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Deena Pierott works hard for underrepresented youth in STEM, but funding her nonprofit isn’t easy

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iUrban Teen founder Deena Pierott, left, received some funding for her nonprofit from Seattle Seahawks player Bobby Wagner, right. The two are pictured with sister and brother Amiya and Clay Brasley, who both attended iUrban Teen programs. “They’re paying them that money to create inclusive programming,” Pierott said.

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Meet the startups that just graduated from Creative Destruction Lab’s accelerator in Seattle

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CDL Photo) Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs 13 startup accelerators across the world, just graduated another swath of early stage companies from its Seattle program. Seattle’s CDL program focuses on two sectors: manufacturing and computational health. CDL launched its Seattle hub in 2021.

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Tech Moves: Superhuman hires CTO; Getty Images founder departs board; Xbox vet joins Unity

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San Francisco-based Superhuman raised $75 million in 2021 to fuel development of its email app that aims to streamline how people send, receive, and compose emails in clients including Gmail and Outlook. Bee, who is based in Seattle, was previously a senior director at Zillow Group and a senior engineering manager at Uber. Larry Hryb.

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Tech Moves: Meta leader for Pacific NW steps down; Phase Genomics adds to C-suite

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Phase Genomics has developed technology for sequencing DNA from wide-ranging and tricky to study organisms. Shoultz’s resume runs deep in Seattle health companies and nonprofits. Other former positions include leadership roles at the Gates Foundation and directing the global drug development program at PATH.

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

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Companies have been responding of late by offering volunteer time off and by partnering with organizations that could benefit greatly from the added help of programs and staff time. Since then, LinkedIn has “grown into one of the major enterprise partners for Year Up,” says Audrey Rhodes Market, the Year Up program manager at LinkedIn.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. Shaw previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, most recently as head of engineering, developer services, in the Azure and AI division.

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Ukrainian delegation visits Seattle to learn about its life sciences cluster and plan for the future

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A delegation of Ukrainian health officials and policymakers is visiting Seattle to learn about the city’s life sciences cluster and develop relationships with its researchers and innovators. Ukraine is known for its lively tech sector , but its infrastructure for life sciences research is not as fully developed.