A team of students from the University of Washington is developing self-charging drones that use AI to survey electrical lines to look for potential threats that could knock out power… Read More
A trio of students from the University of Washington won the grand prize at the UW’s Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge for their non-invasive jaundice-detecting technology. “The whole motivation is we… Read More
— Microsoft hired three former members of Google DeepMind, which was originally co-founded as a startup research lab by Microsoft’s current CEO of AI, Mustafa Suleyman. Joining Microsoft AI to… Read More
University students from the Pacific Northwest on Thursday competed in the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge in Seattle, pitching their best ideas for potential startups that could help protect the… Read More
You may have heard of insect-based food for humans. Now the sustainable alternative is expanding to pets. Just Right Bite, a startup led by six women from the University of… Read More
The Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and CoMotion hosted the University of Washington Startup Career & Internship Fair this week for interested students seeking opportunities with up-and-coming startups. More than 20… Read More
The University of Washington Foster School Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship this week hosted its annual Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC). The finalists collectively received $45,000 in prizes for their… Read More
A team of University of Washington students whose mission is to simplify planning and transactions related to burial plots, has won the $25,000 grand prize in the 2021 Dempsey Startup… Read More
Rob Adams, the director of the University of Washington’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, has resigned from that role, GeekWire has learned. His departure comes just a year after he took… Read More
Rob Adams, a Seattle angel investor, startup mentor, and the former acquisitions manager for Cisco, will replace Connie Bourassa-Shaw as Director of the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. Those are big… Read More
A club at the University of Washington is ready to help launch the next big thing. Startup UW is a student-run entrepreneurship group that provides a support network and resources… Read More
Connie Bourassa-Shaw, who spent nearly two decades helping the University of Washington grow its student entrepreneurial programs, is stepping down as director of the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship this June. Starting… Read More
