Vulcan Inc.

Vulcan Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington, USA
Owner(s)	Paul Allen
Subsidiaries	Charter Communications, Rose City Radio Corporation, Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers, Mojave Aerospace Ventures (among others)
Website	http://www.vulcan.com/

Vulcan Inc. is an investment and project management company founded in 1986 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, to manage his investments. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Investments

The following is a partial list of investments made by Vulcan.

Media

• Charter Communications
• DreamWorks Animation SKG – Formerly co-owned by Vulcan, later spun off as an independent company.
• Oxygen Network
• Rose City Radio Corporation, which owns several radio stations, including:
  • KXTG-AM and KXJM-FM, radio stations in Portland, Oregon
• The Sporting News and Sporting News Radio
• TechTV Formerly owned by Vulcan and later sold to Comcast; merged with G4 and as of January 2011 wholly owned by Comcast & GE's NBCUniversal division

Sport teams and venues

• Vulcan Sports and Entertainment, which includes:
  • Seattle Seahawks
  • Portland Trail Blazers
  • Seattle Sounders FC (Minority Owner)
  • Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon

Museums, theatres, and galleries

• Seattle Cinerama theater
• The Hospital studios and gallery in London
• Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
• Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, Washington
• Living Computer Museum

Real estate

• 505 Union Station and Union Station (Seattle)
• Sammamish Park Place
• South Lake Union
  • Enso
  • Rollin Street Flats
  • Veer Lofts
  • 2200 Westlake
• Tempe Gateway, an eight story office building in Tempe, Arizona. It is the company's first investment outside Seattle.

Technology and medicine

• Internap Network Services Corporation
• Allen Brain Atlas
• Cytokinetics^{[citation needed]}
• Evri
• PTC Therapeutics
• Perlegen Sciences^{[citation needed]}
• Stratolaunch Systems
• XCyte Therapies^{[citation needed]}

Technology ventures

Vulcan, Inc. has also directly led some technology projects, including the following:

Wireless spectrum

Vulcan Spectrum, a branch of Vulcan, Inc., participated in the United States 2008 wireless spectrum auction, paying $69 million for "A Block" spectrum in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton area, and $43.6 million for "A Block" spectrum in Portland-Salem.

Vulcan FlipStart

In 2003, Vulcan began developing the Vulcan FlipStart a subnotebook with a 5.6-inch screen. The company began to manufacture and sell the FlipStart in March 2007, and ceased production in May 2008.

Project Halo

Project Halo is a project that has run since October 2002, with the goal of creating a "digital Aristotle" that can correctly answer queries about scientific information, using artificial intelligence technology. The project is managed by Mark Greaves. Project Halo has led to a number of spinoff technologies, including the wiki software bundle SMW+, the Semantic Inferencing on Large Knowledge (SILK) project and the Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System (AURA).