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Tech startups in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest raised less than $4 billion in funding in the first half of 2022, down 20% from more than $5 billion in the first half of 2021, according to a new analysis of GeekWire’s startup funding list. RELATED CONTENTCheck out GeekWire's list of recent...
Mike Ensing. (RealNetworks Photo) — Mike Ensing, president and COO of RealNetworks, resigned this week. Ensing joined the publicly traded Seattle software company in 2020 as interim CFO, and was named president and COO later that year. He’ll remain a strategic advisor through Aug. 19....
This ore-hauling truck is powered by a hydrogen-fueled powerplant. (First Mode / Anglo American Photo)First Mode, a Seattle-based engineering company, says it’s agreed to a business combination with the zero-emission truck development effort led by the Anglo American mining company. The deal...
ReedPop, the company behind the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, announced Wednesday that it plans to substantially relax its COVID safety protocols for the 2022 show in August, which has drawn criticism from many of the artists and exhibitors who’d planned to attend the show. ECCC broke...
Microsoft President Brad Smith is facing an array global, national and corporate issues. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong)Brad Smith, like many in tech and the broader world, thought 2022 might bring a bit of a break. Halfway through, the reality has been anything but. “This has been another year...
Richard Wang, CEO and co-founder of Coding Dojo. (Coding Dojo Photo) Coding Dojo secured $10 million to boost its computer programming bootcamp. The Bellevue, Wash.-based organization trains software engineers both in-person and online, and has experienced more than 100% year-over-year...
A “Parallel Reality” board at Detroit Metropolitan Airport board shows personalized flight information to a traveler using facial recognition technology. (Delta Photo)A startup with Microsoft and Redmond, Wash., roots is reaching new heights with technology that could change the way travelers...
Alicia Boler Davis. (Alto Photo) Alicia Boler-Davis, previously a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team, will become CEO at Alto Pharmacy in September. Boler Davis spent 24 years at General Motors and in 2019 joined Amazon, where she led several e-commerce teams including Worldwide...
Maggie Brady. (Convoy Photo) — Maggie Brady, previously a human resources group leader at fintech company Fiserv, is now head of people at trucking marketplace Convoy. Brady previously also led human resources teams at GE Healthcare, HD Supply and Anthem. Convoy raised $260 million this...
(Rollzi Photo) Rollzi, a new Seattle startup led by a former Convoy director, raised $8 million to help truckload carriers deliver freight shipments using a “Single Lane” approach that the company says increases efficiency for both truckers and shippers. CEO Damien Hutchins. (Rollzi...
ARCH Venture Partners has closed a $2.975 billion fund targeted for early-stage biotech companies. The firm’s 12th venture fund comes on the heels of a nearly $2 billion fund announced in January 2021 and launches amidst a biotech bear market. “Science doesn’t care what markets are doing, and...
(Qumulo Photo)Seattle-based data storage provider Qumulo laid off about 80 employees Wednesday, or roughly 19% of its staff, in the latest round of job cuts affecting tech companies. In a memo sent to employees and obtained by GeekWire, Qumulo CEO Bill Richter said he was “fully accountable...
(Photo via Microsoft Research Blog)Microsoft is launching a new research initiative aimed at fighting climate change, the company announced Wednesday. The Microsoft Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) aims to harness the tech giant’s research and computing expertise as it collaborates with...
SKYCovione, developed by the University of Washington. (UW Photo)Two COVID-19 vaccines with roots in Seattle cleared major regulatory milestones Wednesday. South Korea approved a shot developed by University of Washington researchers and Indian regulatory authorities issued an emergency use...
(Strive Image)Strive, which makes wearable tech for athletes, raised $6 million as part of a Series A funding round. The Seattle startup aims to help athletes better understand how and why they fatigue. The Bothell, Wash.-based develops sensors that embed into compression clothing and provides...
Eric Larsen, fund administrator for AofA’s Innovation Fund. (AoA Photo) Alliance of Angels raised $1.3 million for a new “Innovation Fund” that will back 10-to-12 early-stage startups over the next year, mostly in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1998, Seattle-based AoA typically...
An image from the “Adventure Photography Pro” workshop run by photographer Alex Strohl on Wildist. (Wildist Photo)CreativeLive, the Seattle-based company which teaches online classes in photography, video, design, music and more, is acquiring Wildist, another online provider specializing in...
An Amazon Fresh grocery store. (Amazon Photo)Amazon has spent years building technology to reshape how shoppers use its physical retail stores. Now the company is introducing a new analytics service to help brands better understand how and why consumers choose certain products. “Store...
Christina Lomasney and James Mattis. (PNNL, Dept. of Defense Photos)Christina Lomasney, a tech veteran and physicist who is now director of commercialization at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., has married James Mattis, the retired Marine Corps general who served as the...
Seattle companies that went public via (GeekWire Graphic/ Nate Bek)The four Seattle businesses that went public during the SPAC boom have sputtered amid the broader economic downturn. Porch, Nautilus Biotechnology, Rover, and Leafly have all gone public via a special-purpose acquisition...
(Bigstock Photo)Editor’s note: The following is commentary from Megan McNally, a business attorney and founder of the FBomb Breakfast Club, a peer support community for women founders and business owners. Abortion is healthcare. When the Supreme Court released its opinion in Dobbs vs....
Atomo is selling Ultra Smooth and Classic Black cold brews and will offer an Oat Milk Latter later this summer. (Atomo Photo)Atomo, the Seattle coffee company making its sustainable brews without beans, has raised $40 million in new funding, the startup announced Tuesday. Atomo is also...
Experimentally-determined structure of a bacterial protein, compared with structures produced by AlphaFold2 and OpenFold. (OpenFold Image)Three Seattle biotech companies are joining forces to support open-access development of protein folding and design software. The project, called OpenFold,...
Expedia global chief security officer Kurt John. (Expedia Photo) — Kurt John, former chief cybersecurity officer for Siemens USA, joined Expedia as global chief security officer. John will be responsible for IT security, physical security and privacy. John spent nearly six years at...
Seattle Mariners outfielder Jesse Winker got a special delivery on Sunday in Anaheim, Calif. (Photos via GeekWire, Mariners)Seattle Mariners outfielder Jesse Winker had a little pep in his step on Sunday after igniting a benches clearing brawl against the Los Angeles Angels after being hit by a...
STAR executive director Sonya Cunningham (left) and faculty director Eve Riskin. (UW Photo)A University of Washington program to support STEM students from low-income and underserved backgrounds is now nine years old. And it aims to spread the model to other institutions. The Washington State...
Possible Finance CEO Tony Huang. (Photo by Sam Cook) Rising interest rates caused by recent inflation may hurt traditional lenders, but some tech-fueled financial companies are seeing tailwinds. Tony Huang, CEO of Seattle consumer credit startup Possible Finance, said his company’s business...
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 19, 2022. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Tye Brady, Amazon Robotics chief technologist, with Digit, a bipedal warehouse robot developed by Agility Robotics, a company in which Amazon has invested; and a new Amazon warehouse robot, Proteus, lower right, that can navigate a warehouse floor alongside humans. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)LAS...
Aquagga CEO Nigel Sharp presenting at GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch competition that airs later this summer. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set new water health advisories for PFAS, or “per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.” These...
