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NewDays raises additional $4.5M for platform that uses generative AI to treat people with dementia
09 octobre 2025
NewDays’ co-founders Babak Parviz, left, and Daniel Kelly. (NewDays Photo) NewDays, a Seattle startup using a generative AI therapy to treat people with mild dementia, has added $4.5 million to a recent seed funding round. The company confirmed the raise this week after GeekWire spotted a...
Seattle startup’s FDA-approved, virus-neutralizing mask lands on Amazon
09 octobre 2025
Healthcare providers in virus-killing masks from Seattle startup Singletto. (Singletto Photo) Virus-fighting startup Singletto closed a $10 million Series A investment round and is now selling its pathogen-killing face masks on Amazon. The Seattle company was also selected by the U.S. Defense...
Tech Moves: Amazon leaders depart; Starbucks, Acumatica, Yoodli add execs; Seattle Children’s new CEO
09 octobre 2025
Denis Mamaril. (LinkedIn Photo) — Denise Mamaril is now Starbucks’ vice president of cybersecurity; governance, risk and compliance; and international. She was previously at Nordstrom for nearly a decade, leaving the role of senior director of security architecture and engineering. “I’m...
Amazon takes on Microsoft and Google in the workplace with new ‘Quick Suite’ business AI platform
09 octobre 2025
Amazon Web Services is launching a new artificial intelligence platform for everyday business users, moving further beyond core cloud infrastructure to compete more directly against Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and AI startups. The platform, Amazon Quick Suite, was announced...
Seattle vs. Bellevue: WSJ report spotlights why some tech companies are heading east
09 octobre 2025
Inside the main entrance at Sonic, an Amazon office tower in Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Two weeks after detailing why the Seattle economy could face ongoing troubles because of layoffs at tech giants Microsoft and Amazon, The Wall Street Journal is back this week with a...
‘We build shit’: Washington state leans on innovative culture to thrive amid national turmoil
09 octobre 2025
From left: A panel discussion at the 20th anniversary event for the Washington State Academy of Sciences included Babak Parviz, CEO at New Days; Elizabeth Cantwell, president at Washington State University; Joe Nguyen, director at the Washington State Dept. of Commerce; and Rui...
Aarden AI emerges from stealth with $4M to help landowners navigate data center, clean energy deals
09 octobre 2025
Aarden AI CEO Danan Margason speaks at a Climate Week NYC event in September 2025. (Aarden Photo) Seattle startup Aarden AI is coming out of stealth with $4 million from investors and an AI platform that helps landowners research and navigate deals with developers eager to build data centers,...
Stoke Space raises a whopping $510M to accelerate work on its fully reusable Nova launch system
08 octobre 2025
An artist’s conception shows the upper stage of Stoke Space’s Nova rocket in orbit. (Stoke Space Illustration) Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies today revealed that it has raised $510 million in fresh funding to accelerate development of its fully reusable medium-lift Nova...
Fresh off $30M round, Seattle startup Lumen Bioscience adds Microsoft vet Jeff Raikes to board
08 octobre 2025
Lumen Bioscience CEO Brian Finrow. (Lumen Bioscience Photo) Seattle-based biotech startup Lumen Bioscience raised a $30 million Series C extension and announced several leadership updates. WestRiver Group led the latest funding round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $186.8...
Amazon Pharmacy introduces kiosks that can quickly dispense medications at the doctor’s office
08 octobre 2025
An Amazon Pharmacy kiosk, designed to eliminate separate trips to pick up medication. (Amazon Photo) Amazon is erasing the distance between the doctor’s office and the pharmacy with the introduction of new Amazon Pharmacy kiosks that can quickly dispense medications to patients after a medical...
Seattle tech vets Marco Matos and Kabir Shahani rethink marketing for big brands with new AI startup
08 octobre 2025
From left: Allison Light, head of product at Adora; Marco Matos, CEO; and Max Frause, head of customer success. (Adora Photo) Adora, a new Seattle-based marketing technology startup co-founded by former Pinterest executive Marco Matos and serial entrepreneur Kabir Shahani, emerged from stealth...
Seattle startup Membrion raises $20M to deploy industrial wastewater treatment units
07 octobre 2025
Membrion founder and CEO Greg Newbloom. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Membrion, a Seattle startup that develops industrial wastewater treatment technology, announced that it raised $20 million in a fresh investment round. The company has raised $40 million since spinning out of the...
Stoke Space reportedly raising another massive round of funding for its Nova rocket program
07 octobre 2025
Stoke Space’s booster engine blazes during its first hot-fire test in 2024. (Stoke Space Photo) Update: Stoke Space has raised $510 million in Series D funding to accelerate development of its fully reusable medium-lift rocket. Check out the full story. Previously: Stoke Space, one of the...
How a scrappy biotech startup backed by Microsoft’s co-founders set the stage for two Nobel winners
07 octobre 2025
Mary Brunkow speaks at an event Tuesday at Seattle’s Institute for Systems Biology celebrating her 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. (ISB Photo / Alex Garland) The groundbreaking immunology research behind two Nobel Prizes awarded this week traces back to a largely forgotten...
AI2 Incubator launches $80M fund as it doubles down on real-world AI applications in Seattle and beyond
07 octobre 2025
AI2 Incubator leaders, from left: Oren Etzioni, technical director; Yifan Zhang, managing director; Vu Ha, technical director; and Jacob Colker, managing director. (AI2 Incubator Image) AI2 Incubator is entering its next phase. The Seattle-based startup organization — known...
Fresh off $50M round, this Seattle startup cuts data center cooling energy and eyes a bigger prize
07 octobre 2025
Racks of servers inside an AWS data center in 2023. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) When Phaidra CEO Jim Gao describes the AI agents that his Seattle company built to improve data center efficiencies, one can imagine an army of behind-the-scenes digital minions working away. Their job is to...
New platform, familiar risks: Zillow and Expedia bet on OpenAI’s ChatGPT apps rollout
07 octobre 2025
The new Zillow app inside ChatGPT lets users search for homes directly in the chat interface. (Zillow Illustration.) Zillow and Expedia were among the first companies to launch apps inside OpenAI’s ChatGPT this week, securing early positions in what analysts are already calling...
Scientists enlist AI to map regions of the brain in unprecedented detail — and that’s just the start
07 octobre 2025
An AI-produced rendering shows a map of mouse brain regions, overlaid with network motifs. (UCSF Illustration) Scientists say an artificial intelligence program that they compare to ChatGPT has helped them create one of the most detailed maps of the mouse brain to date, with 1,300 regions and...
Qualtrics to acquire healthcare data giant Press Ganey Forsta in $6.75B deal
07 octobre 2025
Qualtrics’ Plano, Texas office. (Qualtrics Photo) Qualtrics is making its largest acquisition ever with a $6.75 billion deal to buy Press Ganey Forsta in a bid boost the company’s experience management platform. Press Ganey Forsta builds software to help companies understand their customers...
Jeff Bezos says orbital data centers will be the ‘next step’ for space ventures that make Earth better
07 octobre 2025
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, speaks at Italian Tech Week 2025 in Turin. (Italian Tech Week via YouTube) What’s the next killer app for the final frontier? According to Jeff Bezos, it’s a future fleet of gigawatt data centers, flying in orbit and powered by...
‘Seattle biotech is on fire’: Industry produces three Nobel Prize winners in two years
06 octobre 2025
Nobel Prize winners, from left: Mary Brunkow, senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology, Fred Ramsdell, co-founder and chair of Sonoma Biotherapeutic’s scientific advisory board; and David Baker, University of Washington biochemist. (ISB, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, UW...
Startup Radar: Seattle founders build AI tools for leadership training, spatial reasoning, vibe coding
06 octobre 2025
From top left, clockwise: Simsola CEO Tammy Wang; Rem CEO Jorge Banuelos; CodeChimp CTO Sylviane Zhao; EvolvArts CEO Christopher Lin; and Vergent CEO Andrew Liang. Our latest Startup Radar spotlights Seattle-area companies building software for everything from insurance commissions to...
Delivery drivers in diapers? Amazon starts ’em young with toy van for kids in new holiday catalog
06 octobre 2025
The Amazon toy delivery van, left, featured in the company’s new holiday gift book for kids. (Amazon, Frank Catalano Photos) Is Amazon priming little kids for future careers as delivery drivers? The new, 92-page Amazon holiday gift catalog features a ride-on delivery van suitable for kids...
Seattle scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell win Nobel Prize for immunology research
06 octobre 2025
Mary Brunkow, senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), left, and Fred Ramsdell, co-founder and chair of Sonoma Biotherapeutic’s scientific advisory board, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. They are based in the Seattle area and share the award with Shimon...
Raj Singh named Smartsheet CEO, returning to his enterprise tech roots in the Seattle area
06 octobre 2025
Raj Singh, the Concur co-founder and newly named Smartsheet CEO, speaking at a past Seattle tech event. (GeekWire File Photo) The new CEO of Smartsheet is Rajeev “Raj” Singh. That news elicited a murmur of surprise when it reached the GeekWire newsroom, just as we suspect it might for others...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 28, 2025
05 octobre 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 Sept. 28, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
The Agentic Entrepreneur: How the next wave of AI is changing the startup playbook
04 octobre 2025
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A deep dive on the ways that AI and agents are changing how companies are created, built, and operated. We’re on location at Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle with investor and entrepreneur T.A. McCann, managing director at the startup studio and venture...
Boundless Immigration cut staff days before it announced acquisition of European competitor
04 octobre 2025
Boundless CEO Xiao Wang, right, hosted a Seattle Tech Week panel in July 2025. Also pictured are panelists Lisa Wehden of Plymouth and Ankit Dhawan of BluePill AI. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Seattle startup Boundless Immigration laid off an undisclosed number of employees last week,...
Remitly co-founder ready to build next ‘big company’ — helping leverage AI in sports and live events
03 octobre 2025
Shivaas Gulati is a longtime Seattle entrepreneur and investor. (Whitby-Boot Photography / Southend United) Shivaas Gulati is ready to build his next “big company,” and he’s excited to do it in Seattle. While he’s keeping details close to the vest, the co-founder of digital remittance company...
Out of Office: Luca Cazzanti’s AI and data skills are in play while coaching kids in the sport he loves
03 octobre 2025
Luca Cazzanti, a Seattle AI and data professional, shows off his soccer skills during a break from his coaching duties at Ingraham High School in North Seattle. (Jocelyn Leon Photo) Out of Office is a new GeekWire series spotlighting the passions and hobbies that members of the Seattle-area tech...
Pacific Northwest loses $1B hydrogen hub as Trump cancels clean energy projects nationwide
03 octobre 2025
Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association projects and partners. (PNWH2 Image) The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association (PNWH2), a multi-state hub launched to establish a hydrogen economy, lost $1 billion of federal funding in cuts announced yesterday by the Trump administration. The...
Spotted in Seattle: Amazon delivery firms using GM’s boxy, white BrightDrop electric vans
03 octobre 2025
A BrightDrop van being used for Amazon deliveries on Thursday in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Those boxy, white, electric delivery vans you may be seeing on the streets of Seattle are being used to deliver Amazon packages. GeekWire spotted one of General Motors’ BrightDrop vans...
Pure Watercraft founder resurfaces with Seattle startup focused on autonomous craft for the military
03 octobre 2025
Thallios founder Andy Rebele at Magnuson Park on Lake Washington in Seattle. His grandfather was stationed at nearby Naval Base Sand Point, and Rebele now finds himself heading up a defense tech startup. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Andy Rebele didn’t just drift away from Seattle’s...
Smartsheet cuts jobs shortly after departure of longtime CEO
02 octobre 2025
Smartsheet, the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software company that went private earlier this year in an $8.4 billion acquisition, has cut jobs amid its leadership transition. A person familiar with the situation told GeekWire that more than 120 employees were impacted. Smartsheet...
Tech Moves: Truveta co-founder joins GeneDX; Auger hires another Amazonian; Microsoft board change
02 octobre 2025
Lisa Gurry. (LinkedIn Photo) — Longtime tech leader Lisa Gurry is now chief business officer for GeneDx. Gurry spent more than 23 years at Microsoft before helping launch Seattle health tech startup Truveta as its chief marketing officer in 2020. She later led operations and growth at Truveta,...
