Amperity co-founders and co-CEOs Kabir Shahani (left) and Derek Slager. (Amperity photo). Amperity is putting its founders back in charge. The Seattle-based customer data startup announced this week that co-founders Derek Slager and Kabir Shahani will serve as co-CEOs, taking over leadership...
Prometheus co-CEOs Vik Bajaj and Jeff Bezos speak with CNBC’s David Faber in San Francisco on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Jeff Bezos has bankrolled his Blue Origin space venture on his own, selling shares of Amazon stock to get the company to orbit and beyond, but others are chipping in for his...
Rows of Lime’s new LimeBike electric bicycles are ready to be deployed in Seattle from the company’s warehouse in Georgetown on Wednesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) As Seattle is set to welcome the world this month for FIFA World Cup matches, the city’s sole micromobility operator is...
Adam Selipsky is now CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure. (GeekWire photo) Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to the world of cloud infrastructure as co-founder and CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched company backed by more than $10 billion. The...
Pipes carrying reclaimed water for cooling at an Amazon Web Services data center. (AWS Photo) Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced that efforts to curb water use at its data centers have made it seven times more water-efficient than the industry average. The company says it’s 75% of the...
SpaceX’s Seattle connection dates back to 2015, when CEO Elon Musk announced at Seattle Center that the company’s satellite operation would be based in the region. “What this represents is the official opening of SpaceX Seattle,” he said at the time. (GeekWire File Photo) SpaceX’s initial public...
Microsoft’s restyled Xbox logo. (Microsoft Image) Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, roughly 100 days into her tenure, delivered a blunt assessment of Microsoft’s gaming business in a memo to employees Wednesday, saying that heavy spending with thin profit margins and declining revenue “cannot continue.”...
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla speaks in Seattle in 2025. (GeekWire File Photo) The list of potential buyers for the Seattle Seahawks is starting to look like an NFL Pro Bowl roster of billionaires, venture capitalists and global business leaders. Billionaire financier Todd Boehly is the...
Alpha School has leased space in this building in Kirkland for its first Seattle-area school. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Alpha School, an AI-driven private school chain that promises to teach kids core academics in two hours a day, plans to open a Seattle-area location in Kirkland this fall...
The beverage tumblers from MiiR, left, and Tesla that are being compared in a lawsuit. (MiiR, Tesla Images, GeekWire Composite Image) MiiR, the Seattle-based maker of drinkware and other accessories, is suing Tesla, alleging the Elon Musk-led company copied its tumbler lid design and...
Bill Gates appeared voluntarily behind closed doors before House Oversight Committee investigators on Wednesday to answer questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, part of a larger turn in his image that has been rippling through the Seattle-area institutions he built and funds. In a...
Brad Smith speaks at a Microsoft Elevate event at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry in 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The interests of Microsoft and graduates rebelling against AI are actually aligned. That was one takeaway for Brad Smith, Microsoft president and vice chair,...
Rivvun co-founders Anand Veerkar, Niranjan Umarane, and Patrick Linton. Photos via Rivvun, composite image by GeekWire Two former executives from enterprise software giant Icertis have teamed up to launch a new Seattle startup aimed at a multi-trillion-dollar corporate headache. Rivvun AI,...
Supporters of a permanent data center ban, including members of Kshama Sawant’s congressional campaign, hold signs reading “Stop the Data Centers & AI Layoffs” during public comment at Tuesday’s Seattle City Council meeting. (Screenshot via Seattle Channel) The city that gave the world cloud...
Carbon Robotics CEO Paul Mikesell talks about his company’s LaserWeeder system with a model of Starfish Space’s Otter Pup spacecraft sitting on the table in the foreground. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Four founders of companies on the tech frontier got together this week at a Seattle...
Jon Scholes, president and CEO of the Downtown Seattle Association, cuts the ceremonial ribbon on an IKE Smart City digital kiosk at First Avenue and Pike Street in Seattle on Tuesday, alongside current and former officials from the city, DSA and Orange Barrel Media. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt...
(BigStock Photo) Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday announced that banning cellphone use in kindergarten through 12th grade throughout the school day will be one of his top priorities when lawmakers convene in January. “More than half of states across the country are moving in one...
The Seattle skyline. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle declined in a new ranking of the best places in the U.S. to attract foreign businesses and investment, drawing fresh concern and criticism in the ongoing debate about the business climate in both the city and Washington...
Francois Ajenstat, Golden Analytics founder and CEO. Golden Analytics, the AI-native analytics startup founded by former Tableau product chief Francois Ajenstat, added $14 million to its seed financing round just two months after emerging from stealth, bringing its total seed funding to $21...
Vivek Sharma, Rob Masson, Tore Hanssen and Calvin Grunewald of ArchAstro (ArchAstro photo) ArchAstro just emerged from stealth with an artificial intelligence network designed to automate complex, cross-company software deployments and integrations. Founded earlier this year by a team of...
Expeditors had previously been expanding its technology staff, according to its financial reports. (Alamy Photo / JHVEPhoto) Updated below with confirmation via a state filing by the company. Expeditors International, the Seattle-area logistics company known for never laying off employees,...
Skylight’s new Shippy AI agent answers a plain-language question about vessels in Seattle’s harbor, showing a breakdown of vessel types alongside a map of the area. (Skylight Image) Skylight, the free ocean-monitoring platform built by Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), launched an AI agent...
The nose of ZeroAvia’s Q400. The company in 2023 announced a partnering with Alaska Airlines to retrofit the aircraft with ZeroAvia’s powertrain. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) ZeroAvia was flying high. After launching in California in 2017, the clean aviation startup was expanding,...
Amazon Leo satellites are folded up in their dispenser, ready for deployment in low Earth orbit. (Amazon Photo) The Federal Communications Commission has freed Amazon from a requirement to deploy the first 1,616 satellites in its Amazon Leo broadband internet constellation by July 30. The...
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit in 2018. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Mark Russinovich writes a lot of LinkedIn posts. Going forward it appears he’ll be formatting the text for those posts in a new tool he built. In a LinkedIn post on Sunday —...
Zillow Group co-founder Rich Barton. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) The man who helped revolutionize how Americans buy and sell homes has a new residence. Seattle entrepreneur Rich Barton, who co-founded Zillow Group in Seattle 20 years ago and remains its co-executive chairman,...
(Nightdive Studios press image) Nightdive Studios, based in Vancouver, Wash., has made its reputation from remasters and re-releases of dozens of out-of-print PC gaming classics. On Sunday, it announced its next project is the 1998 cult classic Thief: The Dark Project. The news came as part...
(Microsoft press image) Microsoft released a new pre-recorded Xbox Showcase on Sunday morning as part of this year’s Summer Game Fest event, which also marked new CEO Asha Sharma’s first big public event since taking over the company’s gaming division. Back in February when Sharma took over...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks onstage at Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco. (Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) Microsoft’s Build conference was a firehose: in-house AI models, agent-first devices, new coding tools, and a Copilot “super app” that got teased but not yet shown. This...
Mia Lewin of TheFounderVC, left, and Yifan Zhang of AI2 Incubator spoke on a panel with Bryan Hale of Anthos Capital, and Tim Porter of Madrona discuss where startups can find a niche at the Technology Alliance Seattle Investor Summit+Showcase in Redmond, moderated by Laura Barr of Orrick,...
Rohan Kumar on the big screen. (LInkedIn Photo) — After 28 years at Microsoft, Rohan Kumar is heading to Salesforce as president and chief platform officer, based out of the San Francisco company’s Bellevue, Wash., offices. The rise of automated AI agents is “reshaping how every company...
The superyacht Launchpad, right, passes in front of the Walla Walla, a Washington State Ferries vessel making the run from Kingston to Edmonds across Puget Sound on Thursday. (Tim Davis Photo / timdavisimages) Give way, Washington State Ferries, Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht has a new port of...
Reid Hoffman speaks at a Tech Alliance event in Seattle in 2017. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder who has served on Microsoft’s board since 2017, will not stand for re-election at the company’s 2026 annual meeting, ending a board tenure that coincided...
Not on the list: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s GPUs. (AI-Generated Image by Google Gemini) For my 10th column in the “Etzioni on AI” series, I want to share ten commandments for AI startups, preceded by timeless classics that still apply. They draw on my work with founders at the AI2...