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Expedia watching government shutdown ‘very closely’ as shares surge after Q3 earnings top estimates
November 07, 2025
(GeekWire File Photo) Expedia is monitoring potential disruptions from the ongoing U.S. government shutdown and related FAA-ordered flight cancellations. The Seattle-based company is “watching the government shutdown very closely,” said ScottSchenkel, chief financial officer, speaking on...
Seattle startup insiders lead new Service Provider Capital fund investing in PNW tech startups
November 07, 2025
From left: David Wickwire, Minh Le, and Craig Sherman are the managing directors for Service Provider Capital’s new PNW fund. (Wilson Sonsini; Stifel Bank Photos) Seattle’s startup lawyers and bankers have long helped founders raise capital. Now they’re pooling some of their own money to invest...
A familiar dance: Ex-Microsoft product manager opens ballet school, and leans into her tech skills
November 07, 2025
Adrienne Chan leaps in front of Bellevue Classical Ballet, the dance school she opened after leaving Microsoft. (Photo courtesy of Adrienne Chan) Adrienne Chan‘s pivot away from a career in tech could more aptly be considered a pirouette. The former Microsoft product manager is the co-founder...
Seattle security startup Oleria lands $19M in latest funding round
November 07, 2025
Oleria CEO Jim Alkove. (LinkedIn Photo) Oleria, a Seattle-based cybersecurity startup that manages employee access to applications and data, raised $19 million in a new round of funding. The company confirmed the funding after GeekWire spotted a new SEC filing this week. Oleria has now raised...
Upward, a Seattle fintech startup led by former Remitly execs, raises $8M and partners with Mastercard
November 07, 2025
Upward co-founder Danielle Hill (left) and Aaron Gregory. (Upward Photo) Seattle startup Upward raised $8 million and announced a strategic partnership with Mastercard to make it faster and simpler for businesses to roll out financial products. Founded in 2021 by early Remitly executives,...
Tech Moves: Smartsheet names SVP; AWS exec departs for startup; WatchGuard’s new CEO
November 07, 2025
Drew Garner at Smartsheet’s Engage conference in Seattle this week. (Photo courtesy of Garner) — Drew Garner is now senior vice president of engineering for Smartsheet. Garner joins the Bellevue, Wash., work productivity software giant as Rajeev “Raj” Singh recently took the helm as CEO. The...
Uncommon Thinkers: A scientist’s journey from rural India to turning ‘science fiction’ into drug candidates
November 06, 2025
Anindya Roy, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Lila Biologics, up to his elbows in a box that shields an oxygen-sensitive enzyme he was testing during an experiment. (Photos courtesy of Roy) Editor’s note: This series profiles six of the Seattle region’s “Uncommon Thinkers”: inventors,...
File sharing? Nope, Seattle Torrent women’s pro hockey team named for violent stream of water
November 06, 2025
Branding for the new Seattle Torrent women’s pro hockey team. (Instagram via pwhl_seattle) The morning after heavy rain pummeled Seattle with its wettest day of the year, another rush of water arrived in the city in the form of the name for a new women’s pro hockey team. The Seattle Torrent...
Seattle’s Parse Biosciences to be acquired by Qiagen for $225M
November 06, 2025
Parse Biosciences co-founders are CTO Charles Roco and CEO Alex Rosenberg. (Parse Photo) Seattle’s Parse Biosciences is teed up for an acquisition by Qiagen, a Netherlands-based holding company, in a $225 million cash deal announced this week. The transaction is expected to close in December....
Microsoft forms Superintelligence team to pursue ‘humanist’ AI under Mustafa Suleyman
November 06, 2025
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, shown here at a Madrona event in 2024, will lead the company’s new Superintelligence Team. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft has formed a new Superintelligence team within its AI division, aiming to develop what it calls “humanist...
Real estate startup Digs raises $5M to boost software platform for residential builders
November 06, 2025
Digs co-founders Ty Frackiewicz (left) and Ryan Fink. (Digs Photo) Digs, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup that sells software for homebuilding, raised $5 million. Founded in 2022, Digs’ software helps residential homebuilders streamline various aspects of their workflows...
Glowforge hits restart: After restructuring, co-founders acquire key assets of laser engraver startup
November 06, 2025
Glowforge co-founder and CEO Dan Shapiro with the company’s Aura laser engraver in 2023, at the startup’s offices in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Ten years after Glowforge was founded in Seattle, the startup’s longtime leaders are rebooting the laser-engraver...
Seattle startup Accipiter Bio emerges with $12.7M and big pharma deals for AI-designed proteins
November 06, 2025
An illustration of a protein created by Accipiter Bio that has two active sites, shown in light and darker green, that can simultaneously bind two targets. (Accipiter Bio Image) A Seattle biotech startup born from a Nobel laureate’s lab has landed $12.7 million and partnerships with...
Raj Singh sets his vision for Smartsheet in the AI era: ‘Time to step out of the shadows’
November 05, 2025
Longtime Seattle-area technology leader Raj Singh gives a keynote speech at the Smartsheet Engage conference in Seattle on Wednesday. Singh was named CEO of the enterprise software maker last month. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) Rajeev “Raj” Singh has made a career out of...
Internal memo: Microsoft creates new way for workers to flag issues after Gaza surveillance probe
November 05, 2025
(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is creating a new internal mechanism for employees to report concerns about how its technology is developed and used — making the process similar to how workers already flag incidents of workplace misbehavior, security issues, or legal...
Seattle startup Hearvana raises $6M for AI-powered sound enhancement
November 05, 2025
Shyam Gollakota, co-founder of Hearvana. (UW Photo) Hearvana, a Seattle startup using AI to create “superhuman hearing capabilities,” raised $6 million in pre-seed funding. The company was launched this spring by University of Washington computer science researchers, including co-founder Shyam...
Washington energy startup lands DOE funding for researching liquid metal walls in fusion generators
November 05, 2025
Romi Mahajan, CEO of ExoFusion. (LinkedIn Photo) Clean energy startup ExoFusion today announced it has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy through its Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) program. The FIRE award will support research into the use of liquid metal walls in...
How Amazon is bringing name brands to Whole Foods, without putting them on the shelves
November 05, 2025
This Amazon video, released Wednesday morning, shows how the process works. Amazon this morning offered the first official glimpse of a new “store within a store” concept it’s testing to bring name-brand items to Whole Foods Market without sullying the grocer’s signature organic vibe. The...
Nobel winner’s lab notches another breakthrough: AI-designed antibodies that hit their targets
November 05, 2025
Image of antibodies created from scratch. (UW Institute for Protein Design / Ian C. Haydon Graphic) Researchers from Nobel Laureate David Baker’s lab and the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design (IPD) have used artificial intelligence to design antibodies from scratch —...
Layoffs at Microsoft and Amazon spark ethical questions about their impact on Seattle amid AI frenzy
November 05, 2025
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at the company’s headquarters campus last month to unveil a new initiative to provide AI software to educators and students across its home state. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Editor’s note: This column was written by Robert Trumbull, a Seattle-based...
Portal Space Systems introduces Starburst, a new breed of maneuverable spacecraft
November 05, 2025
An artist’s conception shows Portal’s Starburst spacecraft in the foreground with its Supernova space vehicle (and Earth) in the background. (Portal Space Systems Illustration) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems has added another spacecraft to its product line: a rapid-maneuverability...
Seattle startup unveils AI-powered enterprise smart glasses for roofers and electricians
November 05, 2025
Seattle-based Zuper announced Zuper Glass, AI-powered smart glasses for trades professionals such as roofers and plumbers. (Zuper Photo) Seattle-based Zuper, which provides software for companies with field workers, is getting into the smart-glasses game with the release of Zuper Glass, an...
Seattle tax hike on big businesses set to pass after early voting returns
November 05, 2025
(GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Voters in Seattle have overwhelmingly approved Proposition 2, which will reshape the city’s business and occupation (B&O) tax that applies to gross revenue. It will impact both small startups and large tech companies such as Amazon. The ballot measure...
Startup Radar: Seattle founders build new tech for dog parents, travelers, product leaders, and students
November 04, 2025
From top left, clockwise: Boop CEO Nancy Li Smith, Dotted CEO Eric Neuman, FurFriends CEO Avery Morton, and AceRocket CEO Dong Zhang. Our latest spotlight on up-and-coming startups in Seattle covers a lot of ground — dog-influenced connections, shareable travel itineraries, personalized exam...
Philips lays off 33 employees at Seattle-area healthcare device manufacturing facility
November 04, 2025
(Philips Photo) Philips Ultrasound is laying off 33 employees from its Bothell, Wash., facility, which serves as a hub for the engineering and manufacturing of ultrasound equipment and other healthcare devices. The cuts were disclosed in a new filing from the Washington Employment Security...
She left tech to open a romance bookstore, and AI is helping the small business blossom
November 04, 2025
Marissa Coughlin and Constantine Vetoshev, owners of Swoon City, a new romance bookstore in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) When Marissa Coughlin left her latest tech job to open a romance bookstore and crafting hub in Seattle, she didn’t leave technology behind...
Ai2 loosens Big Tech’s grip on Earth insights with open-source AI models for climate and conservation
November 04, 2025
OlmoEarth Studio, the Allen Institute for AI’s new workspace for building and fine-tuning environmental AI models. The interface lets users choose base maps, tag locations, and manage field data for projects such as wildfire fuel monitoring. (Ai2 Screenshot) A new platform from...
Seattle hiring AI officer to guide how the tech can improve city processes, partnerships and more
November 03, 2025
Seattle City Hall in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The City of Seattle is interviewing candidates for a City AI Officer position to lead how artificial intelligence is utilized across departments and offices. The new job is in line with the city’s recent release of a...
Seattle VC firm Founders’ Co-op raises $50M for new fund to back more Pacific Northwest founders
November 03, 2025
Chris DeVore, founding managing partner at Founder’s Co-op, at the GeekWire Summit in 2022. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Seattle venture firm Founders’ Co-op unveiled its sixth fund — $50 million, matching the size of its previous fund — to back another batch of early-stage tech...
OpenAI’s $38B cloud deal with Amazon takes ChatGPT maker further beyond Microsoft
November 03, 2025
Image via Amazon. ChatGPT maker OpenAI, exercising newfound freedom under its renegotiated Microsoft partnership, will expand its cloud footprint for training and running AI models to Amazon’s infrastructure under a new seven-year, $38 billion agreement. The deal, announced Monday, positions...
Microsoft expands UAE investment to $15.2B with major Nvidia GPU shipments
November 03, 2025
Inside Microsoft’s HQ in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Microsoft announced additional investments in the United Arab Emirates as it looks to expand its data center footprint and capitalize on export licenses. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant has already spent $7.3 billion...
Seattle tech vet Nikesh Parekh unveils Provn to disrupt how companies recruit AI talent
November 03, 2025
The Provn team, from left: Taylor Brazelton, Ravi Mohan, Forrest Corbett, Kate Hill, Nikesh (Niki) Parekh, and David Tarico. (Provn Photo) Job candidates are gaming applicant-tracking systems, and recruiters are struggling to sift through mounds of AI-generated resumes. Meanwhile, large tech...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 26, 2025
November 02, 2025
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 Oct. 26, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
ChatGPT as a soccer advisor: Seattle Reign FC uses AI to develop winning defensive strategy
November 01, 2025
Seattle Reign FC head coach Laura Harvey. (Reign FC Photo) Generative AI has made its way onto the professional soccer field. Laura Harvey, head coach of Seattle Reign FC, said this week that ChatGPT helped her come up with a new defensive strategy. Speaking on the Soccerish Podcast, Harvey...
Seattle’s tech paradox: Amazon’s layoffs collide with the AI boom — or is it a bubble?
November 01, 2025
Image created by Google Gemini based on the audio of this week’s GeekWire Podcast. This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Why is Amazon laying off 14,000 people in the middle of an AI boom — and is it really a boom at all? We dig into the contradiction at the heart of Seattle’s tech scene,...
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