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General Fusion Becomes First Public Fusion Company Listed on Nasdaq Under GFUZ After Merger with Spring Valley
General Fusion Group Ltd. became the first publicly listed fusion energy company on July 13, 2026, trading on Nasdaq under the ticker GFUZ after merging with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III. This milestone marks a significant step in the commercialization of fusion energy.
Zane Dunham Launches NoWhere Foods to Reconnect Communities Through Ecological Beverage Line
Zane Dunham, a recent graduate of the Foster School of Business, developed NoWhere Foods, a beverage line aimed at reconnecting people with their local ecologies and communities through drink.
Five Seattle-Area Companies Featured in Time Magazine’s 200 Best Inventions of 2023 for Innovative Tech Solutions
Time Magazine's 2023 list of the 200 Best Inventions features five Seattle-area companies innovating in AI, fitness, smart home technology, health software, and green hardware. Notable entries include Alitheon's object-identifying technology and Amazon's Echo Hub smart home device.
Ryan Frazier
Ryan Frazier is the Co-Founder & CEO of Arrived. Arrived makes it easy for anyone to invest in shares of single-family rental homes, and earn passive rental income + property appreciation right away. The company is backed by Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, Spencer Rascoff (the former CEO and founder of Zillow), and Core Innovation Capital. Previously, Ryan was the Co-Founder and CEO of DataRank, an alumni of Y Combinator, and GM at Sprout Social. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Cloud Paper Raises $5M for Bamboo, Tree-Free Toilet Paper Backed by Bezos Expeditions, TIME Ventures and Celebrity Investors
Seattle startup Cloud Paper, which makes tree-free bamboo toilet paper and paper towels to reduce deforestation, raised $5 million from investors including Bezos Expeditions, TIME Ventures, Jeff Wilke, Ashton Kutcher and other high-profile backers.
Arrived Homes secures $100M credit line with Certain Lending to expand U.S. single-family rental purchases
Arrived Homes, a Seattle startup that lets people buy shares of single-family rental properties starting at $100, has secured $100 million in credit financing to expand U.S. home purchases and meet strong demand. The company partnered with fintech Certain Lending and previously raised $10 million equity and $27 million debt in June.
Convoy appoints John Morrow as general counsel effective Nov. 1; ex-AWS VP Steven Shure joins Neeva as chief business officer
Convoy named John Morrow as general counsel effective Nov. 1, following multiple legal leadership departures in 2021; Morrow previously served at Apptio and Paymentus. Separately, former AWS VP Steven Shure joined ad-free search startup Neeva as chief business officer and will remain based in Seattle.
98point6 board ousts co-founder Robbie Cape to seek CEO who can scale growth; Jeff Greenstein named interim leader
98point6's board removed co-founder and CEO Robbie Cape last month to install a leader better suited to scale the telehealth startup, according to board member Lisa Brummel, who said the decision was routine and not due to impropriety; interim CEO Jeff Greenstein is now leading the company after Cape left the board. The Seattle company has raised $247 million and saw large customer demand during the pandemic.
98point6 co-founder Robbie Cape abruptly exits as CEO; chairman Jeff Greenstein named interim leader
98point6 co-founder and CEO Robbie Cape has abruptly left the virtual primary care company he helped start in 2015, with chairman and co-founder Jeff Greenstein named interim CEO while the board searches for a replacement. The 350-person startup, which raised a $118 million Series E in October, said the C-suite will continue leading operations and praised Cape’s six years of leadership.
Arrived Homes raises $10M equity and $27M debt as Bezos and Benioff VC arms back $100-share rental investing
Seattle startup Arrived Homes raised $10 million in equity and $27 million in debt to scale a platform that lets retail investors buy shares of single-family rental homes for as little as $100, with backers including Bezos Expeditions and Time Ventures. The company sources, manages and sells properties while charging commissions and management fees, has over 30 properties in three states and caps individual investments at $20,000 per house.
98point6 Raises $118M Series E Led by L Catterton and Activant After 274% Membership Surge
Seattle telemedicine startup 98point6 raised $118 million in a Series E led by L Catterton and Activant Capital after membership grew 274% this year; the company offers AI-supported virtual primary care to over 3 million patients and serves employers and health plans. The round follows a $43 million Series D in April and comes amid a surge in digital health funding during the pandemic.
98point6 raises $43M to triple physician capacity after 200% patient surge, serving 3M nationwide
Seattle telehealth startup 98point6 raised $43 million to expand capacity for its AI-powered virtual primary care amid a 200% surge in patient volume and COVID-19 demand. The funding will triple the company’s physician count this month as it serves over 3 million patients across all 50 states and added coronavirus screening in January.
The future of data with Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky
LAS VEGAS -- Nearly 20,000 people are here this week to learn about the latest from Seattle-based Tableau Software, whose technologies turn large amounts of data into visualizations, or vizzes, interactive graphics and charts for interpreting and telling the underlying stories. They also heard from Tableau's new parent company, Salesforce, whose co-CEO Marc Benioff joined Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky on stage for the keynote address as a last-minute addition a little more than a week after European regulators cleared the companies to integrate the $15.7 billion acquisition. On this special episode of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded on location at the…
Robbie Cape
If you asked anyone who grew up with Robbie Cape in Montreal, they would all say they knew he was going to run his own business someday. He was constantly learning as a child from the family business and from his parents, who believed he should grow up understanding the value of a single dollar. In 2014, Robbie sold his first company, Cozi, and now is building his second company, 98point6, which is revolutionizing primary care and making healthcare more affordable and accessible to everyone. Robbie shares how he always starts with the ‘who’ before the ‘what’ when building businesses…
