A startup that helps data teams at consumer packaged goods companies (CPG) analyze and visualize their data through an artificial intelligence platform won a Madrona Venture Labs startup formation competition… Read More
Madrona Venture Labs (MVL) announced Wednesday it raised $11 million for its fifth fund, providing fresh fuel for the Seattle startup studio as it continues to double down on developing… Read More
Charmed, a Seattle startup that specializes in creating AI-powered video game development tools, raised $400,000 from Madrona Venture Labs. The funding news comes alongside the recent debut of Charmed’s Texture… Read More
Outbound AI has a prescription for one of the biggest headaches of the medical system: interacting with insurance companies and other payers to process claims. The Seattle startup emerged Tuesday… Read More
Amazon has lost two longtime executives to retirement: Tom Taylor, senior vice president of Amazon Alexa, and Gregg Zehr, president of Lab126, the company’s hardware engineering group best known for… Read More
Stack, a Seattle startup intent on making cryptocurrency and modern finance accessible for Gen Z, took the top prize at Madrona Venture Labs’ recent Launchable event aimed at Web3 startups.… Read More
A new artificial intelligence startup wants to help software development teams capture, store, and query their company data and knowledge. Augmend recently emerged from stealth mode with $2.2 million in… Read More
A new startup wants to make financial analysts more efficient with its chatbot tool that uses artificial intelligence to search publicly available business filings and answer research questions in natural… Read More
The possibilities created by Web3, hailed as the next iteration of the internet, are attracting various early stage companies such as Metastitch, a new Seattle startup led by a former… Read More
How can startups truly differentiate themselves in the new era of AI? We’ve been discussing that question recently on the GeekWire Podcast, and on this episode, we’ll get a first-hand… Read More
From movie recommendations to chatbots, artificial intelligence-powered applications are deeply ingrained in the modern web experience. But building those same features for a so-called Web3 business — such as adding… Read More
Climate tech investors and entrepreneurs met Monday evening in downtown Seattle to network and gather insights from each other. The meetup was among the first events held as part of… Read More
The news: Madrona Venture Labs, the startup studio associated with Madrona Venture Group, has raised $8 million for its fourth fund. The Seattle-based studio also unveiled a new model that… Read More
Misinformation is a big problem. Tech giants including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube — which deleted 500,000 COVID-19 misinformation videos — are under scrutiny for the spread of false content on… Read More
New funding: Zeitworks, a Seattle startup that helps companies improve business operations, has raised an additional $2 million and added a new CEO. New CEO: Longtime Seattle tech veteran Jay Bartot… Read More
— Bellevue, Wash.-based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. She will be responsible for Auth0’s various platforms and oversee the software engineering,… Read More
Muir AI, a Seattle startup providing carbon accounting, has raised a $3.25 million seed round led by Base10 Partners. Existing investors Madrona Venture Labs and Soma Capital also participated in… Read More
Marketing giant Mailchimp has acquired Chatitive, a Seattle startup that helps businesses communicate with customers via text messaging. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but a person familiar with… Read More
— Kate Johnson will become the new CEO of Lumen Technologies, formerly known as CenturyLink. She was also appointed president and will join the board of directors of the 35,000-employee company,… Read More
Corporations worldwide are committing to shrinking their carbon footprints. But it can get complicated when companies try to calculate how much carbon they’re responsible for, and figure out how to… Read More
Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), a nonprofit organization with more than 16,000 members internationally, is partnering with Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group and Madrona Venture Labs in order to expand its… Read More
Outbound AI announced Wednesday $16 million in fresh funding to advance the rollout of its artificial intelligence tools that help healthcare teams interact with insurance companies and automate administrative work during… Read More
A group of longtime Seattle startup leaders are behind a new artificial intelligence platform called Blueprint AI that streamlines task management and facilitates communication within product development teams. The company… Read More
As a venture firm focused on artificial intelligence, Seattle-based Flying Fish looks for untapped areas where generative AI tools have not yet been built. But that’s been a challenge. “The… Read More
Seattle-based Xembly, makers of an artificial intelligence “chief of staff” designed to automate tedious tasks such as meeting notes, scheduling, to-do lists, and more, has raised $15 million in new… Read More
Madrona Venture Labs is churning out startups. The Seattle startup studio created by venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group helps incubate ideas and recruits a leadership team to run the… Read More
Vouched, a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, raised $6.3 million. The funding round was led by BHG VC and SpringRock Ventures as well as prior investors Darrell Cavens and Mark… Read More
