Enterprise artificial intelligence company Xembly told users that it’s discontinuing its “customer-facing services,” which included an AI assistant that automatically handled tasks such as meeting notes, scheduling, and action items.… Read More
Seattle-area high school students competed in the finals of the TiE Young Entrepreneur (TYE) Seattle chapter finals competition last week and a team called Soundwave is moving on to TYE’s… Read More
Yi-Jian Ngo, a fixture of the Seattle startup community and longtime leader of the Alliance of Angels, is stepping down from the angel investor group. Ngo will depart to spend… Read More
Satya Singh, a Seattle-area technology and startup leader who was previously a data platform executive at Expedia, co-founded Scispot, a data infrastructure platform for biotech companies. He recently shared his story… Read More
Seattle-based Climate Vault Solutions, a startup working to reduce carbon emissions, has raised $2.5 million in new investments. The business launched last year and takes a somewhat unusual approach to… Read More
Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity company Tanium added two new board members: Rani Johnson and Tim Millikin. Johnson is the chief information officer at HR giant Workday. She previously held IT leadership… Read More
CarbonQuest wants to take a bite out of carbon emissions at its source — before the greenhouse gases escape into the environment and heat up an ever-warming planet. The Spokane,… Read More
Seattle-based startup TraceAir announced a $25 million Series B funding round to boost its project management software used by home builders and land developers.
After he left Amazon following more than eight years as an executive working on such things as last-mile delivery innovation and Alexa privacy compliance, Trent Gillespie would often be approached… Read More
Experience management technology Qualtrics hired longtime Seattle marketing leader Lynn Girotto as its new chief marketing officer. Girotto was previously chief marketing officer at video software company Vimeo and San Francisco-based customer… Read More
Humanly, a Seattle startup that helps companies automate their recruiting functions, announced the acquisition of Teamable, a San Francisco startup offering similar AI-boosted HR tools. Terms of the deal were… Read More
As entrepreneurs scramble to plug chatbots and generative AI into seemingly everything, Help Texts founder and CEO Emma Payne is sticking with something simpler. Seattle-based Help Texts is a subscription… Read More
Would it be possible to build an AI summer intern? Kevin Leneway, principal software engineer at Pioneer Square Labs, had that thought last year as an early user of GitHub… Read More
A new Seattle-area startup is using artificial intelligence to help overwhelmed security teams identify high priority security flaws and mitigate threats. Averlon just raised $8 million in a seed round… Read More
Loopie, the peer-to-peer laundry startup that connects people who don’t have the time or desire to wash their own clothes with those who want to earn money doing it, sold… Read More
Boulder Care, a Portland, Ore.-based startup that provides telehealth treatment for people with opioid and alcohol use disorder, raised $35 million in new funding. Led by founder and CEO Stephanie… Read More
Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona is boosting its Silicon Valley footprint with the addition of Jeff Mills as partner and head of investor relations. Mills most recently was managing director… Read More
Amperity CEO Barry Padgett is stepping down from the Seattle startup to spend time with his teenage children and will transition to an advisor role beginning next month. Chris Jones, Amperity’s… Read More
A small subset of customers storing money with fintech startup Copper are not able to access their deposit accounts due to a disruption involving embattled banking-as-a-service platform Synapse. Copper is… Read More
Easy Metrics, a Seattle-area software company that provides insight into labor productivity and warehouse operations performance, raised $31 million from San Francisco private equity firm Nexa Equity.
Abett, a Seattle-based startup that helps large employers manage and analyze health plan data, raised $11.6 million in a Series A round to help boost its software platform. The company’s… Read More
A-Alpha Bio will receive $14.5 million from the Department of Defense (DOD) to expand a project with a national lab to help prepare for future biological threats using the company’s… Read More
SeekOut, a Seattle-area startup that sells recruiting software and raised $115 million in 2022, is trimming its workforce for the second time in the past eight months. TechCrunch, which first… Read More
Manifold Freight, a new Seattle-based trucking software startup aiming to help aggregate spot freight opportunities for carriers, raised a $1.9 million seed round. Previously: Former Convoy engineers take another swing… Read More
A hot Seattle startup developing autonomous driving technology for off-road vehicles announced a $10 million seed round to fuel its growth. It’s the latest milestone for Overland AI, the University… Read More
Tidal Vision, a green chemistry company founded by a former Alaska fishing boat captain, is raising more investment to fuel growth. A new SEC filing reveals $46.7 million in fresh… Read More
Daniel Diez, a longtime tech and communications leader who was most recently chief commercial officer at augmented reality company Magic Leap, joined Agility Robotics as its chief strategy officer. The… Read More
An entrepreneur and investor with roots in the defunct Techstars Seattle program plans to launch a new invite-only organization and shared workspace that supports tech founders by surrounding them with… Read More
After about three years at Amazon working on Alexa voice services, Pierson Marks listened to his own internal dialogue and left to launch a startup. A Southern California native who… Read More
GoodShip raised a $8 million Series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners that will boost its software platform that helps companies get a better handle on their shipping logistics… Read More
