Todd Bishop

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke ‘s startup Entire is rolling out a distributed network for mirroring code repositories, making the case that centralized platforms like he once ran as part of Microsoft will struggle to handle the demands of AI coding agents on their own.

Seattle startup Optimly , which helps brands manage what AI understands and says about them, went into the Flywheel Investment Conference in Wenatchee, Wash., in May as a last-minute entrant, and walked out with a triple crown.

While investors spent much of the spring concerned that frontier AI models from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI would consume the software

Which is worse, sailing your superyacht through the city where your company just made mass job cuts, or getting named to a U.S.

On this week's show, we're on the GeekWire deck for our annual founder open house, where we dig into Microsoft's latest round of layoffs — including a major Xbox shakeup — and the surprising rise of hardware companies on the GeekWire 200.

Vinod Khosla has spent four decades building and funding companies around a single idea: hire the right people and get out of their way.

Seattle-area startups raised $2.7 billion in venture funding through the first half of 2026, across 163 deals, down about 40% from $4.5 billion in 210 deals during the same period a year ago.

Brinc Drones , the Seattle-based maker of 911 response drones, has raised $125 million in a new funding round led by Motorola Solutions , boosting

Sunny Gupta has led two prior enterprise tech companies with backing from venture capital firm Madrona in the past 20 years. iConclude sold to Opsware.

Vieu, a Seattle startup founded by former Microsoft leaders, launched its "Business Graph" — a live map of business relationships built from observed signals like shared work history and board affiliations, rather than the self-reported connections on LinkedIn.