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Echodyne raises $20M from Bill Gates and others as surveillance radar gains traction

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and other investors have contributed to a fresh $20 million funding round for Kirkland, Wash.-based Echodyne,… Read More

Tech Moves: WestRiver Group hires managing director; ex-PayScale CEO joins MediaPro; Impinj adds board member

— WestRiver Group is adding some firepower to its leadership team as the investment firm looks to put more dollars… Read More

NBA star Kevin Durant, Snoop Dogg back marijuana startup Dutchie as part of $15M round

Dutchie, a Bend, Ore. startup that makes an online platform for customers to order from cannabis companies, raised $15 million… Read More

Seattle startup Swiftly raises $15.6M, launches supermarket OS to help retailers battle Amazon

Swiftly raised a $15.6 million seed round to help grocery stores and other retailers up their technology offerings to keep… Read More

Techstars Seattle grad Rammer.AI raises $1.8M to democratize ‘conversational intelligence’ tech

Rammer.AI wants to help put “conversational intelligence” capabilities in the hands of more developers. The Seattle startup just reeled in… Read More

Uber doubles down on trucking venture, will invest $200M in new Uber Freight Chicago HQ

Heads up, Convoy: Uber is doubling down on its trucking venture. Uber announced Monday that it will invest $200 million… Read More

Y Combinator grad Brave Care raises another $5.2M for tech-fueled urgent care service for kids

Brave Care is attracting so much investor attention that it didn’t even need to pitch at Y Combinator Demo Day.… Read More

LTN Global will acquire Seattle startup Make.TV to bolster live video distribution technology

LTN Global has agreed to acquire Make.TV, a 3-year-old Seattle startup that builds live video streaming technology. Savage, Md.-based LTN… Read More

Corrio aims to reduce recidivism with messaging technology for incarcerated people

Life without readily available cell, text and email communication is unimaginable for most of us. But for people who are… Read More

Studio216 becomes mixed reality startup Altoura, raises $1.1M, looks to build off Microsoft partnership

Jamie Fleming launched studio216 in 2005 and helped build the digital content agency for more than a decade. But after… Read More

How a stealthy insurance tech startup bootstrapped its way to a $2.35B acquisition in less than 4 years

It started as conversations between two friends about how to improve the insurance and financial services industries for consumers. That… Read More

GeekWire Elevator Pitch returns! An insect farmer, detergent maker and wine grape analyzer vie for startup glory (inside an actual elevator)

Welcome to Smith Tower! With those words we kick off season two of GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch, a fun startup competition… Read More

Prudential to buy Seattle-area insurance tech startup Assurance for $2.35B

Prudential Financial agreed to acquire Seattle-area startup Assurance IQ for $2.35 billion, the companies announced Thursday. The acquisition will fold… Read More

Pulumi takes on cloud juggernauts with flagship product for deploying infrastructure as code

Seattle startup Pulumi is formally launching its technology for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud, looking to land new… Read More

Three Seattle startups make LinkedIn’s 2019 list of 50 hottest companies to work for now

LinkedIn’s 2019 list of the 50 Top Startups in the U.S. once again includes three companies from Seattle, with two… Read More

Microsoft acquires cloud migration startup Movere to help companies transition to Azure

Microsoft didn’t have to go far for its latest acquisition. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant today announced that it acquired… Read More

Suplari raises funding from Workday, Madrona and others for AI that analyzes corporate spending

Top venture capitalists and the investment arm of Workday are putting more dollars behind Suplari, a Seattle startup that uses… Read More

Would you trust this startup to plan a mystery date for you? We did — and here’s what it was like

It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Friday and I have plans. At least, that’s what I’m told. I have no idea… Read More

No poop required: Researchers devise blood test for gut microbiome diversity using data from defunct startup Arivale

If you want to know what’s going on in your gut microbiome, the community of bacteria in our intestines that… Read More

Y Combinator grad Preclusio automates how companies comply with tech privacy regulations

The scary truth about many technology companies is that for years they’ve been vacuuming up vast quantities of personal data… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spinoff Xinova lays off staff as invention network company aims for profitability

Seattle-based “invention network” company Xinova cut staff today, GeekWire has learned. A company spokesperson declined to provide details about how… Read More

Why Nestlé just bought a personalized vitamin startup in Washington state

A small startup from the Pacific Northwest is now part of a global food and beverage behemoth. Nestlé Health Science… Read More

Cloud services company Skytap lays off 25 workers in first major change under new CEO

Enterprise cloud services company Skytap is laying off 25 employees, or around 12 percent of its workforce, in an effort… Read More

Fresh off Domino’s delivery partnership, Rad Power Bikes rolls out new $1,299 ‘RadRunner’ cruiser

It’s been a big month for Rad Power Bikes. The Seattle startup made headlines earlier in August for its exclusive… Read More

Convoy hires VPs of marketing and revenue, doubles workforce to 750 in bid to transform the trucking industry

Convoy is adding two new senior executives to lead marketing and revenue, capping a year of massive growth following a… Read More

Madrona leads $10M round for Tesorio, a fintech startup that automates cash flow analysis

Hope Cochran knows about managing cash flow. As the former chief financial officer at Candy Crush maker King Digital and… Read More

Female Founders Alliance unveils second accelerator class and partnership with Microsoft

Female Founders Alliance is back with its second accelerator cohort as the Seattle-based organization looks to help another round of… Read More

Mobile marketing startup Airship acquires Apptimize to bolster customer experience testing

Mobile marketing startup Airship scooped up Apptimize, a San Francisco-based user experience testing company, in its second acquisition so far… Read More

Canadian biotech company Chinook Therapeutics raises $65M for rare kidney disease therapies

Chinook Therapeutics, a Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company creating targeted therapies for kidney diseases, raised $65 million in a Series A… Read More

Riding a telemedicine wave, docs trade white coats for the tech life, testing the limits of health care

Dr. Michael Grabinski walks into the room, but he can’t talk yet. “I just picked up a patient,” he said.… Read More

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