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GeekWire provides technology news, analysis, and resources for tech professionals, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts. It covers developments in the technology industry, produces events and podcasts, and offers tools such as job boards and startup rankings to support the tech community. Its mission is to inform and connect people interested in technology and startups.
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- Seattle
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- Online Audio and Video Media
- Founded
- 2011
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- LLC Seattle business license
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- 26
- Registered name
- GeekWire LLC Seattle business license
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- John Cook, Todd Bishop
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- Last published Oct 15
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Zeacon launches AI platform to generate personalized video, detect bots and boost website conversions
Zeacon builds AI tools that generate personalized video, tailor website content, track visitor interactions, and detect bot traffic to help companies convert website visitors into customers.
Seattle Startups OneCourt, Yoodli, Tin Can and Seattle Ultrasonics Make Time’s 2026 Best Inventions List; Microsoft Omitted
Seattle-area startups including OneCourt, Yoodli, Tin Can and Seattle Ultrasonics were featured on Time’s 2026 Best Inventions list alongside Amazon and SpaceX teams, while Microsoft received no mentions. The honored innovations span accessibility, AI-powered education tools, consumer hardware and an ultrasonic chef’s knife, highlighting the Pacific Northwest’s growing influence in tech and assistive devices.
Agile Space Industries opens 5,740‑sq‑ft Bellevue engineering office to hire 20–30 propulsion and systems engineers
Agile Space Industries signed a sublease for a 5,740 sq ft engineering office in Bellevue, Washington to expand its team from about six initial employees to 20–30 engineers and tap the Seattle region’s aerospace talent. CTO Jake Mills, a former Blue Origin engineer who joined Agile in June, is leading the effort as the company continues developing in-space chemical propulsion systems for satellites, lunar landers, and national security missions.
LinkedIn’s ‘Top 10 Seattle Startups’ List Includes Four Firms Headquartered in California and Texas
LinkedIn's list of Seattle’s top 10 startups mislabels several companies as local: four firms on the list — Anthropic, Auger, Whatnot and Armada — are actually headquartered outside the Seattle region, exposing a geography error in the ranking.
Helion Energy Gets Jeopardy! Mention; CEO David Kirtley Celebrates as Startup Advances Toward Fusion Power
Helion Energy got a mainstream shoutout when it was featured as an answer on Jeopardy! in a Y Combinator category, prompting CEO David Kirtley to celebrate the moment on LinkedIn and note growing mainstream interest in fusion.
Prime Intellect acquires Moondream; hires co-founders Jay Allen and Vik Korrapati to lead inference work at $1B AI cloud firm
Prime Intellect has acquired Seattle-founded vision AI startup Moondream, bringing its founders and inference technology into the $1 billion AI cloud company to speed up model inference and expand vision and agent capabilities.
Brinc Drones names Joe Levy CRO after $125M raise; Fred Hutch creates chief digital and information officer role for Jessie Minton; Acumatica hires Jason (JJ) James as CIO
This roundup reports Pacific Northwest executive moves: Brinc Drones named Joe Levy CRO after a $125M funding round; Fred Hutch created a combined chief digital and information officer role for Jessie Minton; and Acumatica appointed Jason (JJ) James as CIO, alongside other regional personnel changes including a departing LinkedIn director.
Booking Holdings launches Seattle AI travel startup Vayo led by Mike Fridgen with up to $100M investment
Booking Holdings is launching Vayo, a Seattle-based AI travel startup led by entrepreneur Mike Fridgen that will use specialized AI agents to organize and monitor trips and plans a potential $100 million investment. Vayo connects to users’ inboxes to assemble bookings, monitor changes like price drops or delays, recommend restaurants and activities, and will open a free private beta waitlist.
Humanly acquires CareerArc to combine AI screening with social recruiting and job-mapping
Humanly has acquired recruitment-marketing firm CareerArc to integrate its AI-driven candidate screening, chat, and interview tools with CareerArc’s social recruiting and interactive career-site mapping products, bringing most CareerArc employees into Humanly’s 50-person team.
Kapta Space Raises $24M Series A to Scale Low-Cost Steerable Satellite Radar; Total Funding $30M
Kapta Space raised $24 million in a Series A to scale production of low-cost, steerable satellite radar payloads and will use the funds to support classified 2026 moving-target-indication contracts.
Kapta Space raises $24M Series A from Bill Gates-backed MetaVC and defense investors to scale metamaterial radar for satellites
Kapta Space raised $24M in Series A to scale production of low-cost metamaterial, software-defined radar payloads for defense satellites, bringing total funding to $30M and supporting manufacturing, spaceflight qualification, and initial orbital demos.
Eluum launches MyLifeStory app to unify photos, videos and posts into an AI‑organized personal memory layer
Eluum, a Seattle startup founded by Bilkay Rose, Dale Rector, and Jennifer Gianola, uses AI to gather scattered photos, videos, social posts, locations, and context into a single, user-controlled evolving record called MyLifeStory. The app — available on iOS, Android, and web — aims to create a personal "memory layer" that organizes digital artifacts into a continuous life narrative.
Seattle-Area Startups Raise Record $3.5B in Q3 Led by Stoke Space, Temporal and Helion
Seattle-area startups raised a record $3.5 billion in Q3, driven by large rounds for Stoke Space, Temporal and Helion, even as U.S. venture funding fell 40% from the prior quarter.
Nscale doubles Bellevue lease to ~46,000 sq ft as it builds U.S. engineering hub under president Nidhi Chappell
Nscale has expanded its Bellevue engineering hub lease to about 46,000 square feet—doubling its original space before the office opens—and is preparing a large Eastside hiring push under new Seattle-based president Nidhi Chappell.
Yoodli launches AI platform to build courses, coach employees and track workplace skill gains after $300M+ valuation
Yoodli is expanding from AI practice sessions for public speaking into an “AI platform for human skills” that builds training courses, coaches employees during meetings, answers workplace questions, and tracks skill improvement. The startup—valued at over $300 million in December and backed with nearly $60 million from investors—aims to move into corporate training alongside firms like Workday and LinkedIn.
Temporal hires Oso team to add access controls to its AI-agent platform as Tiny buys Oso’s product and customers
Temporal is boosting AI agent security by hiring Oso team members to integrate application authorization and access controls into its durable-execution platform after a $550M funding round that valued the company at $12.55B; Tiny acquired Oso’s product and customer base. The integration aims to keep agent permissions and human approvals intact so agents can interact with systems and data without bypassing controls.
Microsoft CVP Ravi Vedula retires after 26 years; Rohit Prasad, ex-Amazon SVP, named Boston Dynamics CEO
Longtime Microsoft corporate vice president Ravi Vedula is retiring after 26 years and plans to focus on travel, writing and potential future opportunities; AI scientist Rohit Prasad, formerly Amazon’s SVP and head scientist for AGI, will become CEO of Boston Dynamics effective Oct. 7, while other firms like Qualtrics, Overland AI and Fred Hutch have announced new executives.
Sally Revell launches The SWELL — a Seattle hub for women founders with 53 members, $200/month memberships, capped at 75
Sally Revell launched The SWELL, a Seattle hub for women founders offering in-person community, flexible daytime programming, and bootstrapping-focused support; it has 53 members in under 10 weeks and memberships cost $200/month.
Foundations launches 'Foundations Design and Engineering' to connect businesses with startup founders for project-based AI work
Foundations launched Foundations Design and Engineering to connect businesses with its startup founders for project-based AI planning, development, and implementation, giving founders paid work and exposure to customer problems as fundraising tightens.
Chiplytics raises $4.5M, opens Bellport inspection lab to screen every semiconductor for counterfeits and defects
Chiplytics raised $4.5 million and opened an East Coast inspection facility to use AI, automation, and robotics to screen every semiconductor and electronic component for counterfeits and defects rather than relying on spot checks.
GeekWire and Blue City Blues panel examines how tech’s move into cities sparked backlash in Seattle and San Francisco as AI accelerates tensions
A live GeekWire and Blue City Blues podcast episode brings together historian Margaret O’Mara, journalist Jonathan Weber and GeekWire co-founder John Cook to discuss how tech transformed Seattle and San Francisco, creating jobs and wealth but also housing strain and political backlash as the AI boom intensifies tensions. The conversation traces the shift of tech from suburbs into city centers—dot‑coms in San Francisco and Amazon in Seattle—and explores how those moves sparked community conflicts that persist today.
Inworld Acquires Seattle Voice-AI Startup Ultravox (formerly Fixie) to Add Real-Time Turn-Taking Speech Tech; Price Undisclosed
Inworld has acquired Seattle voice-AI startup Ultravox (formerly Fixie) to integrate its real-time speech technology for better conversational turn-taking and interruptions; Ultravox had raised $17 million and was valued at $51.46 million in March 2023. The deal’s price was undisclosed, Ultravox had about 10 employees, and Inworld — valued at $515 million with $119.8 million raised — says it will welcome Ultravox team members and adopt their tech.
Seattle Space Week spotlights rapid growth and key challenges for Washington’s space industry amid launch shortages and regional competition
Seattle Space Week brought industry leaders together to discuss the Pacific Northwest’s booming but challenged space sector, highlighting rapid economic growth alongside concerns that Washington risks falling behind other regions due to issues like a shrinking launch market and infrastructure gaps.
Pascal Matta launches kolmo.io/permits mapping 457 verified permit rules across 80 Washington jurisdictions with address-specific 3D visuals
Pascal Matta, a former software engineer turned Seattle general contractor, built kolmo.io/permits — a free AI-powered database that decodes municipal permit rules and links 457 verified rules across 80 jurisdictions to their original city-source pages. The tool provides address-specific, lot-level guidance including 3D buildable-envelope visualizations and flags which rules are directly verified versus based on statewide baselines.
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