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Seattle cloud startup Azuqua inks lease in Pioneer Square, taps new marketing chief

Azuqua, a fast-growing Seattle startup that helps businesses connect different cloud services to each other, has inked a lease for… Read More

Rhapsody acquires anonymous chat app Reveal to ‘connect people around music’

That didn’t take long. This past September, Seattle entrepreneur Nick Soman launched Reveal Chat, a startup that built an anonymous chat… Read More

Skyward raises $4.1M to build a network for commercial drone operators

Skyward, a Portland company that’s building network infrastructure for commercial drone operators, today announced a $4.1 million round. GeekWire reported on the… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Qalendra uses real-time data to help adventure travelers plan vacations

Technology advances of the past decade have ushered in an age of data. Experts estimate that the vast majority of… Read More

Instagram for product design: Augmented reality app Spaceview wins $240K at Angel Oregon

A Portland-based startup that uses 3D technology to help people envision how new products may fit in a particular room won $240,000 the Oregon… Read More

This startup just launched software to automate patent application process

A new Seattle startup is coming out of stealth mode to help patent attorneys increase the quality of their work… Read More

Porch partners with ListHub, Estately and others to offer Porch Home Report

Porch, the Seattle-based home improvement data startup, announced partnerships this morning with several additional real estate sites and apps that… Read More

Mpirica Health lands $1.6M to rate hospitals based on surgical outcomes

You may know a hospital by its general reputation, but is it really the best place to go for the… Read More

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IT automation startup Chef raises $32M of a larger financing round

Seattle-based IT automation startup Chef is raising more cash. The company has reeled in $32 million of a larger Series… Read More

Meet Sqoop: New tool helps reporters dig up stories, delivering alerts about public records

Reporters who dig through public documents — such as court records, SEC filings, and patent applications — can often “scoop” their peers and… Read More

Make money off your driveway: This Portland startup wants to be the Airbnb for parking

Thanks to the “sharing economy,” you can make money off your home, off your vehicle, and now, your driveway. A… Read More

Is $70K the new normal? Tech leaders weigh Seattle CEO’s pledge

Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price made big headlines when he announced plans to implement a minimum annual salary of $70,000 at the… Read More

Here’s what two Seattle startup vets learned from the inaugural White House Tech Meetup

It was an eye-opening, humbling, and re-energizing few days for Brett Greene and Red Russak at the first-ever White House Tech… Read More

Gates Foundation-backed Livestories raises $1M to help governments, non-profits visualize data

Adnan Mahmud knows that most people in the world aren’t experts at analyzing and visualizing large sets of data — particularly… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Next Tech Titan

The Pacific Northwest is already home to a handful of groundbreaking technology companies. Who will establish themselves as the Next… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for CEO of the Year

Patton. Eisenhower. Bradley. Grant. Lee. Great generals all have different leadership tactics on the field of battle. And it’s no… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Mowdo digitizes lawn care with on-demand pricing and service

The home services market may be on the brink of disruption. Amazon recently made headlines with the official roll out of… Read More

Fresh off a $6M round, Portland-based Nvoicepay expands B2B payment platform

The electronic payment industry for consumers has certainly shifted over the past few years, with the advent of smartphone apps like… Read More

Poachable closes $1.8M seed round for ‘Tinder-meets-LinkedIn’ anonymous career matchmaker

Poachable, the Seattle-based startup that helps passive job candidates find new jobs both privately and anonymously, has raised another $750,000.… Read More

Let the GeekWire Awards voting begin! Cast your ballot for Startup of the Year

We’re kicking off the GeekWire Awards voting today, and we’re starting with a big one: Startup of the Year. One… Read More

Meet CookBrite: An app that recommends meals based on ingredients in your kitchen

Court Lorenzini already helped change the way companies ink digital signatures as the co-founder of Docusign. Now the Seattle entrepreneur… Read More

Heavily-funded maker of eco-friendly plastic cups abruptly closes

MicroGreen Polymers, a clean tech startup that was developing eco-friendly plastic cups, has shut its doors and laid off about… Read More

Crowd Supply raises $580K to develop ‘highly-curated’ version of Kickstarter

A new Portland startup wants to be the highly-curated, more reliable version of Kickstarter — and now it has more… Read More

3 reasons getting sued was the best thing to ever happen to my startup

Editor’s note: Following news of Lifestyle Lift (a national chain of cosmetic surgery centers known primarily for aggressively advertising a… Read More

SkyWard raises more cash to build enterprise software for drones

SkyWard is raising more cash to help develop software for running networks of drones. The Portland-based startup has raised $3.3 million of… Read More

Meet the 10 startup grads from the Portland Seed Fund

A new crop of startups from across Oregon graduated today from the Portland Seed Fund. The companies just completed a… Read More

Wells Fargo awards $1M to environmental startups for new ‘innovation incubator’

Wells Fargo is funding startups that are developing technologies to benefit the environment and today it announced the first set of companies… Read More

WordPress security startup Wordfence launches tool to help publishers prevent password hacks

WordPress accounts for about one quarter of all Web sites on the planet, which means the popular content management system… Read More

Oyster takes aim at Amazon with new e-book store, lands all ‘Big Five’ publishers

Oyster launched a new version of its e-book platform today that puts it in even closer competition with Amazon. The… Read More

Startup Spotlight: How this entrepreneur built Rhino Camera Gear from a kitchen

Rhino Camera Gear is on its way to another Kickstarter success. The Seattle-based company launched its sixth crowdfunding campaign on Tuesday,… Read More

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