Nooks CTO and co-founder Nikhil Cheerla. (Nooks Photo) Nooks is nestling into Seattle. The San Francisco-based startup, which builds AI software for sales teams, is expanding its engineering footprint in Seattle — growing from zero to six engineers recently and hiring for more platform and...
Jesse Collins. The two towers near Aberdeen weren’t supposed to be monuments. They were supposed to be engines. Drive west from Olympia and you’ll see the unfinished nuclear plant rising from the evergreen canopy. The project promised clean energy, jobs, and technological prestige. Instead,...
Washington state Sen. Victoria Hunt, a co-sponsor of SB 6346, speaks during a virtual news conference on Monday about how she learned that her name had been fraudulently signed in as “con” over the weekend on a public comment page ahead of a House Committee on Finance hearing on the millionaires...
Inside an Amazon data center. (Amazon Photo / Noah Berger) Amazon on Monday announced a $12 billion data center project in Louisiana in which the company vowed to pay its own way for energy and other infrastructure. The deal highlights the unwritten expectations now placed on tech giants to...
Elevat CEO Adam Livesay. (Elevat Photo) Seattle startup Elevāt has raised $12 million as part of a Series A round to fuel growth of its software aimed at helping industrial companies and equipment makers streamline repairs and reduce downtime. Elevāt CEO Adam Livesay confirmed the new...
Temporal co-founders Maxim Fateev, CTO (left), and Samar Abbas, CEO. (Temporal Photo) Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev have been tackling the same distributed systems problem since their days at Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber. But the AI boom has put the problem “on steroids” as...
The scene inside the 2025 GeekWire Awards at Showbox SoDo in Seattle on Wednesday. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Time is running out to get your nominations in for the 2026 GeekWire Awards. If you want to help us recognize the outstanding tech entrepreneurs, innovators, deal makers and...
Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming, at Microsoft Ignite 2025. (Dan DeLong Photo for Microsoft) “And the thing about games is, if you get good at one game, you can be good at any game. … They’re all hand-eye coordination and observing patterns.” That’s a line from Tomorrow, and...
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 Feb. 15, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, far left, walks around Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a team of troubleshooters working on a helium flow issue with the Space Launch System rocket in the background. (NASA Photo) NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says the...
GeekWire’s Todd Bishop unpacks an Amazon Now delivery that was ordered when the show began, and arrived well before it ended. Amazon promises 30-minute delivery with its new Amazon Now service. We put it to the test — live on the GeekWire Podcast — with help from Michael Levin and Josh Lowitz,...
Amazon Web Services issued an unusual public rebuttal to a Financial Times report about outages. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Seven hours at the top of Techmeme was apparently too much for Amazon to take. The tech giant’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services, issued an unusually pointed...
Asha Sharma and Matt Booty, the new leadership team for Microsoft Gaming. (Microsoft Photo) During Phil Spencer’s tenure as the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, he brought dozens of the games industry’s best developers and most beloved franchises under a single roof. As a result, his successor Asha...
A view of the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System’s call of a ball as it appeared during the Seattle Mariners game on Friday. (Screen grab via Mariners.TV) The Seattle Mariners opened their Spring Training schedule with a win and a loss on Friday, beating the San Diego Padres 7-4 but losing...
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, at the Xbox E3 Briefing at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles in 2019. (Microsoft Photo) Phil Spencer, the Xbox leader who spent 38 years at Microsoft and helped reshape the gaming industry through big acquisitions and a bet on cloud gaming, is retiring...
Karim Meghji, president and CEO of Code.org. (Code.org Photo) — Karim Meghji is taking over the the role of president and CEO at Code.org, the Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit. Meghji, the former CTO at Seattle digital remittance company Remitly, joined Code.org in 2022 to...
A keychain in the Microsoft company store awaits one of the company’s returning commuters. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Remember that return-to-office mandate Microsoft announced last fall? It’s almost here. Monday, Feb. 23 — yes, next week! — will mark the start of the company’s new policy...
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (NASA Photo / Aubrey Gemignani) NASA counted down to T-minus 29 seconds during a smooth rehearsal for a historic launch that could send astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than half a century. The...
Matt Oppenheimer led Remitly for nearly 15 years as co-founder and CEO. He announced this week that he’s moving into the chairman role. (Remitly Photo) Build with intentionality. Lead with authenticity. Prioritize customers over your ego. And focus on the problem you’re solving — with...
The Seattle Seahawks have been officially for sale for a day, but the speculation about who could be the next owner of the team has been in high gear for years. National media personalities are now playing catch-up. “The Rich Eisen Show” on ESPN / Disney+ weighed in Thursday (above) with a...
Seattle-area transit riders will soon be able to tap their physical credit cards or smartphone to pay for fares. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) The ubiquitous tap-to-pay technology now common in grocery stores and coffee shops is coming to Seattle-area buses and trains next week. Starting...
Paul Brainerd at a Brainerd Foundation retreat in Montana. (Brainerd Foundation Photo) In the summer of 1984, Paul Brainerd and four engineers packed into his old Saab and drove south on Interstate 5 from the Seattle area. They had been laid off after Kodak bought their employer, Atex, a company...
TerraClear’s autonomous field robot the TerraScout. (TerraClear Photo) TerraClear’s mission to help farmers map and tackle tough field problems such as rocks and weeds has evolved with the launch of a new machine: an autonomous robot called TerraScout. The startup, based in Issaquah, Wash.,...
Bili House is a hacker house located on the water in Bellevue, Wash. (Photo courtesy of Bili House) A large house overlooking Meydenbauer Bay in Bellevue, Wash., could be the home of the Seattle-region’s next big AI startup. At the very least, it’s a place where ideas are being hatched by tech...
Adronite CEO Edward Rothschild. (Adronite Photo) Seattle startup Adronite raised $5 million in a Series A round led by Gatemore Capital Management, as it looks to expand its AI-powered platform designed to give large organizations visibility into sprawling and complex codebases. The funding...
Remitly CEO Matt Oppenheimer helped launch the company back in 2011, helping grow the firm into a global remittance platform. (Remitly Photo) Remitly co-founder Matt Oppenheimer is stepping down as CEO after nearly 15 years growing the Seattle-based digital remittance company into a profitable,...
Fans gather at Lumen Field on Feb. 11 ahead of a parade through Seattle to celebrate the Seahawks’ Super Bowl victory. (GeekWire Photo / James Cook) A pilot is facing charges after flying a drone into Lumen Field in Seattle during last week’s Seahawks Super Bowl victory celebration — an incident...
Paul Allen is credited with saving the Seahawks for the city of Seattle when he purchased the team in 1997. He was inducted into the team’s Ring of Honor at Lumen Field in October 2019. (GeekWire File Photo) The Seattle Seahawks are officially for sale. A week after parading through the city...
— Brian Piper, a longtime biotech leader, is the new CFO at Seattle-based Sana Biotechnology. Piper was previously CFO at Antares Therapeutics, Scorpion Therapeutics, and Prelude Therapeutics. Piper was also given an executive vice president title at Sana, a cell and gene therapy...
Griptape CEO and co-founder Kyle Roche. (LinkedIn Photo) Griptape, a Seattle-based startup founded in 2023 by former Amazon Web Services executives, has been acquired by Foundry, a London-based company whose software is used in visual effects and animation across Hollywood. Terms of the deal...
The Seattle skyline looking north from Lumen Field, which will play host to FIFA World Cup matches. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Airbnb is incentivizing people to open up their homes this summer to FIFA World Cup visitors, offering $750 to new hosts in Seattle and other cities hosting...
Duckbill co-founders Corey Quinn, left, and CEO Mike Julian. (Duckbill Photo) “We’ve raised a pile of money, and we’re building a product.” That’s the characteristically deadpan announcement Wednesday morning from Corey Quinn, the cloud cost consultant who has built a second career,...
Cloud computing and AI can come into play in advanced manufacturing and shipbuilding for the U.S. military. (NIWC Pacific Illustration) Amazon Web Services has launched two credit programs worth up to $100 million to help federal agencies leverage AWS cloud services and generative AI...
The waterfront view from Binti’s new Seattle office overlooking Lake Union and the Aurora Bridge. (Binti Photo) Binti, a San Francisco-based startup that develops software tools for child welfare agencies, opened a new office on Seattle’s Lake Union. In the shadow of the Aurora Bridge...
Legata CEO Alesia Pinney. (Legata Photo) After a decade helping Avalara scale its tax software business, Alesia Pinney is taking aim at a different kind of tax headache. Pinney is CEO and co-founder of Legata, a Seattle-area startup helping affluent households create estate plans. She...