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Charna Parkey is the data science lead for Seattle startup Kaskada. (Photo courtesy of Charna Parkey)Growing up, Charna Parkey was always the “tech person” in her house. In high school she started getting IT certifications, and by the time she got to college, she took as many engineering...
PATH coordinated with vendors to install pressure swing adsorption oxygen generation plants at medical facilities in India. (Photo courtesy of PATH)The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed with two Chicago financial groups to channel $5.5 million into efforts by Seattle-based nonprofit PATH...
Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle rises from its pad in New Zealand. (Rocket Lab via YouTube)Two satellites for BlackSky’s Earth observation constellation were lost today when the second stage of Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle suffered an anomaly, just minutes after liftoff from New...
(AI2 Photo)A young child’s ability to acquire language is nothing short of astonishing. But occasionally a toddler will pick up an inappropriate word, often with no comprehension of its meaning. Fortunately, with the right guidance, the child can be steered away from using the offensive term. A...
Stoke Space Technologies’ second-stage engine injector undergoes a test firing at the company’s component test facility. (Stoke Photo)Two Washington state companies have won grants of up to $750,000 each from NASA to take space-related technologies they’re already working on to the next...
Sally Jewell. (The Nature Conservancy Photo)— Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has been appointed the Edward V. Fritzky endowed chair in leadership at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business for the 2021-2022 academic year. For the past 20 years, the faculty...
Steve and Connie Ballmer. (Ballmer Group Photo)Ballmer Group, an organization created by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie, is donating $38 million over the next few years to create and strengthen multiple programs that support mental health services. The funding comes at a...
Clean-room workers play air guitar as they get set for Rocket Lab’s launch of two BlackSky satellites. (Spaceflight Inc. via Twitter)The next two satellites in BlackSky’s constellation of Earth-watching spacecraft are due to be launched by Rocket Lab from New Zealand as early as this weekend,...
(Bean Box Photo)New funding: Bean Box, the Seattle startup that delivers premium coffee from independent roasters, has raised $2.4 million in new funding as part of a Series A round. The company: Founded in 2014 by Matthew Berk and Ryan Fritzky, Bean Box offers coffee products from 40 top-rated,...
Inside Rover’s HQ in Seattle. (Rover Photo)Pet adoption rates have surged amid the pandemic, and pet spending accelerated last year. Those are a few of the tailwinds driving optimism at Rover as the Seattle startup prepares to go public via a SPAC deal by the end of next month. Unlike many tech...
Kim Williams, science department head at Cougar Mountain Middle School, providing a lesson in genetics during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Bethel School District Photo via Twitter)The pandemic upended education in extraordinary ways, and shed new light on the social, economic and racial disparities in...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, without his usual mask, on Thursday during a news conference. (Twitter screen grab)Washington state will move to fully reopen and lift restrictions put on the economy by COVID-19 by June 30, Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Thursday. The move comes as new cases of COVID-19...
Amazon executive Jeff Blackburn speaks at his alma mater, Dartmouth College, in 2015. (Dartmouth/Eli Burakian Photo, used with permission.)Blackburn’s back. Longtime Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn is returning to the Seattle tech giant, just a few months after he departed and spent five weeks at a...
Healionics’ STARgraft vascular graft acts as an artificial blood vessel for dialysis patients. (Healionics Photo)New funding: Seattle-based medical technology company Healionics raised a $4.7 million round led by Keiretsu Capital to help commercialize its artificial blood vessel called...
(Amazon Photo)Amazon is hiring an additional 75,000 workers for its warehouse and logistics operations across the U.S. and Canada as the Seattle giant continues to grow at a whirlwind pace amid the pandemic. The latest hiring spree amounts to an expansion of nearly 6% of Amazon’s 1.27 million...
Genba co-founders Bruce Kaufman and Emory Sullivan. (Genba Photos)New spinout: Genba came out of stealth mode Thursday, revealing its software built for the industrial workforce. The company is the latest to spin out from a Seattle startup innovation studio run by Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) and...
Recently, Schmaltzy’s deli was able to extract its menu from GrubHub. The process took months, the deli’s owner said. “We never signed up for it.”Jonny Silverberg, co-owner of Seattle’s Schmaltzy’s Delicatessen, remembers his breaking point. It was on a Wednesday, not long ago. A...
(Flickr Creative Commons Photo / Ivan Radic)New funding: Recurrent, a platform for helping people make informed choices when buying used electric vehicles, was awarded a $256,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The money is a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research grant,...
Seattle Storm star Sue Bird. (File Photo via Neil Enns / Seattle Storm)Add the WNBA to the list of professional sports leagues that Amazon wants to help showcase via its Prime Video streaming platform. Amazon and the WNBA reached a multi-year agreement giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming...
Iteratively CEO Patrick Thompson.Acquisition news: San Francisco product intelligence company Amplitude acquired Seattle startup Iteratively. Founded in 2019 by veterans of Atlassian and Microsoft, Iteratively sells software to data and product teams for customer analytics tracking. The idea is...
Seattle Storm star Sue Bird. (File Photo via Neil Enns / Seattle Storm)Add the WNBA to the list of professional sports leagues that Amazon wants to help showcase via its Prime Video streaming platform. Amazon and the WNBA reached a multi-year agreement giving Prime Video exclusive global streaming...
Iteratively CEO Patrick Thompson.Acquisition news: San Francisco product intelligence company Amplitude acquired Seattle startup Iteratively. Founded in 2019 by veterans of Atlassian and Microsoft, Iteratively sells software to data and product teams for customer analytics tracking. The idea is...
Xplore’s new satellite manufacturing facility is in the Redmond complex that once housed Planetary Resources. (Xplore Photo)Xplore, a Seattle-area startup that aims to build satellites for interplanetary missions, has a new address in Redmond, Wash. — in the same office complex that once...
Sanath Kumar Ramesh with his wife Ramya and son Raghav. (Photo courtesy of the Ramesh family)Before their son was born, Sanath Kumar Ramesh and his wife Ramya had normal first-time-parent jitters. Ramesh, who works for Amazon as a software engineering manager, was so excited to welcome his little...
The news: San Mateo, Calif.-based edtech company IXL Learning will cut 16 jobs in Seattle following the company’s acquisition of Rosetta Stone, according to a WARN notice filed with the state of Washington. “There were some personnel changes as we integrated Rosetta Stone into IXL, and we are...
(NFL Image)It might seem like a no-brainer to pit the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tom Brady against “America’s team,” the Dallas Cowboys, in the opening game of the 2021 NFL season. But figuring out the matchups, locations and timing of the other 271 games takes a bit of...
Jeeva’s Parsair wireless chip. (Jeeva Photo)The news: Jeeva, the Seattle startup founded by University of Washington researchers, has developed what it’s calling the world’s lowest power wireless chip for streaming real-time sensor data, the company announced this week. Why it’s a big...
Jargon CEO Milkana Brace. (Jargon Photo)The news: Seattle mobile remittance company Remitly has acquired intellectual property from Jargon, a Seattle startup that developed an enterprise platform for chat and voice services. Jargon co-founders Milkana Brace and Jonathan Burstein will join Remitly,...
The Madrona Venture Labs team, clockwise from left: Flora Ku, Keith Rosema, Maria Hess, Henry Huang, Mike Fridgen, Jay Bartot, Jason Flateboe. (Madrona Venture Labs Photo)The news: Madrona Venture Labs, the startup studio associated with Madrona Venture Group, has raised $8 million for its fourth...
Orbite’s director of astronaut training, Brienna Rommes, enjoys a zero-G airplane flight. (Orbite Photo)Wanna take a ride to space? There’s a smorgasbord of spaceflight shaping up for paying customers, ranging from the suborbital tours planned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to the...
