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Rent your idle car at the airport: FlightCar grabs $13M, plans Seattle launch this fall

Want to save some money while your car sits at an airport parking lot? You might get that chance starting… Read More

Poachable raises another $500K for anonymous career matchmaking service

The idea of finding the next great career opportunity without having your current employer know about a potential new job seems to be catching… Read More

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SNUPI raises fresh cash for home sensors that detect water leaks in homes

SNUPI Technologies, the University of Washington spin out led by entrepreneur Jeremy Jaech and computer scientist Shwetak Patel, has scored… Read More

Beautiful pics on the iPhone: Lens maker Moment raises $1.5M from Maveron, Founder’s Co-op, others

Marc Barros knew that people loved taking spectacular photos on their smartphones, but even he was blown away by the… Read More

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Utrip launches trip planner to make planning travel easier

Utrip, a Seattle-based company that provides free trip-planning services, announced today that it is launching Utrip Pro, a white-label version… Read More

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Shippable announces launch of version 2.0 to accelerate use of Docker-ized applications

Shippable announced that it is releasing version 2.0 of its product, which is designed to make it easy for developers… Read More

Here’s how to get Mark Cuban to fund your startup

SAN FRANCISCO – When it comes to making startup investments, it seems like Mark Cuban is everywhere. In addition to owning… Read More

Salesforce establishes $100M venture fund, bankrolls scrappy Seattle startup Venuelabs

Salesforce.com is an Internet juggernaut, with a market value of $37 billion and second quarter revenue of $1.32 billion. Now,… Read More

Instacart inks deal with Whole Foods for in-store pick-up, speedier grocery delivery

Instacart has struck a formal partnership with Whole Foods Market, one which will allow for grocery delivery in less than… Read More

Lessons from the street: Why the tech community should help the homeless community

“When your world is really small, your problems are very big. When your world is really big, your problems are… Read More

Nextcast: Context Relevant’s Stephen Purpura on the progression of big data

Context Relevant CEO Stephen Purpura is working on the leading edge of big data — helping companies use their data… Read More

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Restaurant bill paying startup Viableware changes name to TableSafe

Viableware, the Kirkland startup that’s trying to transform how people pay restaurant bills with a handheld bill paying device, has… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Limeade helps companies improve employee health with incentive-based wellness plans

Things are rolling for the folks at Limeade, a Bellevue-based software company that creates incentive-based wellness plans for businesses, and that was… Read More

Here are the 6 companies in the newest PDX Startup Challenge class

A science kit creator, a syrup maker, and a subscription service for local artisans. These are three of six unique… Read More

Startup advisor Ali Partovi joins Hampton Creek as chief strategy officer, his first full-time gig in years

After spending several years as a startup investor and advisor, Ali Partovi is picking one team to play for, and that’s… Read More

Steven VanRoekel

GeekWire Summit: President Obama’s top geek, U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel, joins big lineup

U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel, the federal official responsible for the $80 billion U.S. IT budget, will be joining us for a… Read More

Video ad startup Mixpo acquires Portland-based ShopIgniter

Mixpo, a Seattle startup that makes it easy to create online video ads, has acquired Portland-based ShopIgniter in a deal… Read More

Q&A with Buuteeq CEO Forest Key: Why they sold to Priceline and how startups must nail culture first

On a recent visit to the Buuteeq offices in Seattle’s lower Queen Anne neighborhood, Forest Key is looking the part… Read More

Startup road trip: Medellín marvels with a magnificent entrepreneurial culture

We arrived to Medellin with the ideas that most people have: Pablo Escobar, drugs and a sundry amount of danger.… Read More

Startup Spotlight: BoldIQ crunches real-time data to help organizations optimize business operations

The World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this week announced that an “unprecedented” number of healthcare workers are infected with the deadly Ebola… Read More

Barking up the right tree: Rover’s dog-sitting marketplace sees massive growth

Two weeks ago, DogVacay CEO Aaron Hirschhorn said that he thought his dog-sitting startup was an order of magnitude larger than its… Read More

Porch adds former Market Leader CEO Ian Morris to board

Ian Morris, the former CEO of real estate technology company Market Leader, has joined the board of directors of Porch,… Read More

Sticking close to innovation roots, Arch Venture Partners raises oversubscribed $400M fund

Arch Venture Partners has operated longer than most venture capital firms by sticking close to its knitting.  And now the… Read More

In effort to bridge divide between sales and marketing departments, Bizible raises $8 million

Seattle marketing analytics startup Bizible — a 2012 TechStars Seattle grad led by former Microsoft program manager Aaron Bird — has reeled… Read More

This app helps football coaches make in-game changes, gain strategic advantages

The NFL is already ditching paper for tablets in a move to help players and coaches become more efficient. Now one… Read More

Here are the 18 Oregon and Washington companies on the Inc. 500 list

Seattle mobile analytics startup Tune has a new name, and a new distinction. It is the fastest growing privately-held company… Read More

PetHub raises fresh cash, buys PetQRtag.com to help return more lost pets to owners

Seattle startup PetHub is gobbling up Atlanta-based PetQRTag.com, an acquisition that will push the combined company’s user base over 100,000.… Read More

Sonivate raising $1.6M for ultrasound probe that doctors wear on their finger

Doctors using an ultrasound machine typically have one hand on the probe. Sonivate Medical thinks it’s come up with something much better. The… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Proto-pasta supplies the ‘ink’ for lower-grade 3D printers

While 3D printing continues to make headlines and revolutionize production, options for individual consumers have been limited. Although personal 3D printers… Read More

Tune takes first steps onto European mainland with new Berlin office

Tune, the mobile marketing startup formerly known as HasOffers, announced today that the company is expanding the reach of its… Read More

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