From top left, clockwise: Zuper CEO Anand Subbaraj; Highspot CEO Robert Wahbe; Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi; Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio; and Read AI CEO David Shim. Get close to your…
Umesh Shankar. (LinkedIn Photo) After nearly 19 years at Google, Umesh Shankar has joined Microsoft AI as a corporate vice president of engineering. Shankar, based in New York City, has…
The finalists for Innovation of the Year at the 2025 GeekWire Awards. Technology at play in the Innovation of the Year category at the GeekWire Awards could change the way…
An artist’s conception shows the Blue Moon MK1 lander on the moon. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin’s Blue Moon MK1 cargo lander to deliver…
(Zillow Image) Rocket Companies’ planned $1.75 billion acquisition of Seattle-based brokerage Redfin sparked questions about a potential competitive threat to fellow Seattle real estate company Zillow Group, another key player…
Rhodium execs, from left: Cindy Engstrom, Michael Hyman, Rachel Sanders, Audrey Leibovich, and Alex Krooglik. (Rhodium Photo) Former Petabyte executives are bringing their data expertise and tech chops to Rhodium,…
The Ravel team at its Seattle pilot facility, from left: Forest Davis, process development scientist; John Goods, co-founder and chief technologist; Zahlen Titcomb, co-founder and CEO; Zack Wolford, research engineer;…
Greg Schwartz, Tomo CEO. (Tomo Photo) Tomo, a startup launched by former Zillow execs that aims to speed up the mortgage approval process, announced $20 million in new funding on…
(Read AI Image) The ability to search across a corpus of internal enterprise data is not a new phenomenon. But to do it with the latest AI technology brings about…
The path from successful startup to big deal in the tech industry can be foreshadowed with one key prize at the GeekWire Awards: Next Tech Titan. Five startups will be…
Dawn Lepore. (Amperity Photo) Seattle-based customer data startup Amperity named veteran tech leader Dawn Lepore as its new board chair. Lepore has more than four decades of experience in the…
(Redfin Photo) Rocket Companies agreed to acquire Seattle-based Redfin in a $1.75 billion deal that will bring together the nation’s largest mortgage lender with a longtime tech-fueled real estate brokerage.…
Microsoft’s new “Majorana 1” processor is the first quantum chip powered by a topological core based on a new class of materials. (Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft) With recent…
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 March 2, 2025. Sign…
Panos Panay, Amazon Devices & Services senior vice president, introduces Alexa+. (Amazon Photo) For many years, Amazon has been trying to put its Alexa voice assistant at the center of…
The Stand Up for Science rally in Seattle, part of a nationwide effort, filled the mural amphitheater at the Seattle Center. (Photo courtesy of Bryn Nelson) Physician-scientist Chetan Seshadri wasn’t…
(Rad Power Bikes Photo) Phil Molyneux is no longer CEO of Rad Power Bikes, more than two years after the former Sony president took over the Seattle-based e-bike maker. A…
Luminovah won two prizes at the University of Washington’s Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge this year, including the grand prize. The team, from left: Lillian Tran, Tejoram Vivekanandan and Nana Wang.…
The U.S. District Courthouse in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo) Amazon and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission will get a chance to educate the federal judge in the FTC’s antitrust…
Microsoft’s Jane Broom practices her salsa routine with professional partner Marcelo Garces ahead of Saturday’s “Seattle Dances” competition. (Slager Fuj Creative Media Photo, courtesy of Plymouth Housing) The amateur highlight…