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

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CEO : Bill Richter , former president of Isilon storage division at EMC. Co-founder and CEO : Matt Oppenheimer , head of mobile and internet banking initiatives at Barclays Kenya. Sana Biotechnology. GeekWire story from July 2020 : Seattle’s newest billion-dollar startup: Qumulo reaches unicorn status with $125M round.

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

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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). Industry : Cloud data storage. Can you name the five other startups?

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

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Sujal Patel , for instance, crossed into life sciences after founding Madrona-backed data storage company Isilon Systems, which sold to EMC for $2.25 Think about the sort of 20-year arc of the internet from maybe 1995 to 2015 or so. (Madrona Photo). billion more than a decade ago. I think it’s still early,” said Pande.

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‘The dark matter is just sitting there’: What’s standing in the way of AI for life sciences

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From left: Cyrus Biotechnology CEO Lucas Nivon, Microsoft researcher Jonathan Carlson, Deepcell CEO Maddison Masaeli, and moderator Chris Picardo, a Madrona venture partner. New AI “foundation” models like GPT-3 and DALL-E that can generate new sentences or images were built using massive training sets pulled from the internet.