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Stories in the news media about CoMotion and the UW spinoffs and innovations we’ve supported.

  • Fast-growing startups reshape the GeekWire 200 with innovations in AI, robotics, energy and more

    Taylor Soper
    GeekWire 200 Q4 2025
  • Inside Zap: Fusion pioneer tries to build ‘a star in a jar’ to unlock abundant clean energy

    Lisa Stiffler
    Matthew Thompson, Zap vice president of systems engineering, alongside a demo fusion reactors at the company’s Everett, Wash., research and development facility. (
  • Meet the key players in the Pacific Northwest’s fusion energy hub

    Lisa Stiffler
    Zap Energy gear
  • Plug and Play’s second Seattle-area accelerator cohort includes six local startups

    Kurt Schlosser
  • Forget new EVs: This Seattle startup converts gas cars to cut carbon emissions now

    Lisa Stiffler
    Tom Gurski, founder and CEO of Blue Dot Motorworks
  • New brain implant trial at UW aims to improve stroke recovery

    Luke Duecy
    neurosurgeons Andrew Ko (left) and Ben Grannan
  • UW researcher lands grant to bring chip-based beam-steering LIDAR to market with new startup

    Richard Yonck
    Bingzhao Li
  • UW researchers discover AI-powered breakthrough that could boost precision cancer treatment

    Lisa Stiffler
    researchers in David Baker's lab
  • Three startups selected for inaugural Curinos FinTech Incubator based at UW’s CoMotion

    Kurt Schlosser
    from left: Reagan Bonlie, founder and CEO of Nudge Money; Amos Nadler, founder, CEO and chief scientist at Prof of Wall Street; and Will Taylor, founder and CEO of Parish
  • Aquagga takes top prize at PNW Climate Week event for its battle against ‘forever chemicals’

    Lisa Stiffler
    Aquagga CEO Dhileep Sivam makes his winning pitch at a PNW Climate Week.