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Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis joins Microsoft in exec role leading work on enterprise AI

Dan Lewis, the former CEO of shuttered Seattle trucking startup Convoy, has joined Microsoft in a chief product officer role.… Read More

Seattle-area company with climate friendly ‘mechanical cows’ for digesting waste is acquired

Chomp, a company building devices that turn food waste into fuel and liquid fertilizer, today announced its acquisition by Martin… Read More

AI recruiting startup led by former Microsoft manager raises $16M

ConverzAI, a Seattle startup founded in 2019 that aims to automate recruiting processes, raised $16 million in a Series A… Read More

New accelerator in Seattle area aims to help tech startups navigate Dept. of Defense complexities

A new accelerator program aimed at identifying and supporting startups and technologies that address critical U.S. Department of Defense needs… Read More

Seattle startup group launches new program for founders that rethinks traditional accelerator format

Aviel Ginzburg spent years learning what makes a startup accelerator effective for founders. Now he’s applying those lessons to a… Read More

Wildfire recovery and carbon capture company Mast Reforestation lands $25M

Seattle’s Mast Reforestation announced today $25 million in new funding and an expansion of its operations into “wood vaulting” in… Read More

Official AI raises $2M for platform that enables authentic AI content creation for brands and talent

Official AI, a Seattle startup whose platform helps brands and talent create and collaborate on AI-generated image and audio content,… Read More

Ex-Allen Institute for AI scientists form stealthy AI startup, with former Ai2 CEO Oren Etzioni

A group of former Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) research leaders have formed a new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup, Vercept.… Read More

Tech Moves: Google Cloud hires Microsoft exec Hayete Gallot in new president role; Impinj CRO retires; WSU names president

— Google named Hayete Gallot, most recently Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial solutions, to the newly created position of… Read More

Carbon Robotics releases new line of laser weed-zappers for more types of farms and budgets

Carbon Robotics wants to zap more weeds among more types of crops on farms of all sizes, and to get… Read More

‘Layoffs and pain’: Frozen federal funding batters clean energy and climate efforts

President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order puzzles David Funk. The order targets clean energy efforts, pausing the distribution of… Read More

Portland cybersecurity risk assessment startup DeepSurface acquired

Portland cybersecurity startup DeepSurface was acquired this week by AttackIQ, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that helps customers evaluate security… Read More

Seattle’s DeltaGen raises $1.2M to market its generative AI tech for streamlining M&A deals

DeltaGen, a Seattle startup offering software that helps companies apply generative AI tools to their processes, has raised $1.2 million.… Read More

Dopl Technologies raises $1.5M to fuel mission of delivering telerobotic care to underserved areas

Dopl Technologies, a Seattle startup working to bring diagnostic exams and interventional procedures to underserved communities via telerobotics, raised $1.5… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft poaches 3 AI experts from Google DeepMind; Rover names COO; and more

— Microsoft hired three former members of Google DeepMind, which was originally co-founded as a startup research lab by Microsoft’s… Read More

Tidal Vision, a company turning tossed crab shells into a green chemical, nets $140M in funding

Tidal Vision, a green chemistry company founded by a former Alaska fishing boat captain, has raised $140 million to fund… Read More

Tire recycling tech startup with link to Costco lands $40M from former CEO Jim Sinegal and others

Prism Worldwide is likely the swan song for Bob Abramowitz, its CEO and 66-year-old co-founder. The tire recycling company is also… Read More

New group brings unique approach to help startups take flight out of the University of Oregon

Launch Oregon wants to help boost the researchers, engineers, and scientists at the University of Oregon commercialize their innovation and… Read More

Return to the ‘mother ship’: Seattle startup studio Madrona Venture Labs absorbed by Madrona

Madrona Venture Labs is being absorbed into Seattle’s Madrona venture firm after operating for more than 10 years as an… Read More

Tech Moves: F5’s first chief digital officer; Seattle-area EV charging startup acquired; and more

— Alvina Antar is the first chief digital officer for Seattle-based networking and security giant F5. Antar comes to the… Read More

Flexport, Amazon vets raise $5M to automate data and document processing for freight forwarders

Freightmate, a Seattle-area startup that aims to streamline how freight forwarders process documents and data, raised $5 million in a… Read More

Oregon legal tech startup raises $22M to fuel AI platform that speeds research, drafting and more

Paxton, a Bend, Ore.-based legal tech startup, raised $22 million to fuel growth of its AI-powered platform, the company announced… Read More

Hardware-focused startup studio Conduit Venture Labs expands reach to support outside companies

Conduit Venture Labs, a Seattle startup lab founded in 2022 to help incubate and launch hardware-focused companies, has expanded its… Read More

3D-modeling startup Canvas, led by former Moz CEO Sarah Bird, lands $10M

Canvas, a startup providing technology for 3D measurements and modeling used in architecture, interior design and construction, today announced $10… Read More

Cybersecurity startup Eclypsium raises $45M to help companies secure their infrastructure

Eclypsium, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that helps Fortune 500 companies and government agencies strengthen the cybersecurity of their technical infrastructure,… Read More

Sam Altman, SoftBank invest in $425M round for Helion, a Seattle-area startup chasing fusion power

Helion Energy announced a $425 million funding round that will help the Seattle-area fusion company chase the “Holy Grail” of… Read More

Who will win in AI? DeepSeek’s breakthrough stirs questions around value capture

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Ben Hallen, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Foster… Read More

DeepSeek’s new model shows that AI expertise might matter more than compute in 2025

Editor’s note: This post first appeared on Jon Turow’s Substack newsletter. Turow is an investor at Madrona Venture Group and… Read More

Tech Moves: T-Mobile names COO; Algorithmia co-founders team up again; and more

— T-Mobile announced Srinivasan Gopalan as its new chief operating officer beginning March 1. Gopalan is a telecom vet who… Read More

Seattle software startup led by cybersecurity vet lands $5.7M to create virtual security engineers

Staris, a new Seattle-based application security startup founded by technology industry veterans, raised $5.7 million in a seed round led… Read More

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