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Startup Spotlight: Healthentic looks to reduce health care costs using ‘big data’

Can we make the world healthier with big data? Healthentic thinks so, and the Seattle startup is hoping to reduce… Read More

Adapx lands $3 million to help remote workers more easily capture data

Adapx has raised an additional $3 million in venture capital, money that the Seattle startup will use to continue to… Read More

Startup Jedi: How to get through the sh*t times

There’s an old West Point quote that goes something like: The best laid battle plans are tossed out the window… Read More

Relaborate scores cash to help big brands figure out what to write about

Relaborate has raised more than $500,000 in a first round of funding, money that the Seattle startup will use to… Read More

VC investing tanks in Washington, overtaken by Oregon for first time since 1993

I’ve been covering the venture capital beat for nearly 15 years in the Pacific Northwest, through good times and bad.… Read More

AudienceScience scores cash, names former PopCap exec as CFO

AudienceScience has raised additional capital and named former PopCap Games executive Bob Chamberlain to the role of chief financial officer.… Read More

Vancouver, B.C. looking to spend $30M in digital push

Cities throughout the world are trying to capture more tech talent, and our neighbors to the north are no different.… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Decide’s Mike Fridgen taps power of data to change how we shop

Mike Fridgen already helped change the way people buy airfares, getting Seattle startup Farecast off the ground in 2005. Now,… Read More

What makes the Seattle startup community so cool?

The Seattle startup scene is like no other — with literally hundreds of startups trying to change the world.  Now, two… Read More

Online education startup Treehouse raises $7M to teach geeks new tech skills

Online education startup Treehouse has raised $7 million in fresh funding from Kaplan, Social + Capital Partnership and others. The money… Read More

GameHouse chief Matt Hulett leaving RealNetworks for mystery job

Matt Hulett, the Seattle startup vet who overhauled RealNetworks’ GameHouse games division, is leaving the company to accept an unspecified… Read More

Donuts raises more cash in quest to control hundreds of domain name extensions

Donuts appears to have a pretty big appetite for fresh cash. The Bellevue startup, which emerged last year with more than $100… Read More

Startup Weekend Seattle winner TLDR helps you write and read shorter emails

Just days before his resignation and candid goodbye letter, former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason sent out a Tweet a few months ago… Read More

How we bootstrapped our company from zero to $10M: Five key tips to consider

Have you ever had 7,000 people flip you off in unison for 45 minutes?  Unfortunately, I have – and still… Read More

Chart: Venture capital fundraising off to a ‘slow start’

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to those who follow the industry. Venture capital funds are having a harder time… Read More

Facebook reverses stance after blocking Microsoft and WhitePages from sponsoring Startup Weekend

Teams of developers, designers and entrepreneurs are heads-down at Facebook’s Seattle engineering outpost on this rainy Sunday for Startup Weekend… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: This startup founder wants to help you find a better babysitter

[Editor’s note:  Be sure to join us in person this Thursday, April 11 for the GeekWire Radio Show, live on stage for… Read More

6 ways to survive (and thrive) at your next networking event

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who look forward to networking events and those who would… Read More

Ex-Facebook engineer Ari Steinberg’s stealthy travel startup makes first hire: A former Redfin and Microsoft coder

Ari Steinberg has been pretty quiet ever since he left Facebook last year to start a new online travel startup.… Read More

Take that, Marissa Mayer: This startup’s ‘nomadic engineer’ program lets developers work wherever they want

We’ve seen tech companies do all sorts of crazy things to attract talented engineers — giving away cash, cars and… Read More

EveryMove receives $3.5 million in fresh funding, launches Android app

EveryMove, a Seattle-based startup that lets users track their healthy habits and rewards them with gift cards and reduced health-care premiums, announced a… Read More

Lies, love affairs and lawsuits: MOD Systems founder Mark Phillips is out of prison and wants a new trial

Mark Phillips is out of prison, and now he’s looking to clear his name. The 38-year-old former CEO of MOD… Read More

Recruiting developers: Perspectives from the startup front lines

Recruiting developers to a startup is hard. The market is tight. That’s compounded by the fact that it takes a… Read More

Avalara

GeekWire 200 April Update: Docusign, Redfin, Avalara and others moving up

Several of the Seattle region’s largest technology companies improved their positions in the new update to the GeekWire 200, our monthly… Read More

Are Tech Companies Better Digital Marketers? Rival IQ’s insights from the GeekWire 200

[Editor’s Note: This post analyzing the GeekWire 200 was written by John Clark, CEO of Seattle-based Rival IQ, which provides tools… Read More

Is this the end of the road for Ignition-backed Ratify?

Bellevue-based Ratify, a stealthy startup that was developing a data analytics platform to better understand network information, notified employees this… Read More

After series of pivots, Haiku Deck scores $3 million to make presentation tools fun

Haiku Deck has reeled in $3 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle startup will use to continue to… Read More

Ignition Partners raises $150M fund, opens new Silicon Valley office

It’s a new era for Ignition Partners. The Bellevue venture capital firm has a new fund, new offices and a… Read More

Perseverance and patience: How Tableau made the IPO leap after 10 years

Good things come to those who wait, especially if those who wait have a big audacious mission that they are… Read More

Sonar: This new service automatically tracks when app stores change their algorithms

Mobile app developers live and die by how easily their apps are discovered in the various app stores from Apple,… Read More

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