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Biotech companies fuel IPO boom in Washington state over the past year

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In a region better known for its tech startups and legions of software engineers, it’s biotech companies that have helped lead a recent IPO boom in the state of Washington, accounting for eight of 11 firms joining the public markets via a traditional IPO over the past year. based biotech company went public. Absci Photo).

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

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At Microsoft, Trewin worked on new business and consumer products and helped scale products such as Windows and Xbox. Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies appointed Leslie Trigg and Katey Owen to its board of directors. Adaptive Biotechnologies’ fourth quarter revenue was up 25% from a year ago. Emily Cantrell.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

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A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company, Anderson was most recently a key Microsoft 365 leader, overseeing areas including engineering and deployment of Windows for large businesses, and PC and mobile device security. The publicly-traded company provides cloud-based software for subscription businesses.

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These biotech and life sciences CEOs made the leap from software startups — here’s how they did it

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From top left, clockwise: inistro CEO Daphne Koller; Nautilus Biotechnology CEO Sujal Patel; Truveta CEO Terry Myerson; and Viome CEO Naveen Jain. They include folks such as Sujal Patel, who sold his software startup Isilon Systems for $2.25 Sujal Patel , CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology. billion in 2010. Nautilus CEO Sujal Patel.

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Seattle startup Truveta raises $95M for ambitious vision to aggregate data across healthcare systems

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Truveta emerged from stealth mode in the fall , and the company gained traction with the COVID-19 pandemic, said CEO Terry Myerson , a former Microsoft executive who led the company’s Windows and Devices group. Potential customers include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and other outside researchers interested in querying the data.

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GeekWire Summit 2020: After a newsworthy first week, here is what’s next at our signature tech event

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Panay discussed the unlikely partnership with Google on the Surface Duo , leading the company’s unified Windows software and hardware teams remotely and how it may not be the “post-PC” era after all, as the pandemic renews the relevance of desktop and laptop computers in our lives. Thursday, Oct.

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Top Stories of ’21: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, COVID, and what’s next for tech in Seattle and beyond

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In the meantime, biotech is gaining momentum in Seattle: “I think the interface between information technology and biotechnology is going to give us a real competitive advantage, because we’re very strong in biomedicine, and we’re very strong in computing. And there’s so much at that interface.”

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