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

  • Zap Energy exceeds Mariana Trench-level pressures in pursuit of limitless clean power

    Lisa Stiffler
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    Zap Energy’s FuZE-3 reactor

  • Incisionless surgical robotic tech startup Petal Surgical emerges from stealth with $10M Series A

    Sean Whooley
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    Petal Surgical team with device

  • Seattle startup Membrion raises $20M to deploy industrial wastewater treatment units

    Taylor Soper
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    Greg Newbloom at pitching event

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

    Taylor Soper
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    GeekWire 200 Q4 2025

  • Inside Zap: Fusion pioneer tries to build ‘a star in a jar’ to unlock abundant clean energy

    Lisa Stiffler
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    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
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    Zap Energy gear

  • Plug and Play’s second Seattle-area accelerator cohort includes six local startups

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

    Lisa Stiffler
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    Tom Gurski, founder and CEO of Blue Dot Motorworks

  • New brain implant trial at UW aims to improve stroke recovery

    Luke Duecy
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    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
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    Bingzhao Li