Articles about Intellectual Ventures

Intellectual Ventures is awarded $6.5M in trade secrets case against two researchers

An arbitrator has awarded Intellectual Ventures more than $6.5 million in attorney’s fees and other costs in a case involving… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spinoff Modern Electron raising cash for heat-to-electricity tech

New funding: Modern Electron, a spinoff from Intellectual Ventures, is raising cash. A new filing with the U.S. Securities and… Read More

Invention network company Xinova to shut down, 5 years after spinning out of Intellectual Ventures

Xinova, a Seattle company that operated a network of inventors, is winding down operations, GeekWire has learned. Xinova spun out… Read More

Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold invest in new fund to back metamaterials tech startups

New fund: MetaVC Partners is raising its first fund to invest in early-stage startups in the metamaterials space. Bill Gates… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

— Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed… Read More

How fun, Frisbee and horses shaped the career of Intellectual Ventures’ deep science guru Brian Holloway

Some candidates decide whether to take a job based on its title or compensation, the nature of the work, or… Read More

PepsiCo and Xinova behind new Seattle restaurant tech startup that aims to digitize ‘back of house’

From food delivery to point of sale to reservation systems, there has been plenty of innovation over the past several… Read More

Tech Moves: Seahawks legend Doug Baldwin joins Intellectual Ventures; Microsoft’s Dona Sarkar changes roles; Adaptiva lands marketing exec

— Former NFL receiver Doug Baldwin is now a senior advisor of product concepts at Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spinoff Xinova lays off staff as invention network company aims for profitability

Seattle-based “invention network” company Xinova cut staff today, GeekWire has learned. A company spokesperson declined to provide details about how… Read More

Why Big Data is a bigger deal than venture capital in the artificial intelligence game

“Data is the new oil” may be a classic cliche characterizing how important raw numbers are for the computer industry,… Read More

Five big ideas from Nathan Myhrvold, the original ‘mad scientist’ from Microsoft

Do a search on “Nathan Myhrvold” and “mad scientist,” and you’ll get nearly 2,000 hits, including profiles from the likes… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Tech at The Seattle Art Fair; blockchain convention; and DIY hardware development

— For the fifth year in a row, artists from the Pacific Northwest will showcase their work at The Seattle… Read More

From curbing malaria to better food carts, Xinova’s David Kraft believes in innovation

David Kraft is downright giddy for innovation. “I’m often naive enough to think there is no problem that can’t be… Read More

Tech Moves: Nordstrom hires Expedia tech vet; Univ. of Washington names head of new clean tech center; and more

— The University of Washington’s Clean Energy Institute named Kevin Klustner as executive director of the Center for Advanced Materials… Read More

Lumotive's William Colleran and Gleb Akselrod

How Lumotive will put metamaterials in self-driving cars, with Bill Gates’ backing

BELLEVUE, Wash. — A succession of spinouts supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken an unorthodox technology known as… Read More

Bill Gates, Airbus and SoftBank invest in satellite video startup that wants to help us ‘see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered’

The latest spinout from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow, says it’s coming out of stealth mode with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill… Read More

Bill Gates-backed startup Sunlight Payments helps track grant money for philanthropic projects

It can be a tough task to ensure that grants and charity funds get into the right hands, and show… Read More

News Brief

Intellectual Ventures’ Global Good teams up with Motic on AI-powered microscope

For years, the Global Good Fund has been working on a malaria-hunting microscope powered by artificial intelligence, and now China-based… Read More

Intellectual Ventures’ malaria-hunting AI microscope is ready for commercial debut

SAN FRANCISCO — Can artificial intelligence help battle malaria and other infectious diseases? Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold says it’s time… Read More

Gourmet tech: Nathan Myhrvold’s ‘Modernist Bread’ finds new twists in one of the oldest foods

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Did you ever try inflating bread dough with a bicycle pump? Gourmet technologist Nathan Myhrvold did — and after thumbing… Read More

Entrepreneurs swarm to get in on the idea factories at Intellectual Ventures and AI2

Less than two months after Intellectual Ventures and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence put out the call for entrepreneurs,… Read More

Help wanted: Intellectual Ventures sets up ISF Incubator to commercialize discoveries

Calling all entrepreneurs: Intellectual Ventures is launching a new business unit called ISF Incubator to match up its inventions with… Read More

Intellectual Ventures spinout Xinova creates new company Allied Inventors to manage IP assets

Xinova, a Seattle-based invention factory that spun off from Intellectual Ventures last year, has spun off its own new standalone company called… Read More

This engineer has worked with Gates and Bezos — now he wants to succeed Dave Reichert in Congress

Tola Marts isn’t what you’d expect from a Congressional candidate. The Minnesota native manages a team of engineers at Intellectual… Read More

Holographic beam-forming antenna startup Pivotal Commware raises $17M from Bill Gates and others

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Chalk up another score for metamaterials technology: Bellevue-based Pivotal Commware says it’s raised $17 million in Series… Read More

Intellectual Ventures’ president and general counsel are both leaving their roles

Adriane Brown, the president and chief operating officer of Intellectual Ventures, is stepping down from her executive role at the Bellevue,… Read More

Bill Gates-backed satellite antenna company Kymeta raises $73.5M, total funding nears $200M

Kymeta has raised its largest investment round to fuel development of the company’s satellite antenna technology. The Redmond, Wash.-based company recently… Read More

Wireless energy for drones? Intellectual Ventures beams power with metamaterials

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Wireless power transmission has been a dream since the days of Nikola Tesla, but Intellectual Ventures is… Read More

Proposed wireless charging station would make dead batteries ‘a thing of the past’

Imagine the living room of the future — AI-controlled heating and cooling systems, VR gear strewn across the floor, and best… Read More

Podcast

Nathan Myhrvold: If you obsess about what people think of you, you’ll never change the world

Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold is one of the most controversial figures in the technology industry — a lightning rod for… Read More