Summer sputtered to life in the Pacific Northwest this June, but the arrival of t-shirt weather didn’t mean the local tech scene took its foot off the gas.
Washington state's cannabis industry is growing up — developing its own customer relationship management platforms, measuring and responding to analytics, even building user-friendly interfaces for consumers and businesses. This is the Built In guide to Seattle cannabis tech companies.
These founders of coffee-related tech startups represent some of the best attributes of entrepreneurship in this city: ingenuity, social and environmental responsibility, support for the plucky underdog and, of course, fantastic coffee.
Seattle's tech boom has not confined itself to the city limits — witness the rise of Bellevue's skyline, and the emergence of a certain son of Redmond that begins with "M" and ends with "icrosoft." So it won’t surprise you to learn that Seattle’s suburbs and satellite cities are full of startups in all shapes and sizes. Here are eight to put on your radar.
Airbnb has opened its large new office in downtown Seattle with space for 300 employees, signaling an intent to recruit heavily in the Pacific Northwest.
Amazon and Microsoft draw top tech talent to the Emerald City in droves. Add in the University of Washington’s famed computer science program — and its yearly crop of highly qualified graduates — and it’s easy to understand why the tech giants jostle for a foothold here.
Seattle is big on healthcare. Take a stroll around South Lake Union, and you’ll pass the who’s who of some of the best research labs and public health nonprofits in the country. Here are six Seattle startups with exciting new innovations in the medical field.
