Michael Fisk and Devon Lind are the co-founders of a startup company here called Photoboxx that bills itself as a social media hashtag printer. The idea behind the business is to generate free, instant images for attendees at large-scale business, social,

Purcell Systems Inc., the Spokane Valley-based company that makes temperature-controlled outdoor cabinets for the telecommunications industry, is diversifying and expects 40 percent growth over the next fiscal year, says Chris Craig, its general manager.

Billing itself as business accelerator, Ignite Northwest recently formed in Spokane with the goal of helping young tech companies overcome early startup challenges. Bill Savitz, CEO of the nonprofit organization, says accelerator businesses help companie

Bondgy Inc., the Spokane-based maker of pet owner-pet communication device iCPooch, plans next month to roll out a new product, called iCLovedOnes, for human interaction. Brooke Martin, a Ferris High School sophomore who invented both devices and whose

Stay Alfred, a three-year old company based here that rents out downtown vacation properties in large cities, may be one of the fastest growing Spokane companies that nobody has heard of, asserts Skyler Reep, company spokesman. Headquartered in almost

Sandpoint's diverse and growing employment base is helping offset last year's loss of major employer Coldwater Creek, several business representatives and observers there say. Companies representing software, aerospace, biomedical, and manufacturing