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This AI understands doctor’s notes: Truveta’s new model finds meaning in messy healthcare data

Healthcare data holds great potential to improve medicine, but mining it is not easy. To get to the gold, Truveta… Read More

Vancouver, B.C., tissue ‘bioprinting’ company inks $75M deal with Novo Nordisk for diabetes, obesity

Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company Aspect Biosystems inked a partnership worth potentially more than $2.6 billion with Danish biopharma giant Novo… Read More

Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotechnologies COO departing; Sana adds leaders; and more

— Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, the company said today in a regulatory… Read More

Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalists at the GeekWire Awards share their entrepreneurship tips

The finalists for the GeekWire Awards Young Entrepreneur of the Year category are at the cutting edge of their respective… Read More

Industrial headset company RealWear and Seattle’s Cascadia Capital terminate SPAC deal

A SPAC deal to take Vancouver, Wash.-based industrial headset company RealWear public has fallen apart. Cascadia Acquisition Corp., the special… Read More

Carbon Robotics lands $30M to sell more weed-destroying machines powered by AI

Turns out that farmers like using lasers to kill weeds. Seattle startup Carbon Robotics raised $30 million to fuel growth… Read More

Carbon removal startup Nori lays off 10 employees, citing market concerns

Nori, a Seattle startup that sells carbon credits to individuals and businesses to offset carbon emissions, laid off 10 employees… Read More

Cannabis company POSaBIT calls off plans to acquire three compliance software firms

POSaBIT announced Friday plans to abandon its acquisition of three cannabis compliance software firms after a third-party proposal resulted in… Read More

Tech Moves: Halo leader departing; Remitly adds board directors; drone vet lands at Rantizo

— Seattle-based fintech company Remitly added two new board members: Ryno Blignaut and Phyllis Campbell. Blignaut is an investor with Silicon… Read More

Amazon and SpaceX vets apply their AI and satellite skills to new carbon accounting startup

Corporations worldwide are committing to shrinking their carbon footprints. But it can get complicated when companies try to calculate how… Read More

Los Angeles venture firm Bonfire eyeing Seattle for B2B startup investments

Another out-of-town venture firm is looking at Seattle for new startup investments. Los Angeles-based Bonfire has backed three Seattle-area startups… Read More

After acquisition by Environ Energy, Seattle startup Scope 5 looks to boost ESG reporting platform

The world of sustainability has changed quite a bit since Scope 5 first got off the ground more than a… Read More

Winning team at UW pitch competition wants to disperse fertilizer on farms via autonomous planes

A group of students at the University of Washington are launching a startup that helps farmers monitor and upkeep their… Read More

Robotics data startup led by former Amazon drone engineers emerges from stealth, raises $4.8M

Benji Barash and Yves Albers-Schoenberg experienced the challenges of robotics development while working on Amazon’s ambitious drone project. Now the… Read More

Energy startup CTFusion folds as co-founders land at rival Zap

CTFusion, a spinoff from the University of Washington, has flipped off the reactor and folded up shop. But the startup’s… Read More

AI makes its mark in ‘Innovation of the Year’ category at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

If there’s any doubt that 2023 is the Year of Artificial Intelligence, this should put it to rest. Novel and… Read More

Tech leaders form alliance to help fuel robotics work in the Pacific Northwest

A trio of tech leaders joined forces to promote the creation of robotics startups in the Pacific Northwest, encouraged by… Read More

Minh Le, former Silicon Valley Bank leader in Seattle, joins Stifel Bank as managing director

Longtime Seattle-area tech mainstay Minh Le has joined Stifel Bank as managing director, following a 14-year career with Silicon Valley… Read More

Payscore, a startup that helps property managers and car dealerships verify income, raises $2.2M

Property managers and consumer lenders are dealing with a reported increasing amount of application fraud. A Seattle startup wants to… Read More

Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important… Read More

Amazon Web Services launches startup accelerator for generative AI companies

The newest startup accelerator from Amazon aims to attract companies building generative AI technologies. The Amazon Web Services accelerator, revealed… Read More

TipHaus, which helps companies distribute tips, raises $3.5M and launches banking tool

Seattle-area startup TipHaus landed $3.5 million in new funding to streamline how businesses pool and distribute tips to employees. Launched… Read More

Robots for hire: Dell EMC vets lead Seattle startup aiming to automate monotonous tasks

A trio of former Dell EMC engineers are building a fleet of rentable robots to help companies crank out monotonous… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Reclaiming our lives through more mindful use of technology

Humans have become increasingly vulnerable to technology that grabs our attention, by design, often pulling us away from more meaningful… Read More

Augmented writing startup Textio restructures; CEO says generative AI ‘more and more important’

Textio, the Seattle-based augmented writing platform, conducted a “broad team reorganization” this week, according to co-founder and CEO Kieran Snyder.… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Meet the 5 finalists for Startup CEO of the Year

The finalists in this year’s GeekWire Awards category for Startup CEO of the Year are taking on a range of… Read More

Google and Apple vets raise $17M for Fixie, a large language model startup based in Seattle

The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised… Read More

SportsCenter for meetings: Seattle startup uses GPT to create meeting highlight reels

Read AI, the Seattle startup whose software measures engagement and sentiment of participants on video meetings, is taking a page… Read More

The hurdles women-founded startups face in venture capital — and advice to overcome them

Don’t be scared to pitch big. That’s the advice Graham & Walker Founder and Managing Director Leslie Feinzaig said she… Read More

Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs

Real estate ownership. Legal contracts. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software. Machine learning monitoring. The finalists for Startup of the Year… Read More

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