Qualtrics’ Plano, Texas office. (Qualtrics Photo) Qualtrics is making its largest acquisition ever with a $6.75 billion deal to buy Press Ganey Forsta in a bid boost the company’s experience management platform. Press Ganey Forsta builds software to help companies understand their customers...
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, speaks at Italian Tech Week 2025 in Turin. (Italian Tech Week via YouTube) What’s the next killer app for the final frontier? According to Jeff Bezos, it’s a future fleet of gigawatt data centers, flying in orbit and powered by...
Nobel Prize winners, from left: Mary Brunkow, senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology, Fred Ramsdell, co-founder and chair of Sonoma Biotherapeutic’s scientific advisory board; and David Baker, University of Washington biochemist. (ISB, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, UW...
From top left, clockwise: Simsola CEO Tammy Wang; Rem CEO Jorge Banuelos; CodeChimp CTO Sylviane Zhao; EvolvArts CEO Christopher Lin; and Vergent CEO Andrew Liang. Our latest Startup Radar spotlights Seattle-area companies building software for everything from insurance commissions to...
The Amazon toy delivery van, left, featured in the company’s new holiday gift book for kids. (Amazon, Frank Catalano Photos) Is Amazon priming little kids for future careers as delivery drivers? The new, 92-page Amazon holiday gift catalog features a ride-on delivery van suitable for kids...
Mary Brunkow, senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), left, and Fred Ramsdell, co-founder and chair of Sonoma Biotherapeutic’s scientific advisory board, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. They are based in the Seattle area and share the award with Shimon...
Raj Singh, the Concur co-founder and newly named Smartsheet CEO, speaking at a past Seattle tech event. (GeekWire File Photo) The new CEO of Smartsheet is Rajeev “Raj” Singh. That news elicited a murmur of surprise when it reached the GeekWire newsroom, just as we suspect it might for others...
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 Sept. 28, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A deep dive on the ways that AI and agents are changing how companies are created, built, and operated. We’re on location at Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle with investor and entrepreneur T.A. McCann, managing director at the startup studio and venture...
Boundless CEO Xiao Wang, right, hosted a Seattle Tech Week panel in July 2025. Also pictured are panelists Lisa Wehden of Plymouth and Ankit Dhawan of BluePill AI. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Seattle startup Boundless Immigration laid off an undisclosed number of employees last week,...
Shivaas Gulati is a longtime Seattle entrepreneur and investor. (Whitby-Boot Photography / Southend United) Shivaas Gulati is ready to build his next “big company,” and he’s excited to do it in Seattle. While he’s keeping details close to the vest, the co-founder of digital remittance company...
Luca Cazzanti, a Seattle AI and data professional, shows off his soccer skills during a break from his coaching duties at Ingraham High School in North Seattle. (Jocelyn Leon Photo) Out of Office is a new GeekWire series spotlighting the passions and hobbies that members of the Seattle-area tech...
Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association projects and partners. (PNWH2 Image) The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association (PNWH2), a multi-state hub launched to establish a hydrogen economy, lost $1 billion of federal funding in cuts announced yesterday by the Trump administration. The...
A BrightDrop van being used for Amazon deliveries on Thursday in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Those boxy, white, electric delivery vans you may be seeing on the streets of Seattle are being used to deliver Amazon packages. GeekWire spotted one of General Motors’ BrightDrop vans...
Thallios founder Andy Rebele at Magnuson Park on Lake Washington in Seattle. His grandfather was stationed at nearby Naval Base Sand Point, and Rebele now finds himself heading up a defense tech startup. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Andy Rebele didn’t just drift away from Seattle’s...
Smartsheet, the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software company that went private earlier this year in an $8.4 billion acquisition, has cut jobs amid its leadership transition. A person familiar with the situation told GeekWire that more than 120 employees were impacted. Smartsheet...
Lisa Gurry. (LinkedIn Photo) — Longtime tech leader Lisa Gurry is now chief business officer for GeneDx. Gurry spent more than 23 years at Microsoft before helping launch Seattle health tech startup Truveta as its chief marketing officer in 2020. She later led operations and growth at Truveta,...
Jonathan Pan visits with members of 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment at Joint Base Lewis–McChord south of Tacoma, Wash. (Photo courtesy of Jonathan Pan) [Editor’s note: “Tech Vets: Profiles in Leadership and Innovation,” is a GeekWire series showcasing U.S. military veterans leading...
Jason Kwon, OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, speaks Wednesday at Madrona’s IA Summit in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Apple’s Sherlock killed the third-party Watson search utility for the Mac. Microsoft’s bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows steamrolled Netscape Navigator. And...
(Carbon Robotics Photo) With top-tier tech talent and a deep farming heritage, Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest are emerging as one of the country’s key hubs for agriculture technology. The region sits among the nation’s top five agtech ecosystems, said Erik Benson, managing director...
Justin Ith, left, and Michelle Arenas, co-founders of health tech startup Alpyne Labs. (Alpyne Labs Photo) A new Seattle health tech startup is taking aim at the administrative tasks that are a burden to mental health clinicians and practice owners. Alpyne Labs‘ first product is Juno, an...
Ebb Carbon’s Project Macoma carbon removal demonstration project in Port Angeles, Wash. (Ebb Carbon Photo) Ebb Carbon has launched its marine carbon removal pilot project on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in the city of Port Angeles. The startup uses an electrochemical process to create...
(Photo by Microsoft 365 on Unsplash) Washington’s expansion of retail sales tax to a wide range of services went into effect Wednesday, reshaping how companies across tech, marketing, and nonprofit sectors bill for everything from digital advertising to custom software and IT...
Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s senior vice president and head scientist for artificial general intelligence, left, speaks at the Madrona IA Summit in Seattle with Madrona’s S. “Soma” Somasegar. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon is using its massive collection of internal services and applications as...
This story first appeared on Real Estate News. Five states including Washington are suing Zillow and Redfin over a rental listings agreement the companies reached earlier this year — just one day after the Federal Trade Commission filed its own lawsuit against the home search giants. The...
Temporal CEO Samar Abbas. (LinkedIn Photo) Temporal, a developer tools startup based in Seattle, closed a $105 million secondary transaction led by GIC, pushing its valuation to $2.5 billion. Tiger Global and Index Ventures also participated in the deal. That’s a bump up from its previously...
Phaidra leaders, from left: CTO Vedavyas Panneershelvam, CEO Jim Gao, and COO Katherine Hoffman. (Phaidra Photo) Phaidra, a Seattle startup using artificial intelligence to make data center operations more energy efficient, today announced $50 million in new funding. The company is...
Judson Althoff, a 12-year veteran of Microsoft, was just named CEO of its commercial business under a leadership restructuring designed to free up Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to focus more on the company’s long-term tech ambitions. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella...
Summation co-founders Ramachandran “RC” Ramarathinam (left) and Ian Wong. (Summation Photo) Seattle-area startup Summation has come out of stealth with $35 million in funding from Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins, aiming to transform how executives make high-stakes business decisions. Founded in...
GeekWire Image / Canva / ChatGPT There’s a lot of startup activity in Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest. Some companies are growing rapidly amid the AI boom, while others are cutting costs and navigating challenges. The GeekWire 200, our quarterly ranking of the top privately held...
Brian Bot of the Cancer AI Alliance accepts the award for Health innovation of the Year at the 2025 GeekWire Awards. (Dan DeLong Photo) A consortium of top U.S. cancer centers has developed an AI platform that trains models on clinical data from multiple institutions while protecting patient...
(Amazon Image) Amazon plans to relaunch its cloud gaming platform Luna later this year. The “all-new Luna” has been “redesigned and reimagined” with a focus on living room TVs, as an easy-to-use delivery system for a lineup of party games. Luna will relaunch with a new feature called...
A new stat developed by AWS and the NBA called “Expected Field Goal %” calculates the likelihood of a shot going in based on positioning, pressure, and other variables. (Amazon Image) Amazon is not only streaming NBA games for the first time this season — it’s also aiming to establish a new...
Boundless CEO Xiao Wang, right, speaking with Localyze CEO Hanna Asmussen. (Boundless Photo) Seattle startup Boundless Immigration today announced its acquisition of Localyze, a Berlin-based company that primarily serves people immigrating to countries in Europe. Terms of the deal were not...
An artist’s conception shows the Oasis-1 satellite mapping water ice deposits on the moon. (Blue Origin Illustration) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s working with partners in Luxembourg on a campaign called Project Oasis, which aims to identify and take advantage of valuable...