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Startup Spotlight: Tech consultant returns to the farm with Reroot, connecting growers with consumers

After two decades consulting for the likes of Microsoft and Boeing, Genevieve Priebe took over her family's farm, ran the numbers, and found that growing food doesn't pay. Her bootstrapped startup, Reroot, aims to help solve the problem with features including a marketplace and app for buying food directly from local producers. Read More

BuyWander moves HQ from Spokane to Seattle area as retail-returns startup grows team to 325 people

BuyWander, the Spokane-born retail returns marketplace, has moved its headquarters to the Seattle area and grown to 325 employees as it expands nationally, adding four executives including two former Amazon leaders. Read More

Adaptive Biotech co-founder raises $15M for new startup to rethink how AI trains on science

Harlan Robins spent years as the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, helping build massive datasets to decode the human immune system. Read More

Go inside Endurance Energy, the Seattle startup tapping underwater volcanoes for geothermal power

Endurance Energy is running full-tilt in its cavernous new Seattle facility as it prepares to deploy a 100-kilowatt generator to an oceanic volcano off the coast of Oregon. The company is betting that the technology can one day electrify entire cities. We got a look inside. Read More

Tech Moves: AWS government tech VP departs; Funko, Coinme and DAT Freight add to C-suite

Dave Levy, VP of AWS Worldwide Public Sector, left Amazon for a reported role at Google; Funko, Coinme and DAT Freight added to their C-suites; Membrion names VP; and more personnel changes. Read More

InduPro raises $77M, begins first human trial of cancer drug

Seattle biotech InduPro has raised $77 million and dosed its first patient in a Phase 1 trial of an experimental cancer drug, as the company advances its novel approach to targeting tumor cells. Read More

Startup Spotlight: ScopeSys gives drugmakers a closer look inside genomic medicines

Developing the next generation of RNA- and DNA-based medicines requires a level of precision that many existing research tools can't provide. Vancouver, B.C.-based startup ScopeSys aims to change that. Read More

Lev, the PSL spinout building an ‘AI co-founder’ for startups, names tech vet Jay Bartot as CTO

Jay Bartot has spent most of his career building startups and advising other founders. Now he's joining another veteran entrepreneur in a bet that technology can do a lot of that work. Read More

Seattle’s Overland AI opens Bay Area outpost, flipping the regional tech talent script

The autonomous ground vehicle maker announced Wednesday that it's opening an office in Burlingame, Calif., to tap into what it calls a world-leading AI and robotics talent pool in the Bay Area. Read More

This former Amazon exec is moving his startup’s HQ to Texas, and he has a few notes for Seattle

Auger will keep and grow its 115-person engineering office in Bellevue, but co-founder and CEO Dave Clark has relocated the supply chain startup's headquarters to North Dallas. He explains the decision, and assesses the business climate in the region he's leaving. Read More