Robbie Cape, the Seattle tech entrepreneur who has dabbled in healthcare and fried chicken in recent years, has another new venture.
In a post on LinkedIn on Monday, Cape said his nine-month search for a new job led somewhere he didn’t expect — and he’s starting a company.
“We’re in stealth for now — the idea and the story behind it will come,” Cape wrote. “But right now, we’re imagining. We’re shaping the vision, building the team, defining the culture. The slate is clean. The sky is open. And we are having an absolute blast.”
Cape said the new venture incorporated in March, and a few weeks ago he welcomed CTO T Van Doren and chief product officer Matt Witcher as co-founders. Cape said Van Doren was employee No. 1 and Witcher was employee No. 8 at 98point6, the telehealth startup that Cape co-founded and ran as CEO for six years.
Cape previously spent 11 years at Microsoft and was the co-founder and CEO of Cozi, an app for managing family events, activities and schedules. After being forced out of 98point6, Cape helped launch the sustainable chicken restaurant Mt. Joy in 2022. The small chain has locations in Seattle’s South Lake Union and Capitol Hill neighborhoods.
Cape left Mt. Joy in May 2025, according to his LinkedIn. And in his post on Monday, he said he’d been searching for a job until last month. The process — in which he was looking for any size company, stage or title — took longer than he imagined it would as he connected with 200 people across nearly 2,000 interactions.
“It was hard in ways I didn’t expect,” Cape wrote. “But it gave me something I didn’t expect either — real empathy for a process most people dread but everyone eventually has to go through.”
GeekWire reached out to Cape for details on his new company, and we’ll update when we hear back.
