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Hello YoungTech!

Welcome back to the YoungTech Review! We’ve had a big couple of months since our last edition. In case you missed it or are new to joining our community, you can check out the following posts to recap on our recent events:

• July 8th Fireside w/ the FUSE associate team

• July 31st CTO breakfast & Making The Leap panel

We have also put out a couple of interesting data projects:

• Seattle Founders Past Lives

• Physical World 2.0 Market Map

We’re planning to continue our efforts on the data front in the coming months. If there’s a project you’d like to collaborate on, don’t hesitate to reach out!

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Now for the fun stuff. For those of you newly joining us, this semi-monthly newsletter contains news, job postings, and updates from across the YoungTech community as well as ‘Member Spotlights’ which seek to highlight the impressive and diverse members of our growing ecosystem. Check them all out below!

Member Spotlight:

Rolanda Fu, Investor - Madrona

Rolanda recently returned to Seattle to join Madrona, where she now invests in diverse technology themes across Madrona’s portfolio.

She was previously a management consultant at EY-Parthenon in Chicago, where she worked on strategic engagements for Fortune 500 C-suite leaders and managed junior associates on due diligences for private equity clients. Rolanda took a break from consulting to extern in impact investing at MIT Solve, where she helped the team invest globally in several tech startups including AI-assisted teleradiology, fintech for underbanked populations, and GenAI-driven sustainable consumer products. Her passion for startups and working with entrepreneurs extends back to her time at the University of Chicago, where she led efforts to centralize startup resources at the school level and headed one of the school’s largest entrepreneurship clubs running educational programming and pitch competitions; she also worked directly for and in a consulting capacity with several Chicago startups.

Her prior experiences have given her unique insights into what pain points new technologies can address across enterprise, consumer, education, healthcare, and more. As a Seattle native (and born in Vancouver), Rolanda is deeply passionate about investing in the entrepreneurship community in the PNW to find ways to accelerate local innovation and increase accessibility to building new companies.

News From The Community:

• Outbound Aerospace featured in Geekwire

• MathGPT featured in the Cornel Chronicle

• Agni Bhattacharya featured as a guest on Founders Table

Job Openings in the Network:

• Dirac is hiring for three roles - Contact is Nick Khormaei

  • Full Stack SWE - [Link]  

  • Integrations Engineer - [Link]

  • Quality Assurance Engineer - [Link]

• Gordian is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - [Link]

  • Contact is Steven Grabowski

• Standard Metrics is hiring for two roles - Contact is Ethan Finkel

  • Data Solutions Team - [Link]

  • Software Engineer - [Link]

• Databricks is hiring a New Grad SWE - [Link]

  • Contact is Josh Lillie

Upcoming Events:

• September 4th - Founder/Funder Fireside w/ Graham & Walker

• October 9th - Deep Dive: Maria Colacurcio - Founder of Syndio & Co-founder of Smartsheet [NYSE: SMAR]

Thank you for reading.

Until next time.