In September 2024, the City of Seattle began a massive digital transformation of the city’s payroll, benefits and other human resources functions. (Photo by Seattle City Council, via Flickr, Creative…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on its Florida launch pad in January. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to cut about 10% of its workforce according…
Jessica Kamada, founder of Swizzle Ventures, speaks at a B.E.L.L.E entrepreneur event in Seattle. (B.E.L.L.E Photo) Jessica Kamada does not have a traditional startups and venture capital background. And that’s…
(GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. While a new listings partnership between Redfin and Zillow is expected to benefit both companies in the…
Dan Lewis, former Convoy CEO and now a chief product officer at Microsoft, at the GeekWire Summit in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Dan Lewis, the former CEO of…
Chomp’s engineering team in front of one of their anaerobic digestion devices, clockwise from top left: John Missey, CEO Tim Tiscornia, founder Jan Allen, Andrew Moss, Taylor Knoblock and Tim…
Ashwarya Poddar. (Linkedin Photo) ConverzAI, a Seattle startup founded in 2019 that aims to automate recruiting processes, raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Menlo Ventures. The…
Bill Gates with a printout of the Altair BASIC source code from 1975, one of Microsoft’s earliest software artifacts. Click to enlarge. (Gates Notes / Ian Allen) [Editor’s Note: Microsoft @…
Areas of tech interest to the Department of Defense include logistical solutions, tactical electronic warfare and more. (Photo via Defense Innovation Unit) A new accelerator program aimed at identifying and…
Derek Tu (left), who sold his Seattle startup Carbon to Perplexity, speaks with Aviel Ginzburg at a Foundations event. Ginzburg helped launch Seattle-based Foundations last year. (Foundations Photo) Aviel Ginzburg…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, left, speaking with Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell at an event last year when Amazon announced $1.4 billion of new funding for affordable housing in regions including…
(BigStock Photo) Zillow Group reported $554 million in revenue for its fourth quarter, up 17% year-over-year, topping analyst estimates. The company reported non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.29, just ahead…
Mast Reforestation planter at a restoration site. (Mast Photo) Seattle’s Mast Reforestation announced today $25 million in new funding and an expansion of its operations into “wood vaulting” in which…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. on July 15, 2019. (Photography by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures for Microsoft) Elon Musk’s…
Kestra Medical Technologies device for detecting and responding to cardiac events. (Kestra Photo) Kestra Medical Technologies, a Kirkland, Wash.-based company selling cardiac monitoring and therapeutic devices, filed for an initial…
Edifecs CEO Venkat Kavarthapu. (LinkedIn Photo) Bellevue, Wash.-based health software company Edifecs announced has agreed to be acquired by Cotiviti, a Utah-based healthcare giant backed by private equity firms. Terms of…
Official AI CEO Dave Siegfried, left, and John Pletka. (Official AI Photo) Official AI, a Seattle startup whose platform helps brands and talent create and collaborate on AI-generated image and…
A close-up of the OLMoE app on iPhone. The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released its first on-device AI app Tuesday morning, leveraging a version of its open-source OLMoE model…
The famed cherry blossoms on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The fight now unfolding over the Trump administration’s sudden limit on National…
Vercept’s founding team includes, L-R, Matt Deitke, CEO Kiana Ehsani, Ross Girshick, and Luca Weihs. Not pictured: Oren Etzioni. (Vercept Photo) A group of former Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)…