NBA star Stephen Curry. (Aubrie Pick photo) Seattle-based pay equity startup Syndio has raised more than $ 30 million in funding in its four years, but a new $ 1 million support from early-stage investors Penny Jar Capital announced on Monday is special notable because the company is anchored by NBA star Stephen Curry. Curry … Read more
There were two weeks left in the Trump administration when the Treasury Department handed down a set of rules governing an obscure corner of the tax code. Overseen by a senior Treasury official whose previous job involved helping the wealthy avoid taxes, the new regulations represented a major victory for private equity firms. They ensured … Read more
Panel participants for sea.citi’s conversation about DEI efforts: Stephan Yu from Facebook and sea.citi (top left), Neal Myrick from the Tableau Foundation (top right), Kim Vu from Remitly (bottom left) and Luanda Arai by sea.citi. As people across the country celebrate the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, companies committed to doing more for … Read more
Thousands of people take part in a Black Lives Matter protest march in Seattle in June. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) When Kim Vu joined fintech startup Remitly two years ago as the director of diversity and inclusion, she spent hours doing numbers manually and gaining insights into the teams that are spread across eight … Read more
Nature’s Fynd, the food technology company with a new range of foods grown from mushrooms in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park, is making its first products available for pre-order. Nature’s Fynd had managed to attract some serious investors, including Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and Bill Gates-backed mutual fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The company … Read more