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How to be an ‘Uncommon Thinker’: What we learned profiling innovative leaders solving big problems

What does it take to create meaningful change in the modern world? A few ideas: Those are some of the… Read More

Uncommon Thinkers: Boundless CEO Xiao Wang on his quest to fix the immigration process

Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming… Read More

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AI, startups, and Star Wars: Conversations from the 2023 GeekWire Awards

The theme at this week’s GeekWire Awards was Star Wars, but we didn’t need to go to a galaxy far,… Read More

Tech Moves: Nordstrom names new CTO; ex-Halo director lands at Netflix; Boundless adds exec

— Nordstrom has a new technology leader. The retail giant hired Jason Morris as its new chief technology and information officer,… 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

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Immigration and tech: New realities, old problems, and what’s at stake for the future

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: how the pandemic, politics, labor shortages, and the rise of remote work are impacting… Read More

Close connections and remote work: Investor in Seattle helped Ohio dad land at portfolio company

As a co-founder and managing director at Seattle venture capital firm Pioneer Square Labs, Ben Gilbert spends a lot of… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle AI experts join national task force; Boundless co-founder departs; and more

— DefinedCrowd founder and CEO Daniela Braga and Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etzioni are part of the newly… Read More

Immigration startup Boundless raises $25M, eyes opportunity with ‘pro-immigrant administration’

New funding: Seattle startup Boundless landed $25 million to help support people through the immigration process. The software: The company’s technology… Read More

Keep design in mind: Cast your vote for UX Design of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

A good user experience (UX) goes deeper than visuals and how applications look — it’s creating an entire experience that… Read More

Immigration startup Boundless consolidates customer service team; 31 employees affected

Seattle-based startup Boundless laid off four employees and asked 27 workers to relocate to Las Vegas as part of what… Read More

Tech Moves: AWS names first head of space policy; WeWork Labs leader joins Alexa Fund; Moz co-founder leaves board

— Peter Marquez has joined Amazon Web Services as the first head of space policy. “There are many exciting things… Read More

Supreme Court lifts ban on Trump’s ‘public charge’ policy, making it harder for immigrants to qualify for green cards

The Trump administration is allowed to implement a rule that makes it difficult for immigrants who use public benefits to… Read More

Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, others urge federal court to block Trump’s ‘public charge’ immigration rule

Companies across the country are trying to convince a federal judge that a new change to the U.S. immigration system… Read More

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Startup of the Year nominees share tips for success — cast your vote now for the GeekWire Awards

A quick gander at the GeekWire 200, our index of Pacific Northwest startups, shows the density of up-and-coming tech companies… Read More

Seattle startup Boundless raises $7.8M to become ‘the one-stop shop’ for legal immigration

In the two years since it launched, Boundless has become the top destination for immigrants applying for marriage-based green cards… Read More

Report reveals best (and worst) cities for becoming a U.S. citizen, and where the tech hubs stand

U.S. immigration law, policy and practices are national, in theory, but where immigrants live can noticeably impact their efforts to… Read More

Resilience and risk-taking: How the immigration experience shapes the path of foreign-born entrepreneurs

First- and second-generation immigrants make up only 27 percent of the U.S. population, yet more than half of the most… Read More

How can U.S. improve its immigration policy? We asked immigrant entrepreneurs and tech leaders

Seattle-area entrepreneur Mina Yoo has been in the United States since 1991, receiving a dual Ph.D. in sociology and business… Read More

GeekWire Awards 2018: Make your pick for Startup of the Year

If you needed another reminder of Seattle’s robust startup scene, take a look at the finalists for this year’s Startup… Read More

Surging ‘Seattle 10’ startups show off their strategies on supersized cocktail napkins

The idea of sketching business plans and ideas on cocktail napkins dates back decades. You quickly draw out the core… Read More

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Meet the Seattle 10: Hot startups transform everything from housing to food production

An innovative way to buy homes. Virtual reality that allows you to feel. And a high-tech football helmet that’s designed… Read More

Plot twist: How this startup founder went from writing plays to reshaping U.S. immigration policy

Doug Rand probably didn’t know that the play he wrote in high school — “The Idiot and the Oddity,” a… Read More

Immigrant’s Journey: 7 foreign-born tech leaders talk about the impact of changing U.S. policies

With chants of “build the wall” and the pursuit of policies to stem the flow of new immigrants and refugees,… Read More

Immigration startup Boundless launches tools to streamline applying for a marriage-based green card

It can take anywhere from nine months to three years for a would-be immigrant to the U.S. to receive feedback… Read More

Guest Post: Why Congress isn’t going to cut legal immigration in half

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared as a blog post on Boundless, a Pioneer Square Labs spinout that uses technology to… Read More

Startup led by ex-Amazon manager and Obama tech policy guru raises $3.5M to navigate the ‘opaque, intimidating, and high-stakes’ immigration process

Boundless, a Seattle startup that aims to help people navigate the U.S. immigration process, has come out of stealth mode and… Read More

As Trump stokes fears, startup backed by tech heavyweights aims to help immigrants ‘take control of their journey’

Xiao Wang is an immigrant success story. He came to the U.S. from Nanjing at three and went on to… Read More

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