| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.03.2025 | Curinos And University Of Washington Relaunching FinTech Incubator At Startup Hall | Curinos, a global data intelligence business combining expertise, insights, and analytics to help leading financial institutions grow their businesses, announced a new partnership with CoMotion, the collaborative innovation hub at the Unive... |
| 20.08.2024 | New Independent Venture Capital Fund, Pack Ventures, Strengthens Innovation at the University of Washington | SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 20, 2024–
Pack Ventures, an independently run venture capital fund, is collaborating with the University of Washington (UW) to boost innovation and support entrepreneurial ventures emerging from the university... |
| 13.09.2023 | Washington Research Foundation gives $1.2M to help UW, WSU researchers commercialize their tech | Washington Research Foundation, a Seattle-based nonprofit that funds research and scholarship in Washington state, awarded more than $1.2 million for entrepreneurship training programs at the University of Washington and Washington State Un... |
| 15.08.2022 | Institute for Protein Design spinout Monod Bio raises $25M for molecular biosensors | Monod Bio co-founders, from left: David Shoultz, Daniel-Adriano Silva, and Alfredo Quijano Rubio. (Monod Photo)
The news: Monod Bio raised $25 million to develop molecular biosensors that light up when they bind their target. The sensors ca... |
| 06.07.2022 | Four fintech startups join incubator run by Seattle-area credit union and Univ. of Washington | (CoMotion Photo)
Four startups outside the Pacific Northwest won the fourth annual BECU Fintech Incubator Competition.
The incubator supports fintech startups and is a collaboration that combines the specialties of BECU, Washington’s larges... |
| 06.05.2022 | Asha AI app, which helps elderly manage their care, among startups pitching at life science event | Asha AI CEO Rashmi Joshi, left, and lead designer Dayton Kelly at the Life Science Innovation Northwest 2022 meeting. (GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert)
A new startup that aims to ease healthcare tasks for the elderly debuted its app on ... |
| 08.12.2021 | University of Washington’s CoMotion incubator partners with T-Mobile to provide startups with 5G | T-Mobile is equipping the University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs with a new 5G network to help entrepreneurs build products and services using next-generation connectivity. CoMotion Labs, part of the university’s commercialization arm CoM... |
| 15.07.2021 | Modulus, a cell therapy biotech incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, raises $3.5M | Human natural killer cell. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Image)
Modulus Therapeutics, a Seattle-based cellular therapy company spun out of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI2), announced $3.5 million... |
| 13.07.2021 | Meet the 4 new startups joining a fintech incubator run by BECU and UW in Seattle | From top left, clockwise: Henny Damian, co-founder and CEO of Joola; Stacie Whisonant, co-founder of PYT Funds; Will Rush, co-founder and CEO of Stack; and Luke Moberly, CEO of Bumper.
Four Seattle startups have won a slot in a financial te... |
| 09.12.2020 | Univ. of Washington rolls out new licensing process to streamline negotiations with spinouts | University of Washington’s CoMotion center in Seattle. (UW Photo)
The University of Washington is aiming to make it easier for spinouts to get out of the research lab and into the market.
This week the UW unveiled Husky FAST Start, a new li... |
| 21.04.2020 | Leading a startup through the crisis: ‘We’ve just instantly transformed from peacetime to wartime’ | Dan Rosen, chair of the Alliance of Angels, and Xiao Wang, President and CEO of Boundless Immigration. (Alliance of Angels and GeekWire Photos)
For startup leaders accustomed to building their businesses in boom times, the economic impact f... |
| 18.10.2019 | Analysis: Seattle startup ecosystem poised for unprecedented acceleration of company creation | The downtown Seattle skyline. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)
[Editor’s note: This guest post was co-written by Oren Etzioni and Jacob Colker of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle.]
We’ve reached a tipping poin... |
| 24.09.2019 | A-Alpha Bio raises $2.8M for genetically engineered drug discovery platform | The A-Alpha Bio team includes scientist Emily Engelhart, principal scientist David Colby, co-founder and CEO David Younger, co-founder and chief technology officer Randolph Lopez and engineering associate Charles Lin. (A-Alpha Bio Photo)
A ... |
| 19.08.2019 | Exagen and the University of Washington Collaborate on Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis Research | Focus on the development of more effective tools to diagnose, prognose and monitor these diseases. |
| 06.08.2019 | Cancer-fighting startup Neoleukin merging with Aquinox in $40M deal, 8 months after UW spinout | Neoleukin Therapeutics launched in January with the goal of commercializing a cancer-fighting protein that was designed from scratch at the University of Washington. (UW Photo)
Vancouver, B.C.-based Aquinox Pharmaceuticals is set to buy Neo... |
| 31.05.2019 | Two new startups join Seattle fintech incubator run by BECU and University of Washington’s CoMotion | CoMotion Photo
Two additional startups are set to join a Seattle financial technology incubator operated by BECU and based at CoMotion, the innovation arm of the University of Washington.
The BECU Fintech Incubator launched last year, when ... |
| 30.04.2019 | Here’s why two Y Combinator partners made a recruiting trip to the Univ. of Washington in Seattle | Cherry blossoms were in full bloom at the University of Washington earlier this month. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
The University of Washington has one of the world’s best computer science programs. MBA recruiters recently ranked the UW... |
| 18.02.2019 | Univ. of Washington CoMotion innovation center chief Vikram Jandhyala to step down in June | Vikram Jandhyala. (UW Photo)
After five years of leading the University of Washington’s innovation center, Vikram Jandhyala is stepping down.
Jandhyala, executive director of CoMotion, told GeekWire that he plans to depart this June. He’ll ... |
| 05.11.2018 | Share.Farm wants a virtual version of farmers markets running year-round through an app | Share.Farm CEO Vincent Peak (left) and Eric Kobe, chief of sales. (Share.Farm Photo)
As most entrepreneurs will agree, launching a new business takes a ridiculous amount of hard work and determination. For Share.Farm founder and CEO Vincent... |
| 16.10.2018 | Univ. of Washington launches fintech incubator with BECU in Seattle, unveils initial startups | (CoMotion Photo)
The University of Washington’s innovation arm is partnering with the state’s largest non-profit credit union to launch a new fintech incubator.
BECU and CoMotion this week will open the BECU Fintech Incubator, a new group h... |
| 31.08.2018 | Bay Area universities, MIT, Harvard top startup ranking for grads who raise venture capital | Stanford’s main campus in Paolo Alto. (Wikimedia Photo / King of Hearts)
Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT continue to pump out more entrepreneurs than any other universities across the U.S.
Seattle-based investment database site PitchBook on Fri... |
| 25.07.2018 | An inside look at Create33: Madrona’s new ‘founder center’ attempts to spark Seattle entrepreneurs | Madrona Venture Group Managing Director Scott Jacobson, left, and Create33 Executive Director Micah Baldwin. (GeekWire photos / Taylor Soper)
Micah Baldwin answers quickly when asked about the vision for Create33, a new “founder center” ope... |
| 14.06.2018 | After leading 4,000 job interviews, here’s what Smartsheet’s co-founder loves to ask candidates | Smartsheet co-founder and TerraClear CEO Brent Frei chats with CoMotion Executive Director Vikram Jandhyala at the UW last week. (GeekWire photo / Taylor Soper)
As a veteran tech entrepreneur and co-founder of companies like Onyx Software a... |
| 25.05.2018 | Pre-clinical drug screening startup A-Alpha Bio wins first place at Univ. of Washington Business Plan Competition | The A-Alpha Bio team, from left to right: David Younger, Bob Lamm, Matt Johnson, Randolph Lopez. (GeekWire photo / Taylor Soper)
Pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of money and time developing new drugs. Now a new startup created by a gro... |
| 07.03.2018 | Stealthy startup Taproot Medical Technologies raises funds to develop next-gen biomaterials | University of Washington professor of chemical engineering Shaoyi Jiang. (University of Washington Photo)
Stealth-mode startup Taproot Medical Technologies has raised $1.25 million out of a $2.25 million round of funding, according to a fil... |
| 01.03.2018 | Taking on WeWork? Madrona Venture Group doubles Seattle office space for new co-working operation | The Essential team working out of Madrona Venture Labs in Seattle. Photo via Madrona Venture Labs.
Madrona Venture Group is expanding its physical footprint in Seattle with a new innovation space for founders and startups.
The venture capit... |
| 03.12.2017 | With $1M in funding, Phase Genomics looks to crack genetic codes and discover unknown bacteria | Phase Genomics co-founders, Shawn Sullivan (left) and Ivan Liachko. (Phase Genomics Photo)
Bacteria lurk pretty much anywhere you look, in numbers and varieties worthy of a horror movie. The challenge for scientists who actually want to pry... |
| 20.11.2017 | Health tech startup spins out of Univ. of Washington, aims to make surgery more efficient with data science | Perimatics Co-Founder and CEO Kalyani Velagapudi. (Perimatics Photo)
The University of Washington added yet another startup to its growing list of spinouts Monday: Perimatics, a health technology company that offers data science-based softw... |
| 24.07.2017 | Ex-Amazon and Microsoft employees launching business-focused digital assistant ‘Roxy’ | The Roxy smart speaker device that is coming to several Seattle area hotels. (Roxy Photo)
As veterans of Amazon and Microsoft, the co-founders of Seattle startup Roxy saw exactly what voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cor... |
| 21.04.2017 | Seattle Week in Review: March for Science, MSFT Acquisition, CoMotion | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re looking forward to Saturday’s March for Science and back at Microsoft’s acquisition of Charles Simonyi’s Intentional Software; former Microsoft CEO Steve Ball... |
| 05.12.2016 | Global Innovation Exchange Plans Menu of IP Options for Students | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Global Innovation Exchange, a joint effort of the University of Washington and China’s Tsinghua University, is establishing some new models for intellectual property as it... |
| 17.11.2016 | Check Out the Agenda for Xconomy Intersect in Seattle Dec. 8 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We’re excited to hear from a great group of leading entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers at our next event in Seattle, Xconomy Intersect, coming up on Dec. 8. We’ve just ... |
| 11.10.2016 | Announcing Xconomy Intersect: GGV, Accolade, OfferUp, Textio & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The most interesting innovations are found where disciplines, industries, and cultures intersect—where intelligent machines edit human writers, drones plant trees, and cloud c... |
| 31.08.2016 | This University of Washington spin-out can charge robots and drones wirelessly | WiBotic CEO Ben Waters. Photo via WiBotic.
WiBotic is coming out of stealth mode.
The University of Washington spin-out today revealed more details about its technology that wirelessly powers drones and other robotic devices.
WiBotic, origi... |
| 11.08.2016 | Seattle biotech entrepreneur Ron Berenson raising cash for new startup | Ronald Berenson, serial entrepreneur, is heading up DMD Therapeutics. Photo: Conrado Tapado, CoMotion.
Ron Berenson has another biotechnology startup in the works, a new company by the name of DMD Therapeutics.
The Seattle-based company rec... |
| 05.08.2016 | Report: Seattle Machine Learning Star Turi Acquired by Apple | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
One of Seattle’s foremost machine learning startup companies, Turi—formerly known as GraphLab and then Dato—appears to have been acquired by Apple, according to press reports.... |
| 06.07.2016 | With CoMotion Labs, UW Casts Wider Net For Innovation and Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The University of Washington is expanding its portfolio of startup incubation spaces and inviting in companies even if they don’t yet have an explicit connection to the univer... |
| 30.06.2016 | UW CoMotion opening new HQ with space for virtual, augmented reality startups | The University of Washington’s CoMotion program will move its headquarters to this building at 4545 Roosevelt. (Credit: Conrado Tapado, University of Washington CoMotion)
University of Washington’s CoMotion innovation program announced toda... |
| 22.06.2016 | A better air filter: UW spinout raises $1.25M for new approach to electrostatic air filtration | A diagram of the Pacific Air Filtration technology. (Click for full diagram.)
A Seattle-based startup is developing a new air filter that it says will cost less than the alternatives, use less energy, filter out more harmful particulates an... |
| 28.03.2016 | How VR, AR Innovation Can Finally Fulfill Its Potential | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This post was co-authored by Matt McIlwain, managing director, Madrona Venture Group, and Steve Seitz, professor of computer science and engineering at University of Washingto... |
| 02.09.2015 | Calling entrepreneurs, scientists, coders: New ‘Hacker House’ opens near UW’s Startup Hall | A new “Hacker House” is opening near the University of Washington campus this month. Photo via Andy Rebele.
If you’re an entrepreneur, scientist, coder, maker, or innovator that wants to live in a likeminded community near the University of... |
| 16.07.2015 | Invest NW Would Help Rich Families Make Local Impact Investments | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Pacific Northwest innovation economy is in the midst of a substantial capital refresh cycle, with four locally based venture funds filling their coffers with upwards of $7... |
| 13.07.2015 | Seattle Roundup: Auto IT, Real Estate, Space, Smart Grids, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Catching up on a few items from last week, we’re following a major investment for truck-tracking technology maker Zonar Systems, local VC fundraising, a big real estate deal f... |
| 24.06.2015 | Cadence Biomedical raises $1.2M to help people with disabilities restore walking ability | Cadence Biomedical, makers of the Kickstart medical device, today announced a $1.2 million Series B funding round.
The seven-year-old Seattle-based company will use the funding to continue developing its device that accelerates recovery to ... |
| 01.06.2015 | This University of Washington spin-out just raised $2.5M to evaluate surgeons’ skills | Clockwise from top left: C-SATS co-founders Derek Streat, Dr. Thomas Lendvay, Dr. Lee White, and Dr. Timothy Kowalewski.
Performance reviews are commonplace in most industries as a way for employers to ensure that their employees are puttin... |
| 25.03.2015 | Mapping Seattle’s incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces | Inside the UW’s new Startup Hall, home to Techstars Seattle and a co-working space.
With the birth of Y Combinator in Silicon Valley a decade ago, the number of accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces has increased exponentially ove... |
| 12.03.2015 | There’s an Algorithm for That: Algorithmia Helps You Find It | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
These days, you don’t have to be an expert in natural-language processing or computer vision to make an app that can automatically summarize text or recognize faces. You just ... |
| 17.02.2015 | What Should Be on the Next UW President’s Commercialization Agenda? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The University of Washington hired Michael Young as president nearly four years ago in large part because of his reputation as a leader in university commercialization and inn... |
