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‘Forever chemicals’ are eternal no more thanks to a pollution destroying device from Tacoma startup

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Aquagga Photo) It would be fair to expect the destroyer of toxic “forever chemicals” to be a massive, intimidating device. The long-lived chemicals are great at deflecting water, stains and grease — but they escape from products and now contaminate drinking water across the nation and are even detected in breast milk.

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Seattle clean tech startup lands $1.4M for eco-friendly soy-based suds for shampoos, detergents

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Included are Chief Technology Officer Shawn Eady (far left) and CEO Christoph Krumm (center right, open lab coat). The tech: Sironix has developed a suite of surfactants, which are the chemicals that make shampoo foamy and lifts oily stains out of fabrics. million in new funding.

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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

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It has support from programs including the U.S. The secret sauce in Banyu’s technology is a special chemical called a “reversible photoacid.” ” Julian Sachs, cofounder and chief technology officer for Banyu Carbon, giving a demo of a reversible photoacid. million from investors.

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Who will be the Next Tech Titan? Cast your vote in the GeekWire Awards

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Related coverage: Flexe is Seattle’s newest unicorn: Warehousing startup lands $119M, reaches $1B valuation Group14 Technologies Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino, left, and CEO Rick Luebbe inside of the company’s manufacturing factory in Woodinville.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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GeekWire news round-up: Pulumi and Muir raise cash; LinkedIn’s new AI tools; ‘Uncommon Thinkers’

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From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Lisi Global co-founder and CEO Jason Crisp working on his company’s technology for a demonstration in Toppenish, Wash. Soma” Somasegar. Lisi Photo) Ag-tech startup kept digging for the right idea: Richland, Wash.-based

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A-Alpha Bio, a biotech startup that measures and predicts protein interactions, raises $22.4M

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The startup was co-founded in 2017 by Younger and CTO Randolph Lopez , using the technology they helped to develop while graduate researchers at the UW. A-Alpha Bio employs 45 people, up from 13 during its $20 million Series A round in 2021. Total funding to date is $51 million.