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| Jul 30, 2025 | AI SOC Pioneer Dropzone AI Raises $37M for Global Expansion | Dropzone AI secured $37 million in Series B funding, accelerating its autonomous AI SOC analyst platform. This technology automates security alert triage and investigation, mitigating staffing shortages and analyst burnout. It empowers huma... |
| Jul 29, 2025 | Dropzone AI: $37 Million Series B Raised For Developing SOC Analysts | Dropzone AI, a provider of AI-based Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts, has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round led by Theory Ventures, with participation from Madrona, Decibel Ventures, Pioneer Square Labs, and IQT. This ... |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Dropzone AI Raises $37M Series B Funding | Dropzone AI, a Seattle, WA-based provider of AI SOC analysts, raised $37M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Theory Ventures with participation from Madrona, Decibel Ventures, Pioneer Square Labs, and IQT.
The company intends to use ... |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Dropzone AI raises $37M to expand AI SOC analyst development and integrations
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| Jul 17, 2025 | Acre Venture Partners bets on GenAI for NPD with Zucca investment: Tech will become ‘core to commercialization’ in CPG | Zucca—a Seattle-based startup with a generative AI platform to help CPG firms streamline the product development process—has emerged from stealth with a $5 million seed round led by Acre Venture Partners.
Other investors include PSL Venture... |
| Nov 3, 2023 | Substance over style: Seattle startups facing fewer down rounds than Bay Area, NYC counterparts | Seattle startups had fewer down rounds through the first nine months of the year compared to the Bay Area and New York. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
Seattle startups are facing fewer down rounds than companies in the Bay Area and ... |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Shift AI Podcast: Riding the wave of AI startup innovation with Pioneer Square Labs’ T.A. McCann | T.A. McCann, managing director at Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs, talks with Boaz Ashkenazy on the Shift AI Podcast.
“I think any pitch that doesn’t have AI in it is just not going to get a look unless the team is incredible… but it’d be... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | How this publicly traded manufacturing giant is testing generative AI business ideas | Pioneer Square Labs in downtown Seattle hosted about 30 employees from Fortive for a week-long exercise to test out ideas for generative artificial intelligence businesses. (Pioneer Square Labs Photo)
In the race to build generative artific... |
| Jun 13, 2023 | AI and coding: How these tech companies are using generative AI for programming | Made with Microsoft Bing Image Creator. Prompt: “A robot helping a software engineer develop code.”
Generative AI is already changing the way software engineers do their jobs.
GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, ChatGPT, Tabnine, and vari... |
| May 18, 2023 | Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs raises $20M for third fund, bets big on generative AI | A team of more than 20 employees at Pioneer Square Labs helps come up with ideas and validate them, before recruiting entrepreneurs to run startups that spin out of its studio. (PSL Photo)
The news: Pioneer Square Labs raised a $20 million ... |
| Apr 24, 2023 | GeekWire Awards: This leadership ‘superpower’ is key for CEO of youth mental health startup Joon | Joon Care CEO Emily Pesce, center, with co-founder and former CEO Josh Herst and co-founder and Chief Psychologist Amy Mezulis. (Joon Photo)
Editor’s note: This is the fourth of five profiles of the finalists for Startup CEO of the Year ahe... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Tech layoffs at big companies could be a boon for startups and entrepreneurship | (Bigstock Photo)
A wave of layoffs at tech companies is flooding the job market with fresh talent. The trend is sparking questions about whether startups will take advantage, and whether there will be a rush of new companies launched by Big... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | As tech giants increase stock compensation to retain talent, can startups take advantage? | (Bigstock Photo)
Large tech companies including Zillow Group and Amazon are turning up the dial on stock compensation in a bid to reduce churn.
There are a bevy of factors incentivizing employers to increase the amount of stock they are pro... |
| Aug 10, 2022 | The women writing checks: A list of female venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest | Back in 2018, GeekWire published a list of women investors based in the Pacific Northwest who were writing checks to help startups grow.
A lot has changed in four years. We’ve put together a new compilation below, highlighting more than 60 ... |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Why it might be easier for tech startups to recruit in a downturn | Venture capital firm Graham & Walker hosted a startup event at the Amazon Spheres in Seattle on Thursday. Panel from left: Bloomberg tech editor Anne VanderMey; Tina Huang-To, founding partner at Kin Ventures; Julie Sandler, co-founder ... |
| May 27, 2022 | Seattle startup JetClosing, which launched in 2016 to digitize home closing process, is shutting down | (JetClosing Photo)
JetClosing, a 6-year-old Seattle startup that digitizes the home closing process for buyers, sellers, and realtors, is shutting down, GeekWire has learned.
The company is closing June 15, according to an email viewed by G... |
| Jan 20, 2022 | Startups to watch: 13 venture capitalists offer their picks for the next Pacific Northwest unicorns | CEOs of Pacific Northwest startups, clockwise from top left: Flexe CEO Karl Siebrecht; Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio; Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg; OctoML CEO Luis Ceze; Dooly CEO Kris Hartvigsen; Fabric CEO Faisal Masud; Glowforge CEO Dan Shapir... |
| Nov 23, 2021 | We asked seven venture capitalists if the metaverse is the next big thing or just a lot of hype | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg uses a haptic glove research prototype intended to create a realistic sense of touch in the metaverse. (Meta Photo)
What is the metaverse? How far off is it? And will this represent a tectonic technological platform... |
| Nov 3, 2021 | Who rules the world: главные стартап-студии мира | Who rules the world: главные стартап-студии мира |
| Nov 3, 2021 | Who rules the world: главные стартап-студии мира | Who rules the world: главные стартап-студии мира |
| Nov 3, 2021 | Who rules the world: major startup studios of the world | Who rules the world: major startup studios of the world |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Why startup studios are the future | Why startup studios are the future |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Почему будущее за стартап-студиями | Почему будущее за стартап-студиями |
| Jun 26, 2021 | What’s the deal with all the deals? Why the market for IPOs, venture capital and acquisitions is red hot | Another day, another deal.
Keeping up with the flurry of acquisitions, IPOs, SPACs and venture capital these days is no easy task. In fact, IPO dollar volume for 2021 has already reached $171 billion, surpassing the record totals of last ye... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Pioneer Square Labs pairs with Dance Church to build out Seattle company’s on-demand platform | Dance Church was founded in 2010 by Kate Wallich, center in white top, and has added Clara Siegel, seated in black top, as CEO. (Talia Green Photo)
Pioneer Square Labs is trying out some new moves when it comes to spinning a company out of ... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Pioneer Square Labs pairs with Dance Church to build out Seattle company’s on-demand platform | Dance Church was founded in 2010 by Kate Wallich, center in white top, and has added Clara Siegel, seated in black top, as CEO. (Dance Church Photo)
Pioneer Square Labs is trying out some new moves when it comes to spinning a company out of... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | Seattle startup adyn raises $2.5M from 23andMe CEO and others for birth control prescription test | adyn CEO Elizabeth Ruzzo. (adyn Photos)
Seattle startup adyn raised a $2.5 million seed round co-led by Lux Capital and M13. The company plans to launch its flagship birth control optimization test later this year and currently has a waitli... |
| Apr 15, 2021 | Crazy for crypto — or not: Seattle VCs sound off on tech’s hottest topic following Coinbase IPO | Coinbase is the talk of tech world this week as the cryptocurrency startup went public and its valuation soared to $85 billion. (Coinbase Photo)
Sometimes, making an exception can pay off.
That’s what happened to Version One Ventures, which... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | Seattle podcast monetization startup Glow, a spinout of PSL, acquired by hosting platform Libsyn | Amira Valliani, Glow CEO and co-founder. (Glow Photo)
Podcast monetization startup Glow, a spinout of Seattle’s Pioneer Square Labs, has been acquired by Libsyn, a podcast hosting network.
Glow launched in June 2019 with a way to help podca... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Why this venture capitalist thinks LGBTQ+ and women’s health is the next big investment frontier | Women make the vast majority of healthcare decisions and on average spend 30% more than men on healthcare. And yet when it comes to funding next-generation digital health concepts, just 3% of fundings in the past decade have addressed the u... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Pioneer Square Labs raises $100M fund for venture arm to back more Pacific Northwest startups | The Pioneer Square Labs leadership team, from left to right: Palvi Mehta, Mike Galgon, Greg Gottesman, T.A. McCann, Julie Sandler, Ben Gilbert, David Zager, and Geoff Entress. (PSL Photo)
Pioneer Square Labs has raised $100 million for its ... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Seattle investors talk SPACs; pandemic impact on startups; advice for founders; and more | From top left, clockwise: Anu Sharma, partner at Madrona Venture Group; Ben Gilbert, co-founder at Pioneer Square Labs; Heather Redman, managing partner at Flying Fish Partners; and Kellan Carter, general partner at Fuse Venture Partners.
W... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Google’s AI-focused venture fund leads $5.4M investment for Seattle analytics startup Iteratively | Iteratively CEO Patrick Thompson. (Iteratively Photo)
Seattle startup Iteratively raised a $5.4 million round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund.
Founded in 2019 by veterans of Atlassian and Microsoft, Iteratively se... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | Seattle fintech startup Secure, which helps enable emergency savings accounts, raises $3.5M | Secure co-founders Devin Miller (left) and Bassam Saliba. (Secure Photos)
Investors are betting on Secure, a new Seattle-area startup riding a trend of increased interest in emergency savings accounts amid the pandemic.
The company raised a... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | How Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs spun out 25 ideas in 5 years — with more on the way | Boundless CEO Xiao Wang with Pioneer Square Labs’ Greg Gottesman (PSL Photo)
The flywheel is spinning at Pioneer Square Labs, the Seattle startup studio formed five years ago by a cadre of Seattle’s leading angel and venture capital investo... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | Recurrent raises $3.5M to power the data science behind its reports on used electric car batteries | The Recurrent team, including co-founder and CEO Scott Case, top center, during a video chat. (Recurrent Photo)
Recurrent, the Seattle-based startup that provides independent reports on the condition of used electric car batteries, has rais... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Madrona leads $2.6M round for OthersideAI, a startup using GPT-3 tech to write automated emails | The OthersideAI team, left to right: Matt Shumer, Miles Feldstein, Jason Kuperberg. (OthersideAI Photo)
The average U.S. worker spends more than five hours per day checking email. A new startup wants to help people save time with a tool tha... |
| Sep 9, 2020 | New startup Recurrent brings transparency to EV batteries, reducing risk in used car shopping | Scott Case with Dave Griffin, owner of Island E Cars on Washington’s Orcas Island, and one of Recurrent’s first customers. (Recurrent Photo)
Used electric vehicle buyers can kick the tires and look under the hood of potential purchase, but ... |
| Jul 9, 2020 | PSL, Fortive unveil first company out of new studio: COVID-19 symptom tracking startup TeamSense | TeamSense’s software helps employers track COVID-19 symptoms at the workplace. (TeamSense Images)
It didn’t take long for a new Seattle innovation studio run by Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) and Fortive to pump out a startup. TeamSense CEO Shei... |
| May 20, 2020 | Cybersecurity compliance startup StrikeGraph is the latest Madrona Venture Labs spinout | StrikeGraph co-founders Brian Bero (left) and Justin Beals. (StrikeGraph Photos)
Madrona Venture Labs is churning out startups.
The Seattle startup studio created by venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group helps incubate ideas and recrui... |
| May 14, 2020 | Seattle startup studio PSL teams up with publicly-traded industrial giant Fortive to create companies | (Fortive Photo)
Pioneer Square Labs is taking its startup factory model to the next level, teaming up with industrial giant Fortive for a “joint innovation studio” to help the publicly-traded company build new products and launch companies.... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Madrona Venture Labs launches ‘Founders Unite’ community group to help company leaders | Building a startup is never easy, but doing so during a global pandemic and economic crisis makes it even harder.
Seattle-based Madrona Venture Labs (MVL) wants to lend a helping hand in the form of Founders Unite, a new community group it ... |
| Mar 13, 2020 | Real-time fever tracking: How a Seattle startup quickly altered its roadmap to help with COVID-19 | The Sentinel Fever Tracker app from Seattle startup Sentinel Healthcare.
Sentinel Healthcare, a Seattle health tech startup founded by a doctor seeking a better way to monitor his patients’ condition remotely, has quickly switched up its pr... |
| Mar 10, 2020 | Startup advice for coronavirus turmoil: curb expenses; assess hiring; don’t panic; be human | Key Takeaways
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, investors are telling startup founders to look closely at sales forecasts, hiring plans, expenses and every other assumption about their business.
Turmoil can also present opportunity, as changin... |
| Feb 7, 2020 | Startup advice for entrepreneurs who are raising capital and preparing for a potential downturn | (Bigstock Photo)
With near-record amounts of venture capital dollars available to startups but a potential economic downturn on the horizon, founders and CEOs have some crucial decisions to make in 2020.
Startup investors and leaders offere... |
| Dec 9, 2019 | New program in Seattle aims to help tech workers leave big companies and launch their own startups | Venture Out leaders Sean Sternbach (left) and Ken Horenstein. (Venture Out Photo)
A new startup program, born in Seattle, aims to help tech workers leave big companies and launch their own ventures, aiming to generate a surge of new entrepr... |
| Dec 4, 2019 | Early stage investing 101: How to break into the club, and why you should give it a shot | (Bigstock Photo)
Early stage investing can be tremendously beneficial for early stage technology companies, the broader startup ecosystem, and of course, investors. But getting started isn’t easy. Minda Bruse and Heather Redman.
We both kno... |
| Oct 18, 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... |
| Aug 21, 2019 | Female Founders Alliance and Pioneer Square Labs launch challenge to help entrepreneurs test ideas | (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
Leslie Feinzaig knows how hard it is to let go of a failed startup idea. In 2016 she launched Venture Kits, a tech company that helped introduce entrepreneurship to kids. Even when it became clear that the bu... |
| Jun 10, 2019 | The Playbook: Limited tickets available for GeekWire’s entrepreneurial speaker series | Seattle entrepreneur and investor T.A. McCann will join GeekWire at The Playbook entrepreneurial speaker series on June 26. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)
Building a startup venture from scratch can be a daunting and lonely experience.
Tha... |
| Jun 10, 2019 | Can your podcast make money, after all? Pioneer Square Labs spinout Glow debuts tech platform for podcast memberships | Glow CEO and co-founder Amira Valliani, right, with chief product officer Brian Elieson. (Pioneer Square Labs Photo)
It’s a common problem for podcasters: you’ve got a passionate, loyal audience, but at a time when it seems everyone is prod... |
| May 30, 2019 | Check out GeekWire’s new startup funding list to track Seattle and Pacific NW financing deals | Leaders of the companies that landed the four largest Pacific Northwest startup funding deals of the past 12 months, according to GeekWire’s new startup funding tracker. Clockwise from upper right: DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilso... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle’s startup ecosystem | Three miles from Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood — better known as Amazonia to locals — sits Pioneer Square. The original heart of the city, the area has managed to hold on to its decades-old charm as other parts of town are besiege... |
| Feb 5, 2019 | Debt collection tech startup Attunely spins out of Pioneer Square Labs with $3.7M seed investment | The Attunely team, from left to right: Steven Wilansky, chief legal & compliance officer; Scott Ferris, CEO; Ryan Kosai, CTO; Ambrose Sterr, principal software engineer; Carl Toews, principal data scientist; and Trip Edwards, vice presi... |
| Jan 31, 2019 | Sentinel Healthcare raises $2M to monitor hypertension in round led by PSL Ventures | A doctor at Ballad Healthcare in Johnson City, Tenn., enrolls a new patient in Sentinel Healthcare’s hypertension platform. (Sentinel Photo)
Medical data startup Sentinel Healthcare has raised $2 million in funding round led by PSL Ventures... |
| Jan 17, 2019 | Another Pioneer Square Labs spinout: Remarkably targets commercial real estate with marketing tech | Remarkably co-founders Anna-Lea Dieringer and Erina Malarkey. (Remarkably Photo)
When Erina Malarkey looks at how commercial real estate stakeholders are spending money on marketing efforts, she’s in disbelief.
“You have the largest asset c... |
| Oct 10, 2018 | Shujinko brings in $2.8M for its cloud security compliance platform | Shujinko — yes, like the Mortal Kombat character — is emerging from stealth today after raising $2.8 million in seed funding from Unusual Ventures, Defy, Vulcan Capital, PSL Ventures and Vas Ventures.
The Seattle-based cloud security compli... |
| Jul 25, 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... |
| Jul 25, 2018 | Marketing vet Shauna Causey joins Madrona Venture Labs, heads up new kids clothing startup | Shauna Causey.
Long-time Seattle marketing veteran Shauna Causey has joined Madrona Venture Labs.
Causey will become a partner at the startup studio backed by Madrona Venture Group. She previously worked at Galvanize, Decide.com, Nordstrom,... |
| Jul 20, 2018 | Why this new Silicon Valley seed-stage VC firm thinks it can win — and why it’s focusing on Seattle | Wave Capital partners Riley Newman, Sara Adler, and David Rosenthal. (Photo via Wave Capital)
David Rosenthal knows about the dearth of early-stage financing options available to entrepreneurs in the Seattle region. The venture capitalist s... |
| Apr 25, 2018 | Serial Entrepreneur T.A. McCann Joins Pioneer Square Labs as Managing Director | McCann plans to work closely with founders to create new companies
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 25, 2018–
Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) announced today that T.A. McCann has joined the firm as a Managing Director. Prior to PSL, McCann served as... |
| Apr 25, 2018 | Pioneer Square Labs adds T.A. McCann as managing director, bolstering startup studio leadership team | Pioneer Square Labs Managing Directors T.A. McCann; Mike Galgon; Julie Sandler; Greg Gottesman; and Geoff Entress. (Photo via PSL)
Pioneer Square Labs just added some serious entrepreneurial clout to its managing director lineup. T.A. McCan... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | Seattle’s PSL Ventures will invest $80 million in early-stage tech startups | Pioneer Square Labs has announced the launch of PSL Ventures, a Seattle-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage technology companies. The $80 million venture fund will invest in companies across the Pacific Northwest and also... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | Seattle’s PSL Ventures will invest $80 million in early-stage tech startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Pioneer Square Labs has announced the launch of P... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | Seattle-Based Pioneer Square Labs Finishes Raising $80 Million First Fund | 1 Share Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Although one of the main products of the great Pacific Northwest used to be timber, it now seems to be tech. The Seattle area, in particular, is home to two of the “big five” US tech giants: Microsoft... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | PSL Ventures Raises $80M for Maiden Venture Capital Fund | Seattle, WA-based startup studio and venture capital firm Pioneer Square Labs has launched an $80m fund that invests in early-stage technology companies.
Backed by limited partners including charitable foundations, institutional investment ... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | Startup studio Pioneer Square Labs raises $80M fund, aims to ‘flip VC model on its head’ in Seattle | Pioneer Square Labs Managing Directors Mike Galgon; Julie Sandler; Greg Gottesman; and Geoff Entress. (Photo via Pioneer Square Labs)
Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs is launching a new $80 million venture fund, expanding beyond i... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | PSL Ventures Raises Oversubscribed $80 Million Inaugural Venture Fund | The Fund Will Invest in Early-Stage Technology Companies Based in the Pacific Northwest
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 17, 2018–
Pioneer Square Labs (“PSL”) announced today the launch of PSL Ventures, a Seattle-based venture capital fund tha... |
| Mar 16, 2018 | What’s wrong with Seattle’s startup scene? Despite top talent, a lack of venture capital stunts growth | Image via the Greater Seattle Technology Ecosystem report.
After nine years of building a robust cloud services business with thousands of customers, Geeman Yip was ready to raise venture capital. But when the BitTitan founder began knockin... |
| Jan 18, 2018 | Pioneer Square Labs Raises $15M | Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) raised $15m to scale its Seattle-based startup studio, which partners with entrepreneurs to create and build innovative companies.
Foundry Group led the financing with $10, with participation from 12 existing ventu... |
| Jan 18, 2018 | Pioneer Square Labs raises another $15M to fuel operations; studio has spun out 9 startups | Pioneer Square Labs Managing Directors: Greg Gottesman; Julie Sander; Geoff Entress; Mike Galgon.
Pioneer Square Labs has raised an additional $15 million to support the growth of its startup studio model that spun out nine companies in two... |
| Jan 6, 2018 | From cryptocurrency to IPOs, 6 venture capitalists make tech predictions for 2018 | (Bigstock photo)
No one knows for sure what will happen in the technology world this year. But venture capitalists have their finger on the pulse better than most, so we reached out to a handful of Seattle-area investors to get some predict... |
