From left: David Garner, Evan Poncelet, Warren Marcus, Kia Davis, Jesse Posey, and Louis Newkirk. Marcus, CEO of Wink Therapeutics, won first place at a pitch competition in Seattle on Saturday and landed investment from Dreamward Ventures. (Venture Black Photo) […]
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The Moda Center in Portland, home of the Trail Blazers. No way. Bonkers. A real stretch. That’s the response I got in our Slack thread after floating MacKenzie Scott as a potential buyer of the Portland Trail Blazers. The NBA
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From left: Tensor9 co-founders Michael Ten-Pow, Matt Michie, and Matt Shanker. (Tensor9 Photo) Tensor9, a Seattle-based security and privacy startup, announced a $4 million seed round. Founded in 2023 by veterans of Amazon, Meta, and Epic Games, the company helps
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From top left, clockwise: ModernVivo CEO Ian Levine; NailedIT Labs CEO Hongyuan Jin (Alex); Jinn Labs CEO Harjeev Anand; and Onyx Platform CEO Allison Arzeno. Detecting theft, helping insurance agencies, improving lab work, and finding nail salons. We’re covering all
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Oath Surgical, a new startup out of Portland, Ore., revealed more details about its outpatient surgical care business, touting the service as lower cost and higher quality compared to traditional hospital-based procedures. The company is led by CEO Oliver Keown,
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Benjamin Dorr, CEO at WellSaid Labs. (WellSaid Photo) Benjamin Dorr is the new CEO at Seattle-area AI voice technology startup WellSaid Labs. Dorr, who joined the company last year as CFO, replaces Brian Cook, who was CEO since January 2024.
From left: Outgo co-founders Ray Fortna, Marcus Womack, and Mike Bohlander. (Outgo Photo) DAT Freight & Analytics, a Beaverton, Ore.-based freight company, announced the acquisition of Outgo, a Seattle startup that sells banking services to freight carriers. Terms of the
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Elastix.AI co-founders, from left: Mohammad Rastegari, Mahyar Najibi, and Saman Naderiparizi. A new Seattle startup led by veteran engineers is building technology to tackle one of the biggest drivers of cost and complexity in large language model deployment. Founded just
Shyam Gollakota. A new stealthy Seattle startup is taking sound technology to a whole new dimension. Hearvana was just founded by University of Washington computer science researchers. Shyam Gollakota, co-founder of Hearvana, told GeekWire that the company is “creating AI
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Jeff Bezos spoke in New York City on Sept. 20, 2021 to announce $1 billion in grants from the Bezos Earth Fund. (Bezos Earth Fund Photo) A detailed report from The New Yorker reveals how Jeff Bezos has evolved since
