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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 […]

    March 22, 2022
  • 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 […]

    March 22, 2022
  • 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 […]

    March 22, 2022
  • 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 […]

    March 22, 2022
  • 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 […]

    March 22, 2022
  • 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 […]

    March 22, 2022
  • 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 […]

    March 22, 2022
  • 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 […]

    March 22, 2022
  • 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 […]

    March 22, 2022
  • 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 […]

    March 22, 2022
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