Taylor Soper

The finalists for Innovation of the Year are Alpenglow Biosciences; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; RevealDx; Starcloud; and VerAvanti.

Lamanna's comments at GeekWire's Agents of Transformation event reflect how access to AI models is becoming as fundamental as salary in compensation negotiations.

Another Xbox leader departs; Remitly names a new accounting leader; and more key personnel changes.

Epic is laying off 1,000 employees across the company, or about 20% of its workforce, citing reduced engagement with "Fortnite."

The round closed in April 2025, the company wrote in a blog post. Bluesky previously raised a $15 million Series A round in October 2024.

For this installment in our Agents of Transformation series, GeekWire examined the rising trend of vertical AI agents — tools built to do one job exceptionally well by combining models with domain-specific data, workflows, and context.

There's a new No. 1 atop the GeekWire 200, along with several newcomers and other fast-growing startups moving up the list.

Vantari has officially moved its headquarters to Seattle as it ramps up work with health systems and device makers across North America.

Vantari has officially moved its headquarters to Seattle as it ramps up work with health systems and device makers across North America.

Cove turned single-threaded chats with conversational agents into a visual workspace.

The company lets teams define security policies once and automatically enforce them across platforms like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.