Technology

Sports Scope racks up points with streaming service

Pivot helps to salvage 2020

February 11, 2021

When high school football is responsible for 95% of your annual sales revenue and a global pandemic halts play across most of the U.S., what do you do? Launch a new project to generate revenue, despite limits and restrictions under which games are

Startup Spokane retools, plans library partnership

GSI program to market services countywide after period of dormancy

February 11, 2021

Virginia Thomas

After a period of dormancy, StartUp Spokane is gearing up to return to action by expanding its services and partnering with Spokane Public Library.

VATA7 lights its path forward

Startup to launch two new products soon

February 11, 2021

LeAnn Bjerken

Brian Jon Garvey seems to have a knack for turning life's 'light bulb momentsâ€ into innovative business ventures. The 55-year-old former Navy frogman is the CEO and founder of VATA7 Inc., a Spokane-based startup that creates motorcycle gear

Itron, Maine utility ink new contract

Infrastructure to help lay smart grid groundwork

January 28, 2021

Virginia Thomas

Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc. has secured a contract with Bangor, Maine-based electric utility Versant Power to upgrade the utility's metering infrastructure and network.

Tech industry jumps ahead a decade, observers say

Cybersecurity, access to be focus in 2021

December 17, 2020

Natasha Nellis

2020 marked a rapid acceleration in the technology industry, in some cases truncating what would have been a decade of adaptation into a year, and cybersecurity is one of the sectors of the industry most poised for growth in 2021, some tech industry

Itron signs big contract with utility in Northeast

Software system will help National Grid automate data collection, reporting

December 17, 2020

Kevin Blocker

Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc. has signed a contract with East Coast utility Nation Grid to help that company with its meter reading capabilities. Based in London and doing business in three northeastern U.S. states-New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode

Gestalt Diagnostics reports triple-digit growth

Company plans to add team members in 2021

December 17, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Gestalt Diagnostics LLC is on track to double its annual revenue this year and expects to see strong growth again next year. Dan Roark, CEO of the Spokane-based maker of software for pathologists, says, 'In 2020 we are on track â€¦ for 100% growth.

Hypersciences secures additional VC capital

HyperSciences raises more than $2M this year

November 19, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Spokane-based geothermal drilling technology startup HyperSciences Inc. has raised $87,700 in venture capital, bringing the company's total funding raised to $12 million since 2018.

RiskLens launches new risk-management service

Software compares security investment returns versus threat

November 5, 2020

Natasha Nellis

Spokane-based RiskLens Inc. has added a service to its platform that enables companies to analyze which cybersecurity and technology investments will provide the most bang for their buck.

Cowles Co. establishes new venture-capital arm

Company has invested $85M in startups so far

October 22, 2020

Virginia Thomas

In an effort to diversify its corporate holdings and cement itself in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the Inland Northwest, Spokane-based Cowles Co. has formally established a venture capital investment arm.