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Tech Moves: Allen Institute hires COO; DexCare adds CTO; and more

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The Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit research institution founded by the late Paul Allen, appointed a new CEO and president, Rui Costa , last December. Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Rick Pittenger is now chief technology officer of Seattle health tech startup DexCare.

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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

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Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. ” Karim Meghji , who became CTO in October 2020 and joined Remitly in 2016, will transition into an executive advisory role at the end of February. Ankur Sinha.

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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

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Michelle Cruz, research scientist for Banyu Carbon, adjusting some research apparatus. GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Michelle Cruz, research scientist for Banyu Carbon, adjusting some research apparatus. The scientists were researching the effect of ocean conditions predicted for the end of the century.

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Nonprofits accept cryptocurrency as Bitcoin and Ether values spike – is it a fad or the next frontier?

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The new website for donating cryptocurrency to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. As the values of Bitcoin and Ether are hovering near record highs, America’s nonprofits are in the peak months of their annual fundraising. The Arnold Building on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center campus. This is brand new.

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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

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DiRAC Institute / OpenSpace Project) A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid discovery candidates — not by making fresh observations of the night sky, but by sifting through archives of astronomical data. The project analyzed 5.4

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Tech Moves: Qumulo co-founder returns; Allen Institute adds execs; and more

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Yang is a biotech vet who worked at Adaptive Biotechnologies, AstraZeneca, and Genentech before joining the Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit founded almost 20 years ago by Paul Allen, the late Microsoft co-founder. He’ll lead Qumulo’s engineering teams alongside CTO Kiran Bhageshpur, who joined earlier this year.

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CIT Announces Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 Fall Solicitation Awards and Upcoming Solicitation

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Awards target academic research and commercialization activities in the Commonwealth . December 12, 2013 (HERNDON, Va.) – The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today nearly $1.4 The CRCF program is a state fund designed to advance, in Virginia, targeted areas of research with commercial promise.

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