Aug 09, 2019

RealWear

Vancouver-based RealWear acquired Kopin's Golden-i Infinity Smart Screen, a voice-controlled and gesture-enabled smart screen designed to increase worker productivity. Kopin is based in Westborough, Massachusetts, with a technology center in San Jose, California. It develops wearable technologies for military, industrial and consumer products. RealWear makes wearable computing devices for light and heavy industry that are voice-driven and head-mounted.

Maven

Seattle-based Maven has closed its $16.5 million acquisition of TheStreet, a 20-year-old financial news and information provider that was co-founded by stock market guru Jim Cramer. As part of the closing, Maven and Cramer formed a new production company with content created by Cramer and his team. Maven is an expert-driven group media network platform. TheStreet is headquartered in New York City.

T-Mobile

T-Mobile and nonprofit partner Ashoka are holding the second-annual Changemaker Challenge. The nationwide contest gives young leaders, ages 13-23, a stage to share their ideas for creating social change in one of three categories: technology, environment or education. Ten winning teams from each category will receive seed funding and a three-day Changemaker Lab experience in December at T-Mobile's headquarters in Bellevue. Enter by Sept. 26 at T-Mobile.com/changemaker.

Aug 08, 2019

City of Seattle

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the winners of the 2019 Mayor's Arts Awards: Center on Contemporary Art, Dani Tirrell, Delbert Richardson, Intiman Theatre and Marcie Sillman. All five recipients have shaped Seattle's arts and cultural landscape through contributions to the community, education, arts, and race and social justice. An awards ceremony will be held Aug. 29 at Charlotte Martin Theatre.

Sweeney Conrad

Bellevue accounting firm Sweeney Conrad won four workplace awards, one each from Seattle Business Magazine, Puget Sound Business Journal, Inside Public Accounting and Accounting Today. John Forrest is Sweeney Conrad's managing shareholder.

Aug 07, 2019

Vera Whole Health

Seattle-based Vera Whole Health is teaming with Premera Blue Cross to open two advanced primary care centers in Spokane. The first will open Jan. 1 at 9001 N. Country Homes Blvd., and the second in mid- to late 2020. No location was disclosed for the second center. Both will operate under the name Vivacity Care Center. They are part of a growing trend of health insurance companies integrating primary care into health plans in order to expand options for members. Premera is based in Mountlake Terrace.

Zevia

Robert Gay, chief strategy officer and executive vice president of sales and marketing at Zevia, yesterday started a nearly 5,000-mile cross-country bike ride, from Neah Bay to Key West, Florida. Los Angeles-based Zevia is supporting Gay's journey and also partnering with Trips for Kids, a nonprofit that promotes healthy lifestyles, environmental awareness and personal empowerment for young people using the bicycle as a tool. Zevia, a maker of zero-calorie drinks, will help open new Trips for Kids chapters in the Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Jacksonville, Florida, areas.

Aug 06, 2019

First Northwest Bancorp

Larry Hueth, president and CEO of First Northwest Bancorp, will leave the company at the end of the year to pursue other interests. Matt Deines has become president and CEO of the company's subsidiary, First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Port Angeles. At the start of 2020, Deines will assume Hueth's role as president and CEO of First Northwest Bancorp. Deines was executive vice president/CFO at Liberty Bay Bank and Sound Community Bank.

Paccar

Kevin Baney is the new general manager of Kenworth Truck Co. and a vice president at parent company Paccar in Kirkland. Baney was assistant general manager for sales and marketing at Kenworth for nearly three years, and was chief engineer for nearly five years before that. He has been at Paccar for 25 years.

T-Mobile

Bellevue-based T-Mobile donated $1 million to Feeding America, one of the nation's largest hunger-relief organizations. The donation comes from sales proceeds from T-Mobile CEO John Legere's slow cooker cookbook. It equates to 10 million meals.