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Amazon Web Services gets set to ignite space accelerator program’s third stage

GeekWire

Startups in this year’s AWS Space Accelerator program include, from left, Lunasonde, which is developing a space-based radar sounding system; Raven Space Systems, which is building 3D-printed re-entry capsules; and Rogue Space Systems, which focuses of space robotic systems.

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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

GeekWire

CEO Caitlin Morse was previously a program manager at Flex and is also a co-founder of a small medical device services startup, MorseCode Medical. The pair co-founded BrainSpace this January. The angels: The twice-yearly conference aims to create new investors in Washington through a startup competition.

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

CIO Business Intelligence

“After we opened the museum, the director and curatorial staff were talking about how to how to reach even more people who wouldn’t be able to come to the museum and experience it,” says Jill Roberts, program manager of the Searchable Museum at the Office of Digital Strategy and Engagement (ODSE). “We

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Microsoft hid lots of secret nerdy messages to devs in its Build stream

The Verge

If you tuned into Microsoft’s Build developer keynote yesterday, one of the things you may have seen was a mysterious “RGV2cw” 3D-printed object on the shelf behind CEO Satya Nadella. As Build moved on from Nadella’s opening remarks to Scott Hanselman, a partner program manager at Microsoft, the Easter eggs ramped up.

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Blue Origin and Aerojet get in on NASA partnerships for new space technologies

GeekWire

The 20 collaborative projects are part of a program managed by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. One involves the development of a space robot operating system that will rely on open-source software and provide greater autonomy while reducing operating costs and improving interoperability with other space systems.

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Startups to watch: 13 venture capitalists offer their picks for the next Pacific Northwest unicorns

GeekWire

GeekWire coverage : Freight forwarding software startup Logixboard lands $13M. ” Co-founder and CEO : Dan Shapiro , former CEO at Ontela and Sparkbuy and ex program manager at Microsoft. GeekWire coverage : Glowforge cuts deal with Michaels to expand retail reach of its 3D laser printers. Founded : 2017.

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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

On a video call from the hospital where he and his wife welcomed a baby boy over the weekend, CEO and co-founder Nick Fajt was excited about the 5-year-old startup he’s been raising into a unicorn in Seattle, where a majority of top tech companies operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. The company is not yet profitable.

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