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Picnic raises $4.2M as the Seattle food automation startup attracts more interest in its pizza robot geekwire.com/2021/picnic-rai… via @GeekWire

Pizza brands show interest in robotic pizza maker Picnic as Seattle startup raises more cash

Seattle-based food automation startup Picnic added an additional $4.2 million in funding to a Series A round that previously raised $16.3 million, the

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Core Scientific, which started in Seattle but relocated to Austin, is going public at a $4.3B valuation geekwire.com/2021/core-scien… via @GeekWire

Core Scientific, which started in Seattle but moved HQ to Austin, to go public at a $4.3B valuation

Core Scientific is going public. The blockchain infrastructure company announced that it will merge with a SPAC called Power & Digital Infrastructure

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Qualtrics acquires Seattle marketing software startup Usermind geekwire.com/2021/qualtrics-… via @GeekWire

Qualtrics acquires Seattle marketing software startup Usermind

Experience management software giant Qualtrics has acquired Usermind, a Seattle marketing startup that helps companies acquire, retain, and service

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Testing automation platform Stack Moxie raises cash, leverages startup support networks geekwire.com/2021/testing-au… via @GeekWire

Testing automation platform Stack Moxie raises cash, leverages startup support networks

Newish name, new funding: Stack Moxie, formerly known as Automaton, this spring raised $875,000 in pre-seed funding. The Seattle-based startup is a

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Behind the recycling scenes at Ridwell: Seattle startup growing as fast as piles of plastic and more geekwire.com/2021/behind-rec… via @GeekWire

Behind the recycling scenes at Ridwell: Seattle startup growing as fast as piles of plastic and more

In a warehouse south of downtown Seattle, Ridwell co-founder and CEO Ryan Metzger stands amid the garbage that has turned his 4-year-old startup into a

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E-commerce startup Fabric raises $100M in latest giant funding round for a Seattle startup geekwire.com/2021/e-commerce… via @GeekWire

E-commerce startup Fabric raises $100M in latest giant funding round for a Seattle startup

Another day, another big funding round for a Seattle startup. E-commerce company Fabric just landed a $100 million investment to help retailers sell their

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HaptX raises another $12M for high-tech gloves, relocates HQ back to Seattle geekwire.com/2021/haptx-rais… via @GeekWire

HaptX raises another $12M for high-tech gloves, relocates HQ back to Seattle

HaptX is raising more cash to meet demand for its haptic gloves that help enterprise customers working in virtual reality and robotics. The company just

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Providence-backed Kno2 raises $15M for healthcare communication tech geekwire.com/2021/providence… via @GeekWire

Providence-backed Kno2 raises $15M for healthcare communication tech

Kno2, a Boise, Idaho-based startup developing ways for healthcare systems to communicate with each other, has raised $15 million in new funding. The

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Limeade buying TINYPulse for $8.8M, combining Seattle-area workplace tech companies geekwire.com/2021/limeade-bu… via @GeekWire

Limeade buying TINYPulse for $8.8M, combining Seattle-area workplace tech companies

Updated at 6 p.m. with details from interview with Limeade CEO Henry Albrecht.  Employee well-being technology company Limeade has agreed to acquire

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Eliem Therapeutics files for IPO as another Seattle-area biotech firm set to go public geekwire.com/2021/eliem-ther… via @GeekWire

Eliem Therapeutics files for IPO as another Seattle-area biotech firm set to go public

Eliem Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech company generating therapies for pain, depression and other nervous-system related conditions, has filed to

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DreamBox will acquire Reading Plus as ed-tech startup expands beyond math geekwire.com/2021/dreambox-w… via @GeekWire

DreamBox will acquire Reading Plus as ed-tech startup expands beyond math

DreamBox Learning is expanding beyond its flagship math education software platform. The Bellevue, Wash.-based startup announced the acquisition of

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Visualping raises $6M to bolster services targeting businesses using its web monitoring tools geekwire.com/2021/visualping… via @GeekWire

Visualping raises $6M to bolster services targeting businesses using its web monitoring tools

New funding: Web monitoring service Visualping has raised a second $6 million seed round. In March, the startup raised $2 million. Total funding for the

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This startup aims to improve workplace conversations with ’empathy-as-a-service’ software geekwire.com/2021/startup-ai… via @GeekWire

This startup aims to improve workplace conversations with ’empathy-as-a-service’ software

Most of us have had the experience of sending a text or email that came across sounding insensitive or angry, even though that wasn’t our intent.

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How this Seattle entrepreneur went from running a food truck to leading a fast-growing crypto startup geekwire.com/2021/seattle-en… via @GeekWire

How this Seattle entrepreneur went from running a food truck to leading a fast-growing crypto...

More than a year after shutting down his popular Korean-Mexican food truck and catering business Bomba Fusion, Seattle entrepreneur Simon Yu checked in

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Give InKind, which aims to make giving easier, lands more funding to expand healthcare partnerships geekwire.com/2021/give-inkin… via @GeekWire

Give InKind, which aims to make giving easier, lands more funding to expand healthcare partnerships

Social giving startup Give InKind has raised another $500,000 as it inks deals with hospitals and healthcare systems. The Tacoma, Wash.-based startup

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Couple finally catches a surf break in dream to bring man-made wave facility to Seattle area geekwire.com/2021/couple-fin… via @GeekWire

Couple finally catches a surf break in dream to bring man-made wave facility to Seattle area

Surfing is not the easiest sport to learn. But getting financial backing, securing land and actually building a man-made, deep-water wave to surf in the

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OceanGate sub makes first dive to Titanic wreck site and captures photos of debris geekwire.com/2021/oceangate-… via @GeekWire

OceanGate sub makes first dive to Titanic wreck site and captures photos of debris

After years of dealing with setbacks, OceanGate has sent a next-generation submersible and its crew down to the wreck site of the Titanic for the first time.

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AI2 spinout MajorBoost uses artificial intelligence to help medical providers deal with insurance calls geekwire.com/2021/ai2-spinou… via @GeekWire

AI2 spinout MajorBoost uses artificial intelligence to help medical providers deal with insurance...

A new health-tech spinout from Seattle's Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies communicate with each

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Tech Moves: Ex-Tableau sales chief Kelly Breslin Wright joins Gong; Slalom expands board; more geekwire.com/2021/tech-moves… via @GeekWire

Tech Moves: Ex-Tableau sales chief Kelly Breslin Wright joins Gong; Slalom expands board; more

— Former Tableau executive Kelly Breslin Wright was named president and COO of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Gong, an AI sales startup. Wright joined Gong's

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Modulus, a cell therapy biotech incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, raises $3.5M geekwire.com/2021/modulus-ce… via @GeekWire

Modulus, a cell therapy biotech incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, raises $3.5M

Modulus Therapeutics, a Seattle-based cellular therapy company spun out of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI2), announced $3.5 million in

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