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Startup radar: Seattle companies build tech for marketing, food safety, games, and baby products
Seattle entrepreneurs are building software to help solve all kinds of problems. The latest batch of companies in our startup radar spotlight aim to help users speed up marketing efforts, find restaurant safety data, buy baby products, and boost video game development. Read on to learn more about the startups and their founders, and check out past startup radar spotlights here. Email us at tips@geekwire.com to flag other companies and startup news. Fritter Founded: 2024 The business: Fritter is trying to make it easier to access restaurant food safety inspection information by funneling various data sources into a single API. It’s targeting developers,… Read More
Seattle entrepreneurs are building software to help solve all kinds of problems.
The latest batch of companies in our startup radar spotlight aim to help users speed up marketing efforts, find restaurant safety data, buy baby products, and boost video game development.
Read on to learn more about the startups and their founders, and check out past startup radar spotlights here. Email us at tips@geekwire.com to flag other companies and startup news.
Founded: 2024
The business: Fritter is trying to make it easier to access restaurant food safety inspection information by funneling various data sources into a single API. It’s targeting developers, health officials, business owners, and other potential users.
Leadership: Founder and CEO Beatrice Archer was a senior software engineer at Alaska Airlines, and also worked at Abound, Microsoft, and Boeing. Archer previously built Seattle Safe Eats, which surfaces health data on Seattle-area restaurants.
Founded: 2023
The business: Gamebeast helps Roblox developers improve their games with tools to boost revenue, engagement, community sentiment, and more. It also sells to developers on other user-generated content platforms. The company last year raised $3.7 million and graduated from a16z’s gaming accelerator program.
Leadership: CEO Zander Brumbaugh has been creating user-generated content and games since he was 12 years old. He has published books on coding Roblox games and earned a graduate degree in computer science from the University of Washington last year. He founded Gamebeast with Christian Meris.
Founded: 2024
The business: Scowtt’s AI-powered marketing software qualifies potential leads and predicts which ones will convert to a sale. The 7-person startup, which reached $1.5 million in annual recurring revenue in its first year, also uses AI to interact with prospects and schedule calls. Its software integrates with CRM and social media platforms. Scowtt has raised $1 million.
Leadership: Founder and CEO Eduardo Indacochea spent more than 13 years at Microsoft before leadership stints at Google and most recently Meta, where he was a vice president in advertising.
Founded: 2024
The business: Starter Set wants to help parents find the right products for their growing family with an AI-powered assistant that suggests items based on individual preferences and their baby’s milestones. The company plans to launch its MVP later this year.
Leadership: CEO Jane Dashevsky spent more than a decade at Amazon in product leadership roles. CTO Quentin Tai was the CTO at Planted and was an engineer at Drizly.
