GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

” Founded in 2017, Sēkr raised a $2.25 Dr. Sunita Mishra , chief medical officer of Amazon Health Services , joined the board of URAC , a healthcare accreditation nonprofit. million round last year. Cole Brodman. LinkedIn Photo) — Longtime telecom leader Cole Brodman joined Seattle-based Opanga Networks as CEO.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Joseph Health in 2017. The Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit research institution founded by the late Paul Allen, appointed a new CEO and president, Rui Costa , last December. He served as the chief transition officer at Providence for its $20 billion merger with St. He will start the new job in mid-November.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

The nonprofit program provides six months of classroom training followed by a five-month internship at one of its corporate partners. Seattle’s FFA is an organization founded by Leslie Feinzaig in 2017 that supports women and non-binary entrepreneurs. Ada Developers Academy. Female Founders Alliance (FFA). Game to Grow.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2022

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson , a longtime tech exec who led the coffee giant since 2017, will retire next month, the company announced Wednesday. Howard Schultz passes the company’s key to incoming CEO Kevin Johnson in 2017. GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Amazon is making a $15 million donation to Code.org to help the Seattle nonprofit launch a new Advanced Placement computer science programming course aimed at underrepresented groups of students. The company previously committed $10 million to the nonprofit in 2017.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” – Michael Greer, president and CEO of the Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon’s CEO two years ago, is still relatively new to large-scale philanthropy and his charitable track record provides limited clues to his future giving. among other nonprofits.

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2020

Seattle-based Xplore says space investor and philanthropist Dylan Taylor plans to reserve payload space on its first mission beyond Earth orbit, on behalf of a nonprofit group he founded. Taylor founded Space for Humanity in 2017 to expand access to space and foster a sense of connectedness on Earth. (Xplore Illustration).

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Loon has also provided internet services to areas affected by natural disasters, deploying balloons to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017 and to Peru following an earthquake in 2019. Teller says that Loon is working to place employees in other roles at X, Google, and Alphabet. “A

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

In 2017, Oregon became the first state to give drivers the option to self-identify as nonbinary on their driver’s license. In many ways, tech companies are following states, which have increasingly recognized nonbinary genders in government functions. In the years since, ten other states have adopted the practice.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

“The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling,” Citizen Lab’s report says. The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling”.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ThruWave is also working with In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investor for U.S. The company spun out of the UW in 2017. government agencies, to use its packing screening technology for national security applications. Reynolds said the sensors can also be used to see through wall surfaces and help with construction or remodeling projects.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2021

The IRS partners with the Free File Alliance , a nonprofit coalition of tax software companies that offer no-cost tax filing services for the Free File program. Intuit, the parent company of tax filing software TurboTax, is exiting an IRS program that allows many Americans to file their taxes for free.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

students in foundational computer courses are female, according to a new annual report out Wednesday from the educational nonprofit Code.org. More than 57% of high schools nationally offered computer science classes in the last school year, up from 35% from the 2017-18 school year. Only 31% of U.S.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2022

In 2017 he teamed up with Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs to launch social networking startup TraceMe , which was eventually acquired by Nike. They also run the nonprofit Why Not You Foundation. Wilson is CEO of West2East Empire , a brand management and production company based in Seattle.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In 2017, he solicited suggestions for philanthropic strategies — and followed up in 2018 with the unveiling of a $2 billion Day One Fund to promote innovations in preschool education and affordable housing. As Bezos’ Amazon fortune has grown, there have been growing questions about his approach to philanthropy.

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

The company is led by Akram Atallah , a former executive at internet nonprofit ICANN. In 2017, Donuts raised a $110 million investment to help complete the acquisition of fellow domain company Rightside Group. It has about 300 employees across four global offices.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2022

ILFI is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing sustainable building practices and many of the practices Amazon has undertaken meet the organization’s requirement for zero carbon certification. “As billion acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017, as it tries to take a bigger bite of the $750 billion U.S. grocery industry.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 11, 2020

Adams was a Special Forces Team Leader in western Afghanistan and helped coordinate with various organizations across business, government, and nonprofits. Founded in 2017, OnSolve is based in Alpharetta, Ga., Past military experience helped drive Adams and his co-founder Chris Hurst to create Stabilitas in 2013.

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2020

In Seattle, Gig4Good will provide nearly $200,000 in driving value, or 13,000 driving hours — to nonprofit partners in June. AAA’s innovation lab A3Ventures launched GIG in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017. The service currently operates 1,000 hybrid and electric GIG vehicles in Oakland, Berkeley, and Sacramento and now Seattle.

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GeekWire

JULY 16, 2020

.” Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO, is chairman of the LA Clippers NBA team and founder of USAFacts , a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic data initiative. Firearm deaths are up over the last decade even when adjusted for population increases.

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2020

The notice, which is available in full through the nonprofit Lumen Database , says the site “is an unauthorized version of the Club Penguin game and contains infringing copyrighted content.”. “In In all honestly, it isn’t worth it”. Club Penguin appears to have complied with the order; as of publication, the website is no longer available.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) , a nonprofit organization with more than 16,000 members internationally, is partnering with Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group and Madrona Venture Labs in order to expand its opportunities for training, mentoring and networking. .” AWIP and Madrona Photos).

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Financial technology (fintech) products and services are picking up tremendous steam, particularly with younger, tech-savvy and affluent customers, according to the World FinTech Report 2017 (WFTR), recently released by Capgemini, LinkedIn and Efma (a global nonprofit organization composed of banks and insurance companies).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The nonprofit, backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion Day One Fund , will open a new school on Oct. George retired from Amazon in July 2017 after nearly 20 years at the tech giant, where he held multiple leadership positions spanning hardware to HR. 19 in Des Moines, Wash.,

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2023

The city’s revenues have grown since 2017 but the pandemic caused revenues to decline “precipitously,” according to the report. The group included Smith and other leaders from various sectors including business, nonprofits, and real estate. San Francisco and Portland have similar taxes in place.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella holds a Kookaburra cricket ball given to him by GeekWire Editor Todd Bishop at the 2017 GeekWire Summit. Speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Summit, Nadella explained how cricket has taught him leadership lessons he’s carried over to the workplace. GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Loftium made headlines in 2017 for its unusual plan to provide down payment assistance to potential homebuyers who agreed to split Airbnb profits with the company through renting out a room in the house. Loftium and other Seattle real estate tech companies including Redfin , Zillow , and Inspectify also laid off workers.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2021

megawatts (MW) of solar power this year alone, a more than 10-fold increase over a decade ago, according to an industry nonprofit. Volunteer homeowners allow the nonprofit to install a home on their property. Residents in the state installed an estimated 38.6 The total residential solar statewide is about 213 MW.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It was started in 2017 after its founder, Kelauni Jasmyn, noticed that, after graduating a coding bootcamp, she didn’t see many other software developers who “looked like her in the local tech scene.” The nonprofit organization comprises collegiate and pre-collegiate students and technical professionals in engineering and technology.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 2017, Yuste gathered around 30 experts to meet at Columbia’s Morningside campus, where they spent days discussing the ethics of neurotech. Together, Yuste and Genser created a nonprofit called the Neurorights Foundation to advocate for the cause. He’d created the mouse version of the movie Inception. They soon notched a major win.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ferguson spoke on a call organized by a group that calls themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board , along with Color of Change, a progressive nonprofit that led the call for a Facebook advertiser boycott over the summer, and UK-based nonprofit technology justice organization Foxglove.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, A-Alpha Bio closed a $20 million Series A round in September. Apprenti, a nonprofit program of the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), announced three additions to its leadership team: Al Cave promoted to COO. From left: Al Cave, Laurie Martin and Lisa Wallace. Apprenti Photos).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund. Fabric closed a $100 million funding round in July and has raised $153 million to date. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). He is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Nearly 850 intentional shutdowns have been recorded over the past 10 years by nonprofit Access Now’s Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP), and although the group acknowledges that data on incidents before 2016 is “patchy,” some 768 of these shutdowns took place in the last five years.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 11, 2021

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman rings the Nasdaq opening bell in 2017 with members of the Seattle company. In July, the Seattle-based nonprofit released a report examining the relationship between diversity on S&P 500 company boards and revenue growth. Nasdaq Photo). Companies listed on the U.S.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

First reported by Gizmodo , the report from Coworker.org, a pro-labor nonprofit organization that helps workers organize, gathered screenshots from more than 200 Shipt workers — who the company calls shoppers — in 140 different US metro areas.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Katie G.

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