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Two efforts fill surprising tech gap between restaurants, donors and those who are hungry

GeekWire

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. Serving up smarter logistics.

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Tech Moves: Convoy vet joins Xembly; Seattle climate firm hires Goldman Sachs exec; and more

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Ismail was previously chief operating officer of H1, a New York City-based healthcare data company. nonprofit Greater Washington Partnership, and president and CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority. billion campus development plan and its effort to achieve net-zero emissions. and Nashville.

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Automation eases medical record sharing at JHS

CIO Business Intelligence

In healthcare, the movement of data can be critical to patient outcomes. Accurate, up-to-date patient information has to be accessible both within a healthcare organization and to partner organizations. JHS is a nonprofit academic medical system in Miami, Fla., Healthcare has not gotten over the fax yet.

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Seattle’s Silverback Therapeutics files for IPO, led by newly formed and gender-diverse exec team

GeekWire

Like many early stage biotech companies, Silverback has yet to generate meaningful revenue, posting a net loss of $17.6 An ovarian cancer survivor, Shawver is also the founder of the nonprofit Clearity Foundation , supporting other women with the disease. managing director, working in the investment bank’s healthcare group.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 The company offers mobile platforms for religious, education and nonprofit organizations. The 9-year old company provides security technology and analysts, with a focus on healthcare, financial and government organizations. The company posted revenue of $4.2

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How Melinda French Gates’ fortune has ‘transformational potential’ to boost women’s equity

GeekWire

The company has made seven investments in six different companies or nonprofits since March 2019. Another early initiative was promoting contraceptives globally, a healthcare tool that she embraced for her own family planning. So far at least, Pivotal doesn’t appear to have been writing massive VC checks. Getting loud.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

Disclosure: MIRI is a nonprofit and I donated to its work in 2017-2019.). There are also lots of people working on more present-day AI ethics problems: algorithmic bias , robustness of modern machine-learning algorithms to small changes, and transparency and interpretability of neural nets , to name just a few.