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GeekWire’s startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and venture capital directory.

VR sports and music startup Voke raises $12.5M from Intel Capital, Sacramento Kings, A&E and others

Voke, a virtual reality technology company that specializes in live streams of sports and music events, has raised $12.5 million… Read More

Henry Ward

‘A better offer letter’: CEO of eShares praised for transparency after sharing example as guide for startups

Henry Ward, the CEO of online equity services startup eShares, has open-sourced an example of the company’s offer letter in… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Trenzi pays social media stars to promote products for businesses

Social media has produced an entirely new class of celebrity. Those who rise to Internet fame have the potential to reach… Read More

Glowforge workers

Startup gets stuck in an elevator — and lives to tweet selfies of the ordeal

Life at a startup can certainly have its ups and downs. For the folks at Seattle-based Glowforge, Thursday was somewhere… Read More

Hey, startups: Here’s the best thing you can do to get ready for a possible downturn

There are a lot of things that can muck up a startup — bad hires, improper focus or expanding too… Read More

Pixar and Bungie alum unveils Limitless, a virtual reality character creation platform

You’re in an ancient, booby-trapped Peruvian temple, standing next to Indiana Jones. He wiggles his fingers, licks his lips, and… Read More

From Hawaii to Seattle: AreaMetrics raises $2M to help stores optimize their physical layout

AreaMetrics, which uses location and other data to help stores optimize their layout to match customer preferences, has raised $2 million in… Read More

Madrona Venture Labs adds entrepreneurial horsepower with formation of new advisory board

Madrona Venture Labs, the startup incubator operated by Seattle venture capital firm Madrona VentureGroup, has bolstered its slate of advisors… Read More

Stop the porch pirates: Seattle startup vet launches Package Guard to deter crooks who swipe packages from front porches

Tired of getting your Amazon packages stolen from the front porch? A Seattle-area entrepreneur may have a simple solution — one… Read More

Craigslist challenger OfferUp on pace for more than $14B in transactions this year

When OfferUp launched four years ago, aiming to take on industry titan Craigslist, it looked a lot like David challenging… Read More

The number of venture capital firms has shrunk by 20 percent in the past 10 years

A new report released today shows the changing climate of the venture capital industry, and one of the most striking… Read More

Tech vet Paul Maritz joins BoldIQ board, sees new era of smart scheduling for on-demand economy

Paul Maritz, the former CEO of VMware and Pivotal Software, has joined the board of BoldIQ, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company… Read More

Green angels: Clean tech investment leader predicts resurgence as group pumps $3.3M into startups in 2015

Angel investors of the Pacific Northwest collective Element 8, which focuses exclusively on early-stage clean tech companies, put nearly $3.3 million into 17… Read More

MultiModal Health creates VR games to boost occupational therapy for patients

  Almost two years ago, a team of University of Washington students won the university’s TechSandbox competition with a virtual reality… Read More

Biotech startup Engage wins the University of Washington’s first Health Innovation Challenge

The University of Washington held its first annual Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) Thursday—bringing innovators in entrepreneurship, business and health science… Read More

Trash-sorting robots; cloud-based DJ simulators and more novel ideas from the 9Mile Labs startup accelerator

Eleven startups graduated from Seattle startup accelerator 9Mile Labs today after a 14-week program, each with a different vision for business-to-business software… Read More

Seattle startup Jrrny launches user-generated online travel magazine

Six months ago, John Kueber was planning a cycling trip in the French Pyrenees Mountains. As he tried to make… Read More

Microsoft M&A exec Bob Kelly: Here’s the ‘dirty secret’ about Silicon Valley, and why Seattle startups have an advantage

There’s been an endless stream of chatter about the differences between the tech ecosystems of Silicon Valley and Seattle, so… Read More

StuffHopper helps people sell stuff online, operating as ‘a mirror image to Amazon’

The ranks of would-be Craigslist killers continues to grow, but one young Seattle startup is taking a different approach in… Read More

Zembula raises $1.1M, debuts enterprise marketing platform at Launch Festival

Zembula today announced a $1.1 million seed round it will use to further develop its enterprise marketing platform. The Portland-based startup,… Read More

goTenna

REI and startup goTenna team up so you can #optoutside and still get a cell signal

If you #optoutside and happen to wander further than the range of your cell signal, goTenna may be the device for… Read More

Heads up, female coders: Seattle startup Tune accepting applications for UW house

Tune, the Seattle-based mobile marketing analytics firm, is now accepting applications for its special interest, rent-free house that invites females studying computer science or… Read More

Startup lessons from the sea: Smartsheet’s Mark Mader shares 14 tips for smooth sailing in business

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader sometimes commutes to work in a used Sea-Doo that he purchased to avoid traffic. So who better to share… Read More

Bill Gates doesn’t like unicorns’ near future, says he’d short them

Lots of people have predicted that the tech sector’s seemingly endless supply of investor money will soon dry up. Add Bill… Read More

Crowd Cow

Meet Crowd Cow: Tech vets take the mystery out of buying good meat, turn customers into ‘steak holders’

“Where’s the beef?” may have found its calling as a catchphrase with a long shelf life in the 1980s, but… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Secrets of successful tech acquisitions, with Pioneer Square Labs co-founder and ‘Acquired’ co-host Ben Gilbert

Ben Gilbert knows startups and he knows tech acquisitions. This week on the GeekWire podcast, we asked him about both,… Read More

Founder’s Co-op invests in Giftbit, a B2B digital gift card company

Founders’ Co-op, a Seattle-based early-stage venture fund, has invested in Giftbit, a company that specializes in digital gift card campaigns for enterprise… Read More

Are you DTH? Seattle startup launches app for making plans with friends

This past weekend, nearly 100 people wandered around Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood looking for a unicorn. No, not one of the… Read More

GeekWire 200 February Update: CloudMoyo, Fun Bits Interactive, Sensoria and others rise in the startup ranks

February heralded some notable shifts in the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the top 200 privately-held technology companies in the Pacific Northwest, presented… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CPEsuite is a peer-to-peer marketplace for continuing professional education

Early last year, Evan Hiner, Gary Knopp, and Jassen Bowman connected at a Startup Weekend event over the shared goal… Read More

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