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Startup Spotlight: High school sweethearts behind Cobelay help match small businesses with buyers

Jenny and Steve Feinberg met in high school, attended UCLA together, and got married in 2008. Last year, they embarked… Read More

Seattle’s Sound Pharmaceuticals raising $30M to advance trials of hearing-loss drug

Sound Pharmaceuticals, a Seattle startup developing therapies and preventative treatments for hearing loss, is in the midst of a $30 million… Read More

Young entrepreneurs share advice and success stories at Millennial Weekend Seattle

As three Millennial entrepreneurs discussed financial challenges and lessons learned from their own successful careers, a common theme emerged: Invest… Read More

GeekWire Picks: Stealthy enterprise software startup Amperity seeks engineer

Amperity, a marketing enterprise software startup founded by noted entrepreneurs Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager, is still in stealth mode — but even stealthy… Read More

BrightVolt raises $5M to open new funding round for ultra-thin, flexible batteries

BrightVolt, a Redmond, Wash., based startup developing ultra-thin batteries, announced the beginning of a Series B round of funding, starting… Read More

Seattle startup Ranku acquired by education publishing giant John Wiley & Sons

Ranku, a Seattle-based startup that helps online degree programs reach more students, announced today that it has been acquired for an… Read More

Why startups in Seattle are struggling for talent, and how that contrasts with Portland

Seattle’s tech industry is on fire with Microsoft and Amazon growing like mad, and dozens of Silicon Valley tech giants… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Millennials take over Seattle, VR Improv, Mini Maker Faire, and more

Millennials get a bad rap sometimes, but an increasing number of movers and shakers in tech and other industries are… Read More

Appdiff raises $2.5M for AI-powered automated app testing platform

Testing apps is an integral part of getting them to market, but many tests are still run manually, costing days… Read More

Pioneer Square Labs spinout LumaTax raises $2M from Madrona, Greycroft

LumaTax, which aims to automate sales tax reporting for small businesses, has raised $2 million from Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners and… Read More

These 10 machine learning and data science startups make up the newest Microsoft Accelerator class

Microsoft has chosen the 10 machine learning and data science companies that will make up the fourth class of its Seattle Accelerator. The startups hail… Read More

Why venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is critical of the ‘fail fast’ startup mentality

SAN FRANCISCO — “Fail fast” is a well-known phrase in the startup world — or “fail forward” and “fail better” —… Read More

Bootstrapped startup MedBridge lines up $3M in debt to boost products

MedBridge, a video-based medical education platform, has lined up $3 million in debt financing, according to a filing with the Securities and… Read More

Content collaboration startup Slope closes $1M round, product now available to the public

GeekWire Startup Day champ Slope, a Seattle-based company that makes software to help teams manage and collaborate on multimedia content,… Read More

Startup Spotlight: This student team designs apps to help people with disabilities

When Maddie Rogers was in high school, her grandfather suffered a stroke. As with many stroke victims, the ordeal made communicating… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Nintex seeks test automation engineer for cloud team

Nintex, a workflow automation firm based in Bellevue, Wash., has been consistently hiring over the past few weeks and is looking to… Read More

LiveStories raises $3M to help governments and non-profits visualize data

Seattle-based startup LiveStories today announced a $3 million funding round led by True Ventures. Founders’ Co-op, Social Leverage, Urban.us, the Knight Foundation… Read More

Here are the top 10 universities graduating the most VC-backed entrepreneurs

Students across the country are headed back to school and many high school seniors are deciding which college or university… Read More

Craigslist rival OfferUp raises $119M, confirms $1B valuation and cites ‘global ambitions’

Bellevue, Wash.-based OfferUp says it has closed a $119 million funding round, led by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. The round has… Read More

This startup wants to give you a free personal wedding planner

Meet Joy: a stylish designer, a networking master, and wedding planner. She can coordinate the pattern on the invitations with the iced… Read More

GeekWork Picks: Avalara seeks senior software engineer to serve startup tax needs

Dealing with sales tax can be a nightmare, particularly for small business owners and entrepreneurs. Seattle-based Avalara aims to end that nightmare with a… Read More

After helping build Destiny, ex-Bungie developers raise $3.5M for new VR startup Polyarc

There’s another startup in Seattle developing virtual reality technology. The latest is Polyarc, a new company that today announced a… Read More

New Portland VC firm Elevate Capital invests in 6 women and minority-led startups

Elevate Capital, a new venture capital firm based in Portland, today unveiled its first funds. The firm announced that it… Read More

This University of Washington spin-out can charge robots and drones wirelessly

WiBotic is coming out of stealth mode. The University of Washington spin-out today revealed more details about its technology that wirelessly… Read More

Cozy raises $8.4M to fuel growth of property rental management platform

Portland-based Cozy today announced an $8.45 million funding round that will help the startup grow its property rental management platform. American Family… Read More

Knock raises $1.6M to help property managers with scheduling and communication

Knock is raising cash to help grow its scheduling and communication platform for property managers. The Seattle startup just reeled… Read More

Will Amazon’s part-time tech teams succeed? Former AWS recruiting leader weighs in

Amazon isn’t known for being a laid-back employer. In fact, the tech giant is famous, and in some cases infamous, for its hard-driving work… Read More

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Something is missing from this new list of the 25 hottest startup cities — Seattle

Popular thinking would have you believe that the Seattle region is a sure bet to make any list of the hottest… Read More

Ex-Microsoft execs and engineers raise $1.5M for Komiko, a CRM enrichment platform

Hal Howard, Ami Heitner, and Srikanth Avadhanam spent years and years at companies like Microsoft and SAP, learning how and why… Read More

GeekWork Picks: WhitePages seeks Senior Software Architect to lead big data development

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

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