The sun may be riding that snooze button and rising later each day, but venture capital funding continued apace in Seattle this August. Here are Puget Sound's five largest funding rounds for August.
To enhance your Labor Day weekend break, we’ve assembled six longer tech-related stories from writers and publications we respect. There’s a little of everything here, and while we can’t guarantee that the following list is completely Musk-free, we promise you’ll learn a little — perhaps quite a lot — from each one.
We talked to new hires at a handful of Seattle tech companies from a range of teams and industries about how they were made to feel welcome throughout their first day, week and month in their new role.
More and more organizations are popping up to identify potential software engineers, developers and data scientists who don't have college degrees, equip them with the necessary skills and funnel them to companies who need them. Here are five Seattle-area organizations helping to educate tomorrow’s tech workforce.
Next time a HR rep starts talking about 401(k) matching, resist the urge to yawn and listen up — because they're basically talking about a pay raise. Here are five Seattle-based tech companies who match some portion of their employees’ 401(k) contributions.
The power grid is around a century old, and a combination of huge inertia-bound energy companies, complex regulation and margin-raising middlemen have created an industry that is cumbersome and ill-equipped to cut emissions. In other words: it’s well overdue for disruption by these Seattle energy tech companies.
The founders assembled here walk a trail blazed by the likes of Moz co-founder Gillian Muessig, Smartsheet co-founder Maria Colacurcio and PicMonkey co-founder Lisa Conquergood. In doing so, they widen the path for those who will come after them.
In 2013, Seattleites Fran Dunaway and Naomi Gonzalez co-founded TomboyX, an underwear e-commerce company catering to consumers who don’t fit those traditional definitions of gender, as well as a broad spectrum of body shapes and sizes. Today the company announced it had raised a $4.3 million Series A.
