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Adaptive Biotechnologies

Microsoft and Adaptive launch quest for new COVID-19 test, seek 1k people for immune study

Microsoft and Seattle’s Adaptive Biotechnologies are seeking 1,000 people across the country for a “virtual clinical study” designed to better… Read More

Tech Moves: GE Healthcare exec joins Microsoft; Puppet names new CTO; Adaptive Biotech expands

— Microsoft named former GE executive Tom McGuinness corporate vice president of healthcare. At GE, McGuinness was president and CEO… Read More

Adaptive Biotech’s deal with Amgen influenced by belief that COVID-19 may return seasonally, like flu

Despite a potential vaccine, the novel coronavirus could return on a seasonal basis, much like the flu, according to Seattle-based… Read More

The search for a COVID-19 cure: Amgen and Adaptive Biotech partner in quest for new drug

Pharmaceutical giant Amgen is aiming to develop a new drug to treat and prevent COVID-19, using insights from Seattle-based Adaptive… Read More

Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies partner to study immune response to COVID-19

Microsoft and Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies announced Friday they will work together to map the immune response to COVID-19. The goal… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Deal of the Year — the top tech acquisition or IPO in the Pacific NW

Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. Watch live below. Everyone wanted a piece of the… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies plans to sell up to 9.2M shares; revenue grew 52% in 2019

Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies plans to sell up to 9.2 million shares of common stock by existing shareholders, the company said… Read More

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Seattle tech’s extraordinary year: These are the stories we’ll remember in the business of innovation

From Amazon to Zillow, big successes to surprising failures, it was an extraordinary year for technology and innovation emerging from… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies beats estimates with Q3 revenue of $26.1M as shares rise 6%

Adaptive Biotechnologies‘ stock rose 6 percent to $30 per share in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the company reported higher… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies CEO Chad Robins on the power of mom and being a good listener

Adaptive Biotechnologies‘ CEO and co-founder Chad Robins can attribute some of his company’s notable success — see its $300 million… Read More

Adaptive and Illumina to make immune sequencing kits for labs, streamlining the detection of disease

Adaptive Biotechnologies signed a deal with Illumina, the largest genetic sequencing firm in the U.S., to produce kits that can… Read More

Alexandria doubles down on decades-long Seattle biotech bet with Mercer ‘Mega Block’ deal

As it closes in on one of the most valuable land deals in Seattle history, Alexandria Real Estate Equities is… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies shares drop as loss widens in first quarterly earnings since IPO

Adaptive Biotechnologies‘ stock fell 7 percent Tuesday after the company posted larger-than-expected losses during the first quarterly earnings report since… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies will triple size of its Seattle HQ following IPO

Adaptive Biotechnologies is charting a massive expansion of its Seattle headquarters following the completion of a recent initial public offering.… Read More

Big debut: Shares of Adaptive Biotechnologies rise 100% on first day as public company

Adaptive Biotechnologies had a heck of a first day as a public company. Shares of the Seattle-based biotech, which makes… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies stock soars 90% after ringing Nasdaq opening bell following $300M IPO

Follow-up: Big debut: Shares of Adaptive Biotechnologies rise 100% on first day as public company The public market is bullish… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies set to go public with valuation above $2B in biggest biotech IPO of 2019

Adaptive Biotechnologies has raised the price for its initial public offering, putting itself in a position to raise more cash… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founder leaves Fred Hutch; IPO filing warned of IP risks from dual roles

Dr. Harlan Robins, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies, stepped down from his role as head of… Read More

Microsoft-backed universal blood test could start diagnosing disease ‘within a small number of years’

REDMOND — A groundbreaking system that would use artificial intelligence to diagnose several diseases from a single blood test may… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Juno CEO Hans Bishop takes over at Grail; Amazon Business chief departs; Shyft co-founder jumps to Ally; and more

— The former head of Juno Therapeutics, Hans Bishop, signed on as CEO of Grail, a Bay Area biotech focused… Read More

Tech Moves: Google snags Georgia Tech AI professor; Apptio hires exec from AWS; The Riveter names Portland leader; and more

— Natural language processing expert Jacob Eisenstein is taking a gig as a research scientist with Google AI in Seattle.… Read More

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Inside the Adaptive Biotech IPO: How two brothers built a big idea into a breakthrough company

Chad Robins is a Cornell grad and Wharton School MBA who was working in real estate finance a decade ago… Read More

IPO filing: Microsoft invested $45M in Adaptive Biotechnologies as part of universal blood test deal

In 2017, Microsoft struck a deal with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies to develop a blood test with the promise of diagnosing… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies files for $230M IPO, banking on big Microsoft and Genentech deals

Adaptive Biotechnologies, a high-flying startup that makes technology to read the human immune system, has officially filed to go public… Read More

Tech Moves: F5 Networks lands former Marketo and J.P. Morgan execs; AI2 adds managing director; Groupon snags REI vet; and more

— It’s a big day for Seattle-based F5 Networks, which just named two senior executives. Mika Yamamoto joined the firm… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet lands its first CMO; Eatsa hires former Starbucks digital exec; and more

Smartsheet, the Seattle-area maker of work collaboration software, appointed Anna Griffin as its first chief marketing officer. Griffin was previously… Read More

3 leadership lessons from Adaptive Biotechnologies CEO Chad Robins

As the CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, Chad Robins has shown a knack for turning really good ideas into a viable… Read More

Adaptive Biotechnologies signs blockbuster deal with Genentech for personalized cancer treatments worth up to $2 billion

Adaptive Biotechnologies has signed a $300 million collaborative licensing agreement with Genentech to develop highly personalized cancer therapies. In addition… Read More

How Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech became ‘a single team’ to build groundbreaking AI diagnostic

Every day, thousands of people cross the 520 bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, Wash. But for some of those people,… Read More

FDA approves Adaptive Biotech’s tool to track potential cancer relapses

Seattle-based biotech company Adaptive Biotechnologies announced Friday that the FDA has cleared its clonoSEQ platform for use. It marks first time a technology… Read More

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