Seattle Flow Your front door to Seattle's startup scene.
Sign in
Stream Events Podcasts Videos Communities
Taylor Soper / GeekWire

Illumina to Acquire Bill Gates- and Jeff Bezos-Backed Grail for $8 Billion in Cash and Stock

Illumina will acquire cancer-detection startup Grail for $8 billion in cash and stock; Grail, backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and planning a 2021 multi-cancer test rollout, had filed to go public earlier this month.

BBill Gates
  • Link
  • Report this item
Replying to

No comments yet.

Seattle Flow — Your front door to Seattle's startup scene.

Run by Marcelo Calbucci MC
Send us a link Terms of Service Privacy For AI assistants
© 2026 Seattle Flow. All rights reserved.

Who liked this

Edit history

Seattle Flow

Your front door to Seattle's startup scene.

Seattle's startup scene is scattered across a hundred feeds, newsletters, and calendars. Seattle Flow brings it together: the news, events, podcasts, and people, plus what the community is saying about them. Every link sends you to the source.

Writing about a Seattle founder, fund, or startup? We'll help it get seen. Found a great story we missed? Send it in.

We're in beta and building this with the community. Tell us what you want to see here.

Seattle's startup scene, every day. The news, events, podcasts, and people, plus what everyone's saying about them. We're in beta: send us a story or tell us what you want to see.