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Baby Yoda’s real name and Bill Gates’ podcast pal: Test your geek smarts with our year-end news quiz

GeekWire

Answers are at the bottom of this post — but remember not to cheat by peeking at them or checking the internet! In June, Seattle biotechnology upstart Sana Biotechnology revealed that it had raised more than $700 million in venture funding. Adaptive Biotechnologies (It went public in 2019). Climate Pledge Arena.

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Seattle investment bank that helps buy and sell companies forms new SPAC to target ‘industry 4.0’

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is seen as the fourth industrial revolution, using the building blocks of computing and advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer vision, Internet of Things (“IoT”), gene sequencing, energy storage, and blockchain, to transform the physical, digital and biological worlds,” the firm wrote in a SEC filing.

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Gizmodo's Degrees of the Future

Gizmodo

In the 1990s, that same student might have studied biotechnology, and developed genetic engineering techniques that are solving today’s health crises. In the 1950s, a visionary college student might have pursued a degree in computer science, and helped create our modern digital world. But what and where should a… Read more.

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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

GeekWire

Co-founder and CEO : Matt Oppenheimer , head of mobile and internet banking initiatives at Barclays Kenya. Sana Biotechnology. GeekWire story from July 2020 : Another unicorn in Seattle: Digital remittance startup Remitly raises $85M at $1.5B Valuation : $1.5 billion (as of July 2020). GeekWire 200 rank : No. Founded : 2011.

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‘Intersection of innovation’: Why top tech VC firms are betting big on life science startups

GeekWire

In 2016 he co-founded protein analysis company Nautilus Biotechnology, and Madrona crossed over with him, investing in the startup before it went public last year in a $345 million SPAC merger. Think about the sort of 20-year arc of the internet from maybe 1995 to 2015 or so. billion more than a decade ago.

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

That list dropped by three last year when Remitly and Sana Biotechnology completed their initial public offerings and Auth0 sold to Okta for $6.5 Hint: They are in the real estate, consumer internet, transportation, clean tech and gaming categories). Enterprise software still rules the roost in the region.

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What is 5G Technology: 5G Connectivity and Speed Explained

Galido

5G will help support the massive growth in the Internet of Things and enable devices to communicate with each other seamlessly through the convergence of center. We are talking about a figure that goes from 1 to 10 Gbps, but it is not the theoretical maximum since it is about Internet access speeds in movement.

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