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Microsoft and Facebook vet leads nonprofit making software to improve COVID-19 rapid tests

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A Seattle-based nonprofit launched to provide digital health solutions for poorer countries is applying its expertise to help with COVID-19 testing. Audere is building software for administering rapid result COVID tests that can be integrated into products being developed by U.S. Audere Photo). ” But they’re not fail-proof.

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How the Gates Foundation and Seattle nonprofit PATH are helping get oxygen to India

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million into efforts by Seattle-based nonprofit PATH to bring more oxygen to COVID-19 patients in India. Lack of access to medical oxygen is one of the defining health challenges of our age,” said Chris Elias, president of global development at the Gates Foundation. “As As we are now seeing in India, the consequences can be dire.”.

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Tech Moves: Instacart COO lands at Microsoft in AI product role; ZoomInfo accounting chief departs

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Sharma already lived in Seattle with her family but traveled each week for work. Seattle biotech company Athira Pharma named Rachel Lennington as chief development officer and Samantha Willing as chief people officer. Binaytara Foundation , a Seattle-area health equity nonprofit, named Justin Marquart as chief development officer.

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Blue Origin puts a test pilot who could have been NASA’s first Black astronaut on its next space crew

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Now he’s in line to travel to the final frontier with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture. Hess , a software engineer and entrepreneur who developed the Family Tree Maker product line in the 1990s. In 2001, Hess founded Science Buddies , a K-12 nonprofit that’s based in California and focuses on STEM literacy.

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Tech Moves: Former Chef CEO joins Buildkite board; Salesforce hires Code.org exec

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(Code.org Photo) — Alice Steinglass joined Salesforce , where she is executive vice president and general manager of AppExchange and the Salesforce developer experience. Steinglass worked for more than five years at computer science education nonprofit Code.org, most recently as its president. She stepped down in 2020.

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Tech Moves: Icertis hires new CMO; Expedia Group board member steps down; and more

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He joined the Seattle-based travel company’s board a year ago following a $1 billion investment by private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Silver Lake. Sparrow Pharmaceuticals is developing a treatment that reduces the severe side effects of steroids which are frequently used to treat autoimmune and inflammatory conditions.

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Flying clean: National experts say ‘bold action’ required to cut carbon from aviation

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greenhouse gas emissions — a number that’s almost certain to grow as air travel increases while ground transportation and the power grid cut their fossil fuel use. “We’re ZeroAvia , a hydrogen-powered aviation startup, is growing its research and development capabilities at its facility at Everett’s Paine Field.