The bell from a sunken British WWII battlecruiser, retrieved from the depths of the Denmark Strait by a team led by Paul Allen, was unveiled in a commemorative service on… Read More
The winner of the $50 million Smart City Challenge won’t be announced until next month, but the organizers have already picked at least one winning technology for transforming transportation and… Read More
From supporting a Smart City transportation competition to developing Google’s future Seattle home, Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. stays busy with a broad range of business, investment, and philanthropic affairs. The company… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. investment company will develop four six-story office buildings for Google in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, a short distance from Amazon’s headquarters, the companies just announced.… Read More
Seattle Central College, one of the Seattle Colleges, is currently seeking a full-time Web Manager. This position will be responsible for the design and function of Seattle Central College’s website,… Read More
Hundreds of schools in Washington state — 329 of them, to be exact — are in for a surprise. Microsoft co-founder and Vulcan Inc. CEO Paul Allen is funding 611 classroom… Read More
More than 50 years ago, an event in Seattle changed the world forever. The 1962 World’s Fair got 10 million visitors excited about science and technology. One of those visitors was… Read More
Accolade, the Philadelphia-based healthcare company, is seeking new talent as it expands into Seattle. Spurred by the arrival of new executives Raj Singh and Mike Hilton, co-founders of Bellevue-based Concur, the… Read More
Paul Allen announced $2 million in grants on Friday aimed at combating the spread of the Zika virus, which the World Health Organization has characterized as an international public health emergency.… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation and billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. are offering $50 million to midsize cities, including Seattle, in a “Smart City” competition to promote next-generation… Read More
In August, the recipients of this year’s Carnegie Medals were announced, and yesterday, Paul Allen accepted his Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy at a special ceremony in New York. As you… Read More
The latest weird trick in parenting might be using Star Trek to potty-train your kids. That’s the idea behind this book, Pooping is Logical by sci-fi writer and Star Trek… Read More
Vulcan Inc. has named a former Google executive, Ravi Jain, as its new chief technology officer, responsible for leading technology strategy at Microsoft co-founder’s Paul Allen’s Seattle-based company, while also expanding… Read More
He’s known for supporting tech, music and ocean conservation, and now Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is adding one more thing to the list: A public art space in South Lake Union. Called… Read More
Most movie and television executives are hunting for the next blockbuster. Carole Tomko is aiming for something bigger. As general manager and creative director of Vulcan Productions, Tomko oversees films, shows and videos with the… Read More
He travels around the world via the Octopus, partying and recovering wrecked warships, but Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will support a new initiative for sharks, too. Today, Allen and Vulcan announced their participation… Read More
How’s this for a trick? Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Real Estate today unveiled the new facade for the new Allen Institute building in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Except the… Read More
Veteran aid worker and filmmaker David Darg was at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York last month when he saw the alert about the devastating earthquake in Nepal. Soon he was… Read More
Students in Seattle’s Central District are adept users of technology, like teenagers everywhere. But now they’re becoming makers of technology, as well. That’s the idea behind Hack the Central District, an effort to… Read More
Poachable, the Seattle-based startup that helps passive job candidates find new jobs both privately and anonymously, has raised another $750,000. The most recent round includes participation from previous backer Vulcan Capital,… Read More
It’s Vulcan vs. Vulcan. United Launch Alliance (ULA) today named its new rocket “Vulcan,” and Vulcan Inc. — the investment arm of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen — doesn’t appear to… Read More
The recent string of cyber security breaches, including the hack of sites across the U.S. and Europe over the weekend, highlight the vulnerability of our digital data-based world. Information security is more important now… Read More
Talk about life coming full circle. The site of the University of Washington’s old computer lab, where Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates used to sneak in and code,… Read More
—Brad Brooks joined DocuSign as its Chief Marketing Officer, bringing new marketing leadership to a firm that has been expanding its worldwide reach over the past year and bringing on new… Read More
Perhaps the third time’s a charm for Tom Leung and Ian Shafer. The co-founders of Poachable have raised another $500,000 for their service that helps passive job candidates find new jobs both privately and… Read More
Rival IQ wants to help organizations make better sense of information, while also keeping close tabs on the competition. And today the Seattle startup — which helps organizations better analyze… Read More
Shippable founder Avi Cavale wasn’t looking for cash. But investors just kept calling, especially after they learned how quickly the company’s user base was growing. Those calls have resulted in new… Read More
Jody Allen, the sister and long-time confidante of billionaire Paul Allen, is leaving the CEO post at Vulcan, the investment, real estate and philanthropic organization that manages the Microsoft co-founder’s… Read More
—Billionaire Paul Allen has a new confidante in the ranks of his private investment arm Vulcan Inc. Allen has named Barbara Bennett as president and COO of Vulcan, a new… Read More
Hours after unveiling its latest app, Seattle startup A.R.O. Inc. announced a “substantial restructuring of its workforce” today — ceasing standalone operations and making what a spokesperson described as a “100% reduction in force.” An unspecified… Read More