Jon Prentice (left), senior vice president at Silicon Valley Bank, speaks with James Newell, managing director at Voyager Capital, at the Columbia Tower Club in Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo…
Beta Technologies unveiled Monday the next electric aircraft in its lineup — a passenger-carrying version of its ALIA vertical takeoff and landing and fixed-wing vehicles. Electric vertical takeoff and landing…
Artisan, a startup aiming to replace traditional sales software with AI-powered virtual employees, announced on Monday that it has raised $11.5 million in seed funding. The company’s first AI assistant,…
The HVAC industry is going through a transformation. The old guard of tradespeople are on the cusp of retiring while private equity firms are consolidating the industry. Airship is building…
Gone are the days of elite footballers buying pubs. Today’s star players prefer to put their money into tech. Kylian Mbappe is one of the new generation’s leaders. The French…
Podcast listeners crossed half a billion people at the end of last year as listenership maintained steady growth. With countries in the Arab world having some of the most engaged…
Apps catering to the Chinese and wider Asian diaspora, especially urban consumers focused on food, can be big business. Now, HungryPanda, one of the trailblazing startups in that market is…
Dubai is a city on the rise. The first nine months of 2023 saw its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increase by 3.3%, while in the same period, its information and…
Elon Musk’s X is now valued at less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to a new estimate from investor Fidelity. The asset manager, which helped…
Kevin Ryan has had a long and storied career as a pivotal force of New York City tech. He’s the founder and CEO of investment firm AlleyCorp, which has invested…
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 Sept. 22, 2024. Sign…
Businesses need stability to thrive. Unfortunately for anyone in Sudan, stability has been hard to come by for the past year and a half as the country quakes amidst a…
When the U.S. Feds cut interest rates by half a percentage point last week, it was a dash of good news for venture capitalists backing one particularly beleaguered class of…
China is now advising AI startups to refrain from acquiring AI chips from NVIDIA to reduce the influence of US policies over the regional markets. China Is Taking Measures To…
Talented Mr. Shazeer Google reportedly spent $2.7 billion to rehire AI expert Noam Shazeer — an astonishing amount of money for what boils down to the expertise of a single computer…
While online discourse would make it seem that venture has retreated to the Bay Area, with San Francisco being the most important place to build a startup, Index Ventures is…
The country faces a wave of claims after it repealed a law allowing for special economic zones. Chief among them is an American company looking to build a semi-autonomous “startup…
Bristol-based startup VyperCore is on a mission to reimagine how processors are designed, as the British firm is developing a 5nm chip and card aimed at accelerating server-class applications without…
OpenAI and Apple were previously reported to have struck a deal in integrating ChatGPT to Siri and iOS 18, with the iPhone maker also said to be investing in the billion-dollar…
WordPress.org has lifted its ban on hosting provider WP Engine until October 1, after putting a block on it earlier this week. The block prevented several sites from updating their…