DreamBox Learning, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that sells education technology software to K-12 schools, announced Tuesday it was acquired by Discovery Education, a Charlotte, N.C.-based edtech company. Terms of the… Read More
— Seattle-area tech executive Denise Walter was appointed chief revenue officer at cybersecurity firm Darktrace. Walter will join the company from cloud services giant VMware, where she was most recently… Read More
DreamBox Learning laid off an undisclosed number of employees this week, citing the need for a “realignment” at the Seattle-area education technology company. Founded in 2006, DreamBox sells software to… Read More
— Stanford professor Susan Athey, a former consulting chief economist at Microsoft, will join the U.S. Department of Justice as its top antitrust economist, Bloomberg reported. Athey consulted with Microsoft… Read More
Innovation is alive and well in STEM classrooms across Washington state, inspiring students to seek opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math. At the GeekWire Awards on May 12, we’re… Read More
In a world without terrific STEM teachers there would be fewer tech entrepreneurs and cutting-edge innovators that are honored each year at the GeekWire Awards. Luckily for all of us,… Read More
— Education platform DreamBox Learning appointed five new executives: Lakshmi Nidamarthi as chief product officer. Nidamarthi was most recently director of product and technology for Alexa Experiences at Amazon. Ronit… Read More
The pandemic upended education in extraordinary ways, and shed new light on the social, economic and racial disparities in schools and communities across the country. But how can teachers, students,… Read More
Educators, policymakers, students and parents need to recognize the pandemic and remote learning as an impetus for meaningful change in schools, rather than a pause before returning to the way… Read More
Lots of businesses have been hard hit by the COVID-19 economic downturn that has forced people to work from home, stop traveling and curtailed dining out. But some Pacific Northwest… Read More
The Khan Academy math instructor has a soothing deep voice. It comes to you disembodied, a Wizard-of-Oz-like presence behind the cursor. He tees up fractions, changing colors as he switches… Read More
There’s a growing cohort of education tech companies across the Pacific Northwest. A flurry of up-and-coming startups are sprouting up in British Columbia. And while Seattle is an enterprise software… Read More
Day two of the 2019 GeekWire Summit in Seattle felt like an endless string of inspiring quotes from leaders in education, the restaurant business, big tech, sports and more. Wisdom… Read More
To build successful, impactful businesses, leaders need to do more than just manage diversity goals. “We try to see diversity as something to leverage, something that we want to lean… Read More
— The University of Washington’s Clean Energy Institute named Kevin Klustner as executive director of the Center for Advanced Materials and Clean Energy Technologies (CAMCET). Klustner was most recently CEO… Read More
Seattle is an evolving city, so it makes sense for the GeekWire Awards to evolve, too. That’s especially evident as we set out to identify the tech industry’s CEO of… Read More
Napster parent company Rhapsody snagged Angel Gambino as its chief commercial officer. Gambino founded and was CEO of Sensai, which uses AI to help organizations improve social media campaigns. Gambino’s… Read More
2018 was a year of acronyms. We witnessed an overhyped search for HQ2, a flurry of IPOs and the passing of Seattle tech pioneer PGA: Paul G. Allen. It was… Read More
Being a little late out of the gate with new tech may not be a bad thing when you’re dealing with kids. It’s not that DreamBox Learning‘s Jessie Woolley-Wilson is… Read More
Many of the technologies we use every day are constantly learning from us. We train Netflix in what genres of TV and movies we like. Amazon learns what we’re interested… Read More
DreamBox Learning, the Bellevue, Wash., maker of an adaptive K-8 math education platform, announced Tuesday that it has raised a whopping $130 million. The funding comes exclusively from The Rise… Read More
Mighty AI has a new leader. The artificial intelligence data company announced this week that Isaac Kato, former CFO and co-founder of data center company Verne Global, has joined the company… Read More
— DreamBox Learning, the Bellevue, Wash.-based digital education company, has added Jennifer Agustin, a former LinkedIn marketing executive, as its new vice president of marketing. Agustin’s role will be to… Read More
DreamBox Learning picked up fans early on because its platform showed how technology could be used to better teach students, even in underperforming districts. For years, the company has been backed… Read More
Jessie Woolley-Wilson has big ideas about education technology. I sat down with the CEO of DreamBox Learning — an adaptive math learning system used by students in all 50 states and… Read More