SNØCAP co-founders photographed at Sweet Farm, from the left: General Partner Jonathan Azoff, General Partner Nate Salpeter, and Managing Partner Shrina Kurani. Also pictured is Rocky, a rescued baby raccoon headed for rehabilitation. Salpeter is co-founder of Sweet Farm, which supports animal...
Dave Parker (LinkedIn Photo) Veteran entrepreneur and startup advisor Dave Parker is taking over as CEO at global networking group Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Parker has been around startups for nearly three decades as a founder, investor, and mentor for various companies. He was a leader at...
Doxo co-founders Steve Shivers, left, and Roger Parks, pictured in a company photo from 2011. A lawsuit by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleges that Seattle-based bill payment company Doxo has repeatedly deceived consumers into thinking it’s an official channel for the companies they’re...
(GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) Microsoft posted its latest earnings report on Thursday, which was broadly speaking good news for the company. For its embattled Xbox department, however, there are mixed signals. This is the second quarterly report from Microsoft that included the effects of...
Clean aviation company ZeroAvia hosted a ribbon cutting on Wednesday at its new manufacturing facility in Everett, Wash., which was attended by a slate of Washington leaders. From left: U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, ZeroAvia CEO and founder Val Miftakhov, Gov. Jay Inslee, and U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene....
Satya Nadella leaves the stage at Microsoft Build in May 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Satya Nadella has made a habit of touting the revenue growth in the company’s security technology business on Microsoft’s earnings calls. But not this time. Microsoft’s CEO took a different...
Dropzone AI founder and CEO Edward Wu. (Dropzone Photo) Dropzone AI, a Seattle-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies boost their Security Operations Centers (SOC), raised a $16.8 million Series A round. Dropzone’s pre-trained AI security agents use large language...
A Microsoft sign on the company’s redeveloped headquarters campus in Redmond, with renovation work ongoing in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Updated with details from Microsoft’s earnings conference call. Microsoft posted a 17% increase in revenue, to $61.9 billion, with $21.9...
Portland Seed Fund’s Angela Jackson (left) and Steve Eichenlaub will manage the new Intrepid Oregon Fund, which will invest in climate and other tech startups from the state. (Portland Seed Fund Photo) Portland Seed Fund managers announced the launch of the Intrepid Oregon Fund, which has $4...
University of Washington Institute for Protein Design head David Baker (left) and assistant professor Neil King show off molecular models of proteins. (UW IPD Photo / Ian Haydon) The University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design is on a hot streak. New studies, companies and spinouts...
An artist’s conception shows a Gravitics space station module in orbit. (Gravitics Illustration) Marysville, Wash.-based Gravitics says it will work with Rocket Lab USA and other partners to adapt its space station architecture for the U.S. Space Force under the terms of a $1.7 million...
Shares of Impinj were up 20% on Thursday following the company’s first quarter earnings release. The Seattle-based RFID-maker reported revenue of $76.8 million, up from the previous quarter and ahead of analyst estimates, but down from the year-ago period. The company posted GAAP net...
The Seattle Kraken take on the Vancouver Canucks in the first home game at Climate Pledge Arena in 2021. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle Kraken fans will have a new place to root for the pro hockey team next season. The franchise announced an innovative new broadcast deal...
Sen. Joe Nguyen on the floor of the Washington State Senate on March 5, 2024. (Washington State Democrats Photo) After a decade working in the tech sector, Joe Nguyen tackled his new role as a state senator like any good program manager. He sat down and created a process document, breaking down...
David Rosenthal (left) and Ben Gilbert, co-hosts of the Acquired podcast. (Acquired Photo) The hosts of the popular business and technology podcast Acquired are raising a new fund to invest in growth-stage tech companies. GeekWire spotted a new SEC filing today that revealed the fund. Ben...
Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton. (Zillow Group Photo) [This story originally appeared on Real Estate News.] SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — When looking toward Zillow’s future, CEO and co-founder Rich Barton emphasized the company’s tech-influenced past — and tech-heavy present — while speaking at the T3...
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman — the entrepreneur, author, podcaster, venture capitalist and Microsoft board member — is on the front lines of the artificial intelligence revolution. Even as a pioneer in the AI field, it was a bit unusual (yet informative) today to see Hoffman sit down...
Electronic Good to Go! tolling on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. (WSDOT File Photo via Flickr) The Washington State Department of Transportation is warning Good to Go! customers to be on the lookout for fraudulent emails or texts seeking payment for past due toll bills. In an email to customers...
Amazon has gone to court several times in the past to enforce non-compete agreements with departing employees in Washington state, home of its Seattle-area headquarters. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Like it or not, the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on non-competition agreements could...
Gov. Jay Inslee in Tukwila, Wash., on Tuesday announcing program that will provide instant rebates for low-income consumers who are buying or leasing electric vehicles. (Governor’s Office Photo) Washington leaders on Tuesday announced a $45 million program aiming to make electric vehicles more...
Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. (Radical Photo). Seattle-based Radical says it has raised $4.5 million to support the development of...
(98point6 Photo) Seattle-based digital healthcare startup 98point6 has conducted a new round of layoffs, the company confirmed Tuesday. 98point6 did not provide details on the number of employees affected. A number of posts from affected workers began showing up on LinkedIn last week. One...
Arisa Chattasa Photo via Unsplash. Goodbye, non-competes. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today released its final rules addressing non-compete clauses by banning all future agreements. Non-competes have traditionally restricted workers from taking jobs with a competitor or starting a...
Totally Reliable Delivery Service. (tinyBuild Image) Bellevue, Wash.-based game publisher tinyBuild has sold the rights to Totally Reliable Delivery Service to the French corporation Atari, which intends to use the acquisition to revive a legacy brand. The game, which tinyBuild published for...
Scala Advisors co-founders Chad Cohen (left) and Ryan Domyancic. (Scala Photos) Longtime technology industry leaders Chad Cohen and Ryan Domyancic unveiled Scala Advisors, their new Seattle-based advisory firm designed to help growth-stage companies in the public and private markets. Cohen...
Satya Nadella speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2016. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) How many points will AI add to Microsoft’s financial scoreboard? That’s the big question going into the Redmond company’s earnings report on Thursday afternoon, for the third quarter of the company’s 2024...
(Uber Photo) After a controversial minimum wage law for food delivery drivers in Seattle went into effect in January, tech giants including Uber and DoorDash made it clear they weren’t happy. They immediately added substantial new delivery fees for consumers, which caused demand to drop. They...
Amazon announced a series of new features for its AWS Bedrock service. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services is releasing new capabilities for its Bedrock artificial intelligence service, including the ability for customers to import their own custom AI models to run alongside...
(Outpost Photo) Outpost, an Austin, Texas-based trucking parking facility operator that has an engineering center in Seattle, announced a $12.5 million Series A investment round. The company was founded two years ago under the name Semi-Stow. It operates 18 properties and 8,000 parking...
(Amazon Photo) Amazon Prime members in more than 3,500 U.S. cities can now get free unlimited grocery delivery for orders over $35 — if they pay $9.99 per month. The service initially rolled out to select cities in December, and is now widely available. Prime members — who already pay...
Artwork shows two views of the Bifröst orbital transfer spacecraft. (New Frontier Aerospace Illustration) Two Washington state aerospace companies — Tukwila-based New Frontier Aerospace and Spanaway-based HyBird Space Systems — are among 95 ventures that have won project development funding from...
People use the newly opened Redmond Technology Station Bridge spanning SR 520 between Microsoft’s east and west campuses on Monday in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) People on foot, riding bicycles, and even those cruising on electric skateboards crisscrossed over a busy highway...
Jason Taylor. (LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor, the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Taylor spent more than 13 years at Meta, where he led various infrastructure projects....
Fishing buoys line the community bar at the WeWork co-working space in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. (WeWork Photo) WeWork is looking to hold onto another location in Seattle, negotiating new terms with its landlord and filing a court motion Monday to remain in the 15th and Market building in...
Amazon says its next-generation MK30 drone will start making deliveries later this year. (Amazon Photo) Amazon says it’s gearing up to add a community in Arizona to its list of Prime Air drone delivery zones. Later this year, customers in the West Valley region of the Phoenix metro area will...