A Skagit startup casualty, and lesson

One promising software startup that wasn’t able to overcome both the challenges of starting a new business and its Northwest Washington location was Jyst. The Mount Vernon-based company, launched in early 2022 to help service industry employers and potential employees find each other with a swipe on an app, closed at the end of 2022 after being unable to raise additional funds. “We definitely had early user traction. We had employers, we had pilot programs with some larger national employ