Enzyme designers in the David Baker lab at the University of Washington in Seattle, from the left: Sam Pellock, Anna Lauko, Kiera Sumida, David Baker, Donghyo Kim, Indrek Kalvet and Seth Woodbury. (UW Institute for Protein Design Photo / Ian Haydon) A team from the University of...
In September 2024, the City of Seattle began a massive digital transformation of the city’s payroll, benefits and other human resources functions. (Photo by Seattle City Council, via Flickr, Creative Commons) A class action lawsuit filed against the City of Seattle last week alleges that a new...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on its Florida launch pad in January. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to cut about 10% of its workforce according to an announcement Thursday by the Kent, Wash.-based company’s CEO. “Our primary focus in 2025 and beyond is to...
Jessica Kamada, founder of Swizzle Ventures, speaks at a B.E.L.L.E entrepreneur event in Seattle. (B.E.L.L.E Photo) Jessica Kamada does not have a traditional startups and venture capital background. And that’s exactly what helped her land $6.6 million for a new Seattle-based fund. Kamada is...
(GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. While a new listings partnership between Redfin and Zillow is expected to benefit both companies in the long run, it comes at a cost for some Redfin employees. In an SEC filing ahead of its fourth-quarter...
Dan Lewis, former Convoy CEO and now a chief product officer at Microsoft, at the GeekWire Summit in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Dan Lewis, the former CEO of shuttered Seattle trucking startup Convoy, has joined Microsoft in a chief product officer role. Lewis left Convoy last year...
Chomp’s engineering team in front of one of their anaerobic digestion devices, clockwise from top left: John Missey, CEO Tim Tiscornia, founder Jan Allen, Andrew Moss, Taylor Knoblock and Tim Murphy. (Chomp Photo / Julie Whaley) Chomp, a company building devices that turn food...
Ashwarya Poddar. (Linkedin Photo) ConverzAI, a Seattle startup founded in 2019 that aims to automate recruiting processes, raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Menlo Ventures. The startup, led by former Microsoft product manager Ashwarya Poddar, develops virtual recruiters that help...
Bill Gates with a printout of the Altair BASIC source code from 1975, one of Microsoft’s earliest software artifacts. Click to enlarge. (Gates Notes / Ian Allen) [Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past, present, and future,...
Areas of tech interest to the Department of Defense include logistical solutions, tactical electronic warfare and more. (Photo via Defense Innovation Unit) A new accelerator program aimed at identifying and supporting startups and technologies that address critical U.S. Department of Defense...
Derek Tu (left), who sold his Seattle startup Carbon to Perplexity, speaks with Aviel Ginzburg at a Foundations event. Ginzburg helped launch Seattle-based Foundations last year. (Foundations Photo) Aviel Ginzburg spent years learning what makes a startup accelerator effective for founders. Now...
(GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle voters are showing support for a new tax on big business that would fund a social housing developer. More than 57% of voters said “yes” to the proposed tax, based on initial results posted Tuesday for Seattle’s special election. The ordinance,...
(BigStock Photo) Zillow Group reported $554 million in revenue for its fourth quarter, up 17% year-over-year, topping analyst estimates. The company reported non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.29, just ahead of estimates. Despite beating expectations for Q4, Zillow stock was down more than...
Mast Reforestation planter at a restoration site. (Mast Photo) Seattle’s Mast Reforestation announced today $25 million in new funding and an expansion of its operations into “wood vaulting” in which carbon that’s captured in vegetation is locked away. In its approach to vaulting, Mast is...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. on July 15, 2019. (Photography by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures for Microsoft) Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion bid for the nonprofit that controls OpenAI could have significant implications for Microsoft,...
Kestra Medical Technologies device for detecting and responding to cardiac events. (Kestra Photo) Kestra Medical Technologies, a Kirkland, Wash.-based company selling cardiac monitoring and therapeutic devices, filed for an initial public offering on Monday. The company’s revenue more than...
Edifecs CEO Venkat Kavarthapu. (LinkedIn Photo) Bellevue, Wash.-based health software company Edifecs announced has agreed to be acquired by Cotiviti, a Utah-based healthcare giant backed by private equity firms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Edifecs launched in 1996 as a data...
Official AI CEO Dave Siegfried, left, and John Pletka. (Official AI Photo) Official AI, a Seattle startup whose platform helps brands and talent create and collaborate on AI-generated image and audio content, raised $2 million, the company announced Tuesday. The seed funding round was led by...
A close-up of the OLMoE app on iPhone. The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released its first on-device AI app Tuesday morning, leveraging a version of its open-source OLMoE model that can run offline on Apple iOS devices, promising new levels of security and privacy. “We see this as a...
The famed cherry blossoms on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The fight now unfolding over the Trump administration’s sudden limit on National Institutes of Health grant funding could have deep financial implications for Washington state’s...
Vercept’s founding team includes, L-R, Matt Deitke, CEO Kiana Ehsani, Ross Girshick, and Luca Weihs. Not pictured: Oren Etzioni. (Vercept Photo) A group of former Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) research leaders have formed a new Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup, Vercept. They say...
Mark Cuban, former majority owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. (GeekWire File Photo) Mark Cuban tapped Bill Gates for some perspective on a recent business decision that reshaped the Dallas Mavericks, the NBA team he used to own, and he used a Microsoft analogy to help make his point. Gates...
Former Microsoft executive Hayete Gallot’s new role at Google Cloud is part of an effort to become more nimble in helping customers implement AI solutions. (Photo courtesy Google Cloud) — Google named Hayete Gallot, most recently Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial solutions, to...
The new LaserWeeder G2 from Carbon Robotics is designed to be faster, lighter, and more modular than its predecessor. (Carbon Robotics Photo) Carbon Robotics wants to zap more weeds among more types of crops on farms of all sizes, and to get there the Seattle-based startup released a new line of...
T-Mobile’s Super Bowl commercial highlights its partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network. Forget the ground game. T-Mobile is using Super Bowl LIX to kick off a new kind of air attack on wireless dead zones across the U.S. In a commercial that aired during the first quarter of...
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 Feb. 2, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Amazon and other tech giants are boosting their capital spending on cloud infrastructure for anticipated AI demand. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sounded more bullish than ever about the potential for artificial intelligence on the company’s earnings call this...
Amazon’s headquarters buildings and the Spheres in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood in September 2024. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon scrubbed a reference to workforce diversity from its annual 10-K report this morning, reflecting a broader corporate retreat from diversity and...
Bill Gates, left, chats with Bill Nye at the Moore Theater in Seattle on Thursday night. An image of the 1975 Popular Electronics magazine that inspired the creation of Microsoft is projected behind them. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Talk about a double Billing. Bill Nye, the “Science Guy,”...
Solar panels. (American Public Power Association photo used via Unsplash) President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order puzzles David Funk. The order targets clean energy efforts, pausing the distribution of already promised funds associated with the Inflation Reduction Act and...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the trends represented by DeepSeek should stoke AI demand long-term. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Amazon reported $26.3 billion in capital expenditures in the fourth quarter, and the company plans to keep spending at that pace in 2025, which would put the total...
(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon beat Wall Street’s overall expectations with $187.8 billion in net sales, up 10%, and came in well ahead on the bottom line, with earnings of $1.86 per share, vs. expectations of $1.48 for the fourth quarter. Quarterly profits surpassed $20 billion...
DeepSurface co-founders Tim Morgan, CTO, left, and James Dirksen, CEO. (DeepSurface Photos) Portland cybersecurity startup DeepSurface was acquired this week by AttackIQ, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that helps customers evaluate security risks. AttackIQ specializes in Adversarial...
A chart from the s1 research paper shows accuracy improving as thinking time goes up. In a new demonstration of the potential to improve artificial intelligence without breaking the bank, researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), and Stanford...
Featured in the first wave of interviews in the Microsoft Alumni Network‘s new “Alumni Voices” oral history project are (clockwise from upper left): Bill Neukom, former Microsoft general counsel; Steve Ballmer, former CEO; Bob O’Rear (MS-DOS, programming languages); Mark Zbikowski (MS-DOS, Windows...