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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
(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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
Seattle-area startups raised $2.7 billion in venture funding through the first half of 2026, across 163 deals, down about 40% from $4.5 billion in 210 deals during the same period a year ago. The figures come from the recently released PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report...
The lifelike avatar of President Theodore Roosevelt, which relies on artificial intelligence to answer visitors’ questions, at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, N.D. (Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Photo via Microsoft) “Speak softly and carry a big prompt.”...
(Augmodo Image) Augmodo, the Seattle startup that straps AI-powered cameras onto retail workers to track store shelves, has raised $21 million as it pushes its technology beyond grocery aisles and into warehouses, factories, and other physical workplaces. The new funding, led by existing...
(AI Illustration via Google Gemini) Attitudes towards AI differ by country, gender, profession, age, and political affiliation. A few of those gaps are startling. This article is chock-full of stats. Read it for the surprises, or glance at the bar graph below for a quick overview. Let’s...
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 5, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...