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Airbnb launches nonprofit to provide stays for essential workers and refugees

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Airbnb is launching a nonprofit to allow the hosts who rent out their properties on its platform to provide free and discounted stays to refugees, people affected by natural disasters, and frontline workers in the coronavirus pandemic. Open Homes started in 2012, inspired by a host who opened her home to people affected by Hurricane Sandy.

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Alliance of Angels raising new fund to back more startups in Seattle and beyond

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Techstars announced earlier this month that it is shutting down its Seattle accelerator program and focusing on cities with a higher volume of venture capital activity. Initially started under the umbrella of the Technology Alliance, AoA spun out of the nonprofit in 2012.

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Tech Moves: Former AMD named Kymeta CEO; GitHub exec joins Twilio; DocuSign security vet joins Proof; Fred Hutch adds VP

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Kymeta, which was founded in 2012 with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , makes use of an innovative type of technology called metamaterials to build antennas that can be steered by software, without moving parts. He was previously CEO of Synaptics, a hardware and software giant also based in Silicon Valley.

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Training angels: Fledge accelerator founder leads new courses for budding startup investors

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Folks curious about making angel investments in promising startups can sign up for online training through the new Angel Accelerator program. Paid programming is available from March until mid-May. The program is available for accredited investors. Libes views his program as a next step for the conference graduates.

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Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

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Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good. Among them: Data visualization company Tableau Software (the 2012 winner), acquired by Salesforce for $15.7 The company’s total funding to date is $53 million. billion.

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New accelerator in Seattle: Creative Destruction Lab to launch ‘deep tech’ startup hub with Microsoft, UW

GeekWire

The program will start in November at the UW. (UW The news: Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs nine startup accelerators across the world, is coming to Seattle. It does not take equity as the program is funded by founding members such as Microsoft and the UW.

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

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-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.”. The company has made seven investments in six different companies or nonprofits since March 2019.

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