This Seattle startup aims to simplify investing in single-family rental properties

The Havium team from left: Co-founder and CEO Jamie Nacht, co-founder Cristin Nacht, and technical co-founder Arash Motamedi. Charlie, a flat-coated retriever, is sitting in the front….

NFTs, Metaverse, Web3, and new realities of startup investing, with Founders Co-op’s Aviel Ginzburg

Founders’ Co-op Common Accomplice Aviel Ginzburg. (Founders’ Co-op Picture) A lot of what occurs within the startup world comes from serendipitous moments, random interactions that result in…

Why it might be easier for tech startups to recruit in a downturn

Venture capital firm Graham & Walker hosted a startup event at the Amazon Spheres in Seattle on Thursday. Panel from left: Bloomberg tech editor Anne VanderMey; Tina…

Microsoft’s Candy Crush: Madrona’s Hope Cochran, former King CFO, on $68.7B Activision deal

Madrona Managing Director Hope Cochran speaks at the GeekWire Summit in 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Why would Microsoft pay $68.7 billion for video-game giant Activision…

Seattle wearable tech startup, backed by NFL star and Heisman Trophy winner, raises $6M

(Strive Image) Strive, which makes wearable tech for athletes, raised $6 million as part of a Series A funding round.  The Seattle startup aims to help athletes…

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…

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…

Buyers wanted: Exit opportunities for venture-backed startups sharply decline amid downturn

(Bigstock Photo) It’s getting harder for an early-stage company to find a buyer.  The exit value for U.S. venture capital-backed startups in the second quarter was the…

GeekWire 200 update: Check out which Pacific Northwest startups are moving up the rankings

The top ten GeekWire 200 startups at the end of 2021 and in the third quarter of 2022. The latest update to the GeekWire 200 rankings shows…

Phaidra, which sells AI tech to industrial customers, raises $25M from DeepMind co-founder, others

From left: CTO Vedavyas Panneershelvam, CEO Jim Gao, and COO Katherine Hoffman. (Phaidra Photo) Phaidra, a startup building artificial intelligence tools for industrial customers ranging from vaccine…