Reducing youth homelessness with the help of data

Editor's Note: Here is the correct link to our list of women venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest, featured in yesterday's newsletter. We're sorry for the error.

Reducing youth home homelessness with the help of data: A Way Home Washington is using data and analytics to help solve a crisis that is both unconscionable and has seemed intractable: the challenge of kids and young adults experiencing homelessness. The group uses data in real time to better manage services for individuals and to understand which initiatives are and aren’t working. It is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Tableau Foundation, The Ballmer Group, and others. Above, the Anchor Community Initiative team with A Way Home Washington captured their reaction to Spokane’s significant decline in youth and young adult homelessness.

Battling viruses with a nasal spray: Seattle startup HDT Bio just landed a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Army to develop its nasal spray designed to counteract a wide range of respiratory viruses.

CVS vs. Amazon: A new regulatory filing details the behind-the-scenes negotiations for One Medical, leading up to the Seattle tech giant’s offer to acquire the primary care company for $3.9 billion on July 21. A competing bidder, identified as “Party A” in the filing by One Medical parent company 1Life Healthcare, was CVS Health Corp., reports Bloomberg News.

"My dreams have come true": That’s how one Seattle-based Amazon delivery driver reacts to the new Rivian electric delivery van in a new video offering his first impressions of the vehicle.