June 05, 2015
Boundless Immigration cut staff days before it announced acquisition of European competitor
October 03, 2025
Boundless CEO Xiao Wang, right, hosted a Seattle Tech Week panel in July 2025. Also pictured are panelists Lisa Wehden of Plymouth and Ankit Dhawan of BluePill AI. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Seattle startup Boundless Immigration laid off an undisclosed number of employees last week,...
Remitly co-founder ready to build next ‘big company’ — helping leverage AI in sports and live events
October 03, 2025
Shivaas Gulati is a longtime Seattle entrepreneur and investor. (Whitby-Boot Photography / Southend United) Shivaas Gulati is ready to build his next “big company,” and he’s excited to do it in Seattle. While he’s keeping details close to the vest, the co-founder of digital remittance company...
Out of Office: Luca Cazzanti’s AI and data skills are in play while coaching kids in the sport he loves
October 03, 2025
Luca Cazzanti, a Seattle AI and data professional, shows off his soccer skills during a break from his coaching duties at Ingraham High School in North Seattle. (Jocelyn Leon Photo) Out of Office is a new GeekWire series spotlighting the passions and hobbies that members of the Seattle-area tech...
Pacific Northwest loses $1B hydrogen hub as Trump cancels clean energy projects nationwide
October 03, 2025
Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association projects and partners. (PNWH2 Image) The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association (PNWH2), a multi-state hub launched to establish a hydrogen economy, lost $1 billion of federal funding in cuts announced yesterday by the Trump administration. The...
Spotted in Seattle: Amazon delivery firms using GM’s boxy, white BrightDrop electric vans
October 03, 2025
A BrightDrop van being used for Amazon deliveries on Thursday in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Those boxy, white, electric delivery vans you may be seeing on the streets of Seattle are being used to deliver Amazon packages. GeekWire spotted one of General Motors’ BrightDrop vans...
Pure Watercraft founder resurfaces with Seattle startup focused on autonomous craft for the military
October 03, 2025
Thallios founder Andy Rebele at Magnuson Park on Lake Washington in Seattle. His grandfather was stationed at nearby Naval Base Sand Point, and Rebele now finds himself heading up a defense tech startup. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Andy Rebele didn’t just drift away from Seattle’s...
Smartsheet cuts jobs shortly after departure of longtime CEO
October 02, 2025
Smartsheet, the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software company that went private earlier this year in an $8.4 billion acquisition, has cut jobs amid its leadership transition. A person familiar with the situation told GeekWire that more than 120 employees were impacted. Smartsheet...
Tech Moves: Truveta co-founder joins GeneDX; Auger hires another Amazonian; Microsoft board change
October 02, 2025
Lisa Gurry. (LinkedIn Photo) — Longtime tech leader Lisa Gurry is now chief business officer for GeneDx. Gurry spent more than 23 years at Microsoft before helping launch Seattle health tech startup Truveta as its chief marketing officer in 2020. She later led operations and growth at Truveta,...
Tech Vets: Motivated by the mission, ex-Army officer’s startup draws on military and gaming experience
October 02, 2025
Jonathan Pan visits with members of 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment at Joint Base Lewis–McChord south of Tacoma, Wash. (Photo courtesy of Jonathan Pan) [Editor’s note: “Tech Vets: Profiles in Leadership and Innovation,” is a GeekWire series showcasing U.S. military veterans leading...
How to avoid getting squashed by OpenAI, and other startup insights from the company’s strategy chief
October 02, 2025
Jason Kwon, OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, speaks Wednesday at Madrona’s IA Summit in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Apple’s Sherlock killed the third-party Watson search utility for the Mac. Microsoft’s bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows steamrolled Netscape Navigator. And...
Fertile ground for innovation: A list of agriculture tech startups in Seattle and Washington state
October 02, 2025
(Carbon Robotics Photo) With top-tier tech talent and a deep farming heritage, Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest are emerging as one of the country’s key hubs for agriculture technology. The region sits among the nation’s top five agtech ecosystems, said Erik Benson, managing director...
Seattle startup introduces ‘Juno,’ a digital assistant to handle admin tasks for mental health clinicians
October 02, 2025
Justin Ith, left, and Michelle Arenas, co-founders of health tech startup Alpyne Labs. (Alpyne Labs Photo) A new Seattle health tech startup is taking aim at the administrative tasks that are a burden to mental health clinicians and practice owners. Alpyne Labs‘ first product is Juno, an...
Washington state port town becomes testing ground for ocean carbon removal technology
October 02, 2025
Ebb Carbon’s Project Macoma carbon removal demonstration project in Port Angeles, Wash. (Ebb Carbon Photo) Ebb Carbon has launched its marine carbon removal pilot project on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in the city of Port Angeles. The startup uses an electrochemical process to create...
‘Expect compliance chaos’: Sweeping new sales tax law on digital ads in Washington takes effect
October 01, 2025
(Photo by Microsoft 365 on Unsplash) Washington’s expansion of retail sales tax to a wide range of services went into effect Wednesday, reshaping how companies across tech, marketing, and nonprofit sectors bill for everything from digital advertising to custom software and IT...
Amazon’s ‘model factory’ is training the next generation of AI on the tech giant’s own business
October 01, 2025
Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s senior vice president and head scientist for artificial general intelligence, left, speaks at the Madrona IA Summit in Seattle with Madrona’s S. “Soma” Somasegar. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon is using its massive collection of internal services and applications as...
Washington joins 4 other states in lawsuit against Zillow and Redfin over rentals partnership
October 01, 2025
This story first appeared on Real Estate News. Five states including Washington are suing Zillow and Redfin over a rental listings agreement the companies reached earlier this year — just one day after the Federal Trade Commission filed its own lawsuit against the home search giants. The...
Seattle startup Temporal hits $2.5B valuation after $105M secondary round
October 01, 2025
Temporal CEO Samar Abbas. (LinkedIn Photo) Temporal, a developer tools startup based in Seattle, closed a $105 million secondary transaction led by GIC, pushing its valuation to $2.5 billion. Tiger Global and Index Ventures also participated in the deal. That’s a bump up from its previously...
Phaidra raises $50M to help AI data centers ‘run smarter, not just harder’ by boosting energy efficiency
October 01, 2025
Phaidra leaders, from left: CTO Vedavyas Panneershelvam, CEO Jim Gao, and COO Katherine Hoffman. (Phaidra Photo) Phaidra, a Seattle startup using artificial intelligence to make data center operations more energy efficient, today announced $50 million in new funding. The company is...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shakes up his own job, taps veteran exec as CEO of commercial business
October 01, 2025
Judson Althoff, a 12-year veteran of Microsoft, was just named CEO of its commercial business under a leadership restructuring designed to free up Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to focus more on the company’s long-term tech ambitions. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella...
Opendoor co-founder brings Seattle-area startup Summation out of stealth with $35M in funding
October 01, 2025
Summation co-founders Ramachandran “RC” Ramarathinam (left) and Ian Wong. (Summation Photo) Seattle-area startup Summation has come out of stealth with $35 million in funding from Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins, aiming to transform how executives make high-stakes business decisions. Founded in...
Fast-growing startups reshape the GeekWire 200 with innovations in AI, robotics, energy and more
October 01, 2025
GeekWire Image / Canva / ChatGPT There’s a lot of startup activity in Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest. Some companies are growing rapidly amid the AI boom, while others are cutting costs and navigating challenges. The GeekWire 200, our quarterly ranking of the top privately held...
Cancer AI Alliance says new tech platform will speed breakthroughs with novel privacy approach
October 01, 2025
Brian Bot of the Cancer AI Alliance accepts the award for Health innovation of the Year at the 2025 GeekWire Awards. (Dan DeLong Photo) A consortium of top U.S. cancer centers has developed an AI platform that trains models on clinical data from multiple institutions while protecting patient...
Amazon unveils revamped Luna cloud gaming platform with new focus on party games
October 01, 2025
(Amazon Image) Amazon plans to relaunch its cloud gaming platform Luna later this year. The “all-new Luna” has been “redesigned and reimagined” with a focus on living room TVs, as an easy-to-use delivery system for a lineup of party games. Luna will relaunch with a new feature called...
NBA taps Amazon Web Services to develop new basketball stats as Amazon deepens sports push
October 01, 2025
A new stat developed by AWS and the NBA called “Expected Field Goal %” calculates the likelihood of a shot going in based on positioning, pressure, and other variables. (Amazon Image) Amazon is not only streaming NBA games for the first time this season — it’s also aiming to establish a new...
Amid Trump immigration crackdown, Seattle startup Boundless acquires European competitor
October 01, 2025
Boundless CEO Xiao Wang, right, speaking with Localyze CEO Hanna Asmussen. (Boundless Photo) Seattle startup Boundless Immigration today announced its acquisition of Localyze, a Berlin-based company that primarily serves people immigrating to countries in Europe. Terms of the deal were not...
Blue Origin and its partners in Luxembourg unveil Project Oasis to map lunar resources
October 01, 2025
An artist’s conception shows the Oasis-1 satellite mapping water ice deposits on the moon. (Blue Origin Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s working with partners in Luxembourg on a campaign called Project Oasis, which aims to identify and take advantage of valuable...
Code.org CEO rips NY Times for stoking ‘populist fears’ over computer science jobs and AI
September 30, 2025
Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Code.org co-founder and CEO Hadi Partovi ripped The New York Times for its latest...
FTC sues Zillow and Redfin over rentals deal
September 30, 2025
(Photos via Bigstock, Redfin) This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. The Federal Trade Commission is suing real estate giants Zillow and Redfin, alleging the two companies illegally conspired to eliminate competition in the rental listings market. In a Sept. 30 complaint, the...
Portal Space Systems brings its solar thermal propulsion system up to full power during test
September 30, 2025
Portal’s heat exchanger thruster, known as Flare, fires up during a test in a vacuum chamber. (Portal Space Systems Photo) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems says it has successfully tested its solar thermal propulsion system at operational temperatures inside a vacuum chamber, marking a...
Amazon’s new Alexa and AI features will play doorman, recap Kindle books, and find lost dogs
September 30, 2025
Panos Panay, who leads Amazon’s Devices & Services Business, introduces the new Echo lineup Tuesday in New York. (Amazon Photo) Amazon unveiled an updated slate of Echo, Kindle, Ring, Fire TV and Blink devices at an event Tuesday morning in New York City — reviving its past tradition of...
Seattle Police Dept. launches new registry to pull private camera footage for investigations
September 30, 2025
(Ring Photo) Seattle wants to tap into residential security camera footage to aid police investigations. The Seattle Police Department recently launched Connect Seattle, a new voluntary registry program designed to create an “interactive map of security cameras” accessible to authorized SPD...
Software vet Kevin Marcus’ family joins in his latest startup adventure with new indie game studio
September 30, 2025
The word puzzle game “Lextris” is the first offering from KATforge Studios. (KATforge Studios Images) Kevin Marcus has always had fun building and innovating with the enterprise startups he helped launch. That feeling is intact with his latest venture, especially since fun is what the company is...
Amazon’s ‘NBA on Prime’ streams will include FanDuel bet tracking, shopping integration, and more
September 30, 2025
Amazon’s “NBA on Prime” will offer personalized bet tracking and Odds View with FanDuel among the interactive features during streamed basketball games this season. (Amazon Image) Amazon is planning a number of interactive features and personalization for fans when it begins airing NBA games on...
Inside Zap: Fusion pioneer tries to build ‘a star in a jar’ to unlock abundant clean energy
September 30, 2025
Matthew Thompson, Zap vice president of systems engineering, alongside a demo fusion reactors at the company’s Everett, Wash., research and development facility. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) EVERETT, Wash. — In a quiet room lined with giant computer monitors, a team of seven Zap Energy...
Blue Origin reportedly plans to expand New Shepard suborbital space fleet and launch facilities
September 30, 2025
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship lifts off for an suborbital trip in April. (Blue Origin Photo) The executive in charge of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital space program has laid out plans to scale up the operation for weekly launches — and says the company is looking into setting up a...
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