Seattle and Philadelphia area-based primary healthcare company Accolade is cutting its workforce and closing or reducing some facilities, according to a recent regulatory filing. A company spokesperson declined to say… Read More
— Ron Markezich will succeed Brian McManus as CEO of Seattle-based Lighthouse, which provides electronic discovery products and other services to legal and compliance teams. Markezich previously was at Microsoft,… Read More
— Kelli Burns joined Seattle-based healthcare company Accolade as its new chief information security officer. Burns comes from Bellevue, Wash.-based financial services company Symetra, where she held the same role. Burns… Read More
This week we highlighted the finalists for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards. The finalists showcase the strength of science and innovation in the Pacific Northwest. That… Read More
Health benefits platform company Accolade is expanding its offerings to add two personalized services with an emphasis on mental health, the company announced Tuesday. The offerings will be provided as… Read More
The news: Seattle-based health benefits platform Accolade will pay up to $450 million to acquire PlushCare, a Bay Area-based startup that offers virtual primary care. It follows the company’s $460… Read More
Seattle-based Accolade announced Thursday that it will pay $460 million to acquire 2nd.MD, a Houston, Texas-based company that helps patients get expert medical opinions by video or phone. The deal,… Read More
In a year when large swaths of the economy sputtered due to the pandemic, Wall Street opened its doors to new entrants with 218 companies raising $78 billion through initial… Read More
Well, here we are: rattled, unsettled and full of anxiety. Less than 24 hours before a historic U.S. election, we are perched on the edge of a precarious precipice. And… Read More
Health benefits technology company Accolade saw revenue rise 24% in the most recent quarter as telehealth usage surges amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The company, which went public in July, reported… Read More
The leading privately-held companies across the Pacific Northwest are raising giant swaths of cash and increasing their valuations despite the ongoing economic crisis. See the full GeekWire 200 ranking of… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur and former Concur president Raj Singh was back in the earnings hot seat Thursday afternoon as the CEO of Accolade, walking analysts and investors through the health benefits… Read More
Accolade’s share price is up 38% since its initial public offering on Thursday, marking a successful debut for the health benefits management company at a time of unprecedented uncertainty in… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week. Despite the pandemic, funding for Pacific Northwest tech startups remains robust in the first half of 2020. In fact,… Read More
Health benefits platform Accolade made its initial public offering Thursday morning, pricing its stock at $22/share, above the expected range of $19 to $21, and raising $220 million at a… Read More
Accolade set the terms for its IPO on Wednesday as the health benefits platform aims to become the first Seattle-area company to go public in 2020. The startup will price… Read More
Accolade, the Seattle-based health benefits platform led by former Concur president Raj Singh, filed Friday to raise as much as $100 million in an initial public offering. Here are some… Read More
— Seattle-based Lighter Capital announced Patricia Elliott as chief sales officer and Kevin Fink as chief technology officer. The “alternative VC” company landed a $100 million deal in January to… Read More
Raj Singh’s “why” guides his every move in the tech industry. Singh is the CEO of Accolade, a healthcare tech company that ranks No. 6 on the GeekWire 200 list… Read More
Accolade is taking steps toward going public later this year, according to a new report. CNBC reported that the healthcare tech company hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, among others,… Read More
— Former EnergySavvy COO Scott Case was named entrepreneur-in-residence at the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds, part of the University of Washington Clean Energy Institute. Case spent 10 years with EnergySavvy,… Read More
— Health technology company Accolade landed Dr. Shantanu Nundy as chief medical officer. Nundy formerly worked on digital health initiatives for the World Bank and was director of the nonprofit… Read More
Accolade, a Seattle-based company that operates a technology platform to help employees navigate healthcare, landed a $20 million investment from health insurance giant Humana as part of an ongoing partnership… Read More
Healthcare technology company Accolade is getting back to basics with a service that helps patients with a fundamental healthcare need: picking a doctor. Called Accolade Total Care, the new product… Read More
Four years after establishing a second headquarters in Seattle, healthcare technology company Accolade is betting big on the city once more with plans to double its staff and open new… Read More
Samir Manjure believes engineers at some of the world’s biggest tech firms are yearning for something more. “What I’m seeing is a lot of technical talent, especially in AI and… 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
Amazon’s M&A team has gotten off to a busy start in 2019. This week’s announcement that the tech giant plans to acquire mesh WiFi startup eero makes three buys so… Read More
Healthcare in the United States has more than a few problems. Costs are skyrocketing, chronic conditions are becoming more common and health outcomes aren’t getting any better. It’s easy to… Read More
Tech giants like Amazon and Google have scooped up scads of office space in recent years, but the top companies on the GeekWire 200 — our ranking of privately-held Pacific… Read More