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Amazon’s palm-recognition tech gets its own mobile app, with new AI matching capability

Amazon’s palm-recognition tech gets its own mobile app, with new AI matching capability

A user scans a palm in the Amazon One mobile app. (Amazon Photo) Amazon released a new mobile app for its Amazon One palm-recognition technology, letting users sign up for the service on their phones by taking a photo of their palm to register it for later use for entry, identification and...

Tech Moves: VC firm Ascend names new partner; Common Room adds board member; and more

Tech Moves: VC firm Ascend names new partner; Common Room adds board member; and more

Jen Haller. (Ascend Photo) — Startup veteran Jen Haller has been named partner at Ascend, the Seattle-based pre-seed venture capital firm. Haller first joined the firm in January 2022 as chief of staff, and the new role will expand on her duties offering operational guidance to founders,...

From timber to tech: Spokane’s startup scene is ready for its big breakthrough

From timber to tech: Spokane’s startup scene is ready for its big breakthrough

SPOKANE, Wash. — Jack Githens didn’t plan to stay here after college. A senior at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Githens grew up in Issaquah, Wash., in a part of the region that people in Seattle call the Eastside. He has spent his college years in a part of the state that people in Spokane...

Interview: Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown on the future of the region’s innovation economy

Interview: Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown on the future of the region’s innovation economy

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown during a meeting at Gonzaga University about the region’s Tech Hub designation. (Gonzaga University Photo / Zack Berlat) SPOKANE, Wash. — Lisa Brown brings a unique background to her role as Spokane’s mayor, taking office in January after a tightly contested race....

Pockets of opportunity: Seattle startup’s clothing line looks to end inequality in women’s workwear

Pockets of opportunity: Seattle startup’s clothing line looks to end inequality in women’s workwear

Point of View, a new women’s clothing label started by two founders with experience at Amazon, offers pockets that accommodate smartphones, along with other design features meant to make it more practical for women to wear stylish clothing at work. (Photo courtesy Point of View) Aditi Sinha was...

Protesters block entrances at Amazon HQ, objecting to planned use of fossil fuels in Oregon

Protesters block entrances at Amazon HQ, objecting to planned use of fossil fuels in Oregon

Environmental activists with a group called the Troublemakers blocked entrances at Amazon’s Day 1 building in Seattle on the morning of March 27, 2024. (Troublemakers Photo) Dozens of environmental activists this morning blocked the entrances at Amazon’s Day 1 building at its Seattle...

Vote for Deal of the Year: Four startups raise cash and a biotech giant acquires a UW spinout

Vote for Deal of the Year: Four startups raise cash and a biotech giant acquires a UW spinout

The Deal of the Year finalists at the GeekWire Awards include, clockwise from top left: Fund raisings by Recurrent, Oleria, Treasury4 and Rhythms, and the acquisition of Icosavax. Four big startup fundraising rounds and one major acquisition in the biotech space make up the finalists in this...

Meet Nala, the police dog that sniffs out electronic devices to fight internet crimes against children

Meet Nala, the police dog that sniffs out electronic devices to fight internet crimes against children

Nala, a Seattle Police Department K9 that specializes in electronic storage detection, can sniff out everything from smart phones to hard drives to micro SD cards as part of her work combatting child sexual exploitation. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Nala has a nose for electronics. But...

Three options for seeing the solar eclipse, from expensive to iffy to absolutely free

Three options for seeing the solar eclipse, from expensive to iffy to absolutely free

Skywatchers gather at Seattle’s Gas Works Park to watch the progress of 2017’s solar eclipse. (GeekWire Photo) After a seven-year gap, a total solar eclipse is once again due to make a coast-to-coast run across North America, boosting popular interest (and airfares) to astronomical...

Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader accepts the Next Tech Titan award at the GeekWire Awards in 2016. Eight years later, Smartsheet is a publicly traded company valued at more than $5 billion, recently surpassing $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Which...

Instacart to pay $730K to settle alleged violations of Seattle’s gig worker sick time ordinance

Instacart to pay $730K to settle alleged violations of Seattle’s gig worker sick time ordinance

Grocery delivery company Instacart has settled with the Seattle Office of Labor Standards for alleged violations of the city’s Gig Worker Paid Sick and Safe Time Ordinance. Instacart will pay $730,041.15 to 5,567 affected workers to remedy the company’s alleged failure to comply with the...

Goodbill raises $2M and expands customer base to unearth and challenge medical billing errors

Goodbill raises $2M and expands customer base to unearth and challenge medical billing errors

Goodbill co-founders Patrick Haig, left, and Ian Sefferman. (Goodbill Photo) Goodbill, a startup working to reduce medical costs to patients and a subset of insurers, has raised $2 million in new capital and expanded its market. The Seattle-based company is targeting errors in hospital...

BirchAI, spinout from Seattle’s AI2 Incubator, acquired by health-tech company Sagility

BirchAI, spinout from Seattle’s AI2 Incubator, acquired by health-tech company Sagility

BirchAI CEO and co-founder Kevin Terrell. (BirchAI Photo) Seattle-based BirchAI, a startup that builds software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies, announced Tuesday that it is being acquired by Sagility, a Denver-based health-tech company. BirchAI was spun out of...

Vote for CEO of the Year: These software veterans are taking on a variety of problems

Vote for CEO of the Year: These software veterans are taking on a variety of problems

The 2024 GeekWire Awards CEO of the Year finalists, clockwise from top left: Gaurav Oberoi of Lexion; Linda Lian of Common Room; Ozan Unlu of Edge Delta; Vijaye Raji of Statsig; and Nancy Xiao of Mason. The finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2024 GeekWire Awards include software veterans...

Love it or hate it, Tesla Cybertruck turns heads in Seattle as GeekWire test drives futuristic EV

Love it or hate it, Tesla Cybertruck turns heads in Seattle as GeekWire test drives futuristic EV

Javier Luraschi poses with his new Tesla Cybertruck, which he took delivery of in Seattle last week. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) “Does it still have that new spaceship smell?” That was the quip from Dave Boone, walking past the GeekWire office in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood last week...

Seattle startup OpenPipe raises $6.7M to help companies reduce costs for LLM models

Seattle startup OpenPipe raises $6.7M to help companies reduce costs for LLM models

OpenPipe co-founders Kyle Corbitt (left) and David Corbitt. (OpenPipe Photo) OpenPipe, a Seattle startup that wants to make it easier and cheaper for companies to train and deploy large language models, announced a $6.7 million seed round. The company, part of Y Combinator’s summer cohort...

‘Tomb Raider’ escape-room-style immersive attraction coming to downtown Seattle

‘Tomb Raider’ escape-room-style immersive attraction coming to downtown Seattle

“The Tomb Raider Experience” and video game icon Lara Croft are coming to Seattle this fall in a space near the waterfront. (Hourglass Attractions Image) A new waterfront attraction in Seattle will bring the popular video game and film franchise “Tomb Raider” and its protagonist Lara Croft to...

Tech Moves: Microsoft’s new Surface and Windows chief; ex-Zillow CEO joins Match Group board; Oleria adds execs

Tech Moves: Microsoft’s new Surface and Windows chief; ex-Zillow CEO joins Match Group board; Oleria adds execs

Pavan Davuluri. (LinkedIn Photo) — Longtime Microsoft exec Pavan Davuluri is taking on a new role leading the company’s Surface and Windows divisions, according to a report from The Verge. Following last year’s departure of former chief product officer Panos Panay, Microsoft split up its...

Sonoma Bio celebrates new Seattle waterfront R&D center for autoimmune disease research

Sonoma Bio celebrates new Seattle waterfront R&D center for autoimmune disease research

Claire Page, a senior associate scientist in process development, working in a fume hood at Sonoma Biotherapeutics recently opened new R&D center on Seattle’s waterfront. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Sonoma Biotherapeutics on Monday hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony at its new research and...

Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

The 2023 Geeks Give Back honorees pose in the photo booth at last year’s awards in Seattle. This year, a new slate of exceptional recipients will be feted at the May event. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Technology can transform lives and strengthen communities when wielded for good. And the...

Sunny Gupta on Apptio’s lightbulb moment, and the key questions behind the tech company’s success

Sunny Gupta on Apptio’s lightbulb moment, and the key questions behind the tech company’s success

Sunny Gupta, co-founder of Apptio, spoke at an event in Seattle last week about his entrepreneurial journey. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) For Sunny Gupta, the inspiration behind Apptio started with a simple question: What are you struggling with? After selling two companies, Gupta wasn’t...

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 17, 2024

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 17, 2024

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 17, 2024. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...

Office-to-residential conversion is a trendy idea for downtown resurgence — but has big challenges

Office-to-residential conversion is a trendy idea for downtown resurgence — but has big challenges

Downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Office-to-residential conversions are frequent fodder in discussions of the post-pandemic city, downtown regeneration, and hopes to contain rising housing costs. Remote work is here to stay, especially in hybrid form in the tech-centric...

GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft’s big AI hires, U.S. vs. Apple, and graffiti-fighting drones

GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft’s big AI hires, U.S. vs. Apple, and graffiti-fighting drones

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: We peel back the layers of Microsoft’s hiring of AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman and colleagues from Inflection AI, considering how it plays into the trend of the Redmond company striking deals that look a lot like acquisitions, without actually being...

Researchers find a way to detect signs of extraterrestrial life in a single grain of ice

Researchers find a way to detect signs of extraterrestrial life in a single grain of ice

An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Europa Clipper probe flying over Europa. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Illustration) Scientists have verified that a method to look for cellular life on Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, just might work. The technique could be put to the test in the 2030s, when...

Tech Moves: Smartsheet co-founder will leave board; Pandion hires logistics execs; and more

Tech Moves: Smartsheet co-founder will leave board; Pandion hires logistics execs; and more

Brent Frei helped start Smartsheet in 2005. Now he’s leading a rock-picking tech startup called TerraClear. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Smartsheet on Friday announced several changes to its board of directors, including the departure of co-founder Brent Frei and the addition of Katie Rooney,...

Former Convoy engineers take another swing at trucking tech with new Seattle startup

Former Convoy engineers take another swing at trucking tech with new Seattle startup

Manifold Freight co-founders Andrew Huff (left) and Oliver Jones. (Manifold Freight Photo) Andrew Huff and Oliver Jones aren’t done trying to build software for the trucking industry. The entrepreneurs are the co-founders of Manifold Freight, a new Seattle startup that is part of the latest...

Pandion, an e-commerce delivery startup led by Amazon Air founder, lands $41.5M

Pandion, an e-commerce delivery startup led by Amazon Air founder, lands $41.5M

Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash. Pandion, a Seattle startup that helps online retailers deliver orders to customers, raised a $41.5 million Series B round. Founded in 2020 by former Amazon and Walmart executive Scott Ruffin, Pandion operates a residential parcel delivery system that...

Bezos Earth Fund puts $60M to alternative meat research — and a Seattle founder has suggestions

Bezos Earth Fund puts $60M to alternative meat research — and a Seattle founder has suggestions

Christie Lagally, founder and CEO of Seattle’s Rebellyous Foods. (Rebellyous Photo) As Amazon founder Jeff Bezos funnels $60 million into support for alternative meats, Rebellyous Foods founder Christie Lagally has some suggestions, one entrepreneur to another. “We have the recipes for a lot...

Microsoft announces new Surface PCs for businesses, with AI integration

Microsoft announces new Surface PCs for businesses, with AI integration

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 10, left and Surface Pro 6, right. (Microsoft Photos) Microsoft unveiled what it described as its first AI-powered Surface PCs for businesses, the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, with Intel Core Ultra processors and Neural Processing Units that the company says will...

DOJ suit over Apple iPhone cites failures of Amazon Fire Phone and Microsoft Windows Phone

DOJ suit over Apple iPhone cites failures of Amazon Fire Phone and Microsoft Windows Phone

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces the Fire Phone in June 2014. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) The U.S. Justice Department’s landmark antitrust lawsuit Thursday morning against Apple, which accuses the company of illegally maintaining an iPhone smartphone monopoly, reads at times like a...

Washington state will use drones to restore areas affected by graffiti

Washington state will use drones to restore areas affected by graffiti

Graffiti along Interstate-5 in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Drone technology is already being used in Washington state to help fight wildfires and aid police. Now state transportation officials will use drones to address graffiti vandalism. Gov. Jay Inslee last week signed...

Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

(Geekwire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Editor’s note: This is a guest analysis post written by S. “Soma” Somasegar, managing director at Madrona Venture Group and a former Microsoft executive. GeekWire occasionally runs opinion and analysis pieces from members of the community. Microsoft is a...

Brinc launches unified ‘LiveOps’ software for public safety drones, incident coordination, and evidence

Brinc launches unified ‘LiveOps’ software for public safety drones, incident coordination, and evidence

Brinc’s new LiveOps software integrates drone fleet management with live streaming, real-time maps, call placing and recording, and data storage. (Brinc Photo) Public safety technology company Brinc announced a new software platform called LiveOps for managing and monitoring drone fleets, with...

New federal pollution rules for automakers will boost Washington state EV goals 

New federal pollution rules for automakers will boost Washington state EV goals 

Taking a spin in an all-electric Kia Niro at the Seattle 2023 Electrify Expo on Sept. 9. (Brent Roraback / GeekWire Photo) The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new national pollution standards for vehicles that will force automakers to increase their production of electric and...

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