GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company has already used some of the funds to purchase Silvaseed , a 130-year-old Western Washington forestry company that collects cones for seeds and grows seedlings. The company can deploy its seed-dropping fleet within 30 days of a fire — a quicker time frame, the startup says, compared to traditional strategies.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 15, 2021

Gates also backs online used-car seller Vroom through Cascade as well as the Canadian National Railway Company. 3 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a net worth of $132 billion. The Land Report Graphic). Gates is currently No.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Ismail was previously chief operating officer of H1, a New York City-based healthcare data company. Prior to H1, he worked for more than five years at Seattle-based logistics company Convoy, where he was chief product officer. based hardware company MTI promoted Allen Auchenpaugh to CEO , from VP of global services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

x natural language model on pilots before Microsoft’s well publicized $10 billion investment in the nonprofit at the outset of 2023. Everything CarMax does that is new is done on the cloud but the company still has a small data center that will eventually be phased out. In this early use case, the CarMax team employed GPT 3.5’s

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2021

.” In November, one of the startups backed by the fund, QuantumScape went public by virtue of a merger with Kensington Capital, a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The company, which is developing lithium-metal battery technology , also attracted $300 million in investments from Volkswagen.

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2021

But at the same time, the company last year lowered its carbon intensity, a measure of carbon pollution per dollar earned, edging slightly towards its pledged goal to reduce its net carbon footprint to zero by 2040. The company, which employs more than 1 million people worldwide, posted record revenue of $386 billion last year.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Portland-based nonprofit VertueLab launched its $5 million Climate Impact Fund on Wednesday to support early stage, clean tech entrepreneurs focused on addressing climate change causes and moving to a carbon-free economy. It’s providing funding for companies before they’re generating revenue, and even before they have a product.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s the latest effort by a major tech company to address the inequities fueled by the booming tech economy. trillion, making it one of the most valuable companies in the world. The company posted $14.1 Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos is the world’s wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of $186 billion.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Bezos’ net worth since launching his fund has increased from $160 billion to more than $200 billion today, according to Forbes. While CEO of Amazon, Bezos established a strong relationship with Mary’s Place, a Seattle nonprofit that works with women and families experiencing homelessness.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A new minimum wage law for gig workers in Seattle — and the subsequent response from tech companies — is changing the dynamics of food delivery in the city. As the law went into effect last month, companies such as Uber, DoorDash, and Instacart responded by adding new fees for customers in Seattle and adjusting tip mechanisms.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

The nonprofit appears to be an organization that approaches its environmental challenges in a manner that could align with Bezos’ management values. It’s going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organizations, and individuals.” We can save Earth.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

True to form, Wilson couldn’t help but drop some football terminology as he thanked the team that helped build the new company and the supporters who ventured to the University Village shopping mall to toast its success. The new store gives 3% of net revenue back to Why Not You.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Katherine Cheng , head of global and community impact at Expedia Group , had been working on a project with her company to employ out-of-work tailors from arts organizations to sew personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. based work collaboration software company, and Dyce reached out.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The American Booksellers Association is a national nonprofit trade organization that works to help independently owned bookstores grow and succeed. Employees at a Staten Island facility said the company has been hassling employees about productivity and warning that slowness could lead to termination.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In that way, Silverback is building on the momentum of Leen Kawas, the CEO of Athira Pharma, who became the first woman to lead a Washington state company to an IPO in more than two decades when the company went public in September. The company had $142.3 million round in March, led by U.S. Venture Partners.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

His fund is equivalent to more than 7 percent of his net worth. Much of the first round of funding from Amazon’s $2 billion climate fund will go toward getting more electric vehicles on the road and capturing carbon dioxide emissions, the company announced in September. Support for mainstream environmental groups.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The nonprofit, funded by philanthropy from high net-worth individuals, now has about 15 employees. Phenome Health Image) The new collaboration extends a vision for data-driven health Hood has pursued for years at the ISB and as co-founder of Seattle wellness company Arivale, which folded in 2019.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2021

The company announced today that some US-based public figures, as well as certain groups, can start hosting rooms through the main Facebook iOS app. Additionally, hosts can also select a nonprofit or fundraiser to support during their conversation with a button to directly donate showing up on the chat.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

The tax will affect founders and employees that have sold their companies since then or do so in the future, though there may be some potential exemptions. The company’s CEO, Andrew Chrostowski , confirmed to GeekWire that shareholders based in Washington state will be impacted by the new tax if they sell stock. “We

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 22, 2021

the file-sharing company formerly known as BitTorrent Inc. Although his net worth is currently estimated at a mere $200 million , he’s no stranger to high-stakes bidding. based company’s Launch Site One in West Texas. Last week he was named Grenada’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 25, 2023

“ChatGPT net worth” is one of the most searched queries on the Internet. So, let’s dive in and explore the net worth of ChatGPT! ChatGPT net worth or OpenAI net worth? ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model, and therefore it does not have a net worth in the traditional sense.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2013

College of William and Mary (Williamsburg), Developing Sonic Net Technology to Reduce the Risks of Bird-Aircraft Collision , Dr. John Swaddle, $99,781. Since 1985, CIT, a nonprofit corporation, has been the Commonwealth’s primary driver of innovation-based economic development. For more information, visit [link] initiatives/crcf/.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

based company described it as “a vehicle, when the time comes, to help explore potential other initiatives that don’t fit naturally or neatly within the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s] program areas.”. Less attention has been paid to Pivotal, the investment and incubation company that’s French Gates’ primary side gig.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

They have backed a range of companies trying to strip carbon out of energy, industrial processes, and the environment. The companies are targeting startups aligned with their “core business operations,” he said. The company also doesn’t have a deadline for deploying the capital, according to a spokesperson.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

He weathered the 2009 recession as CEO of Isilon Systems, coming out the other end to sell his company the next year for $2.25 “As a development stage company, we’re doing everything we can to strike the right balance between accelerating the development of our platform while seeking to extend our cash runway,” said Patel.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A nonprofit organization with Pacific Northwest ties has spun out its first venture capital fund totaling $60 million for investing in climate tech companies. The new fund is traditional venture capital and will target companies seeking seed to Series B funding. Elemental Excelerator Photo). So why VC and why now?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It’s the Amazon employee who has seen the company’s stock price rise steadily; the former venture capitalist who wants a crack at big financial returns in a newly hot sector; parents or parents-to-be who are panicked about leaving a global warming-ravaged Earth to their kids. VertueLab Photo).

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem”. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem,” says Brockman. “At Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

He originally joined the travel company’s board in 2005. AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. The company posted revenue of $4.2 Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 billion in 2019.

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Vox

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The report , which comes from the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), asserts that Amazon takes a larger and larger cut of sellers’ earnings through the various fees it levies on them. You might consider this to be a good business strategy on Amazon’s part, as it’s certainly paid off for the company. AWS netted $13.5

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Vox

MARCH 29, 2023

Instead of payment for my work there (which was done outside my time at Vox), I asked OpenPhil to make donations to the Against Malaria Foundation , a GiveWell-recommended charity that distributes malaria nets in parts of the world where they’re needed and where my wife and I donate annually. That’s why I need the 2captcha service.” (You

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As CEO of a cybersecurity company that’s raised nearly $15 million in funding, Frances Dewing has a surprising confession to make. “I So Dewing took a role as chief operating officer for Concentric Advisors , a company providing physical and digital security to prominent and high-net-worth families. Rubica Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2021

Options include offsets from Climeworks , a direct-air carbon removal company in Switzerland with backing from Microsoft and Gates; Seattle’s Nori , a platform for supporting carbon-trapping farming; and others. As a CEO, you write a check and something happens somewhere and you get to claim that you’re net zero.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The company’s investments helped make it the first net-zero carbon certified arena in the world. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena is the first in the world to receive Zero Carbon certification from an international nonprofit promoting sustainable buildings. “In

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

More than 683 companies, 136 countries and 234 cities have made pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions. There are multiple, well-funded companies offering tools for tracking climate emissions. The company pushed back against the critique, and cited outside verification of their efforts. “Our billion cars.

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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2022

Through the initiative the company is targeting affordable housing in three regions where it has a large presence and expanding economic divides: Seattle; Nashville, Tenn.; The company also announced funding for 742 new apartments in the Arlington-Washington, D.C. The company recently shared an update of its initiative.

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