Taylor Soper 2022-01-26 08:00:00 www.geekwire.com Logixboard co-founder Julian (left) and Juan Alvarez. (Logixboard Photo) The news: Logixboard, a Seattle startup that sells software to freight forwarding companies, raised $32 million. It follows a $13 million round raised in April.…
Todd Bishop 2022-01-25 16:12:03 www.geekwire.com Microsoft’s Redmond Washington campus. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft posted revenue of $51.7 billion in the December quarter, up 20% from the same quarter last year, and profits of $18.8 billion, an increase…
Lisa Stiffler 2022-01-25 15:32:44 www.geekwire.com An aircraft created by Wisk Aero, an electric aviation company backed by Boeing and Kitty Hawk. (Wisk Aero LLC Photo) Boeing is investing $450 million in Wisk Aero, a company that’s building all-electric, autonomous,…
John Cook 2022-01-25 09:06:56 www.geekwire.com The Husky mascot outside Alaska Airlines Arena on the University of Washington campus. (GeekWire Photo / Aidan Grambihler) The University of Washington is an absolute research powerhouse, ranking fifth among U.S. universities in R&D…
Alan Boyle 2022-01-22 13:57:23 www.geekwire.com David Beck, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington, will lead the Scientific Software Engineering Center at UW’s eScience Institute. (UW Photo) The University of Washington and three other universities have…
Todd Bishop 2022-01-22 10:45:31 www.geekwire.com Hope Cochran, managing director of Madrona Venture Group. (Madrona Venture Group Photo) Why would Microsoft pay $68.7 billion for video-game giant Activision Blizzard? Hope Cochran, managing director at venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-01-21 12:13:55 www.geekwire.com Funko’s headquarters location in Everett, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Tim Ellis) Everett, Wash.-based Funko, makers of pop culture collectibles, is closing warehouse locations in the city north of Seattle and consolidating its distribution…
Taylor Soper 2022-01-20 12:41:14 www.geekwire.com (Irreverent Labs Photos) The news: Irreverent Labs, a new Seattle startup led by Microsoft veterans that recently raised a $5 million seed round, just revealed its first game. The details: MechaFightClub is an online…
Charlotte Schubert 2022-01-20 13:40:59 www.geekwire.com Zymeworks CEO Kenneth Galbraith. (Zymeworks Photo) Kenneth Galbraith is shaking up Zymeworks within a week of becoming CEO of the Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company. He announced major leadership changes in a statement…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-01-19 12:29:40 www.geekwire.com A rendering of what a Glowforge-printed Exploding Kittens box for the card game “Happy Salmon” might look like. (Exploding Kittens Image) Glowforge, the Seattle-based makers of a 3D laser cutter/engraver, is teaming with popular…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-01-19 12:57:52 www.geekwire.com (WalletHub Image) The Seattle region topped 100 U.S. metro areas in a new ranking of the best and worst places for professionals in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs. The comparison by the…
Lisa Stiffler 2022-01-18 12:00:00 www.geekwire.com Protoype of an Aigen weeding pulling and soil enhancing robot. (Aigen Photo) New funding: Aigen, a startup developing solar-powered robots for weed control and soil regeneration, has raised $4 million in venture capital. The…
John Cook 2022-01-18 10:51:49 www.geekwire.com Microsoft’s plan to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in cash is a whopper by every stretch of the imagination — the biggest in the company’s 47-year-history and more than double the $26 billion…
Todd Bishop 2022-01-18 09:05:16 www.geekwire.com Activision Blizzard will report to longtime Microsoft exec Phil Spencer as the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming. (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is aiming to vault itself into the upper echelon of video games with…
Cara Kuhlman 2022-01-14 17:53:19 www.geekwire.com Krish Srinivasan. (PCC Community Markets Photo) — PCC Community Markets announced Krishnan “Krish” Srinivasan, a former finance executive at Lyft and Seattle startup Remitly, as its new CEO today. He has served as CFO…
John Cook 2022-01-14 12:30:11 www.geekwire.com Venture capital investments surged to record levels in 2021. Source: Venture Monitor Eye-popping. Bonkers. Staggering. Those are just some of the words industry watchers are using to describe venture capital investment levels in 2021,…
Alan Boyle 2022-01-13 13:50:08 www.geekwire.com Space industry executive Rob Meyerson speaks at the 2016 International Symposium on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in New Mexico. (ISPCS via YouTube) A blank-check company that has former Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson as…
Cara Kuhlman 2022-01-13 10:05:09 www.geekwire.com Melissa Binde. (OfferUp Photo) — Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. Binde previously held senior engineering roles at Google, Nordstrom and Persistent Systems. She was…
Lisa Stiffler 2022-01-12 18:00:00 www.geekwire.com The CODA Farm Technologies’ founding team, pictured at Wallace Farms, from left to right: Connor Wallace, chief technology officer; Gabe Martin, lead hardware engineer; David Wallace, CEO; and Daniel Oschrin, lead software developer. (CODA…
Taylor Soper 2022-01-12 10:25:01 www.geekwire.com ShareGrid co-founders Arash Shiva (left) and Marius Ciocirlan. (ShareGrid Photo) New York-based Backstage has acquired ShareGrid, a Seattle startup that runs a marketplace for film and photo equipment rentals. The deal will boost Backstage’s…
Taylor Soper 2022-01-12 11:16:34 www.geekwire.com (Doorstead Image) Doorstead, a San Francisco-based real estate property management startup founded by former Uber employees, is starting to expand nationally and just launched in the Seattle region. Doorstead helps small real estate investors…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-01-11 13:06:27 www.geekwire.com An Amazon fulfillment center in Washington state. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) The National Labor Relations Board has set a “notice of second election” and date for a redo of the employee vote…
Alan Boyle 2022-01-11 09:00:00 www.geekwire.com Mangata Networks aims to put satellites in medium Earth orbit, or MEO; and highly elliptical orbits, or HEO. (Mangata Graphic) BELLEVUE, Wash. — Mangata Networks, a Phoenix-based startup with links to the Seattle area,…
Todd Bishop 2022-01-10 17:34:33 www.geekwire.com Thingy AQ provides information to first responders in wildfires. (Thingy Photo via Amazon) Scott Waller is a former Cisco and Microsoft systems engineer and network architect who was inspired by his experience as a…
Todd Bishop 2022-01-08 09:30:00 www.geekwire.com Alexa, open the pod bay doors. Amazon’s voice assistant hasn’t quite reached the level of HAL, the iconic AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, we learned this week that Alexa is going to…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-01-07 11:44:36 www.geekwire.com An electric pontoon boat from Seattle’s Pure Watercraft. (Pure Watercraft Photo) Seattle-based Pure Watercraft is acting quickly on its new partnership with General Motors, unveiling an all-electric pontoon boat as the first product of…
Todd Bishop 2022-01-06 19:34:12 www.geekwire.com Amazon’s new Sidewalk Bridge Pro by Ring. (Amazon Photo) Amazon says it’s testing a new professional-grade device that can extend the reach of a single access point in its Sidewalk neighborhood wireless network by…
Taylor Soper 2022-01-06 11:54:21 www.geekwire.com Randall Lucas. The news: SaaS Capital, a lender that provides software-as-a-service startups with alternative financing options to traditional venture capital, raised $128 million for its fourth fund, up from its $75 million third fund…
Lisa Stiffler 2022-01-05 18:07:14 www.geekwire.com The 10 companies participating in Maritime Blue’s third accelerator. (Maritime Blue Image) Maritime Blue, a Washington state public-private coalition promoting marine-related technologies, has announced the 10 startups participating in its 2022 accelerator. Seven are…
Todd Bishop 2022-01-05 14:00:30 www.geekwire.com The new Ring Alarm Glass Break Sensor. (Ring Photo) Ring, the Amazon-owned smart doorbell and home security tech company, announced a new sensor that promises to detect the sound of a window breaking from…
Alan Boyle 2022-01-05 08:00:00 www.geekwire.com The Callisto console will be tested in NASA’s Orion capsule. (Amazon / Lockheed Martin / Cisco Illustration) Alexa, when are we arriving at the moon? Putting Amazon’s AI-enabled voice assistant on a moon-bound spaceship…
Todd Bishop 2022-01-04 16:55:47 www.geekwire.com New ThinkPad Series Z laptops from Lenovo will include Microsoft’s Pluton security processors in an AMD CPU. (Lenovo Image) Lenovo unveiled two new laptops made out of materials including recycled aluminum and “recycled black…
Taylor Soper 2022-01-04 10:00:00 www.geekwire.com (Pictory Image) The news: Pictory, a Seattle startup that helps content creators and marketers make short-form videos, raised a $2.1 million seed round. The tech: Pictory’s software automates much of the video creation process.…