Technology

Startup Bookoo Chef cooks up plan to connect chefs, private clients

Company to launch website, app later this month

March 10, 2022

A Spokane-based group of restaurant industry and marketing professionals has started a company to connect Inland Northwest chefs with potential customers who are planning small events. The company, Bookoo Society Inc., will make reservation capabilities

Community-Minded Enterprises to launch recovery-service mobile platform

Free tool will connect clients to local social service resources

February 24, 2022

Erica Bullock

Community-Minded Enterprises, which recently moved to a new location east of downtown Spokane, plans to expand its Recovery Services program to offer a new tool to help clients maintain their sobriety. The Spokane-based social service nonprofit has

Whatever Happened With: Solar Roadways

North Idaho company planning to introduce new model of panels

February 24, 2022

Mike McLean

Solar Roadways Inc., a Sandpoint, Idaho-based developer of solar-power generating road panels, is working on a new prototype and is in contract negotiations with a potential manufacturing partner, says Julie Brusaw, company co-founder.

Meet & Greet with GSI's new chairman Marcelo Morales

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February 24, 2022

Karina Elias

Marcelo Morales is a founder, investor, and CEO in the health care and life sciences industries. He has been a board member of Greater Spokane Incorporated for the past 10 years and is now the GSI chairman for 2022.

App to monitor wildfire smoke's effects on health

WSU College of Nursing, Urbanova in partnership to develop U-Track

February 10, 2022

Karina Elias

Spokane-based technology company Urbanova and Washington State University's College of Nursing have partnered to design the mobile application, U-Track, to help mitigate and reduce health risks to young adults with asthma during wildfire events.

Equity firm partnership becomes new X factor for Exbabylon

Partnership that comes with equity firm's investment in Exbabylon viewed as way for company to stay relevant

February 10, 2022

Virginia Thomas

Silicon Valley private equity firm Oval Partners has acquired a stake in Newport, Washington-based managed-service provider Exbabylon IT Solutions. In the transaction, which the companies characterize as a partnership, Exbabylon will have access to

Real estate tech startup Auctionable to launch this spring

Company to offer online home auctions, instant buying options

February 10, 2022

Erica Bullock

Auctionable, a new real estate tech company based in Liberty Lake, plans to launch this spring in the Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, and Boise markets, says Todd Sullivan, an Inland Northwest homebuilder and cofounder of the startup. Sullivan says the

Ag Energy acquired by Pullman-based NuPhy

Spokane company adds services, employees to NuPhy's agribusiness

January 27, 2022

Erica Bullock

Ag Energy Solutions Inc., a Spokane-based agricultural renewable technology company, has been acquired by Pullman, Washington-based plant and tree fruit producer NuPhy Inc.

Whatever Happened To: Mullen's plans for a West Plains electric-vehicle manufacturing plant

Startup Mullen Automotive moves on from Spokane, opens new plant in South

January 27, 2022

Mike McLean

Mullen Automotive Inc. appears to have left Spokane and Memphis, Tennessee both in its rearview mirror and now is planning to base its initial electric-vehicle production in Mississippi.

CarbonQuest takes its technology to NYC

Spokane Valley startup to recycle emissions from buildings, resell resulting products

January 27, 2022

Karina Elias

CarbonQuest Inc., a clean tech company headquartered in the Spokane Valley, has launched its first fully operational onsite system, named Building Carbon Capture System, in New York City. The company's technology is designed to capture, separate