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How Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji Built a $1.1B Product Development Platform | CEO & Co-Founder of Statsig | Startup Project #102

Join Nataraj as he sits down with Vijaye Raji, founder and CEO of Statsig, a platform revolutionizing product development with data-driven decision-making. Formerly a VP at Facebook and head of Facebook Seattle, Vijaye shares his journey from big tech to startup founder. About the Episode: This conversation explores Vijaye's transition from leading entertainment at Facebook to building Statsig, a developer platform empowering data-driven decisions. He dives into his experience at Microsoft and Facebook, highlighting the challenges and motivations that led him to entrepreneurship. Vijaye discusses Statsig's value proposition, differentiating it from existing point solutions by consolidating feature flagging, analytics, and…

51 min
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire

James Whittaker, Ex-Microsoft and Google Exec, Consoles Laid-Off Employees at His Seattle Bars and Critiques AI in Viral Post

James Whittaker, a former Microsoft and Google tech leader, owns and runs bars near Seattle where he hosts tech storytelling events and offers support to laid-off Microsoft employees. His recent viral LinkedIn post criticized Microsoft layoffs and AI developments, reflecting his ongoing engagement with tech and community through his Side Hustle Taproom venues.

Book Recommendations for Founders

Building Biotech in Seattle: Madrona Investor Spotlight with Joe Horsman

What happens when a scientist becomes a VC? We sat down with Madrona's Joe Horsman to find out. In this episode, Joe shares his journey from late nights in the lab to helping biotech founders bring life-changing science to market. You'll hear: Why Seattle's biotech + AI ecosystem is heating up What founders need beyond funding to commercialize world-changing science. Why weekend adventures fuel Monday creativity

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire

Seattle Tech Over 15 Years: Amazon's Massive Growth, Microsoft’s Revival, and Silicon Valley’s Expansion into the City

Over the past 15 years, Seattle's tech scene has transformed significantly, with Amazon growing massively, Microsoft making a strong comeback, and the startup community becoming more distributed. Additionally, major Silicon Valley companies established engineering centers in Seattle, intensifying talent competition and driving up salaries.

GeekWire Podcast

15 years of the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon, Microsoft, and the transformation of Seattle tech

Fifteen years ago, Steve Jobs and Apple had just introduced the first iPad, Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft had been left for dead, and nerdy online bookseller Jeff Bezos was still getting Amazon settled into its South Lake Union HQ. That’s when we started this podcast. This week, we’re going back to 2010, revisiting clips from the earliest days of the show. We remember what was happening with Amazon, Microsoft, and Seattle’s startup scene, and try to wrap our heads around all the things that have changed since then. With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. Audio editing by Curt Milton…

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Taylor Soper / GeekWire

Seattle Has Fewer Than 20 Unicorn Startups Amid Top AI Talent and Tech Giants in 2025

Seattle hosts fewer than 20 unicorn startups, representing about 1.5% of global unicorns as of January 2025, despite having a dense tech talent pool and being a prime location for AI businesses. Industry leaders argue that the number of unicorns alone is a poor measure of regional tech success, pointing to Seattle's strengths in AI, cloud giants, and fast-growing startups.

Shift AI with Boaz Ashkenazy

Navigating the Enterprise Compliance Journey with Certivo CEO Kunal Chopra

In this episode of the Shift AI Podcast, Boaz Ashkenazy welcomes Kunal Chopra, CEO and Founder of Certivo, to explore how AI agents are evolving from assistants to true team members. Kunal shares insights from his experience as a former leader at Microsoft and Amazon, and his current venture tackling product compliance challenges for manufacturers. Through Certivo's AI agent compliance managers can automate tedious regulatory tasks while maintaining strategic control of the process. The conversation delves into the distinction between AI assistants and agents, examining the collaborative dance between humans and AI that defines today's implementations. Kunal offers a compelling…

37 min
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The End of Biz Apps? AI, Agility, and The Agent-Native Enterprise from Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna

In this Founded & Funded episode, Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar sits down with Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, to unpack his journey from startup founder to corporate leader. They dive into what it takes to build a successful AI-transformed organization, how the nature of business applications is evolving, and why AI agents will fundamentally reshape teams, tools, and workflows. From "customer obsession" to "extreme ownership," Charles delivers insight after insight for startup founders and enterprise leaders navigating the age of AI. They dive into: Why business apps as we know them are dead How AI agents and…

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Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire

Seattle Musician Danny Newcomb Launches Incantio Startup with $350,000 Pre-Seed Funding to Help Indie Artists Self-License Music Rights

Seattle musician Danny Newcomb founded Incantio, a startup launching a two-sided marketplace that helps independent musicians self-license and manage music rights while enabling creators to find and license music easily. The company raised $350,000 in pre-seed funding and plans to start generating revenue, aiming to empower indie artists with royalty retention amid a streaming-dominated industry.

Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire

Helion Energy to Build World's First Fusion Plant in Malaga, Washington, Powering Microsoft Data Centers with 50MW

Helion Energy plans to build the world's first fusion power plant near the Rock Island Dam in Malaga, Washington, aiming to begin construction this summer and provide 50 megawatts of clean energy to Microsoft data centers. The company, backed by over $1 billion in investments from notable investors like Sam Altman and SoftBank, has been engaging extensively with the local community and authorities to secure permits and support.

John Stearns / 425business.com

Pay-i announces $4.9M seed round as Bellevue startup launches ROI platform for generative AI

Bellevue-based Pay-i, an intelligence platform that measures returns from generative AI investments, announced it is coming out of stealth with $4.9 million in seed funding and is now generally available across major cloud providers and models. The September 2023-founded startup — led by co-founders David Tepper, Doron Holan and Erik Winters — will use the funds to accelerate product development and expand enterprise adoption.

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Neotribe-led $13.7M Series A in Yoodli to Expand AI Roleplay Enterprise Platform Serving Google, Databricks and More

Neotribe Ventures led a $13.7 million Series A in Yoodli, an AI roleplay enterprise platform that helps users rehearse high-stakes conversations with real-time feedback; existing investors including Madrona, Cercano, AI2 and Neotribe (who previously invested) highlighted Yoodli’s enterprise traction with customers like Google, Databricks, RingCentral, Snowflake and BDO. The funding will expand sales, customer success, and engineering while improving personalization and realism in roleplays to address communication training gaps at scale.

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire

Sophia Space Raises $3.5M Pre-Seed to Develop TILE Orbital Data Centers for In-Space AI and Edge Computing

Sophia Space, a Seattle- and California-based startup co-founded by former NASA and tech veterans, raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop its TILE orbital data center platform for in-space AI and edge computing. The platform aims to reduce latency by processing data closer to its source in space using radiation-resistant, solar-powered compute modules.

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