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His friends built him a dating funnel: Friends of 26-year-old AWS networking engineer Reid Miller decided the dating apps weren’t working and papered Ballard with flyers advertising his datable qualities — “He’s above average looking! He’s employed!” — plus a QR code pointing to DateReid.com, where women can scroll through photos and fill out an application. A Reddit post Thursday took the site from about 75 views in a day to more than 3,000.
Kalshi crackdown: A judge in Seattle ordered a Sept. 2 shutdown of Kalshi’s sports, elections and entertainment markets in the state, and threatened the prediction market platform with $120,000-a-day fines if it misses the deadline. Kalshi’s motion to pause the injunction pending appeal was denied at both the trial court and the Washington Court of Appeals.
Funding for cancer research: Biotech startup InduPro announced a $77 million investment to support a Phase 1 clinical trial for a cancer drug candidate. InduPro, which has operations in Seattle and Cambridge, Mass., is targeting patients with certain difficult-to-treat lung cancers and other solid tumors.
New owner, mystery tenant: Breakthrough Properties just paid $78 million for an Everett plant that Seagen started building in 2022 at a cost of about $350 million. It never opened following Pfizer’s 2023 acquisition of the Bothell-based cancer drug maker. The life sciences real estate firm says it has leased the entire 270,000-square-foot campus for 21 years to a global biopharmaceutical company it isn’t ready to name.
Startup Spotlight: ScopeSys is building instruments that image single molecules, giving drugmakers a way to see the individual RNA and DNA particles inside genomic medicines instead of population averages. The seven-person company, spun out of University of British Columbia research, recently closed a $1.1 million seed round.
Signal boost: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it has successfully tested the first three ground stations for a global communications network that will support future missions. The sites feature powerful antennas that can track spacecraft far out in space — from satellites parked 22,000 miles up to missions headed to the moon and beyond.
Tech Moves: Dave Levy, VP of AWS Worldwide Public Sector, has left Amazon for a reported role at Google; Funko, Coinme and DAT Freight have added to their C-suites; Membrion has named a new VP; and more personnel changes.
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