Lexion CEO Gaurav Oberoi. (Lexion photo) Lexion is on the move. The Seattle-based startup that helps legal teams use AI to search contracts has quadrupled revenue and gained 50 customers in the past four months, including brands like Outreach, Blue Nile, OfferUp, and others. Now the company is raising more money to accelerate growth and … Read more
Scientists are trying to treat a growing number of rare diseases with gene therapy. It offers a potential one-off solution that attacks the root cause of the disease rather than just treating symptoms. (2th of June)
Jesse Salk, CEO and Co-Founder of TwinStrand Biosciences. (TwinStrand photo) New financing: Gene sequencing startup TwinStrand Biosciences raised $ 50 million in a Series B round led by Section 32, a California-based fund focused on biotechnology, technology, healthcare and life sciences. All venture capital funding for the 6-year-old company is now north of $ 70 … Read more
An Amazon Prime Truck in downtown Seattle near Amazon HQ. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon rarely apologized Friday night and stepped back on comments made on Twitter last week in response to Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin about whether its delivery drivers felt the need to urinate in bottles as bathroom breaks were difficult … Read more
Sanath Kumar Ramesh with his son Raghav. (Courtesy photo of the Ramesh family) On a fine August day in a Bellevue park, Sanath Kumar Ramesh received a call from his son’s doctor as he was preparing to cut the cake for his little boy’s first birthday. He finally knew what was making his child sick, … Read more
WASHINGTON – More than 370 Democratic congressional assistants will launch an unusual public appeal Wednesday to the Senators – in some cases their own bosses – to condemn former President Donald J. Trump for inciting a violent “attack on our workplace”, the the peaceful transition threatens power. In a very personal letter, the employees describe … Read more