Financial fallout from MacKenzie Scott’s divorce likely to remain hidden | Seattle startup Knock to be acquired  

• Arna Ionescu Stoll, CEO of ear infection detector Wavely Diagnostics.

• Shariq Siddiqui, co-founder and CEO of smart shopping cart maker Veeve.

• Meng Wang and Yushan Chen, co-founders of robotic barista Artly.

• Monica Plath, founder and CEO of toddler tracking app Littlebird Connected Care.

Hear more from the entrepreneurs at the GeekWire Summit, taking place Oct. 6-7 in Seattle and online — get your tickets here. 

Seattle startup acquisition: RealPage, a real estate giant backed by Thoma Bravo, plans to buy Knock, a Seattle software company that helps apartment property managers.

More real estate news: A new website led by Zillow and Amazon vets promises a “factual, objective, relevant, concise, to-the-point” news source for the residential real estate brokerage industry. Read more. 

MacKenzie Scott’s ‘separation contract’: The financial impact of the billionaire Seattle philanthropist’s divorce from Dan Jewett is likely to remain a secret thanks to an agreement referenced in court documents. Read more.

New episode of Elevator Pitch: CEOs from three Seattle-area sustainability startups face off in the final episode of our latest Elevator Pitch season. Watch the episode here, and see winners from each episode at the GeekWire Summit next week.

Alzheimer's study could boost Seattle startup: Promising data released this week from a large clinical trial of an experimental therapy bodes well for companies like Seattle’s AltPep that are taking a similar path toward detecting and treating the disease. Read more. 

Google Stadia shutdown: Google’s decision this week to sunset its cloud-based video game streaming service shows how Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, and others have capitalized on Stadia’s weaknesses. Read the analysis. 

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend. — GeekWire managing editor Taylor Soper, taylor@geekwire.com, and GeekWire reporter Kurt Schlosser, kurt@geekwire.com.