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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.

5 days in the office? Some tech startups are bringing workers together all week, every week

BELLEVUE, Wash. — At precisely 2 p.m. Pacific time on a recent Monday afternoon, employees of the technology startup Statsig… Read More

Tech Moves: AWS vet lands at health startup; Lumen hires longtime Microsoft GM; ex-Qualtrics exec joins Typeform board

— Harshit Shah, a former head of engineering at Amazon Web Services, is now chief technology officer at Boston, Mass-based… Read More

Seattle studio Ridgeline Games, led by ‘Halo’ co-creator, closes as part of EA cuts

A new wave of layoffs at video game mega-studio Electronic Arts has multiple impacts on the Pacific Northwest gaming industry,… Read More

Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

A decade ago, University of Washington oceanographers Julian Sachs and Alex Gagnon were working in a tropical paradise, studying the… Read More

Former AWS engineers raise $3M to take on tech giants with ‘world’s fastest spreadsheet’

When a spreadsheet gets big, your computer can get slow. Row Zero wants to help. The Seattle startup that describes… Read More

Cecilia Aragon at Women's Leadership Conference in Bellevue, Wash.

Computer scientist Cecilia Aragon traces her trajectory from stunt flying to a startup

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Three decades ago, Cecilia Aragon made aviation history as the first Latina to earn a place on… Read More

Glowforge gets in legal tangle with tech ‘activist’ who questions safety of startup’s laser engravers

Glowforge, the Seattle-based maker of 3D laser engravers, has been tangled in a legal dispute with a Las Vegas man… Read More

Kieran Snyder

Former Textio CEO Kieran Snyder dives into new research on how AI is impacting the workplace

Kieran Snyder, the co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based Textio, has launched her next project, less than two months after… Read More

SpaceX and Microsoft vets raise $5.4M for Gradial, a Seattle startup using generative AI for marketing

Gradial, a new Seattle startup using generative AI to help marketing operations teams increase productivity, raised $5.4 million in a… Read More

Podcast

Seattle after Techstars: Former managing director reflects on accelerator’s impact, looks ahead

Entrepreneur and investor Chris DeVore had an inside view of Techstars Seattle as one of the original leaders of the… Read More

Tech Moves: Instacart COO lands at Microsoft in AI product role; ZoomInfo accounting chief departs

Asha Sharma is headed back to Seattle full-time for a new role leading product for Microsoft’s AI platform. Sharma was… Read More

Former Snowflake and Microsoft execs back new data governance startup Codified

Venture capital firms and longtime tech execs are making a bet on Codified, a new startup out of Seattle that… Read More

Seattle’s Pioneer Square Labs and Silicon Valley stalwart Mayfield form AI co-investing partnership

Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) and esteemed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Mayfield are teaming up to fund… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Techstars Seattle’s demise leaves a gap in the startup market

Techstars Seattle helped launch more than 160 startups over the past decade, partnered with the likes of Microsoft and Amazon… Read More

Flexport relaunches Convoy trucking marketplace after acquiring tech from Seattle startup

Convoy’s digital marketplace is back on the market following the demise of the Seattle startup and subsequent technology acquisition by… Read More

Seattle tech leaders lament departure of Techstars but remain bullish on new opportunities

Techstars Seattle is done. What does it mean for the city’s startup ecosystem? That’s a question on our minds in… Read More

Techstars CEO responds to former Seattle managing director, tells him to check his facts

Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet on Thursday criticized a blog post penned by Chris DeVore, a longtime Seattle investor who ran… Read More

Healionics lands $5.5M to complete human trial of artificial blood vessel for dialysis patients

Healionics, a Seattle-based medical technology company, raised $5.5 million in new financing aimed at helping the company complete an ongoing… Read More

Maritime marketplace and software platform OpenTug raises $3.1M

OpenTug, Seattle-based makers of marine transportation logistics software, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding, the company announced Thursday. The… Read More

Finpilot, a Seattle startup using generative AI to help financial analysts with research, raises $4M

Seattle startup Finpilot raised a $4 million investment round led by Madrona to help fuel its “ChatGPT for financial questions”… Read More

Crypto startup EigenLayer, led by a former Univ. of Washington professor, raises $100M from a16z

EigenLayer, a Seattle-based blockchain infrastructure startup, raised a $100 million Series B round from Silicon Valley heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).… Read More

Techstars Seattle is shutting down as accelerator shifts focus to cities with more VC activity

Techstars Seattle, one of the first accelerators to emerge from the Techstars program and a longstanding institution within Seattle’s tech… Read More

Former Niantic leader’s spatial computing startup aims to help retailers track shelf inventory

When Ross Finman and his wife set out to try to find baby formula during a critical shortage of the… Read More

Wyze security cam incident that exposed images to other users impacts more than 13,000 customers

Smart-home device maker Wyze apologized to customers over the weekend after a security issue caused more than 13,000 customers to… Read More

From biotech to 3D printing, here are 7 startups that recently spun out of the Univ. of Washington

The startup spinout machine at the University of Washington keeps on humming. According to CoMotion, the university’s tech transfer office,… Read More

Tech leadership advice on imposter syndrome, self-confidence, and building trust

Don’t get attracted to titles. Remember the human algorithm. Be vulnerable. And stay flexible. These were some of the tidbits… Read More

Guardrails AI, a startup co-founded by Seattle tech vet Diego Oppenheimer, raises $7.5M

Guardrails AI, a San Francisco-based startup that helps companies manage risks when building AI applications, announced a $7.5 million seed… Read More

‘We don’t want to be left behind’: Tech leaders bullish about generative AI amid the hype

The hype around generative AI is persisting among tech leaders despite uncertainty about its value and impact on the bottom… Read More

Techstars Seattle startup Planette raises $2.4M for AI-boosted climate prediction tech

Planette, a climate tech startup that just graduated from Techstars Seattle’s latest accelerator, has raised $2.4 million. Planette’s AI-boosted technology… Read More

Meet Seattle’s newest seed fund: Breakwater Ventures emerges to back early stage startups

There’s a new Seattle-based investment firm looking to support software startups across the Pacific Northwest that are just getting off… Read More

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