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First look: Renderings of the world’s largest factory for advanced silicon battery materials

GeekWire

The company’s factory in Moses Lake in Eastern Washington by next year should start producing Group14’s patented silicon-carbon product. There are dozens of companies making advanced silicon anode materials, said Group14 CEO and co-founder Rick Luebbe — but his moved faster.

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An Intelligent Future for Manufacturing

CIO Business Intelligence

In the automotive sector for example, the advent of autonomous vehicles has resulted in burgeoning demand for computing power, cloud storage and network bandwidth. Another leading manufacturer, BYD , first entered the automotive market in 2003. One such automaker is China’s First Automobile Works (FAW).

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Space-focused SPAC brings in $287.5M with former Blue Origin president as CEO

GeekWire

A blank-check company that has former Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson as its CEO has completed a $287.5 Blank-check companies — formally known as special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs — use their capital to pursue mergers or other types of business combinations with ventures in targeted industry segments.

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How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity

GeekWire

“Data storage and compute is one market. “We have a lot of data that’s created in space, but how valuable would it be to actually do compute and storage in space? .” “We have a lot of data that’s created in space, but how valuable would it be to actually do compute and storage in space?”

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Go inside Group14, the $3B startup with a secret tech for better batteries

GeekWire

.” Venture capitalists including Porsche AG and Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund likewise see potential in the 7-year-old company. The startup says it’s valued at more than $3 billion, making it one of the most valuable privately held companies in the Pacific Northwest. based battery tech company Nexeon.

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Microsoft and VMware vet Paul Maritz backs social app built on promise of user privacy

GeekWire

But he also has a longstanding interest in the intersection of technology and personal data, as reflected in his founding in 2003 of Pi Corp., a Seattle-based company that made software for managing personal information. The 15-person company started in 2019, and the True app became generally available in August 2022.

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Fast-growing battery materials startup Group14 embroiled in trade secret dispute

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Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino, left, and CEO Rick Luebbe inside the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville, Wash. Group14 Technologies , a Seattle-area battery materials company, is embroiled in a lawsuit in which it claims that a U.K.-based Group14 / Talia Green Photo).

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