GeekWire's Most-Read Stories of the Week

Catch up on the top tech stories from this past week. Here are the headlines that people have been reading on GeekWire. ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: Washington state’s second-largest city is the hub of an ambitious regional tech community seeking to leverage new realities to achieve its longstanding goals: [Read more.]( THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES [A new unicorn in Seattle: Cybersecurity startup Chainguard raises $140M at $1.1B valuation]( Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity startup Chainguard announced a $140 million Series C investment, bumping its valuation to $1.12 billion and minting the Seattle region’s newest unicorn. [Seattle’s new CTO brings Silicon Valley experience north to take on city’s tech challenges]( Rob Lloyd grew up a military kid who lived in 12 states and three countries and went to seven schools by the time he graduated high school. [Docusign co-founder launches firm to help entrepreneurs improve their odds of success]( Court Lorenzini, a technology industry veteran who co-founded e-signature giant Docusign and three other companies, is launching a new endeavor called Founder Nexus that wants to help entrepreneurs supercharge their businesses. SPONSOR MESSAGE [See what Acumatica can do for your business]( Acumatica is built on the conviction that thriving small and midsized businesses are the heart of the modern, digital economy. Faced with unique challenges, these growing organizations demand technology that is powerful and adaptable, and a vendor that is trustworthy and understands their needs.​We engineered our product to enable these smaller companies to succeed. [Get a demo.]( [Allen Institute for AI’s new office lease bolsters an emerging artificial intelligence corridor in Seattle]( The Allen Institute for AI has leased a full floor in the new Northlake Commons building in Seattle, part of a growing AI corridor. [‘Seattle Tech Week’ returns — here’s the full agenda, and some notable themes]( Seattle Tech Week is back for another slate of panel discussions and networking events covering a wide range of topics and trends. [Amazon plans logistics site in new industrial building on former Weyerhaeuser campus]( Amazon plans to use a new building on the former Weyerhaeuser corporate campus in Federal Way, Wash., as a future logistics site for customer fulfillment. [Another one bites the dust: AAA’s Gig car-sharing service shutting down in Seattle and nationally]( Another fleet-based car-sharing service is shutting down in Seattle. [Report details financial pressure on Amazon Alexa, confirms plans for paid tier and AI revamp]( Internal Amazon accounting techniques have overestimated the financial impact from Alexa and Echo, a new report says. [Clean-tech pioneer First Mode is giving its employees advance warning about layoffs]( First Mode, a company that concentrates on cleaner tech for heavy industry, has alerted its employees to a significant round of layoffs. [Tech Moves: Impinj promotes execs; Zendesk hires comms vet; Qumulo founder leads new startup]( Seattle RFID-maker Impinj announced new promotions and additions to its executive leadership team. [Vancouver legal tech company Clio lands $900M at $3B valuation]( Clio raised $900 million, boosting its valuation to $3 billion in what the company describes as the largest capital raise for a cloud-based legal software company ever. [Business lessons from Windows Vista: Insights from a forgotten trove of internal Microsoft emails]( There’s still a lot to learn from Vista. [CIA investment arm helps fund a Japanese fusion startup with U.S. HQ in Seattle]( Kyoto Fusioneering, a startup developing technologies for the commercialization of fusion energy, has raised nearly $6.9 million in new funding. [Notes from the tech frontier: What’s next for innovation in Spokane and the Inland Northwest]( SPOKANE, Wash. — Treasury4 is tapped into the power and history of this place. [Pacific NW hydrogen hub launches phase 1 of its program with $27.5M federal award]( The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association (PNWH2 Association), a multi-state hub to establish a hydrogen economy, is now eligible for up to $27.5 million from the U.S. GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [BRINC: Content Writer]( - [INRIX: Senior Technical Program Manager]( - [Pioneer Square Labs: Principal]( - [INRIX: Chief Marketing Officer]( - [INRIX: Software Development Engineer]( - [BRINC: Senior/Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer]( - [BRINC: Senior/Principal Backend & Platform Software Engineer]( - [Echodyne: Sr. Electrical Engineer – Analog & Mixed Signal]( [FIND MORE JOBS ON GEEKWORK]( [HIRING? BUY A FEATURED LISTING TO APPEAR HERE]( [About GeekWire]( [Contact Us]( [Advertise]( Copyright © 2024 GeekWire LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted to receive emails from GeekWire LLC.  Our mailing address is: GeekWire LLC 123 NW 36th St, Suite 203 Seattle, WA 98107  [change email frequency or address]( | [unsubscribe](