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EveryMove scores $375,000, looks to reward employees for making healthier choices

EveryMove, the Seattle health startup led by Russell Benaroya and Marcelo Calbucci, has landed $375,000 in an initial financing with… Read More

After a busy 2011, Madrona promotes three to managing director

2011 was a busy year for Madrona Venture Group, with the Seattle venture capital firm bankrolling 14 new startup companies.  Now,… Read More

The venture capital industry is shrinking as more money flows to fewer investors

The rich keep getting richer. That maxim may also apply to the venture capital industry where a smaller number of… Read More

Scoutzie: A new way to find the best mobile designers

Already this year we’ve seen two Pacific Northwest mobile app development shops gobbled up by big companies: Ubermind was acquired… Read More

Urban Airship lands former Skype executive as chief revenue officer

Urban Airship, a Portland upstart that provides behind-the-scenes services like push notifications and in-app purchasing for mobile apps, has named former… Read More

Founder’s Co-op raises $8M angel fund, looks to become a ‘catalyst’ for the NW startup community

Founder’s Co-op, the angel investment fund led by Andy Sack and Chris DeVore, has raised a new $8 million fund… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Omnom looks to remove the pain of finding delivery restaurants

Need pizza, chicken wings or lamb tikka masala delivered to your doorstep right now, but aren’t quite sure where to… Read More

Flotype raises cash from Ignition, Salesforce and others to help coders build applications faster

Flotype, a cloud startup led by former Amazon.com and University of California Berkeley employees and researchers, has raised $1.4 million… Read More

Startup Weekend pulls plug on Startup Foundation pilot

Startup Weekend has decided to pull the plug on its Startup Foundation initiative, an ambitious eight-city experiment which launched with… Read More

Video: Is this how we will pay restaurant tabs in the future?

The Boom Noodle restaurant at Seattle’s University Village was buzzing with activity when I stopped by for an early lunch… Read More

Ray Ozzie’s new startup has ‘huge goals’ for new era of social communication

Ray Ozzie, the Lotus Notes creator who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft’s chief software architect, lifted the lid just a… Read More

Dot-com survivor iCopyright lands $2.6 million to protect content from data thieves

More than a decade ago, I met iCopyright founder Mike O’Donnell at the company’s spacious new headquarters in Renton. It was… Read More

Walmart scoops up mobile dev shop that built iPhone apps for Starbucks, Zipcar and others

Small Society, a tiny Portland mobile application development firm which in the past has developed apps for Starbucks, Amazon.com, Zipcar… Read More

Seattlepi.com chief Michelle Nicolosi resigns to launch new electronic book publishing firm

Michelle Nicolosi, who led the charge for the SeattlePI.com after Hearst Corp. shut down the physical newspaper operations in March… Read More

Women’s Venture Capital Fund backs messaging startup Ivy Corp.

A new venture capital fund that’s focusing on women entrepreneurs has made its inaugural investment in Ivy Corp., a Redmond… Read More

Vizify scores $1.2M to turn your social networking chatter into beautiful visualizations

Maybe all of that incubation really does pay off. Vizify, a Portland startup that had the unique honor of participating… Read More

Online real estate startup Estately expands in New York, adds Texas

Estately sometimes gets overshadowed in the online real estate industry by bigger consumer brands such as Redfin and Zillow. But… Read More

Self-sanitizing keyboard wins FDA nod for healthcare use

Vioguard, a company started by two Microsoft Hardware veterans and their business partners, says it has received U.S. Food &… Read More

Looking to wipe out wrinkles, JeNu Biosciences lands cash for new skin care device

One of the biggest success stories of 2011 was the sale of David Giuliani’s Pacific Bioscience Laboratories — the maker… Read More

Meet the superheroes of Maveron: One hilarious holiday card

We get a lot of holiday greetings here at GeekWire. Some are pretty traditional, with snowmen or santas or wreaths.… Read More

Our picks: GeekWire’s favorite stories (and people) of 2011

Earlier this week, we listed your favorite stories of 2011 — the 100 most-popular news items, columns and features on… Read More

15 New Year Resolutions for Entrepreneurs

I’m sure by now your 2012 plan, budget and professional objectives are baked and ready to go. Ideally, some of… Read More

Seattle mobile app developer Ubermind finds a buyer

Ubermind’s growth over the past year has been nothing short of astonishing. The Seattle maker of mobile applications for Target,… Read More

Stealthy Scope 5 emerges, plans to make sense out of energy data

Scope 5 has raised an undisclosed amount of angel financing as it looks for wider adoption of software to help organizations… Read More

How to use marketing research tactics to grow your startup

When it comes to building a product that people will love and actually pay money to buy, you have to… Read More

Mini-documentary: ‘A symphony of computer coding’ at KING5 online news hackathon

A while back we covered the buildup to (and dustup over) the “Hacking Seattle News” event organized by KING-5. The goal of… Read More

Nick Hanauer-backed Qliance raises cash to expand clinics

Qliance is looking to transform the way Americans receive their health care, certainly no easy task. And now the Seattle… Read More

Geeks Who Give Back: Gaurav Oberoi & Chuck Groom, Seattle Tech Startups

Building a new startup can be hard and lonely. Luckily, Seattle has its own support group. Created by Gaurav Oberoi and… Read More

Amazon.com quietly acquires the social shopping whizzes at Quorus

A few weeks ago, we reported that Quorus co-founder Logan Bowers had left the upstart to become a senior software… Read More

The truths of entrepreneurship

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, founder and CEO of WatchMojo, recently wrote a guest post on TechCrunch about the Lies Entrepreneurs Tell.  In the article he… Read More

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