Developer bootcamp Coding Dojo lands $10M to train more software engineers

Richard Wang, CEO and co-founder of Coding Dojo. (Coding Dojo Photo) Coding Dojo secured $10 million to boost its computer programming bootcamp.  The Bellevue, Wash.-based organization trains…

Startup funding cooldown: Here are the stats for Seattle and the Pacific NW for the first half of 2022

Tech startups in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest raised less than $4 billion in funding in the first half of 2022, down 20% from more than $5…

Supple steaks and tasty veggies: Xerox PARC spinout keeps food fresh at freezing temperatures

EverCase cases. (EverCase Images) A new startup aims to change how food is preserved and stored, using tech that keeps meat, fish and produce flavorful at subzero…

Advantage, bootstrappers: Why avoiding VC funding is helping this Seattle startup amid a downturn

Brett Goodwin. Startups that didn’t raise cash from venture capitalists in recent years might be in a better position to control their future with a potential recession…

Flexe is Seattle’s newest unicorn: Warehousing startup lands $119M, reaches $1B valuation

(Flexe Photo) The news: Flexe is the latest to join Seattle’s unicorn club. The 9-year-old company just raised a $119 million Series D round to push its…

Four fintech startups join incubator run by Seattle-area credit union and Univ. of Washington

(CoMotion Photo) Four startups outside the Pacific Northwest won the fourth annual BECU Fintech Incubator Competition. The incubator supports fintech startups and is a collaboration that combines…

Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft economist joins DOJ antitrust team; AWS director lands at StackOverflow

Susan Athey. (Christopher Michel Photo / Wikimedia Commons) — Stanford professor Susan Athey, a former consulting chief economist at Microsoft, will join the U.S. Department of Justice…

National and regional VC numbers show Seattle faring better than the rest of the country … so far

National VC investing trends, from a preliminary PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report Thursday. Venture capital investments in the U.S. declined more than 23% to $62 billion in the…

Seattle startup raises $14M to fuel ambitious plan for a social network built on the blockchain

Peer leaders, from left: COO Heath Abbate; CEO and founder Tony K. Tran; Chief Design Officer Kyle Hay; Chief Science Officer Thomas Nguyen. (Peer Photo) Metaverse. Web3….

Q&A with former NFL star Doug Baldwin about his new role as CEO of a Seattle healthcare startup

Doug Baldwin at the 2019 GeekWire Summit 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Since retiring from the NFL in 2019, former Seattle Seahawks star Doug Baldwin has…