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GeekWire Awards: Meet the 5 finalists for Startup CEO of the Year
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Google and Apple vets raise $17M for Fixie, a large language model startup based in Seattle
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SportsCenter for meetings: Seattle startup uses GPT to create meeting highlight reels
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The hurdles women-founded startups face in venture capital — and advice to overcome them
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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs
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Employee engagement startup Mystery rebrands as Glue and uses software and AI to boost stickiness
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Sonoma Bio inks $75M deal with Regeneron to advance cell therapies against autoimmunity
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First Citizens Bank is buying Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits and loans
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Tech Moves: Former Chef CEO joins Buildkite board; Salesforce hires Code.org exec
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