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. Other finalists: Accolade; Athira Pharma; Rover; and Sana Biotechnology. Winner: Adaptive Biotechnologies. Winner: Rad Power Bikes.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The gist: This startup’s self-driving robot uses artificial intelligence to identify weeds growing in fields of vegetables, then zaps them with precision thermal bursts from lasers. Other finalists: Rec Room; Group 14 Technologies; SeekOut; and iSpot. Impinj went public in 2016.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI; Leslie Alexandre, President and CEO of Life Science Washington; Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma; Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Caroline Lewis, partner at Rogue Venture Partners; and Saad Bashir, CTO for City of Seattle.

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