VIAR proves the power of the pivot

By the summer of 2015, VIAR was nearly bankrupt. The product — virtual reality tours to help architects show clients future… Read More

The startup side of Sears: Retail giant’s WallyHome sensor company grows rapidly after acquisition

One of the people who sometimes jumps into the Slack channel for the Seattle-based WallyHome sensor company is a colleague named Eddie… Read More

Cloud-management startup CloudCoreo scores $2.9M in seed round

CloudCoreo, a Seattle-based startup in the cloud-management arena, has received a $2.9 million seed-stage investment led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group,… Read More

Aviation vets raise cash for iJet Technologies, a data analytics platform for airlines

A group of aviation veterans just raised funding to fuel their startup that helps airline companies manage data and process… Read More

Entre-geography: Five Seattle entrepreneurs pick the place they’d build a company if they weren’t in the great Northwest

If you could pick anyplace to build your company — except for Seattle, of course — where would it be?… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: IMMERSE VR Summit, Dan Price at Startup Grind, and more

Seattle’s virtual and augmented Reality community has boomed over the past few years, with a crop of promising VR and AR… Read More

OfferUp CEO Nick Huzar isn’t worried about Facebook Marketplace

  On Monday, Facebook announced Marketplace, an internal one-to-one e-commerce division, setting up the Silicon Valley giant for fierce competition with… Read More

Juno CEO: Washington state biotech is ‘going backwards,’ needs support from Olympia to catch up

While Washington state’s biotech industry is on the up and up, it still lags far behind hubs like San Francisco… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CakeCodes customers earn bitcoins by testing new apps

Calvin Hsieh didn’t exactly follow the traditional career trajectory of a computer science and engineering grad. Instead of moving on to… Read More

Live blog: Andreessen Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan at the GeekWire Summit 2016

Jeff Jordan has worked with pretty much every type of technology company in his career. He is a general partner at the venture capital… Read More

Virtual reality startup Limitless unveils real-time VR character creation software

Animating in virtual reality may be fun, but it is an undeniable challenge for even experienced animators, and often the… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Camping review platform The Dyrt seeks front-end developer

Trying to find a good campsite online can be a headache — unlike restaurants or hotels, most campsites don’t have… Read More

‘The rise of the rest:’ Why startup hubs outside Silicon Valley are built to last

There is a regionalization movement underway in the technology startup industry that has appropriately sparked controversy and strong opinions, most… Read More

Despite flaws, Obama’s ‘startup visa’ is a step in the right direction, entrepreneurs and immigration experts say

Startup entrepreneur Henry Chen faces the same obstacles as many other fresh college graduates in his position — building a product, getting… Read More

Brian McAndrews

Ex-Pandora and aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews joins board at PicMonkey

The evolving picture of Brian McAndrews’ tech career is taking a new turn as Seattle-based PicMonkey, the photo editing and… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Talentful’s software helps recruiters narrow the field

Jia Chen has worked in the software industry for over a decade and during that time he observed a recurring… Read More

Luke Kanies

Puppet founder Luke Kanies is stepping down as CEO of Portland software company

Luke Kanies, the founder of Portland-based Puppet, is stepping aside as the software company announced Monday that president and COO Sanjay Mirchandani… Read More

Intelligent messaging company Essential spins out of Madrona Labs startup studio

Madrona Venture Labs has spun out its third company: A startup called Essential that helps businesses communicate with customers via text… Read More

Apptio prices IPO at $16 per share, raising $96 million as Wall Street welcomes enterprise tech company

Bellevue-based Apptio has set the stock price for its initial public offering at $16 per share, above the expected range of… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Political candidate turns entrepreneur, launches social media marketing platform Adszio

Adszio, an email-automated advertising startup, has an unusual origin story. Damir Wallener got the idea for the company when he was… Read More

Pitchbook

Seattle-based PitchBook lands data partnership with National Venture Capital Association

Seattle-based venture capital data company PitchBook has secured a data partnership with the National Venture Capital Association. Together, the two firms… Read More

Wrench

Seattle startup Wrench ready to crank on its expansion plan as on-site car repair proves a big hit

Wrench, the on-site car repair startup, serviced more than 1,000 vehicles during a test run this summer in Seattle and… Read More

Meet the winners of Seattle’s biggest-ever VR Hackathon

Seattle is poised to be a leader in new virtual and augmented reality tech, with powerhouses like Oculus setting up shop in the… Read More

Guest post: What the proposed ‘startup visa’ means for entrepreneurs and investors

Foreign founders of seed-funded U.S. startups may soon have a viable U.S. visa option, filling a gaping hole in immigration… Read More

Stealthy startup Human debuts headphones shaped like ears, calls them an ‘evolution of personal audio’

Human Inc. today opened pre-orders and unveiled more details about its new headphones and accompanying platform that it describes as… Read More

Australian communications app builder Whispir lands $9M in funding, unveils Seattle office

Australian communications app builder Whispir has made some big moves recently. Late last year, the company expanded to the Americas,… Read More

Portland startup Phylos Bioscience raises funds to bring a scientific approach to the cannabis industry

When Mowgli Holmes moved back to his home state of Oregon in 2013, the cannabis industry was beginning to take off in… Read More

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