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Amazon Web Services debuts 5-week accelerator for clean energy startups
May 6, 2021 at 11:10 am
The view of Amazon’s Spheres from the street at least offers a look at the plants inside. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
Amazon Web Services is announcing the creation of a 5-week accelerator to support clean technology startups. Applications to the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator are being accepted starting today until June 8. The company will select 10 participants.
The Seattle-based cloud and online retail giant is partnering with Freshwater Advisors for the initiative. Freshwater is a venture capital and consultancy in Chicago founded in 2013 that has worked with more than two-dozen corporations to help them find and partner with tech startups.
Startup Adapts AI Used In Space To Advance Healthcare On Earth
“If your dad would just wear a space suit, I could monitor him.”
It’s not often that a random joke leads to the creation of a company, but that’s exactly what happened with Ejenta, a digital health startup.
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Maarten Sierhuis, a NASA alum, had made the comment to Rachna Dhamija, a tech veteran and his future cofounder. Both were dealing with aging parents who had health issues.
Sierhuis had spent 12 years as a senior research scientist at NASA, where he used sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor astronauts in space. The technology allowed Mission Control to monitor changes in an astronaut’s vitals and predict when they needed help.
More capital for Pacific Northwest startups: Founders’ Co-op raises $50M fund, its largest yet
March 1, 2021 at 10:47 am
Founders’ Co-op Managing Partner Chris DeVore (left) and General Partner Aviel Ginzburg. (Founders’ Co-op Photo)
Seattle venture capital firm Founders’ Co-op, an early backer of billion-dollar companies such as Remitly, Outreach, and Auth0, has raised a $50 million fund to help fuel another batch of Pacific Northwest startups.
It’s the firm’s fifth and largest fund to date since launching in 2008, and is double the size of the fourth fund raised in 2018.
Founders’ Co-op will continue betting on early-stage startups across Seattle, Portland, Vancouver B.C. and elsewhere. It raised a larger fund in part to write bigger checks, given increasing round sizes and the firm leading more rounds, said Chris DeVore, managing partner at Founders’ Co-op. It plans to invest in 20-to-25 companies out of the fund.
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