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Seattle Angel Conference launches new health startup competition to help educate angel investors

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The program is modeled after the Seattle Angel Conference, which has been educating new investors and funding new companies for more than ten years, mainly through its startup competition. He founded Apis to provide a forum for such companies. Apis Health Angel Conference program manager Elizabeth Cross Nichol.

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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

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The news: Five startups jostled for $200,000 in funding in the final round of the Seattle Angel Conference , with new medical device company BrainSpace rising to the top. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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‘It changed my life’: Microsoft vet creates mentoring program for tech-focused college students

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Tech companies have made pledges, but often little progress , in building diverse workforces. Top universities are able to accept a fraction of applicants to their in-demand computer science programs. Sestak logged years doing administrative work in logistics and distribution companies. “I It changed my life.”

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Google is shutting down its VR field trip app Expeditions

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The app, which offered educational VR tours, will be removed from iOS and Android app stores on June 30th, 2021. We’ve heard and recognize that immersive experiences with VR headsets are not always accessible to all learners,” writes Jennifer Holland, Google’s director of education program management. “As

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Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

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based online education startup Thinkific announced former Hootsuite executive Henk Campher as chief marketing officer. Based in Seattle, Campher was most recently VP of corporate marketing at social media management platform Hootsuite. He was most recently principal DevOps manager at Philips and previously worked a T-Mobile and Skype.

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Sen. Patty Murray, Microsoft’s Brad Smith endorse greater internet access through Digital Equity Act

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.” Murray, Smith and Enfield, were joined by King County Library System Executive Director Lisa Rosenblum, Equity in Education Coalition Co-founder and Executive Director Sharonne Navas and City of Seattle Digital Equity Program Manager David Keyes. But Navas said much more needs to be done.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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— Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. Foschini previously spent more than ten years as the chief data scientist at Evidation Health, a healthcare technology and services company he co-founded.

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