(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
Thousands of people take part in a Black Lives Matter protest march in Seattle in June. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) When Kim Vu joined fintech startup Remitly two years ago as the director of diversity and inclusion, she spent hours doing numbers manually and gaining insights into the teams that are spread across eight … Read more
Annie Liu has always been quite at odds with her identity. At home she only spoke Chinese, and out in the world she switched to another language and changed her behavior to better adapt. “I think I really just wanted to find a passion that could really combine these two parts of my identity,” said … Read more
The Startup Haven team (clockwise from top left): Bob Crimmins, Claudius Mbemba, Jay Westerdal, David Malcolm and Arry Yu. (Startup Haven photo) – Startup Haven, an entrepreneurship community founded by Seattle-based startup veterinarian Bob Crimmins, has launched a mutual fund called Startup Haven Ventures. With the new fund, Startup Haven has also expanded its team: … Read more
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly newsletter for startups and markets. It’s based largely on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but it’s free and made for your weekend reading. Would you like it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Login here. The earnings season is coming to an end, and … Read more
(Image via stopaapihate.org) The killing of eight people, including six Asian women, near Atlanta on Tuesday sparked a wave of grief and indignation in the United States and calls for an end to hatred and violence against Asian Americans over the past year. Tech companies and community figures from the Seattle area collectively condemned Tuesday’s … Read more
Daniela Braga, CEO of DefinedCrowd. (Photo by Dário Branco) Artificial intelligence is the fourth industrial revolution, and women should play a prominent role in its development, says Daniela Braga, CEO of Seattle startup DefinedCrowd. “We have left the code era to men for the past 30 years and see where it has led us,” Braga … Read more
GeekWire illustration. The battle between Amazon and Shopify is a little juicier now. Shopify’s cheeky social media team – or, if you will, SaaSy – fired up some pointy tweets this week asking Amazon in subtle and not-so-subtle ways to supposedly make copycat products. The tweets appear to be in response to a video posted … Read more
“What happens here is important everywhere.” GeekWire’s renovated conference room, themed about the Seattle area tech community, awaits our return to the office. (BCRA Design Photo) Anniversaries are not news! This has been our stance as long as we’ve been business and tech reporters, or at least since we realized that covering arbitrary milestones would … Read more
Matt McIlwain und Madison McIlwain. (Foto mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Madison McIlwain) Ein Aufzugsstellplatz, ein schneller Kaffee, ein Mittagessen oder ein Zoom-Chat können dazu führen, dass einige Investoren ein Gefühl für ein bestimmtes Unternehmen oder einen bestimmten Gründer bekommen. Madison McIlwain nahm auf, wonach er suchen sollte, und die Vor- und Nachteile von Risikokapital, das … Read more