Three major acquisitions and two significant funding rounds make up the transactions featured in the Deal of the Year category at the 2025 GeekWire Awards. The award, presented by Wilson Sonsini,… Read More
The path from successful startup to big deal in the tech industry can be foreshadowed with one key prize at the GeekWire Awards: Next Tech Titan. Five startups will be… Read More
Seattle-area health data company Truveta announced $320 million in fresh funding and an ambitious new initiative to create a giant genomic dataset. The new investment — which comes from 17 health… Read More
— Emily Freeman, head of community for Amazon Web Services, is departing. “It’s been an incredible few years and I’ve learned a ton,” Freeman wrote on X. “I’m excited to… Read More
More than two years after its founding, health data startup Truveta released a platform Tuesday that provides access to information from more than 70 million patients. The tool, Truveta Studio,… Read More
Seattle-area health data startup Truveta announced a collaboration Tuesday with Boston Scientific, a leading medical device company. The partnership will enable Boston Scientific researchers to access Truveta’s de-identified data from… Read More
— Ron Markezich will succeed Brian McManus as CEO of Seattle-based Lighthouse, which provides electronic discovery products and other services to legal and compliance teams. Markezich previously was at Microsoft,… Read More
Seattle-area health data company Truveta announced a partnership Tuesday with biopharma giant Pfizer, which will use Truveta’s platform to monitor the safety of its COVID vaccines and therapies across the… Read More
It was a week of accolades, partnerships and new programs in the Pacific Northwest life sciences scene. University of Washington geneticist Evan Eichler landed on Time magazine’s list of “100… 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
Seattle-based Truveta will leverage Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to analyze health data under a new partnership with the software giant announced Wednesday. Microsoft is also investing an undisclosed amount in… Read More
In the past several years the barriers between tech and the life sciences have begun to dissolve. AI and machine learning have gone from buzzwords to bedrock technologies for a… Read More
— Former Amazon Web Services and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. She is currently vice… Read More
— After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. Kissler was most recently… Read More
A group of 14 U.S. health systems, representing tens of millions of patients across 40 states, will pool their data using software developed by Seattle startup Truveta, leveraging artificial intelligence… Read More
A Seattle-area startup called Truveta made its existence known for the first time on Thursday, describing an ambitious vision to use data to save lives through new innovations in patient… Read More
