GeekWire
1752 NW Market St. #708, Seattle, WA, 98107, United States
Overview
GeekWire is a national technology news website, providing breaking news, expert analysis, and exclusive insights into the technology industry. It covers some of the widely followed and innovative tech companies in the world, and one of the vibrant startup markets in the country. GeekWire’s signature events and meetups bring out thousands of people to connect, learn, recruit, do business, and have fun with a broad cross-section of the tech community. Its membership program includes some of the respected figures in the technology community, including top entrepreneurs, computer scientists, and business leaders. In addition to news coverage, GeekWire provides widely used resources for the Pacific Northwest technology community, including the GeekWork job board, GeekWire 200 startup ranking, the Startup List database, Service Provider Directory, and GeekWire Calendar. Its weekly radio show airs on KIRO Radio in the Seattle region, and reaches a worldwide audience via podcast. GeekWire was started in 2011 by two longtime journalists, [John Cook](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/john-cook) and [Todd Bishop](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/todd-bishop); and startup veteran Jonathan Sposato. It is based in Seattle, Washington.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 7
Sector focus
- Content
- Information Technology
- News
Investment portfolio
- dot.LA
Participated · Seed · Jan 2020
dot.LA is a news and events company dedicated to covering L.A.’s startup and tech ecosystem. The company, launching in 2020 and co‑founded by Spencer Rascoff, will report on new companies, funding rounds and other aspects of the local startup community and will host events to bring the community together. At launch its newsroom will have at least five journalists and it is actively hiring additional reporters and editors. Its editor‑in‑chief is Joe Bel Bruno; other journalists named include Tami Abdollah, Ben Bergman, Rachel Uranga and Eric Zassenhaus. dot.LA closed a $4M seed funding round to support its launch.