Since 2014, UW Medicine’s Institute for Protein Design has spun off 10 startups, and the institute’s director, University of Washington biochemist David Baker, has co-founded 21 tech companies. After Baker… Read More
Eva Schoenleitner joined enterprise software giant Smartsheet as vice president of partner. Schoenleitner has extensive experience working in Europe and was previously the CEO of Crate.io, an enterprise software startup… Read More
A-Alpha Bio will receive $14.5 million from the Department of Defense (DOD) to expand a project with a national lab to help prepare for future biological threats using the company’s… Read More
Seattle biotech startup A-Alpha Bio raised $22.4 million to boost development of its machine learning platform that analyzes protein-protein interactions. A-Alpha Bio, a spinout of the Institute for Protein Design… Read More
Inside the headquarters of Outpace Bio in Seattle, senior scientist Bobby Langan shows a video of one of his favorite deep learning tools. A fuzzy blob coalesces into a molecular… Read More
— Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced it added three new venture partners: Loren Alhadeff, Mark Nelson, and Ted Kummert. Alhadeff, formerly the COO of DocuSign, has more… Read More
The University of Washington recently hosted a panel of five entrepreneurs to discuss what it takes to launch a life sciences company. Panelists shared how they got a foothold in… Read More
The finalists for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards showcase the strength of science and discovery in the Pacific Northwest. Some have links to the region’s innovation… 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
Seattle-based A-Alpha Bio will support research into new therapies for COVID-19 variants in a collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The partnership is powered by a $1.1 million sub-contract awarded… Read More
— Tomo, a new real estate startup led by ex-Zillow leaders, announced Sarah Makar as CMO. She is also a Zillow alum and was most previously SVP of marketing at… Read More
A-Alpha Bio will build lab space in downtown Seattle and beef up its machine learning team with $20 million in new venture funding for its operation to identify therapeutic proteins,… Read More
Seattle-based biotech research startup A-Alpha Bio announced on Thursday that it has received an $800,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The money will support drug research for… Read More
A-Alpha Bio, a Seattle venture that began at the University of Washington, has won a $620,472 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system that identifies molecules capable… Read More
A Seattle startup that took root at the University of Washington has closed a $2.8 million seed round for a drug discovery platform that can sort through millions of protein… Read More
A-Alpha Bio, a startup aiming to speed up the development of new drugs, announced Tuesday it has won a $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The funding brings… Read More
