Flush with cash: Bezos and big-name celebs get behind tree-free toilet paper startup with $5M The news: Cloud Paper, the Seattle startup that makes toilet paper and paper towels from bamboo in an effort to… Read More
Amazon vets land $10M for WhyLabs, a Seattle startup that monitors machine learning models The news: WhyLabs, a spinout from the Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), raised $10 million and released a new… Read More
Jeff Bezos joins Drake, NBA stars and others in $80M backing of Overtime sports media brand Jeff Bezos is among the investors taking part in an $80 million funding round in Overtime, a sports media brand… Read More
The Jeff Bezos portfolio: Here’s how the Amazon chief has invested billions Jeff Bezos is the richest person on earth. He amassed the world’s largest individual fortune largely thanks to his shares… Read More
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Seattle’s Museum of Flight unwrap Apollo moon engine artifacts Even Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos got misty-eyed at Seattle’s Museum of Flight during today’s unveiling of rocket engine parts from… Read More
Seattle’s Museum of Flight to show off Apollo moon rocket parts recovered by Bezos Expeditions Experts are wrapping up their conservation work on the decades-old Saturn V rocket engine parts that were recovered from the… Read More
News Brief YouTube competitor Vessel courts new subscribers by waiving fees for a year After months of closed pilots, Vessel, the video subscription service started by Former Hulu execs Jason Kilar and Richard Tom,… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos backs cancer research startup Juno Therapeutics Juno Therapeutics, a new Seattle startup that’s trying to eliminate cancer from the human body, raised a hefty $120 million… Read More
Jeff Bezos-backed 3D-printing company MakerBot acquired for $403M Minnesota-based 3D printing manufacturer Stratasys today acquired MakerBot for $402 million based on Stratasys’ stock price in a deal that… Read More
Bezos, CIA invest $30M in quantum computing startup Jeff Bezos has put money into a robot factory worker, a 10,000 year clock and private car service. And he’s… Read More
Baxter: Robotic worker aims to revolutionize factories, with funding from Jeff Bezos He has eyes, he has arms and he can accomplish simple tasks to help your business move faster. That’s the… Read More