Satya Nadella & Co. report quarterly earnings under a new financial structure Wednesday. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft’s earnings report Wednesday will come two days after the company offered buyouts to about 60,000 people, roughly a quarter of its employees. The call gives...
Kivo Health co-founders from left: CEO Victor Sadauskas and Chief Technology Officer Vaughn Koch. (Kivo Photos) Seattle-based Kivo Health today announced $10 million in funding to help increase access to its services, which target older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)....
Avante CEO Rohan D’Souza in a video announcing his startup’s new funding. (Avante via LinkedIn) Avante, the maker of an AI platform to help companies manage employee health care and other benefits, has landed a $30 million Series A round. Frist Cressey Ventures led the round, with...
Part of the Emerald Nuclear team, from left: Erlend Haugsbø, head of engineering and testing; Hallgeir Juliebø, co-founder and chief commercial officer; and Wesley Deason, co-founder and CEO. (Emerald Nuclear Photo) Emerald Nuclear today announced a $2.1 million award from The Research Council...
Chris Jones, director of Seller Assistant at Amazon, left, and Eric Burns of Anthropic’s Applied AI team on stage at Amazon Accelerate in Seattle in September. Anthropic’s IPO filing shows Google getting a bigger share of the AI company’s computing spending than Amazon, one of its largest...
A protester interrupts a panel on AI and economic growth at Seattle AI Week at AI House on Monday, as a security guard approaches from across the room, and moderator Randa Minkarah of WTIA tries to regain control of the session. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The Washington Technology Industry...
Stoke Space’s existing Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida. (Stoke Space Photo) Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space has secured a conditional commitment for a $150 million loan from the Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital to build a second launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a larger...
Entire CEO Thomas Dohmke, speaking last month at Madrona’s IA40 Summit in Seattle, says AI agents have made code review a much bigger bottleneck for developers. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) A startup led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is introducing its own platform for storing, reviewing...
Microsoft’s new buyout offer comes six months after its first-ever voluntary retirement program. (Photo by Dasharath Sunar on Unsplash) Microsoft is making a new buyout offer to a much broader group of employees, this time including some executives — signaling that it’s not done shrinking its...
Seattle Children’s researchers. (Seattle Children’s Photo) Seattle Children’s is announcing today the launch of its Institute for Pediatric Innovation, a $10 million initiative with eight focus areas and a chief innovation officer yet to be named. The hospital is positioning the institute as the...
T-Mobile’s new T-Mix plans let customers spend “Picks” on perks or a new phone. (Photo by appshunter.io on Unsplash) T-Mobile is introducing new wireless plans that change how customers get perks and phone deals, giving them a set number of “Picks” to spend on a new phone or an expanded menu of...
AI-generated images from 2026 political ads targeting James Talarico, Mike Mazzei, Peggy Flanagan, Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani. (NRSC; Make Oklahoma Great Again PAC via Oklahoma PBS; North Star Dawn PAC via KSTP; Blakeman for Governor) The midterm elections are around the corner, 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 Oct. 18, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft’s longtime communications chief, in the GeekWire studio. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The name Frank X. Shaw isn’t as well known outside the company as those of Microsoft’s other senior leaders, and that’s the nature of the job. But behind the scenes, the company’s...
GeekWire File Photo Two former Amazon real estate managers acknowledged receiving personal payments tied to data center deals they handled for the company, under a settlement that resolves the company’s claims against them in a six-year lawsuit. Carl Nelson and Casey Kirschner “regret their...
Posters from Microsoft Garage science fairs and hack events, many funded by the Microsoft groups that hosted them, as seen in 2016. (Photo courtesy of Quinn Hawkins) I saw the news via GeekWire that after 17 years, the Microsoft Garage, which I co-founded, is coming to an...
PNNL Director Deb Gracio, third from left, at a groundbreaking for the Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability in Richland, Wash. (PNNL Photo / Eric Francavilla) A first-of-its-kind autonomous research facility is taking shape in central Washington that will provide free access to scientists...
Katherine Sizov, CEO and co-founder of Strella, was recognized as a 30 Under 30 leader by Forbes. (Photo courtesy of Sizov) Seattle-based ag-tech startup Strella has landed $4.25 million to expand the reach of its technology that monitors produce to prevent spoilage and food waste. The...
From left: HumanTronik co-founder Kabir Narang, CloudMoyo co-founder and CEO Manish Kedia and fellow HumanTronik co-founder Monish Darda. HumanTronik, an AI startup co-founded by Icertis co-founder Monish Darda, has acquired CloudMoyo, the Bellevue tech services firm that Darda helped spin out...
Aigen’s autonomous, solar-powered robot Element. (Aigen Photo) For years, Aigen has been building and tweaking solar-powered robots designed to pull weeds on farms. But the Redmond, Wash., startup is also raising a crop of its own: a growing, AI-generated collection of digital weeds and plants...
Two of Loomerang’s co-founders: Vijay Roy, left, and Matt Koyama. (Loomerang Photo) Loomerang made its first sale less than 12 hours after it went live in June. A customer in Houston bought a shirt designed by Joe, an independent artist in Japan. Four months later, the Seattle-based...
Helion’s Orion fusion plant is under construction in Malaga, Wash., with plans to start operating the facility in 2028. (Helion Photo) Helion Energy, the Everett, Wash., startup racing to build the world’s first fusion plant, is expanding its semiconductor development and manufacturing efforts....
Watchtower Labs co-founders, from left, Souren Aghajanyan, John Morman, and Akhil Iyer. (Watchtower Labs Photo) Watchtower Labs, a Bellevue, Wash.-based defense tech startup, emerged from stealth Wednesday with $35 million to build AI software that helps military planners make faster decisions...
Elizabeth Kimber. (LinkedIn Photo) — Kymeta has appointed former CIA Deputy Director Elizabeth Kimber as chief growth officer. Kymeta, a Redmond, Wash.-based mobile satellite communications company, is working to increase sales with the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and...
Stripe co-founder and President John Collison has been nominated to join Microsoft’s board of directors. (Stripe Photo) When Stripe co-founder John Collison interviewed Satya Nadella on his company’s podcast last fall, he asked the Microsoft CEO for advice on building a platform business....
Endurance Energy prepping to test its geothermal system off the coast of Oregon. (Endurance Photo via LinkedIn) Endurance Energy says its prototype marine geothermal power system generated more electricity than it consumed during a recent deployment 300 miles off the Oregon coast — though the...
Portal Space Systems’ Starburst-1 spacecraft is shown in orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket prior to deployment. (SpaceX Webcast Image) Portal Space Systems has reached Earth orbit for the second time this year, successfully launching the startup’s first free-flying spacecraft, Starburst-1,...
Structural models of two enzymes created using models developed at the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design. (IPD Image / Benedicte Rossi) The UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design (IPD) today released a new open-source model for creating proteins with specific functions, called...
Alaska Air Group is a proponent of sustainable aviation fuel as the most affordable and practical near-term solution for cutting the sector’s climate impacts given that it can be used in existing aircraft. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Subscribe to Positive Charge: Apple Podcasts,...
The Paul G. Allen Center on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, home to the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, which a university task force has recommended separating from the College of Engineering. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) University of Washington leaders are...
Charles Fitzgerald at an abandoned Westinghouse light bulb and fixture factory in Cleveland. (GeekWire Photo / John Cook) Editor’s note: GeekWire has been examining the economic challenges facing Seattle and the lessons the region can learn from Cleveland’s industrial decline and ongoing...
Employees work on a soldering project during a workshop in a Microsoft Garage space. Microsoft is winding down The Garage as a companywide program, and some spaces could be restricted as early as this week. (Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is winding down The Garage as a companywide program, ending a...
Reliable’s automated Cessna 208B Grand Cavan conducts autonomous operations in Mojave, Calif. (Reliable Robotics Photo) Aviation startup Reliable Robotics is opening a new engineering hub in the Seattle area, establishing a radar research and development center in Bothell. The Mountain View,...
Amazon’s holiday hiring plans for its operations network are the biggest in its history. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon says it plans to hire more than 300,000 people for seasonal, part-time and full-time roles across its U.S. operations this holiday season, an increase of 20% from...
Rosie COO Karthika Shankar, left, and CEO Mitra Raman started out doing the work themselves — watching kids, folding laundry and organizing garages for the company’s first customers — learning and building the business as they went. (Rosie Photo) Mitra Raman was making dinner one night, watching...