GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

24 in the latest “Best Performing Cities” report from the nonpartisan nonprofit Milken Institute, released Tuesday. Milken Institute Graphic) Austin, Texas, took the top spot among large cities for the first time since 2013 — a year when Seattle also ranked sixth. The Seattle skyline. The ranking of 403 U.S.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 30, 2023

The nonprofit cut 45% of its workforce in May, impacting about 34 of 76 employees at the time. Photo via PR Log) Shawna Young , a longtime leader in nonprofits, education and business development, has been appointed interim CEO, effective Sept. With a significantly reduced team, we are operating with the absolute essentials.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” – Michael Greer, president and CEO of the Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon’s CEO two years ago, is still relatively new to large-scale philanthropy and his charitable track record provides limited clues to his future giving. among other nonprofits.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Founded in 2013, Ada’s mission is to diversify the tech industry. In an email to supporters this week, Ada laid out what it hopes to achieve through independence as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit: Expanding class sizes. 2 to build up its cash reserves and a six- to nine-month fiscal runway. Becoming a national organization.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2023

The Code.org leadership team in 2013, from left: Michelle Page, Cameron Wilson, Hadi Partovi, Ali Partovi, James Gwertzman and Pat Yongpradit. The nonprofit counts 80 million students and 2 million teachers on its platform today, with 238 million projects created by students around the world. Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, launched Loon in June 2013 , and Loon “graduated” from a moonshot to an independent company within Alphabet in 2018. “In the coming months, we’ll begin winding down operations and it will no longer be an Other Bet within Alphabet.”. Loon isn’t the only moonshot that Alphabet has shut down.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good. Statsig raised $43 million in 2022 from Sequoia Capital, with participation from Madrona Venture Group. The company’s total funding to date is $53 million.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

The nonprofit program provides six months of classroom training followed by a five-month internship at one of its corporate partners. It runs two 48-person cohorts per year and has graduated hundreds of students since launching in 2013. Ada Developers reports that it has placed nearly all of its recent graduates in full-time tech jobs.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Evergreen Goodwill is a nonprofit founded in 1923 that now operates 25 retail stores and more than 30 donation centers across Washington state, managing more than 2,000 employees. Founded in 2013, Clarifai raised $60 million in 2021. Amith Nair , a former marketing leader at Microsoft, HashiCorp, and Cohesity, joined Washington D.C.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 2, 2023

(TeachAI Image) Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit Code.org is helping to launch TeachAI , a new effort aimed at guiding governments and educators on teaching with and about artificial intelligence.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2023

The city’s Climate Action Plan from 2013 set a goal of reducing passenger vehicle emissions to 83% of 2008 levels by 2030 and to zero-emission by 2050. By 2030, two-thirds of new car sales must be zero-emission in Washington state; by 2035, all new vehicles sold in the state must be zero-emission.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 11, 2020

Past military experience helped drive Adams and his co-founder Chris Hurst to create Stabilitas in 2013. Adams was a Special Forces Team Leader in western Afghanistan and helped coordinate with various organizations across business, government, and nonprofits.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 23, 2014

MACH37™ opened its doors in September 2013, has hosted three separate cohort sessions and attracted over 300 investors to its Demo Days. MACH37™ was launched in 2013 by the Center for Innovative Technology, in Herndon, Virginia. To learn more, please visit [link] and follow @MACH37cyber on Twitter.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2022

He has more than three decades of experience working at tech companies including IBM, Juniper Networks (he was CEO from 2008 to 2013), and Microsoft, where he led worldwide sales for two years before running the Windows and Online Services division for three years, working closely with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Bush and Barack Obama.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ThruWave is also working with In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investor for U.S. Reynolds joined the UW as a professor in 2013. government agencies, to use its packing screening technology for national security applications. Reynolds said the sensors can also be used to see through wall surfaces and help with construction or remodeling projects.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2022

Sandberg has a reputation for being a champion for women’s rights in the workplace, penning the 2013 book Lean In and founding the LeanIn.org nonprofit foundation. It is important to note that, according to the Journal , sources at the Mail who were in communication with Sandberg said they did not feel threatened.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Ada, a Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp dedicated to diversifying the tech industry, was founded in 2013 and became an independent nonprofit last year. She’s previously worked for health organizations including Doctor for a Day and Seattle Children’s.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Even though employees could donate to any eligible US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the late 1990s, the money was still processed by United Way and employees paid a pass-through fee. Employees expected their entire donation to go directly to the nonprofit of their choice and not to have to pay this fee.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Nationally, 69 mass timber projects were built in 2013 — a number that spiked to 755 by last year, according to Bloomberg. The nonprofit Community Roots Housing owns the building and manages it via a third party. Atelierjones designed the project, which broke ground in April 2022 and is constructed by Swinerton.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He also led Seattle-based microfinance nonprofit Vittana. Founded in 2013, Kirkland, Wash.-based He is also an advisor for nonprofits and educational organizations. He previously served as a strategic advisor for the real estate startup, which competes with Seattle-based companies Zillow Group and Redfin. Vancouver, B.C.-based

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2013

October 2, 2013 (HERNDON, Va.) – The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today the appointment of Robert J. Since 1985, CIT, a nonprofit corporation, has been Virginia’s primary driver of innovation and entrepreneurship. For more info see the press release below: CIT Hires Robert Stratton as MACH37™ General Partner.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2013

December 12, 2013 (HERNDON, Va.) – The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today nearly $1.4 Since 1985, CIT, a nonprofit corporation, has been the Commonwealth’s primary driver of innovation-based economic development. By Bob Gourley. Awards target academic research and commercialization activities in the Commonwealth .

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. Meyer previously worked at Amazon from 2013 to 2015 and held leadership roles at Arivale, Razorfish, and Best Buy. Jones became CEO in August 2019. Jonathan Maltos. Qumulo Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 18, 2020

The space entrepreneurs who planned to send passengers ballooning into the stratosphere for astronaut’s-eye views of the Earth below, way back in 2013, have revived the idea for a new venture called Space Perspective. Since 2013, World View has pivoted to sending up uncrewed payloads on balloon platforms known as Stratollites.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

She has been a member of the department’s faculty since 2013 and previously served as co-director with Hanson Hosein. At the time of his departure in 2013, he was CVP of corporate strategy. . — Ekin Yasin is the new director of the Communication Leadership graduate program at the University of Washington.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

Ada Developers Academy, founded in 2013, is a nonprofit coding school for women and gender-expansive adults — and it’s completely free. I am, and have always been, blown away by what Ada can offer students as a nonprofit organization,” she says. A no-cost academy with a mission. This amount of support really surprised me.

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CTOvision

MARCH 7, 2014

Formerly research director at the National Security Agency (NSA), Chang joined SMU in fall 2013 as the inaugural Bobby B. Deason’s gift provides a $5 million endowment, as well as $1.25 million in operational funding, for the new institute, headed by renowned cyber security expert Frederick R. The gift provides another $1.5

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CTOvision

APRIL 24, 2014

We expect President Obama will join a unanimous Congress, the Government Accountability Office , the tech industry , all of the major nonprofit transparency advocacy groups and open data advocates from across the spectrum — and sign the DATA Act. No further changes are expected. Nearly three years after Rep.

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Vox

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“Past animal experiments [at Neuralink] revealed serious safety concerns stemming from the product’s invasiveness and rushed, sloppy actions by company employees,” said the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit that opposes animal testing, in a May statement. “As

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Seattle based computer education nonprofit Code.org is teaming with the British rock band Coldplay for a contest aimed at inspiring more kids to learn coding through the joys of music and dancing. Creations can be posted on social media or submitted to Code.org and the nonprofit will join the band in sharing and commenting on their favorites.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Auth0 was co-founded in 2013 by Eugenio Pace , who formerly ran the patterns and practices group at Microsoft, and Matias Woloski , a software engineer who remains the company’s CTO. The all-stock deal valued at approximately $6.5 billion is one of the largest acquisitions of a Seattle tech company. The honorees are: Lauren Bricker, Paul G.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2012

government and commercial and academic organizations to build apps for a wide variety of functions, including catalog management, nonprofit management, team management and collaboration and long-term care logistics. ► 2013. (18). The engine behind AppDeployer has been employed by the U.S. View my complete profile. Top Stories.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2021

the diversified holding company that Allen created, to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a. ” AI2’s CEO, Oren Etzioni, said the new researchers will represent a substantial addition to the 120 employees currently involved in nonprofit research activities at the institute. Maybe,” he said.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2021

In May 2013, the team released a time-lapse feature displaying 2D images of Earth from 1984 to 2012, and it made a big update to that in November 2016. The company aims for them to be used by teachers, nonprofits, policymakers, and others to show how the geography of Earth has changed over time.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Google refused to approve facial recognition apps in its 2013 Glass Explorer Edition headset, although one unofficial app raised lawmakers’ ire by trying it. The nonprofit XR Safety Initiative offers policy frameworks for safety and privacy in the industry, drawing on existing laws like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Honestly, I think for anyone who’s been tracking ransomware closely, this really shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Philip Reiner, CEO of the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology. More than a third of the 796 “cyber incidents” reported to the Department of Homeland Security between 2013 and 2015 took place in the energy sector.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As best as I understand it, there is a Singapore-based nonprofit company named True Names Limited that leads and supports ENS. Last month, the investor and influencer Cooper Turley was removed from the Friends With Benefits DAO after he was found to have used racist and homophobic in a series of 2013 tweets. (He He apologized.)

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