Don Johnson, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, describes the Microsoft partnership as “easy and natural,” despite a rocky history between the companies, given their shared interest in serving their joint customers. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Splashy partnerships between big tech companies can be hard to take seriously. Implementing them with success is […]
The CEOs leading this year’s Ready Set Raise companies. (FFA Photo) Female Founders Alliance is back with its second accelerator cohort as the Seattle-based organization looks to help another round of female-led startups grow their businesses and land funding. Eight companies from across the country working in various industries made the cut this year, beating
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally Sunday in Seattle with an estimated 15,000 people in attendance. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for stronger antitrust enforcement and a wealth tax at a Seattle rally, drawing cheers from a crowd that her campaign estimated to be 15,000 people Sunday
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Chinook Therapeutics CEO Eric Dobmeier. (Chinook Photo) Chinook Therapeutics, a Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company creating targeted therapies for kidney diseases, raised $65 million in a Series A financing round led by Versant Ventures with Apple Tree Partners and Samsara BioCapital. The company is creating precision medicines for rare and severe kidney disorders. Chinook said it
Boston Dynamics’ four-legged SpotMini robot may look scary as it shares the stage with company founder and CEO Marc Raibert at Amazon’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas in June. But a report published this month praises Boston Dynamics’ owner, SoftBank, for confirming that it won’t develop technologies that could be used for military purposes. (GeekWire
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Chang Fu, Possible Finance head of growth, and Scott Simmons, head of talent acquisition. (Possible Finance Photos) — Possible Finance, a Seattle startup that runs a mobile-only loan program, made two executive hires amid rapid growth for the company. The new head of growth at Possible is Chang Fu, who previously held the same title
Washington state is home to one of the largest military networks west of the Mississippi, which means a large number of Veterans settle in the Evergreen State after serving. According to the Washington State Department of Veteran Affairs, more than half a million live and work in Washington state, with 285,000 plus calling the Puget Sound
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Cameron Kinloch. (Bulletproof Photo) Nutrition company Bulletproof 360, the maker of Bulletproof Coffee, hired Cameron Kinloch as chief financial officer. The move comes as Bulletproof gears up for a massive expansion that will bring its food and beverage line to more than 20,000 new stores across the U.S. Kinloch was most recently SVP of finance
Moz CEO Sarah Bird. (Moz Photo) Moz is making its largest acquisition to date as the Seattle search engine optimization company aims to tackle what CEO Sarah Bird calls the “golden age of search.” Moz today announced the acquisition of STAT Search Analytics, a Vancouver, B.C.-based startup that is similar to Moz but specializes in
