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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. 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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Ciara and Russell Wilson’s fashion house will raise up to $50M as revenue grows

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Russell WIlson and Ciara at a TraceMe event in 2018. She also sits on the board of Seattle marketing startup Amperity, leading corporate social responsibility efforts. In 2017 he teamed up with Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs to launch social networking startup TraceMe , which was eventually acquired by Nike.

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Billionaires get too much credit for philanthropy

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In 2018, just under half of American households did. Increasingly, that’s seen as a problem by researchers and by nonprofits scratching their heads at why they’re seeing fewer people donating. That’s the assumption that the nonprofit sector is now reexamining. That has puzzled researchers and nonprofits.

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Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private

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In 2018, she wrote an open letter urging the company not to build warfare technology for the Department of Defense. We need to look beyond technical fixes for social problems,” Whittaker said in 2019. “We Whittaker’s experience as an internal dissenter stretches back to her time working at Google. We need to ask: Who has power?

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Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private

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In 2018, she wrote an open letter urging the company not to build warfare technology for the Department of Defense. We need to look beyond technical fixes for social problems,” Whittaker said in 2019. “We Whittaker’s experience as an internal dissenter stretches back to her time working at Google. We need to ask: Who has power?

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Meet Seattle’s ‘Climate Papa’ – an entrepreneur turned investor, podcaster, climate action apostle

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Eidelson’s focus isn’t on creating a social networking group, but he was glad for the chance to meet in person with like-minded people. Almost two years ago he made the jump from software engineer for companies including Deloitte Digital and Slalom Build to the nonprofit Climate Neutral, which certifies climate neutral brands.

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Junior Geek of the Month: Archika Dogra discovers how she can use tech to make a positive impact

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Somewhere along the way, Dogra determined that she could do more with technology to impact the social causes that were important to her. ’ That summer was super transformational because the way that the program was executed was really deeply intertwining tech and artificial intelligence and machine learning with social impact.”