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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.

IoT data startup Buddy set for IPO after reverse takeover deal with Australian mining company

Seattle-based startup Buddy is going public, but not in the way you might expect. In one of the more unique acquisition… Read More

Bright.md raises $3.5M to help physicians provide remote care online in 2 minutes

Bright.md is raising cash to help you visit the doctor virtually. The Portland-based startup today announced a $3.5 million Series… Read More

Brother sues CEO who gave workers $70k minimum salary, alleging he unfairly boosted his own pay

Dan Price, the Seattle tech leader who made headlines this year for boosting his employees’ minimum annual salary to $70,000 and… Read More

This medical device startup just raised cash and is heading to Rwanda

After three months in Y Combinator, an oversubscribed financing round, and a large federal grant, Shift Labs is well on… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Leasify simplifies the leasing process for new car-buyers

Editor’s note: Leasify ceased operations in 2016.  If you’ve ever shopped for a car, you know dealers will do just about… Read More

Chart: U.S. venture capital financing surges 24 percent to $19 billion in Q2

It’s a good time to be raising cash in tech land. According to a report out today from Dow Jones… Read More

Fast-growing fitness training startup Volt Athletics inks partnership with USA Football

Volt Athletics is on a roll. The Seattle-based startup, which offers a customizable online fitness training platform for athletes, this… Read More

Amazon’s AWS acquires Portland’s AppThwack, seeking an easy way to test apps in the cloud

AppThwack announced this morning it was acquired by Amazon Web Services to help developers test their phone apps in the cloud. In… Read More

Bezos-backed Remitly buys moving selfie startup Talio to improve money transfer connections

Remitly, a mobile payments company that helps people send money to the Philippines and India, announced today that it has… Read More

Dr. Lee Hood’s scientific wellness startup Arivale raises $36M to improve health through genetics

A new startup in Seattle wants to be the Google or Microsoft of a new industry called scientific wellness, and now… Read More

Live: Watch the pitches from Microsoft Ventures Demo Day

Microsoft Ventures is hosting its big Demo Day in Seattle today, featuring 14 new startup companies which are working on… Read More

Restaurant coupon app Forks raises cash to help people save money on food

Forks is raising cash to help you save some dough. The Seattle-based startup, which develops a restaurant coupon app for… Read More

Startup Spotlight: 6crickets helps parents find summer camps for their kids

Last spring, Helen Wang and Adam Costello — like most parents — began to search for summer activities for their kids.… Read More

Northwest companies raise nearly $1B in Q2, with angel-backed startups seeing higher valuations

Companies in the Northwest raised a total of $959.28 million in the second quarter, up 35 percent over the same… Read More

Founded at MIT, this startup just picked Seattle for its new HQ

Tenacity, a big data startup that uses social incentives to increase employee retention rates, boost productivity and make workers happier and… Read More

Ex-AOL CTO raises $1M for new cyber security startup Polyverse

Polyverse, a Kirkland-based company founded by former AOL CTO Alex Gounares, has raised $1 million in capital to help protect companies from large-scale data… Read More

U.S. venture capital funds raise $10.3 billion in Q2, a 27 percent increase over last year

Thank the unicorns. As more companies stay private longer, and are raising larger and larger rounds, the trend appears to be benefiting venture capital firms,… Read More

Nintex acquires Drawloop to help manage content across Microsoft Office and Salesforce

Nintex, a workflow automation company based in Bellevue, Wash., is acquiring Drawloop Technologies of Irvine, Calif. to help businesses access content across Microsoft… Read More

Book of the Week: Dan Shapiro’s ‘Hot Seat’ is an essential guide to startup leadership

Most who live in the startup world have a very intimate relationship with failure. The overwhelming majority of startups are forced to shut… Read More

Mylio Devices

Review: Mylio is a powerful tool for organizing and backing up photos across all your devices

Whether you are an avid photographer or just a casual shutterbug, chances are you have a large trove of digital… Read More

Startup Spotlight: OkCopay aims to be the ‘Zillow for healthcare’

Consider the last big-ticket purchase you made. Maybe you compared prices, read reviews, and utilized online tools designed to help consumers.… Read More

Korner security

Korner raises $1.5M to keep your home safe with a dongle and smartphone app

Seattle-based Korner has raised $1.5 million to help fuel marketing and production of its home security product. The funding round, part of… Read More

Portland mobile transit ticketing startup GlobeSherpa acquired by RideScout

RideScout and GlobeSherpa are teaming up to solve the “last mile” transportation problem and help people move around cities. RideScout, an… Read More

Unikrn raises $7M from Mark Cuban and others to create a global eSports betting powerhouse

Seattle-based eSports betting platform Unikrn said today it has raised $7 million from a list of well-known investors and celebrities, including… Read More

How etailz CEO Josh Neblett turned a college business plan into a $100M business — in Spokane

Josh Neblett, co-founder and CEO of technology and retail company etailz, has grown what started as a college business plan into… Read More

Police body-camera maker Vievu acquired by Safariland

Seattle-based Vievu, which supplies body-worn cameras to police departments around the globe, has been acquired by Safariland, a provider of… Read More

Puppies and cars: Meet the winners from Seattle’s TechCrunch pitch off

A long-term car leasing service that allows participants to swap out the vehicles they drive each week, from SUVs to… Read More

Smartphones at the movies: Seattle startup’s app will offer special mode for darkened theaters

Putting away your smartphone is one of the first rules of going to the movie theater. A bright screen in… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Coding Dojo bootcamp hopes to ‘transform lives’ with programming classes

This month, the University of Washington graduated a record number of computer science students. But despite growing computer literacy, the demand… Read More

Kate Matsudaira’s technical leadership platform Popforms acquired by Safari Books Online

Popforms, a Seattle-based company founded by former Decide.com and Moz exec Kate Matsudaira, is now owned and operated by a California-based… Read More

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