Jun 24, 2020

City of Redmond

Redmond Fire Chief Tommy Smith has resigned. Smith was hired in 2013 by the city of Redmond after serving as deputy fire chief for the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The city of Redmond gave no reason for his departure. Deputy Fire Chief Don Horton has stepped in as acting fire chief.

Brightwork Consulting

Seattle-based Brightwork Consulting hired Jeff Powell as vice president of business development. Powell has over 30 years of experience leading business development and sales programs and teams. Brightwork is a risk management, change management and IT/business strategy consultant.

Uchimura Robotics

Atlanta-based Uchimura Robotics opened an operation in Seattle to better serve the West Coast with fully autonomous disinfecting robots, collaborative robots, industrial robots, low-cost laboratory/educational/hobbyist robots and telepresence robots. Uchimura supplies robots for industrial, commercial and educational applications. It is a subsidiary of Uchimura Co. Ltd. of Japan.

City of Tacoma

The city of Tacoma's Community and Economic Development Department says it approved 69 small businesses to participate in its $1 million COVID-19 stabilization loan program. Loans averaging about $15,000 were given to the businesses, which have 10 or fewer employees and brick-and-mortar operations. About 36% of the businesses are restaurants and bars and 20% are retailers. The city received 200 applications for the program.

Arcimoto

Eugene, Oregon-based Arcimoto is teaming with HyreCar to provide Arcimoto's Deliverator electric vehicles in Los Angeles. The three-wheeled vehicles will be ready to rent this summer using HyreCar's carsharing marketplace for ridesharing and delivery. HyreCar rents cars to Uber, Lyft and delivery drivers, and is targeting last-mile food and package delivery in heavily populated areas. Deliverators have a top speed of 75 mph and can go about 100 miles in the city before recharging.

Jun 23, 2020

Airship

Portland-based Airship hired Bernardo de Albergaria as chief commercial officer, leading global marketing, sales and partner organizations. De Albergaria has 20 years of experience leading global product, sales and marketing initiatives for technology companies. Most recently, he was CEO of Beckon, an enterprise marketing performance analytics platform. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and general manager of collaboration at Atlassian. Airship has a digital platform for companies to manage customer communications.

Summit Partners

Global growth equity investor Summit Partners added Matt Rissell to the firm's Executive-in-Residence program, which identifies new investment opportunities and advises growth stage companies in the software sector. Rissell founded TSheets, an Eagle, Idaho-based time tracking and scheduling software company that was bought for $340 million in 2018 by Intuit. Summit has U.S. offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston.

T-Mobile

In Bellevue, T-Mobile agreed to sell $4 billion in senior secured notes in a private offering to institutional buyers. The company said it intends to use the proceeds for ongoing liability management, including the redemption of one or more series of existing unsecured notes. The new offering includes $1 billion in 1.5% notes due in 2026, $1.25 billion in 2.05% notes due in 2028 and $1.75 billion in 2.55% notes due in 2031.

Soluna Technologies

Soluna Technologies flipped the switch in Wenatchee on its new 3-megawatt pilot data center that integrates demand-response computing with green power. The data center is being used to mine cryptocurrency and for research and development. New York City-based Soluna is operating it on behalf of EcoChain, a subsidiary of Mechanical Technology.

Concord Pacific

Vancouver, B.C., developer Concord Pacific donated over 200,000 masks to South Lake Union-area businesses in partnership with the South Lake Union Chamber of Commerce. Recipients include small businesses and nonprofit organizations. Concord is building Seattle House, a luxury condo project in the Denny Triangle neighborhood.