CurvaFix, a Seattle-area startup that makes implants to repair fractures in curved bones, raised $39 million. The six-year old company’s flagship product is an implant to repair pelvic fractures. The… Read More
EchoNous, a startup that markets a compact, AI-powered ultrasound device, raised $7 million. The funding was noted in a SEC filing and confirmed by a company spokesperson.
University of Washington spinout Wavely Diagnostics, which is developing a smartphone app to detect ear infections, raised $1.35 million. The Seattle company’s diagnostic app uses acoustic signals to detect signs of an… Read More
Inside the headquarters of Outpace Bio in Seattle, senior scientist Bobby Langan shows a video of one of his favorite deep learning tools. A fuzzy blob coalesces into a molecular… Read More
Just – Evotec Biologics won a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense worth up to $75 million to develop drug candidates for orthopoxviruses, the group of viruses that cause… Read More
Morphimmune, a biotech company led by former Seagen CEO Clay Siegall, is merging with a public biotech company, Immunome, in a deal boosted with $125 million from private investors. Siegall… Read More
Seattle-based startup Heard, which supports mental health professionals with financial software and services, raised $15 million in new funding. Heard offers booking, payroll and tax workflow products. Solo practitioners can… Read More
University of Washington spinout AltPep, which is developing tests and treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, completed a $52.9 million Series B funding round. The funding will help propel the… Read More
CTI BioPharma, a Seattle-based publicly traded biotech company developing therapies for blood-related cancers, is set to be acquired in a deal with Swedish biotech giant Sobi. The acquisition, announced Wednesday,… Read More
Seattle Children’s researcher Jim Olson has some thoughts about how to go about launching and leading a biotech startup. His research lab has helped forge Seattle-area startups developing a wide… Read More
Amid a tightened fundraising environment, life sciences companies should double down on basics like focusing on key projects and getting out data, and look at creative ways to raise capital.… Read More
Washington state lawmakers recently extended a law that loosens restrictions on audio-only healthcare delivery, while they wait for the results of a study evaluating its effects. Early in the pandemic,… Read More
Biomedicine pioneer Leroy Hood says that artificial intelligence will play a key role in the future of healthcare by accelerating the progress of “scientific wellness,” an approach that he has… Read More
WA Notify, an app launched by Washington state to inform people if they’d been exposed to someone who recently tested positive for COVID-19, is scheduled to sunset on May 11.… Read More
Editor’s note: This is one of five profiles of the finalists for Startup CEO of the Year ahead of the 2023 GeekWire Awards. Read the others on Humanly CEO Prem Kumar, Rebellyous Foods CEO… Read More
Healthcare company 98point6 landed additional investment to support its transition to a licensor of virtual care solutions, following a move to offload parts of its business. The fresh funding comes after… Read More
Seattle digital health nonprofit Audere will advance its technology to improve the accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests with $9.35 million in fresh funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.… Read More
Washington state lawmakers finalized passage of a bill Monday that provides privacy protections for consumer health data. The bill protects health data collected by consumer apps and websites, which is… Read More
Seagen fielded multiple offers before agreeing to a whopping $43 billion acquisition by pharma giant Pfizer. The Seattle-area company revealed negotiation details with several companies in a recent SEC filing… Read More
Healthcare data holds great potential to improve medicine, but mining it is not easy. To get to the gold, Truveta built a large AI-powered model to crunch through medical texts… Read More
Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company Aspect Biosystems inked a partnership worth potentially more than $2.6 billion with Danish biopharma giant Novo Nordisk to develop “bioprinted” tissue therapeutics. The deal comes with… Read More
— Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, the company said today in a regulatory filing. Adams joined the Seattle-based biotech giant more than three… Read More
Life sciences employment and federal research funding have grown rapidly in the Seattle area since 2019, according to a new report from real estate firm CBRE. The Seattle area ranked… Read More
When Eric Nealy returned from a workshop with other Black scientists, his perspective changed. The experience gave him a new — and unfamiliar — sense of belonging. “I was blown away,” said… Read More
Peter Lee has spent a lot of time recently with GPT-4, the AI-powered tool that simulates human conversation, built by OpenAI with contributions from its partner Microsoft. “I lost a… Read More
The news: Sonoma Biotherapeutics is partnering with Regeneron to co-develop cell therapies for Crohn’s disease and other autoimmune conditions. The agreement comes with a $75 million upfront payment and a… Read More
Clay Siegall is proud of his legacy as co-founder and longtime CEO of Seagen, the largest biotech company in the Seattle area. “I built a great company,” Siegall said in… Read More
Seagen founder Clay Siegall is jumping back into the biotech world as CEO and president of Morphimmune. Founded in 2020, the Purdue University spinout will relocate its headquarters to the… Read More
Microsoft-owned AI company Nuance is leveraging GPT-4 to power new software designed to ease the burden of clinical documentation for physicians. Nuance, acquired last year by Microsoft for $19.7 billion,… Read More
Seattle-area biotech experts are eying the past warily in the wake of this week’s news that Pfizer plans to acquire Bothell, Wash.-based Seagen for a whopping $43 billion. Most previous… Read More
