While insurers continue to be bothered by startups like Lemonade, Alan, Clearcover, Pie, and many others who are using technology to rethink how a business can be built to help people and businesses manage risk with some financial security To mitigate, fraud is a problem that has not gone away. Today a startup from France … Read more
Icosavax creates virus-like particles using technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. (Icosavax photo) New financing: At a moment when everyone is talking about vaccines, a Seattle-based biotech company taking an unusual approach to vaccine production raised $ 100 million in a Series B round. The startup creates computerized, virus-like particles … Read more
American democracy depends on everyone having equal access to work. In reality, people of skin color, women, people with disabilities and other marginalized groups suffer from disproportionately high rates of unemployment or underemployment, especially given the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, employing artificial intelligence for hiring can exacerbate these problems and further influence … Read more
Distance learning in Iowa in December 2020. (Phil Roeder / Creative Commons) It is well known that COVID-19 was largely disastrous for schools, but the numbers behind that claim are still pretty shocking. There are approximately 1.1 million K-12 students in Washington state public schools, and an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 do not have adequate, … Read more