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Startup tackling homelessness with easily erected, durable shelters lands $15M
A village of Pallet tiny houses, with some customization by residents. (Pallet Photo) Pallet, an Everett, Wash. social purpose corporation, has raised $15 million to expand its production of shelters made of hard, plastic panels that can temporarily house people experiencing homelessness. The startup launched in 2016. As the homelessness crisis has continued growing in […]
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Wave Motion wins $1.3M to work on jet-gun launcher for U.S. Navy
Casey Dunn, Finn van Donkelaar and James Penna show off Wave Motion Launch’s Big Iron demonstration jet-gun launcher. (Wave Motion Photo) Everett, Wash.-based Wave Motion Launch Corp. has been awarded $1.3 million to support the venture’s efforts to develop a barrel-less launcher technology that could eventually be used to send payloads to space. Wave Motion […]
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Amazon aims for a zero carbon grocery store with newest Amazon Fresh opening in Seattle
The new Amazon Fresh location in Seattle will feature electric vehicle charging stations for use by customers as part of efforts to promote sustainability at the location. (Amazon Photo) Amazon is opening the doors Thursday on its latest Amazon Fresh location in Seattle, and ushering in a new benchmark for sustainability in grocery stores. The […]
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Tech Moves: Providence leader returns to Amazon; Seattle marketing vet joins LiveRamp; and more
Jessica Shapiro. (LiveRamp Photo / Noah Berger) — Jessica Shapiro will join LiveRamp as its chief marketing officer. Shapiro is marketing veteran, previously working in leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, Zulily, and SAP Concur. She was most recently a vice president at Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Icertis. Shapiro will manage global marketing for LiveRamp, a […]
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Tech Moves: Providence leader returns to Amazon; Seattle marketing vet joins LiveRamp; and more
Jessica Shapiro. (LiveRamp Photo / Noah Berger) — Jessica Shapiro will join LiveRamp as its chief marketing officer. Shapiro is marketing veteran, previously working in leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, Zulily, and SAP Concur. She was most recently a vice president at Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Icertis. Shapiro will manage global marketing for LiveRamp, a […]
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Amazon closes $8.5B MGM deal, its second-largest acquisition ever
Amazon said Thursday that its deal to acquire Hollywood studio MGM, announced in May 2021, has closed. The $8.45 billion deal is Amazon’s second-largest acquisition behind its $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods in 2017. MGM will provide Amazon with more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV shows that have collectively won more than 180 […]
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Neu direction: Seattle startup pivots to become Spritz, a tech platform to better aid housecleaners
Kwame Boler, left, and Claudius Mbemba, co-founders of Neu and now Spritz. (Neu File Photos) Kwame Boler and Claudius Mbemba have a new idea that pivots off their five-year run with Neu, the Seattle startup that helped connect homeowners with housecleaners, specifically in the vacation rental space. The break is a clean one, insomuch that […]
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Seattle sisters lead fast-growing e-commerce startup selling ethnic fashion products worldwide
The Shobitam team. Aparna Thyagarajan (far left, second row) and her sister Ambika (far right, second round) co-founded the company three years ago. (Shobitam Photo) It started three years ago after a casual conversation about ethnic fashion between former technology executives. Now sisters Aparna and Ambika Thyagarajan are leading a fast-growing direct-to-consumer online platform called […]
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Students wins $250,000 for gravitational wave research
Eastlake High School senior Christine Ye focused on gravitational waves in her research. (UW Bothell Photo) Christine Ye, a senior at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Wash., has won the top award in the nation’s oldest and most prestigious competitions for science students, thanks to her research into the mysteries of black holes and neutron […]
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The future of downtown Seattle: Reasons for hope, concern — and opportunity to change for the better
Downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) By some statistical measures, Seattle’s downtown is back. Residents have returned in pre-pandemic numbers. Tourism, certainly at Pike Place Market, resembles its crowded former self. And traffic is nearly as lousy as it was in 2019. But other data tell a far different story. Violent crime in […]