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Biotech companies fuel IPO boom in Washington state over the past year

GeekWire

In the previous four years, Adaptive Biotechnologies was the only Washington state biotech company to go public. But now “investors are casting a wider net,” and “they recognize that there’s more out there,” according to Freedman, who is based in Fenwick’s San Francisco offices but also conducts business in Seattle.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

Hiltunen is known for co-inventing the TrendWiki tool for crowdsourcing organizational futures, as well as creating the “ Futures Window ” and “ Strategic Serendipity ” tools. Presentations and projects find her speaking to her interests, the importance of safe equanimity and its impact on the nexus of biotechnology and cultural design.

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