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How Sean McClain founded Absci at just 22 — and now leads a newly public biotech worth nearly $2B

Biotech CEOs tend to have advanced degrees and multiple academic credentials under their belt. But Sean McClain started Absci as… Read More

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‘Co-warehousing’ startup Saltbox opens facility in Seattle, its third nationwide

Saltbox, a warehousing space provider for small and medium-sized digital commerce companies, has expanded to Seattle. Saltbox offers “co-warehousing” space… Read More

Pizza brands show interest in robotic pizza maker Picnic as Seattle startup raises more cash

Seattle-based food automation startup Picnic added an additional $4.2 million in funding to a Series A round that previously raised… Read More

Core Scientific, which started in Seattle but moved HQ to Austin, to go public at a $4.3B valuation

Core Scientific is going public. The blockchain infrastructure company announced that it will merge with a SPAC called Power &… Read More

Qualtrics acquires Seattle marketing software startup Usermind

Experience management software giant Qualtrics has acquired Usermind, a Seattle marketing startup that helps companies acquire, retain, and service customers.… Read More

Testing automation platform Stack Moxie raises cash, leverages startup support networks

Newish name, new funding: Stack Moxie, formerly known as Automaton, this spring raised $875,000 in pre-seed funding. The Seattle-based startup… Read More

Behind the recycling scenes at Ridwell: Seattle startup growing as fast as piles of plastic and more

In a warehouse south of downtown Seattle, Ridwell co-founder and CEO Ryan Metzger stands amid the garbage that has turned… Read More

E-commerce startup Fabric raises $100M in latest giant funding round for a Seattle startup

Another day, another big funding round for a Seattle startup. E-commerce company Fabric just landed a $100 million investment to… Read More

HaptX raises another $12M for high-tech gloves, relocates HQ back to Seattle

HaptX is raising more cash to meet demand for its haptic gloves that help enterprise customers working in virtual reality… Read More

Providence-backed Kno2 raises $15M for healthcare communication tech

Kno2, a Boise, Idaho-based startup developing ways for healthcare systems to communicate with each other, has raised $15 million in… Read More

Limeade buying TINYPulse for $8.8M, combining Seattle-area workplace tech companies

Updated at 6 p.m. with details from interview with Limeade CEO Henry Albrecht.  Employee well-being technology company Limeade has agreed… Read More

Eliem Therapeutics files for IPO as another Seattle-area biotech firm set to go public

Eliem Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech company generating therapies for pain, depression and other nervous-system related conditions, has filed to… Read More

DreamBox will acquire Reading Plus as ed-tech startup expands beyond math

DreamBox Learning is expanding beyond its flagship math education software platform. The Bellevue, Wash.-based startup announced the acquisition of Reading… Read More

Visualping raises $6M to bolster services targeting businesses using its web monitoring tools

New funding: Web monitoring service Visualping has raised a second $6 million seed round. In March, the startup raised $2 million.… Read More

This startup aims to improve workplace conversations with ’empathy-as-a-service’ software

Most of us have had the experience of sending a text or email that came across sounding insensitive or angry,… Read More

How this Seattle entrepreneur went from running a food truck to leading a fast-growing crypto startup

More than a year after shutting down his popular Korean-Mexican food truck and catering business Bomba Fusion, Seattle entrepreneur Simon… Read More

Give InKind, which aims to make giving easier, lands more funding to expand healthcare partnerships

Social giving startup Give InKind has raised another $500,000 as it inks deals with hospitals and healthcare systems. The Tacoma,… Read More

AI2 spinout MajorBoost uses artificial intelligence to help medical providers deal with insurance calls

A new health-tech spinout from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies… Read More

Modulus, a cell therapy biotech incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, raises $3.5M

Modulus Therapeutics, a Seattle-based cellular therapy company spun out of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI2), announced $3.5 million… Read More

Seattle startup Lumen Bioscience to build algae manufacturing plant in former bakery

Seattle-based biotech company Lumen Bioscience, which manufactures proteins in algae, will expand its manufacturing operations to a former bakery in… Read More

Purpose and profit: Why this venture capital firm became a ‘B-Corp’ and wants others to follow

Dan Levitan isn’t confident that the U.S. government can solve the country’s pressing problems, at a time when it needs… Read More

The Seattle startup scene is sizzling with record funding, hiring surge, 12 unicorns

Huge fundings. New unicorns. More tech talent. Acquisitions. IPOs. The Seattle startup scene is booming. PitchBook and NVCA this week… Read More

Meet the 4 new startups joining a fintech incubator run by BECU and UW in Seattle

Four Seattle startups have won a slot in a financial technology incubator run by banking company BECU and CoMotion, the… Read More

Techstars and Filecoin launching new accelerator out of Seattle for blockchain startups

Techstars, a global network that supports entrepreneurs, is launching a new accelerator program out of Seattle. The Filecoin Techstars Accelerator… Read More

Moving services company Updater acquires Seattle startup Dolly

Seattle-based on-demand moving startup Dolly has been acquired by Updater, a New York moving services company. Terms of the deal… Read More

Amperity is Seattle’s latest unicorn with $100M round to supercharge its customer data platform

Amperity is the latest company to join the Seattle region’s elusive club of unicorns, or privately held tech startups valued… Read More

Seattle startup Truveta raises $95M for ambitious vision to aggregate data across healthcare systems

Seattle-based health data company Truveta today announced $95 million in fresh funding and the addition of three new participating healthcare… Read More

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OceanGate sub makes first dive to Titanic wreck site and captures photos of debris

After years of building, testing and dealing with setbacks, Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate has sent a next-generation submersible and its crew down… Read More

Seattle startup AdaptiLab sells interviewing software to CoderPad as founders pursue new idea

Seattle startup AdaptiLab has sold its technical interviewing platform to CoderPad and its founders plan to launch another new company.… Read More

Couple finally catches a surf break in dream to bring man-made wave facility to Seattle area

Surfing is not the easiest sport to learn. But getting financial backing, securing land and actually building a man-made, deep-water… Read More

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