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Electric Era’s new EV charging devices use AI to chat, answer questions and tell jokes
October 15, 2025
Electric Era released its new interactive EV chargers, called RetailEdge. (Electric Era Photo) Seattle startup Electric Era today unveiled a sleek, interactive EV charging device that uses artificial intelligence to converse with drivers as they’re juicing up their vehicles. The company...
F5 discloses major security breach linked to nation-state hackers
October 15, 2025
The F5 Tower in downtown Seattle. (F5 Photo) Cybersecurity and networking company F5 disclosed that a “highly sophisticated” nation-state threat actor infiltrated its internal systems this summer, stealing portions of the company’s BIG-IP source code and details about software...
Seattle Mariners social media success driven by ‘group chat’ vibe and prepping for the unpredictable
October 15, 2025
Images from the Seattle Mariners Instagram account, capturing the hype, viral moments, personalities and action on the field as the team makes a run in the Major League Baseball Playoffs this month. (@mariners via Instagram) There’s no better time to check the social media accounts of your...
Seattle startup led by brothers launches AI platform that lets workers query company data
October 15, 2025
From left: Maxwell and Connor Folley, co-founders of Alkemi. (Alkemi Photo) Seattle entrepreneur Connor Folley has teamed up with his brother Maxwell Folley to build out Alkemi, an AI platform that aims to let employees query their organization’s data in plain English — without technical skills...
LinkedIn’s list of top 50 U.S. startups includes three emerging companies from Seattle area
October 15, 2025
From left: Logos on LinkedIn for Seattle-area startups Chainguard, Common Room and Truveta. (Images via LinkedIn) LinkedIn released its annual list of the top 50 startups in the U.S. on Wednesday, and three Seattle-area companies made the cut. No. 18, Chainguard: The cybersecurity company...
New frontier for Seattle startups: Space, fusion, and battery companies buoy region’s VC activity
October 14, 2025
Left: Inside Group14’s manufacturing factory in Woodinville, Wash. Top right: An artist’s conception shows the upper stage of Stoke Space’s Nova rocket in orbit. Bottom right: Foundation work being done at the Helion Energy reactor site in Central Washington. (Photos via Group14, Stoke Space, and...
Tech Moves: Microsoft taps former British PM as advisor; Airtable hires OpenAI leader as new CTO; Oumi adds exec
October 14, 2025
Airtable CEO Howie Liu, left, and CTO David Azose. (Airtable Photo) — Seattle area tech executive David Azose is now chief technology officer for San Francisco’s Airtable. Azose joins the database and workflow automation company from OpenAI, where he was head of engineering for ChatGPT’s...
Seattle recruiting tech startup Humanly acquires 3 companies to expand AI hiring platform
October 14, 2025
Prem Kumar, CEO of Humanly, during an episode of the GeekWire series “Elevator Pitch.” in 2022. (GeekWire File Photo) Seattle-based startup Humanly is buying three recruiting technology companies — Sprockets, Qualifi, and HourWork — as it aims to build a comprehensive hiring platform that...
Co-working company Kiln opening first Washington state location in tech-heavy Seattle neighborhood
October 13, 2025
A Kiln co-working space in Gilbert, Ariz. (Kiln Photo) Kiln, a co-working and flex-office community with locations in multiple western U.S. states, is opening its first space in Washington state next year. The company confirmed a new lease of 32,276 feet in Seattle’s Fremont Lake Union Center...
Civic leaders pitch ambitious Seattle-Tacoma electric ferry plan as World Cup deadline looms
October 13, 2025
The Artemis EF-12 Escape on the water near San Francisco. (Artemis Photo) A pilot electric ferry service between Seattle and nearby Tacoma could debut next summer to serve the surge of World Cup tourists expected in the region — but questions about funding, ferry terminal locations and total...
Column: Why headlines about AI displacing jobs don’t match reality
October 13, 2025
(BigStock Image) There are two narratives unfolding in the press, in VC/founder circles, and in the boardroom. One is about AI automation and job displacement. The other is about layoffs, hiring freezes, and a shortage of entry-level positions. As expected, we assume these are intertwined....
Slalom vet Gretchen Peri joins WaTech to modernize how Washington state serves residents
October 13, 2025
Gretchen Peri. (WaTech Photo) Gretchen Peri has been involved in helping governments around the world find better ways to use technology for more than two decades. For the last 14 years, she led the Global Public & Social Impact practice at Slalom Consulting. She is now bringing her...
Seattle vs. Toronto: As Mariners and Blue Jays battle on the field, which city has the better tech hub?
October 12, 2025
Both Toronto and Seattle have futuristic landmarks that define their skylines: CN Tower in Toronto (left) and the Space Needle in Seattle. (GeekWire Photos) Seattle and Toronto are squaring off on the baseball diamond this week in the American League Championship Series. But how do the two...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 5, 2025
October 12, 2025
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 5, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
‘Seis the moment’: Earthquake monitors measure shaking during Mariners’ epic playoff win in Seattle
October 11, 2025
A “Good Vibes Meter” shows the decibel levels inside T-Mobile Park during Game 5 of the American League Division Series in Seattle. Scientists from the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network were also measuring seismic energy during the Mariners’ 3-2 win over Detroit. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor...
Vibe-coding a new reality: Chris Pirillo on the rise of AI-powered apps, features, and founders
October 11, 2025
Next on Chris Pirillo’s vibe coding to-do list: fixing the Millennium Falcon’s hyperdrive. (Photo courtesy Chris Pirillo) What if you could build a fully functional app just by describing what you want it to do? That’s the power of vibe coding, using AI to turn plain language into software,...
Neil Young plans to pull his music off Amazon as he calls out Jeff Bezos for supporting Trump
October 10, 2025
The landing page for Neil Young’s music archive on Amazon Music. (Amazon Music screen grab) Neil Young is encouraging his listeners to reject “big corporations who have sold out America” and instead “buy local” as he announced plans this week to remove his music from Amazon. In a post on the...
Between hype and hope: Seattle biotech leaders size up AI’s real impact on drug development
October 10, 2025
Seattle biotech and AI panel at a one-day conference Oct. 8, 2025. From left: Alex Federation, Talus Bioscience; Erik Procko, Cyrus Biotechnology; Marc Lajoie, Outpace Bio; Jamie Lazarovits, Archon Biosciences; and Chris Picardo, Madrona. (Life Science Washington Photo) Dozens of Seattle biotech...
Trevor Noah says AI-powered video generators like OpenAI’s Sora could be ‘disastrous’
October 10, 2025
Comedian Trevor Noah (left) interviews Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi at an event on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash., Thursday to launch the company’s new Microsoft Elevate Washington initiative for AI and education. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Trevor Noah is worried about where things are...
Seattle Space Week offers tips for starry-eyed entrepreneurs — and a sneak peek at a hypersonic Jet Gun
October 10, 2025
Wave Motion co-founders James Penna and Finn van Donkelaar show off their company’s Jet Gun prototype and test projectiles in the back of a box truck parked at Seattle’s Pioneer Square. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Most weeklong tech events have opportunities for entrepreneurs to make contacts...
From quantum fields to city streets: 20-year-old UW prodigy brings tech chops to the campaign trail
October 10, 2025
Vivek Prakriya is running for a seat on the Redmond (Wash.) City Council at age 20. (Photo courtesy of Vivek Prakriya) Vivek Prakriya‘s academic research has explored the intersection of machine learning and quantum field theory, including work that used AI to identify subatomic...
Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning
October 09, 2025
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at the company’s headquarters campus on Thursday to unveil a new initiative to provide AI software to educators and students across its home state. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) Microsoft is bringing artificial intelligence to every public...
NewDays raises additional $4.5M for platform that uses generative AI to treat people with dementia
October 09, 2025
NewDays’ co-founders Babak Parviz, left, and Daniel Kelly. (NewDays Photo) NewDays, a Seattle startup using a generative AI therapy to treat people with mild dementia, has added $4.5 million to a recent seed funding round. The company confirmed the raise this week after GeekWire spotted a...
Seattle startup’s FDA-approved, virus-neutralizing mask lands on Amazon
October 09, 2025
Healthcare providers in virus-killing masks from Seattle startup Singletto. (Singletto Photo) Virus-fighting startup Singletto closed a $10 million Series A investment round and is now selling its pathogen-killing face masks on Amazon. The Seattle company was also selected by the U.S. Defense...
Tech Moves: Amazon leaders depart; Starbucks, Acumatica, Yoodli add execs; Seattle Children’s new CEO
October 09, 2025
Denis Mamaril. (LinkedIn Photo) — Denise Mamaril is now Starbucks’ vice president of cybersecurity; governance, risk and compliance; and international. She was previously at Nordstrom for nearly a decade, leaving the role of senior director of security architecture and engineering. “I’m...
Amazon takes on Microsoft and Google in the workplace with new ‘Quick Suite’ business AI platform
October 09, 2025
Amazon Web Services is launching a new artificial intelligence platform for everyday business users, moving further beyond core cloud infrastructure to compete more directly against Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and AI startups. The platform, Amazon Quick Suite, was announced...
Seattle vs. Bellevue: WSJ report spotlights why some tech companies are heading east
October 09, 2025
Inside the main entrance at Sonic, an Amazon office tower in Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Two weeks after detailing why the Seattle economy could face ongoing troubles because of layoffs at tech giants Microsoft and Amazon, The Wall Street Journal is back this week with a...
‘We build shit’: Washington state leans on innovative culture to thrive amid national turmoil
October 09, 2025
From left: A panel discussion at the 20th anniversary event for the Washington State Academy of Sciences included Babak Parviz, CEO at New Days; Elizabeth Cantwell, president at Washington State University; Joe Nguyen, director at the Washington State Dept. of Commerce; and Rui...
Aarden AI emerges from stealth with $4M to help landowners navigate data center, clean energy deals
October 09, 2025
Aarden AI CEO Danan Margason speaks at a Climate Week NYC event in September 2025. (Aarden Photo) Seattle startup Aarden AI is coming out of stealth with $4 million from investors and an AI platform that helps landowners research and navigate deals with developers eager to build data centers,...
Stoke Space raises a whopping $510M to accelerate work on its fully reusable Nova launch system
October 08, 2025
An artist’s conception shows the upper stage of Stoke Space’s Nova rocket in orbit. (Stoke Space Illustration) Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies today revealed that it has raised $510 million in fresh funding to accelerate development of its fully reusable medium-lift Nova...
Fresh off $30M round, Seattle startup Lumen Bioscience adds Microsoft vet Jeff Raikes to board
October 08, 2025
Lumen Bioscience CEO Brian Finrow. (Lumen Bioscience Photo) Seattle-based biotech startup Lumen Bioscience raised a $30 million Series C extension and announced several leadership updates. WestRiver Group led the latest funding round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $186.8...
Amazon Pharmacy introduces kiosks that can quickly dispense medications at the doctor’s office
October 08, 2025
An Amazon Pharmacy kiosk, designed to eliminate separate trips to pick up medication. (Amazon Photo) Amazon is erasing the distance between the doctor’s office and the pharmacy with the introduction of new Amazon Pharmacy kiosks that can quickly dispense medications to patients after a medical...
Seattle tech vets Marco Matos and Kabir Shahani rethink marketing for big brands with new AI startup
October 08, 2025
From left: Allison Light, head of product at Adora; Marco Matos, CEO; and Max Frause, head of customer success. (Adora Photo) Adora, a new Seattle-based marketing technology startup co-founded by former Pinterest executive Marco Matos and serial entrepreneur Kabir Shahani, emerged from stealth...
Seattle startup Membrion raises $20M to deploy industrial wastewater treatment units
October 07, 2025
Membrion founder and CEO Greg Newbloom. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Membrion, a Seattle startup that develops industrial wastewater treatment technology, announced that it raised $20 million in a fresh investment round. The company has raised $40 million since spinning out of the...
Stoke Space reportedly raising another massive round of funding for its Nova rocket program
October 07, 2025
Stoke Space’s booster engine blazes during its first hot-fire test in 2024. (Stoke Space Photo) Update: Stoke Space has raised $510 million in Series D funding to accelerate development of its fully reusable medium-lift rocket. Check out the full story. Previously: Stoke Space, one of the...
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