article thumbnail

Virtual primary care startup 98point6 raises $118M as pandemic sparks demand for digital health tech

GeekWire

Robbie Cape, CEO of virtual primary care startup 98point6, accepts the award for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards ceremony in 2019. 98point6’s virtual healthcare platform. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). Demand is through the roof for Seattle telemedicine startup 98point6.

article thumbnail

The voters will see you now: The finalists for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

Robbie Cape, CEO of virtual primary care startup 98point6, accepts the award for Health Innovation of the Year in 2019. The category highlights pioneering health, life science, biotechnology or medical breakthroughs that hold great promise for bettering our lives or improving the healthcare system. Adaptive Biotechnologies.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Adaptive Biotech revenue rises 65% to $21M, loss widens amid big COVID-19 immune partnerships

GeekWire

Adaptive Biotechnologies CEO Chad Robins. Adaptive Biotechnologies, which is working with Microsoft and Amgen to fight COVID-19 using its technology for sequencing the human immune system, reported a 65% increase in first quarter revenue , to nearly $21 million. The goal is to develop therapies to treat the virus.

article thumbnail

Biotech boom: How life sciences emerged from ‘the doldrums’ in Seattle and Washington state

GeekWire

Sana Biotechnology raised $587 million in its IPO, Absci pulled in $200 million, and vaccine company Icosavax raised more than $180 million. She warns that regional leaders need to focus on talent development at all levels, from K-12 STEM education to research internships, to support regional biotech growth. “I

article thumbnail

Tech Moves: Sea.citi adds board members; another Microsoft vet joins Magic Leap; and more

GeekWire

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization focused on aggregating information about the local tech community’s response to the pandemic and hosted virtual events about opportunities for equitable recovery. Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies appointed Leslie Trigg and Katey Owen to its board of directors.

article thumbnail

The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

While Silicon Valley still pays top dollar for IT pros, the war for talent has moved beyond the technology industry, with other verticals vying for talented IT workers who have the skills to enable digital transformation, process improvement, change management, and the development of apps and services.

Industry 120
article thumbnail

The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO Business Intelligence

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

Training 134