This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring highlights from a live interview with Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures and former chief technology officer at Microsoft. Myhrvold worked at… Read More
Will artificial intelligence ever catch up with human intelligence? And if it does, is humanity doomed? Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold, who had the job of predicting the future of tech during Microsoft’s early years, was ready with some answers at GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 anniversary event Thursday night.… Read More
An arbitrator has awarded Intellectual Ventures more than $6.5 million in attorney’s fees and other costs in a case involving two of the company’s former researchers who were accused of… Read More
New funding: Modern Electron, a spinoff from Intellectual Ventures, is raising cash. A new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals a $30 million round. Officials with the… Read More
Xinova, a Seattle company that operated a network of inventors, is winding down operations, GeekWire has learned. Xinova spun out of Intellectual Ventures in 2016 and helped match inventor ideas… Read More
New fund: MetaVC Partners is raising its first fund to invest in early-stage startups in the metamaterials space. Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold, the Intellectual Ventures founder and CEO, are… Read More
— Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The notoriously secretive Silicon Valley… Read More
Some candidates decide whether to take a job based on its title or compensation, the nature of the work, or perhaps whether the organization is big or small. Brian Holloway,… Read More
From food delivery to point of sale to reservation systems, there has been plenty of innovation over the past several years around the beginning and end of a dining experience.… Read More
— Former NFL receiver Doug Baldwin is now a senior advisor of product concepts at Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue, Wash.-based invention and investment lab. “As a kid, I grew up… Read More
Seattle-based “invention network” company Xinova cut staff today, GeekWire has learned. A company spokesperson declined to provide details about how many employees were let go. Xinova spun out of Seattle-based Intellectual… Read More
“Data is the new oil” may be a classic cliche characterizing how important raw numbers are for the computer industry, but when it comes to artificial intelligence ventures, the cliche… Read More
Do a search on “Nathan Myhrvold” and “mad scientist,” and you’ll get nearly 2,000 hits, including profiles from the likes of The New Yorker, Esquire and Men’s Journal. Myhrvold, however,… Read More
— For the fifth year in a row, artists from the Pacific Northwest will showcase their work at The Seattle Art Fair beginning on Aug. 1 at the CenturyLink Field… Read More
David Kraft is downright giddy for innovation. “I’m often naive enough to think there is no problem that can’t be solved,” Kraft said. And admittedly it would be a problem… Read More
— The University of Washington’s Clean Energy Institute named Kevin Klustner as executive director of the Center for Advanced Materials and Clean Energy Technologies (CAMCET). Klustner was most recently CEO… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — A succession of spinouts supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken an unorthodox technology known as metamaterials to high-flying realms ranging from satellite communications to drone-sized… Read More
The latest spinout from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow, says it’s coming out of stealth mode with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and other high-profile investors. Bellevue, Wash.-based EarthNow aims to… Read More
It can be a tough task to ensure that grants and charity funds get into the right hands, and show the path the money takes around the world. A Seattle… Read More
For years, the Global Good Fund has been working on a malaria-hunting microscope powered by artificial intelligence, and now China-based Motic is taking advantage of the technology to create EasyScan… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Can artificial intelligence help battle malaria and other infectious diseases? Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold says it’s time for his company’s AI-enabled microscope to join the fray. “We’ve… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Did you ever try inflating bread dough with a bicycle pump? Gourmet technologist Nathan Myhrvold did — and after thumbing through the 2,642 pages of his latest opus, “Modernist Bread,”… Read More
Less than two months after Intellectual Ventures and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence put out the call for entrepreneurs, business is booming. “We might be sitting here in a… Read More
Calling all entrepreneurs: Intellectual Ventures is launching a new business unit called ISF Incubator to match up its inventions with outsiders who can turn them into breakthrough businesses. The move… Read More
Xinova, a Seattle-based invention factory that spun off from Intellectual Ventures last year, has spun off its own new standalone company called Allied Inventors to help manage intellectual property assets. Xinova launched… Read More
Tola Marts isn’t what you’d expect from a Congressional candidate. The Minnesota native manages a team of engineers at Intellectual Ventures Lab, where he has regular one-on-ones with Bill Gates; he… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Chalk up another score for metamaterials technology: Bellevue-based Pivotal Commware says it’s raised $17 million in Series A funding from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Globalstar’s parent company… Read More
Adriane Brown, the president and chief operating officer of Intellectual Ventures, is stepping down from her executive role at the Bellevue, Wash.-based patent holding and technology company, to be replaced by… Read More
Kymeta has raised its largest investment round to fuel development of the company’s satellite antenna technology. The Redmond, Wash.-based company recently reeled in a $73.5 million round, according to a new… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Wireless power transmission has been a dream since the days of Nikola Tesla, but Intellectual Ventures is adding a twist to make it so, and make it… Read More
