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Immunotherapy startup Umoja lands $210M, less than a year after raising $53M

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The company’s headquarters are in Seattle, and it has a manufacturing operations site in Boulder, Colo. The strategy also uses a system of tagging cancer cells. The company is developing immunotherapy treatments for blood-based and organ-based tumors in adult and pediatric patients. The name comes from a Swahili word for unity.

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Cashierless clothing shop: Testing a new Seattle Seahawks store that uses Amazon tech and RFIDs

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At the home of the Seattle Seahawks, just down the street from Amazon’s headquarters, the new Seahawks Pro Shop Outlet store gives football fans a way to grab some gear without needing to wait in line. We gave it a test run last week before the Seattle Seahawks hosted the Carolina Panthers. Instead, they are placed at the exit.

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General Fusion lands $130M from Bezos and others as fusion energy sector keeps heating up

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The funding will help General Fusion develop its technology at its new Vancouver headquarters, build its power-plant scale Fusion Demonstration Plant near London, and conduct research at its newly opened facility adjacent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The competition: Everett, Wash.-based

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

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Headquarters : Harare, Zimbabwe and Los Angeles, Calif. Headquarters: Vancouver, B.C. Headquarters: San Francisco, Calif. Headquarters: Seattle, Wash. Headquarters: Remote (Kristen is in Portland, Ore.). Headquarters: San Carlos, Calif. Read on to learn more about each company. Afriblocks. Keep on going.

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The quotable Kara Swisher: Insights and zingers from the ‘Burn Book’ event at Seattle’s Town Hall

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Tagging along with Jeff Bezos to one of Amazon’s early offices: “I took Jeff Bezos to see his first headquarters in a shitty section of Seattle. It’s sort of like if I was around during Standard Oil and I knew them before. It was my duty to do that, so that’s why I did.”

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Harley-Davidson spins out LiveWire as its own electric motorcycle brand

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There’s a new logo and a new “virtual” headquarters, with engineering teams stationed in Silicon Valley and Milwaukee. Dealers told Reuters that many younger customers were turned off by the price tag. LiveWire will work with Harley-Davidson dealerships as an independent brand, with a blend of digital and physical retail formats.

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‘World’s lowest power wireless chip’: UW spinout Jeeva unveils new sensor data streaming tech

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.” CEO Scott Bright called the chip a game changer “because it combines the range and data streaming capabilities of technologies like Bluetooth and WiFi with the ultra-low power consumption and low endpoint cost of technologies like RFID tags.” Jeeva employs 13 engineers, headquartered in Seattle.

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