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Grammy-winning artist and entrepreneur Diplo invests in Seattle startup Copper
July 21, 2026
Recording artist, DJ and entrepreneur Diplo invested in Copper. Photo via BusinessWire Seattle’s Copper has landed a high-profile new backer as it looks to accelerate growth of its consumer rewards platform, announcing Tuesday that Grammy-winning artist, DJ and entrepreneur Diplo has invested in...
The little chips that could: How Impinj has survived 26 years in a market that’s ‘just getting going’
July 21, 2026
Impinj co-founder and CEO Chris Diorio, center, and members of the Impinj team at the Nasdaq opening bell ceremony in New York City on Tuesday, marking the 10th anniversary of the company’s IPO. (Nasdaq Photo) Backstage at a Seattle tech event in the early 2000s, Chris Diorio was waiting his...
TerraByte takes its geospatial tracking service to the next level with help from SkyFi and AI
July 21, 2026
An interactive map displays the sites of wildfires, earthquakes and severe weather events, with links to satellite imagery. (Credit: TerraByte) Two months after emerging from stealth mode, TerraByte AI is using artificial intelligence and a new partnership to upgrade its “Earth Search...
Seattle’s Clarify acquires S.F. startup Seam AI, joining forces to challenge CRM stalwarts
July 21, 2026
From left: Clarify CEO Patrick Thompson, Seam AI CEO Nicholas Scavone, and Clarify CTO Ondrej Hrebicek. (Clarify and Seam Photos) Clarify, the Seattle-based AI startup that has raised more than $22 million to take on Salesforce and other CRM incumbents, has made its first acquisition: San...
Next-gen battery startup Sila raises $300M to expand manufacturing plant in Washington state
July 21, 2026
Sila began operations at its Moses Lake, Wash., plant in September. (Sila Photo) Sila, a startup producing next-generation battery materials, on Tuesday announced $300 million in new funding. The company previously raised $1.3 billion and was valued at close to $2 billion two years ago,...
Jimothy keeps on giving: Amazon and others match winning bid for raccoon art, to benefit food bank
July 21, 2026
A painting of Jimothy, the viral raccoon, by Seattle artist Ryan Henry Ward. (@henry_beyond_museums via Instagram) Jimothy isn’t just a viral internet sensation — he’s a cause for good. A painting of the beloved raccoon by Seattle artist Ryan Henry Ward attracted a winning bid of $6,543.21 in...
Protesters confront Microsoft CSO over carbon goals and AI, disrupting climate event
July 20, 2026
Melanie Nakagawa, Microsoft chief sustainability officer, left, speaking with GeekWire reporter Lisa Stiffler at a fireside chat at Seattle City Hall on July 17. (PNW Climate Week / Fer Sagastume Photo) Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa faced a barrage of pointed questions...
Veteran Microsoft security executive joins AWS amid broader reshuffle in Redmond
July 20, 2026
Rudra Mitra will lead Amazon security services in his new role. (LinkedIn Photo) Rudra “Rudy” Mitra, who spent more than 27 years at Microsoft and most recently led its Purview data-security business, is joining Amazon Web Services as vice president of security services. Mitra will oversee an...
UK data center startup Nscale bets big on Bellevue for U.S. engineering hub amid AI boom
July 20, 2026
Nscale’s Nidhi Chappell. Photo via Nscale. Fresh off a $2 billion fundraising and $900 million line of credit, London-based data center startup Nscale is planning a big expansion at a new engineering office in Bellevue, Wash. Nscale, one of the fastest-growing companies building AI computing...
8-bit ‘Jimothy’: Viral sensation raids trash cans, eludes paparazzi in Seattle creator’s video game
July 20, 2026
The “Jimothy” video game features Seattle’s beloved raccoon making his way through assorted challenges. (Image via Chris Pirillo) Jimothy, the short-spined Seattle raccoon, has become a global sensation whose likeness has been immortalized in artwork, clothing, songs and tattoos — and now a...
Etzioni on AI: Uncle Sam wants a stake in leading AI companies — what could possibly go wrong?
July 19, 2026
(Image generated by Google Gemini) Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump agree on almost nothing. But they do agree that the public should own a piece of the AI industry. The Vermont senator and the president disagree on both the structure and stake of public ownership, but the idea is being...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 12, 2026
July 19, 2026
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 July 12, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
AI weapons under scrutiny as activists plan weekend protest at Anduril’s Seattle office
July 18, 2026
Defense giant Anduril is operating its autonomous naval vessel manufacturing facility at the old Foss Shipyard on the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle. Demonstrators plan to protest a different location, Anduril’s downtown Seattle office. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) A coalition of...
Silicon Valley icon Vinod Khosla: What kind of Seahawks owner will he be?
July 18, 2026
Vinod Khosla at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in October 2024. (TechCrunch Photo / Flickr / CC BY 2.0) This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Silicon Valley legend Vinod Khosla’s family is leading a group that’s buying the Seattle Seahawks for a record $9.6 billion. We dug into hours of...
Ditch your smartphone for a flip phone for a month? This group wants Seattleites to try
July 18, 2026
Maggie Hollinbeck and James Wagar are leading the charge on Month Offline Seattle, a move to get people off their smartphones. Seattle helped create the modern smartphone era. Now, nearly 40 people in the heart of one of the world’s biggest technology hubs are voluntarily putting theirs...
Seattle indie hit ‘Stardew Valley’ is coming to ‘Magic: The Gathering’
July 17, 2026
Credits: Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone and Sylvain Sarrailh for Wizards of the Coast. One of the biggest hits ever produced by Seattle’s independent video game scene is joining the Magic: The Gathering multiverse later this month. Sort of. Magic, the long-running collectible card game published...
Icertis CEO is departing; contract management company names CFO and board member interim leaders
July 17, 2026
Anand Subbaraman. (LinkedIn Photo) Anand Subbaraman is departing as CEO of Icertis, the Bellevue, Wash.-based contract management software company said Friday. Chief Financial Officer Rajat Bahri and longtime executive and Icertis board member Jim Moffatt will serve as interim co-CEOs as Icertis...
Departing AWS exec Dave Brown is reportedly joining Meta, as Facebook parent mulls its own cloud
July 17, 2026
Dave Brown, the departing AWS senior vice president, has been a member of its senior leadership team. (Amazon Photo) One of Amazon’s top cloud leaders will be joining Meta as the Facebook parent company considers turning its massive AI buildout into a cloud business of its own. That’s the...
Seattle Sounders FC pay tribute to S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, beloved tech leader and team owner
July 17, 2026
A tribute to venture capitalist S. “Soma” Somasegar before the Sounders FC match. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) The Seattle Sounders paused before Thursday night’s rivalry match against the Portland Timbers to honor one of their own. Before the match at Lumen Field, the club paid tribute to S....
Seattle region’s office market shows signs of life as AI companies bring stability
July 17, 2026
Part of the Seattle skyline as seen from the waterfront. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) For the first time in several years, there are indications that the worst may be over for the Seattle region’s battered office market — and artificial intelligence companies appear to be playing a leading...
Whatnot acquires Madrona-backed AI startup Shaped to boost live shopping recommendations
July 16, 2026
(Image via Shaped) Live-shopping unicorn Whatnot is expanding its AI capabilities with the acquisition of Shaped, a startup that builds real-time recommendation and search technology. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Shaped founder and CEO Tullie Murrell will join Whatnot to...
Tech Moves: Former Amazon exec joins F5; Microsoft security CVP departs; Qualtrics adds leadership
July 16, 2026
Cathy Peterman. (F5 Photo) — F5 named former Amazon executive Cathy Peterman as executive vice president and chief people officer of the Seattle-based application-delivery and security company. In May, F5 celebrated its 30th year in business. “Cathy brings a rare combination of strategic...
Recycler rescues mysterious trove of rare aerospace hardware, and sets out to discover its past
July 16, 2026
Tyler Rivers, founder and CEO of Seattle-area electronics recycler Living Green Technology, examines some of the artifacts he rescued this week, including vintage hybrid microcircuits, left, which showcase the delicate gold-bonded wiring and silicon architectures hidden inside....
The code AI forgot: logcat.ai raises $2.55M to put agents to work on device operating systems
July 16, 2026
Varun Chitre, CEO, left, and Tarun Vashisth, CTO, co-founders of logcat.ai. (logcat.ai Photos) The past two years have transformed the world of software development, but there’s at least one area that remains largely untouched by artificial intelligence: the operating-system layer inside phones,...
AWS EC2 and AI leader Dave Brown to exit, replaced by Amazon exec and Microsoft vet Dave Treadwell
July 15, 2026
Dave Brown, departing AWS executive, in 2023. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) [Update, Friday, July 17: Brown is joining Meta, the WSJ reported. More here.] Dave Brown, who joined Amazon Web Services as one of its earliest EC2 engineers and rose to lead its compute, AI and machine learning...
JPMorgan Chase bets on Seattle to build its AI control layer
July 15, 2026
Lori Beer, JPMorgan Chase’s global chief information officer, at the JPMorganChase Center in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) JPMorgan Chase is building out a new AI software infrastructure team, anchored in Seattle, focused on running AI across its data centers and outside providers in a...
M&Ms, solar panels and plain language: Inside the climate strategy of Slalom’s Meagan Breidert
July 15, 2026
Meagan Breidert, Slalom’s senior director of sustainability and impact, taking a break outdoors. (Photo courtesy of Breidert) While working for PwC in Jamaica early in her career, Meagan Breidert focused on international development clients. There, she learned about a Caribbean-wide initiative...
Startup Spotlight: Hedgehog bets that open-source networking will power the next generation of AI clouds
July 15, 2026
Marc Austin of Hedgehog. As AI workloads drive soaring cloud bills, more companies are weighing whether to move computing out of public clouds and into their own data centers. But building and operating AI infrastructure is far more complicated than simply buying servers — networking has become...
As General Fusion makes historic Nasdaq debut, report shows global funding surged to $4.5B
July 14, 2026
The control room for General Fusion’s Lawson Machine 26. (General Fusion Photo) General Fusion’s stock is trading up after it became the first fusion energy company to go public on a major exchange, debuting Monday on Nasdaq. The launch of GFUZ stock coincided with the release of the Fusion...
Vieu launches AI-ready map of business relationships, challenging tech incumbents
July 14, 2026
Vieu co-founders Simon Skaria (left) and Samir Manjure. (Vieu Photo) Vieu, a Seattle startup aiming to replace cold outreach with warm introductions, launched what it calls the “Business Graph,” a live map of trusted relationships that drive business-to-business sales, marketing, recruiting and...
Apptio co-founders reunite to launch enterprise AI startup Thira with $21M in funding led by Madrona
July 14, 2026
Thira co-founder and executive chairman Sunny Gupta at a 2017 event. (GeekWire File Photo) Sunny Gupta has led two prior enterprise tech companies with backing from venture capital firm Madrona in the past 20 years. iConclude sold to Opsware. Apptio sold to Vista Equity Partners, then to IBM for...
Salesforce’s Tableau renews Fremont office lease, signaling long-term Seattle commitment
July 14, 2026
Tableau’s Data 1 building in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. (Weber Thompson Photo) Salesforce’s Tableau business has renewed its lease for roughly 114,000 square feet at the Data 1 office building in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, extending its long-term home in the city. The lease renewal...
Motorola leads $125M round for Brinc, fueling 911 drone expansion amid U.S. import crackdown
July 14, 2026
The multi-sensor camera array on Brinc’s Guardian drone, which the company says is built to replace police helicopters. (Brinc Photo) Brinc Drones, the Seattle-based maker of 911 response drones, has raised $125 million in a new funding round led by Motorola Solutions, boosting its ambitions to...
Grunge meets slop: An AI time traveler visits 1992 Seattle when music, not tech, ruled the city
July 13, 2026
“Roxy” the AI time-traveling vlogger in front of the famed Crocodile Cafe music venue in what’s supposed to be 1992 Seattle. (@roxyintime via Instagram) The best thing about Seattle’s grunge era is that it existed before the internet could completely spoil it — although the mainstream media, MTV...
Tech Moves: Remitly CMO departs; Temporal names EVP; Veeam and Qualtrics leadership changes
July 13, 2026
Rina Hahn. (LinkedIn Photo) — Rina Hahn has left Seattle’s Remitly as chief marketing officer. Hahn joined the remittance company in 2018 as director of digital marketing and rose to CMO after four years. Before joining Remitly, she was an executive at Blue Nile and Big Fish Games. The...
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