Bill Hilf, the veteran tech executive and longtime CEO of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s holding company, formerly known as Vulcan Inc., is stepping down after more than seven years.… Read More
Vulcan Real Estate sold the two-block, four building Google campus overlooking Seattle’s Lake Union for $802 million, a price of $1,260 per square foot that’s believed to set a new… Read More
It’s like the worst and longest cliffhanger in Seattle movie history: Will the beloved Cinerama theater ever reopen? When? … Stay tuned. And stay frustrated. As film lovers emerge from… Read More
After four years of collaboration, an international team of researchers and institutions has produced the Allen Coral Atlas, the first global map of shallow coral reefs. The reefs are home… Read More
Amazon will open its second Amazon Fresh grocery store in the Seattle area next week with a location in the city’s Central District. The store is at the base of… Read More
A longtime leader in Seattle’s physical art scene is trying her hand at the digital world of NFTs, and she’s teaming with a tech veteran to create a curated approach… Read More
Being an orca isn’t easy. Despite a lack of natural predators, these amazing mammals face many serious threats – most of them brought about by their human neighbors. Understanding the… Read More
Every year between three and four percent of Africa’s estimated 350,000 elephants die at the hands of ivory poachers. While these numbers are down significantly from a decade ago, they… Read More
Two and a half years after the death of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, his legacy in science and philanthropy is still being reshaped — and this time, the reshaping involves… Read More
Growing up outside a town in Wisconsin, out in the woods with dial-up internet and his parents, sister, cats, horses, and chickens, W. Andre Perkins always had an interest in… Read More
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation announced two contributions to support people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington state, adding up to $2.2 million. The foundation is contributing $1… Read More
Seattleites love coming in out of the rain for a movie. Especially if there is chocolate popcorn. So when news hit Wednesday that Seattle’s beloved Cinerama — owned by the… Read More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it has forged a new agreement with Vulcan Inc., the Seattle-based holding company created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, to share… Read More
Seattle electric bicycle maker Rad Power Bikes announced a $25 million investment round Wednesday, led by Vulcan Capital and Durable Capital Partners LP. It’s the second major fundraising round for… Read More
New funding: Fresh Chalk just landed a $2 million seed round. The Seattle startup debuted earlier this year with its service that helps users find local professionals by tapping into the… Read More
Stratolaunch, the company that was founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen in 2011 to build a flying launch pad for rockets, says it’s under new ownership. The transition… Read More
Vulcan Inc., the holding company created by the late Seattle billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is in the midst of a round of job reductions, sources have told… Read More
Years ago, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen backed a project called the Great Elephant Census that highlighted a crisis for Africa’s elephant population, brought about primarily by illegal poaching. Allen passed… Read More
Stratolaunch is hiring — nearly a year after the death of its billionaire backer, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and five months after the company’s monster plane took its first and… Read More
“They’re too big, and there are too many of them,” the late Paul Allen once said about his fleet of yachts. Now, the biggest is for sale — with a… Read More
More than 500 units of affordable housing, a community center, a performing arts theater, a festival street for farmers markets, an elementary school. These were linchpins of proposals from a… Read More
So this is what it would look like if you crammed Shark Week into one extended YouTube video. If swimming with the sharks sounds a little too scary for you,… Read More
With satellites the size of a loaf of bread — and some artificial intelligence — scientists and researchers are mapping the world’s coral reefs in an effort to conserve and… Read More
Sources say Vulcan Inc. is looking to sell Stratolaunch, the space venture founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen, and one report says the asking price could be as… Read More
Holodome has left the building. Paul Allen’s vision for shared immersive, 360-degree reality without the use of a VR headset has ended its run at the Museum of Pop Culture… Read More
Facebook has a new point person for its global communications, and he’s a familiar figure in the Pacific Northwest tech community. The social media giant just announced Seattle tech industry… Read More
Holodome, the immersive virtual reality experience from the late Paul Allen, is all about transporting visitors to other worlds. And now the high-tech concept has traveled from Seattle to Vancouver,… Read More
In the months since Vulcan, Inc., placed its Holodome inside Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, 38,000 people have stepped into the 360-degree immersive reality experience. Now, almost a year later,… Read More
Chalk up another historic shipwreck discovery for the Petrel, the research vessel funded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen: This time it’s the USS Hornet, the World War II… Read More
After more than a decade of testing and development, a Seattle startup is attracting the biggest names in the oil and gas industry with a unique metal that it says… Read More
