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Strix Leviathan, a Seattle-based digital assets startup, has been acquired by Parataxis, a crypto hedge fund based in New York City. Strix CEO Sadie Raney will transition to a new Seattle fintech startup she’s leading called Eve Wealth. Read more.

From self-driving cars to in-home robots: Marc Whitten, a veteran tech executive and former Cruise CEO with roots in the Seattle region, joined Meta to lead a new team working on humanoid robots. Read more.

AI will transform parts of healthcare — but for early stage startups, it won’t be easy cracking into a sector that’s highly regulated and historically slow to adopt new technologies. That’s the word from Nader Naini, a longtime managing partner at Seattle-based firm Frazier Healthcare Partners. Read more.

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