Lisa Stiffler

With $54M and a SpaceX playbook, Seattle's Endurance races to tap deep-sea volcanic power

Oregon-based nickel-zinc battery manufacturer ZincFive is headed to the Nasdaq via a $600M SPAC merger with SparkLabs Group to fund global manufacturing.

— Microsoft technical fellow Marcus Fontoura is leaving the company after serving as Azure Core's chief technology officer for more than a year.

Neuralwatt , a Seattle-based startup launched by two Microsoft veterans, has released what appears to be the first tool for calculating, in real

Helion Energy announced Tuesday that it's the first company in the world to receive regulatory licenses for a fusion power facility.

TerraPower , the Bellevue, Wash.-based nuclear energy company, announced Tuesday the opening of a subsidiary office in the United Kingdom as it pursues its first international power plant.

Vedana Therapeutics , a Seattle-based startup aiming to prevent migraine attacks, emerged from stealth Wednesday with $46 million and a leadership team of heavy-hitters in cutting-edge migraine treatment.

— Former Microsoft, Amazon and Google exec Brian Hall is now chief marketing officer for Mistral — and he's bullish on the move. “I think this could be the most interesting marketing job in the world,” Hall said on LinkedIn

Sila raised its first round of funding in September 2011 — the same month solar power manufacturer Solyndra went bankrupt, sullying the sustainability sector.

The idea is so simple: generating power from the heat trapped beneath the Earth's crust. It's clean, renewable and potentially abundant.