Vera Kutsenko and Hayley Leibson have incredible engineering pedigrees, but their latest endeavor is digging as much dirt as digging through lines of code. The two women founded Neverland, a home gardening startup that aims to be a marketplace that connects mom and pop stores to the explosion of amateur horticulturists that have sprung up … Read more
A depiction of the Throne bathroom interior for mobile workers. (Image above throne) Amazon recently got caught in an unexpected PR mess when company officials claimed its employees would never have to resort to bottle urination. The absurdity of the situation came to a head last week after it was quickly discovered that Amazon delivery … Read more
(GeekWire Photo Illustration / Canva Pro) Companies like Big Fish Games, Cheezburger Network and Tableau Software once sat on the GeekWire 200, our ranking of privately owned tech startups in the Pacific Northwest. Since then, they have “closed” the list after growing up and going through an acquisition or IPO. Fast forward to today, and … Read more
Amazon will soon be a big part of the space economy in the form of its Kuiper satellite internet constellation, but here on Earth its ambitions are more mundane: to get an accelerator going. They teamed up with space-focused VC outfit Seraphim Capital to create a four-week program with (among other things) an AWS credit … Read more
The Washington State Capitol building in Olympia. (Flickr photo via Tom Sparks) Technicians, business owners, public order attorneys and individuals have weighed in favor of and against a proposed capital gains tax in Washington state this week. A remote hearing by the House Finance Committee was attended by 3,900 people, 2,380 of whom supported SB … Read more
A representation of the new Maritime Innovation Center in Fishermen’s Terminal near the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. (Port of Seattle picture) The Port of Seattle and the nonprofit strategic alliance Washington Maritime Blue continue their efforts to combine the region’s longstanding maritime heritage with the modern innovation economy when they launched a new startup accelerator … Read more
A few weeks ago, SentinelOne announced that it would acquire Scalyr, a high-speed logging platform, for $ 155 million. As recently as this morning, CrowdStrike hit the ground running next, announcing it would buy the unlimited logging tool Humio for $ 400 million. In Humio, CrowdStrike gets a company that offers the ability to collect … Read more
We surveyed five investors from the Brussels, Belgium ecosystem, and overall the mood was upbeat. Investors are backing companies in smart living, life sciences (“a really promising sector for Belgium”), B2B, “industry 4.0,” fintech, mobility, health and music tech. Food tech appears “an overcrowded space.” Another says: “COVID confirmed our strategy to invest in local … Read more