Amazon govt Jeff Blackburn speaks at his alma mater, Dartmouth School, in 2015. (Dartmouth / Eli Burakian Picture, applied with authorization.) Jeff Blackburn, a longtime Amazon government who very first joined the firm after functioning on its 1997 IPO, is retiring — once again. Amazon posted memos (underneath) from CEO […]
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Ben Straley, CEO of Thred. (Thread Photograph) A new Seattle startup is leaping into the nascent environment of NFTs in an attempt to develop a research and discovery system for the electronic tokens. Thred lately lifted $3.5 million to help enhance growth of its secretive solution. The corporation is a […]
Prophia’s person interface. (Prophia Image) Prophia, a startup constructing a platform that scours and extracts key phrases from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 million in a Sequence A spherical led by Cercano Administration, previously Vulcan Cash. Cameron Steele. (Prophia Photo) Prophia’s buyers can add PDF contracts that are analyzed […]
University of Washington graduation. (University of Washington Picture / Katherine B. Turner) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will supply $75 million more than the following four yrs to improve enrollment in write-up-secondary education courses in Washington state. The endeavor is the new target of the foundation’s Washington Point out […]
Dave Limp, head of Amazon’s Products & Providers division, in 2019. (GeekWire Photograph / Kevin Lisota) Amazon made the preliminary complex scaffolding for Alexa speedily, leaping out to an early direct in the industry for good speakers and voice assistants in the home. But practically a decade afterwards, Alexa is […]
A District Market concession store at Lumen Field in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) The Seattle Seahawks took a loss against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, but fans at Lumen Field who are into cashierless concession stands can at least count the day as a win. The […]
Ixana’s 3 co-founders, L-R: Shovan Maity, head of investigate Angik Sarkar, CEO and Shreyas Sen, a Purdue college professor who came up with the new chip. A earlier unfamiliar Seattle startup, founded by semiconductor and technological innovation marketplace veterans, says it has created an electrical power-efficient chip capable of operating […]
Mark Nelson. (Tableau Picture) Mark Nelson is stepping down as CEO of Tableau Application, significantly less than two years following he took the helm of the Seattle-dependent data visualization enterprise owned by Salesforce. Nelson declared the news on Twitter and LinkedIn. His past working day is Thursday. “It has been […]
An Amazon fulfillment middle. (GeekWire File Picture) Irrespective of worries about ongoing inflation and warnings that it would be slowing its progress, Amazon claimed its “biggest holiday procuring weekend ever” as customers flocked to the e-commerce huge for discounts. In a web site publish Wednesday, Amazon stated buyers purchased a […]
Bellevue, Clean.-primarily based Kurvv, which sells AI tools that forecast products failure, is becoming acquired by Aizen, an AI-concentrated fintech startup based mostly in Singapore. Ryan Lee, CEO of Kurvv. (Picture courtesy of Ryan Lee) “The financial downturn that begun for the duration of the deal approach didn’t make things […]