An artist’s conception shows the Orion spacecraft’s main engine firing during a lunar flyby, surrounded by eight auxiliary engines built by L3Harris’ Aerojet Redmond facility. (NASA Illustration) Lunar missions once felt like the domain of history books rather than current events, but an...
From top left, clockwise: Sheila Gulati, Cameron Borumand, Annie Luchsinger, Chris DeVore, Sabrina Albers (Wu), and Andy Liu. AI has attracted unprecedented levels of capital and attention. And questions are growing about the so-called AI bubble: Are too many startups chasing the same ideas? Are...
Seattle cryptocurrency company Coinme said it reached an agreement with Washington state regulators to pause the temporary cease-and-desist order issued against it last month, clearing the way for the company to resume operations in the state. The Washington State Department of Financial...
Kevin Chow, co-founder, CEO and president of Mitera Biosciences. (Mitera Photo) Mitera Biosciences is taking a cue from one of nature’s most effective biological tricks: how a mother’s body avoids rejecting a fetus. The Bellevue, Wash.-based startup is emerging from stealth with $1.75 million...
The cover of Microsoft’s 1990 annual report, showing Microsoft Word for Windows 3.0, reflected the company’s confidence as Windows was emerging as a true platform. [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series and 2026 event, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the...
Rhizome Research team CEO and co-founder Xhuliano Brace. (Rhizome Photo) Xhuliano Brace quickly realized that venture capitalists weren’t going to write big checks for two under-30 founders pursuing what he describes as a “contrarian” approach to using AI to design new drugs. So he’s making...
Angelina Smith. (LinkedIn Photo) Rad Power Bikes has a new CEO as the Seattle-based electric bike manufacturer navigates Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Angelina “Angy” Smith, who has been chief financial officer at the company since April, assumed the leadership position earlier this...
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Joe Nguyen. (Legislative Support Services Photo) Joe Nguyen is the new president and chief executive officer of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, the organization announced Monday. Less than a week after revealing that he...
Clockwise from top left: Amera CEO Deep Kapur; Clara CEO Melinda Yormick; Oikyo CEO Saptak Sen; and Specbook AI CEO Gordon Hempton. Founders in the Seattle area are busy building software for health insurance, AI model tuning, construction processes, and hospital operations. Our latest...
One of the versions of “It’s a Wonderful Life” on Amazon Prime Video. (Prime Video screen shot) Holiday cheers turned to jeers directed at Amazon last week as some film fans were surprised by a gutted version of the Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” on Prime Video. The 1946 film stars...
A Kirkland, Wash.-based tech company is suing its New York-based acquisition advisor, alleging it was pushed into a $5.2 million acquisition that was supposed to generate $1 million annually but has instead required ongoing cash infusions just to stay afloat. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of...
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 Dec. 21, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
An illustration by ChatGPT based on its interpretation of our year-end GeekWire Podcast discussion. The past year may go down as one of the most consequential in technology history, in both the Seattle tech community and the world. But in some ways, it’s not without precedent. As we sat down...
United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno, shown here at the Space Symposium in 2016, is joining Blue Origin. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Eleven years after United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno partnered with Blue Origin to create a new rocket engine, he’s joining Jeff Bezos’ space venture as the...
Commerce Director Joe Nguyen speaks at the Tech Alliance State of Technology Luncheon in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) This story first appeared in the Washington State Standard. Joe Nguyen is stepping down as director of Washington state’s Department of Commerce and is...
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott has some advice for AI startups waiting for the next breakthrough model: the technology can already do far more than most people are getting out of it, so stop waiting and start building. Also: real customer traction still matters more than online...
Stevens Pass ski resort has been unable to open due to poor weather and road conditions. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Anxious skiers and snowboarders refreshing social media and other websites for updates on Washington’s Stevens Pass have a new tool to track the resort’s delayed...
A fan uses a OneCourt device while watching the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. (Seahawks Photo) The Seattle Seahawks gave blind and low-vision fans a new way to follow game action this season as one of several teams testing a device from Seattle startup OneCourt. OneCourt’s laptop device...
Brinc’s Responder drone launches from its charging station. The Seattle company stands to benefit as new FCC restrictions limit Chinese drone makers. (Brinc Photo) New federal restrictions on foreign-made drones, announced this week, promise to boost Washington state as a hub for domestic drone...
Ambassador CEO Geoff McDonald. (Ambassador Photo) Seattle startup Ambassador raised $7 million to fuel growth of its software that helps companies track and act on customer feedback. Marketing and revenue teams use Ambassador to manage customer referrals, surveys, loyalty programs, email...
Inside Crusoe’s offices in the Key Center building in Bellevue, Wash. (Crusoe Photo) Crusoe, the Denver-based cloud and AI infrastructure company, opened a new office in downtown Bellevue, Wash. The 7,400-square-foot space in the Key Center building at 601 108th Ave. NE is currently home to...
GeekWire File Photo Google parent Alphabet’s $4.75 billion deal to acquire Intersect, a clean energy developer and data center infrastructure company, represents a major exit for a company that was headquartered for many years in the Pacific Northwest. More broadly for the industry, the deal...
Todd Grasser, an Amazon process assistant, using an automated device to package items in paper bags for shipping at a facility in Sumner, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) SUMNER, Wash. — At Amazon’s Packaging Innovation Lab south of Seattle, boxes are dropped from different heights,...
Codified founder and CEO Yatharth Gupta. (LinkedIn Photo) Codified, a Seattle startup that helps companies control who can access their data in AI-driven systems, is “winding down” according to the founder and former CEO. Yatharth Gupta shared the update with GeekWire, but declined to provide...
The University of Washington campus in Seattle. (Photo by James Brooks, via Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0) A divided three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the University of Washington violated a computer science professor’s First Amendment rights when it investigated...
Starcloud’s founders — CEO Philip Johnston, chief technology officer Ezra Feilden and chief engineer Adi Oltean — wear protective gear as they check out the startup’s Starcloud-1 satellite before launch. (Starcloud Photo) After taking one small but historic step for space-based AI, a...
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 Dec. 14, 2025. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
German engineer Michaela Benthaus celebrates after her suborbital space trip. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space. “It was the coolest experience,” said Michaela “Michi”...
Tin Can co-founder and CEO Chet Kittleson. (Tin Can Photo) If you’re looking for an uncommon thinker, how about a tech industry veteran developing and selling landline phones in 2025 — and selling out of them in the process? Chet Kittleson is the co-founder and CEO of Tin Can, a Seattle...
(BigStock Image) Like most tech leaders, I’ve spent the last year swimming in the hype: AI will replace developers. Anyone can build an app with AI. Shipping products should take weeks, not months. The pressure to use AI to rapidly ship products and features is real. I’ve lost track of how...
This summer, Helion Energy broke ground in Eastern Washington on what it hopes could be the world’s first utility-scale fusion plant — but TAE Technologies on Thursday announced plans to begin siting work on what it claims will be the first facility to hit that target. TAE plans to merge with Trump...
Anand Varadarajan will join Starbucks as CTO effective Jan. 19 after a long tenure at Amazon. Starbucks named Amazon exec Anand Varadarajan as its new chief technology officer, tapping a leader with extensive experience in Amazon’s grocery technology and supply chain operations. Varadarajan,...
A screenshot shows how Hydrology Copilot can turn a simple query into an interactive, color-coded map. (Microsoft Infographic) Microsoft and NASA say they’re applying artificial intelligence to a challenge that has become increasingly urgent: how to cope with flooding and other disasters driven...
Amit Mathradas. (LinkedIn Photo) — Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas announced that he’s leaving to take the helm of Five9 beginning on Feb. 2. Mathradas has led Nintex, a Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company, for nearly three years. His previous roles include chief operating officer at...
Redmond (Wash.) Police Chief Darrell Lowe. (Redmond PD Photo via Facebook) In the city that’s home to Microsoft, Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe isn’t just watching technological innovation from the sidelines — he’s integrating it into his department’s daily operations. Lowe, a 30-year law...