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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Paul Allen |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Paul Allen |
| Owner | 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.[1]
Media
- Charter Communications
- DreamWorks Animation – 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 October 2013 was shut down by Comcast's NBCUniversal division
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.[2]
Technology and medicine
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.[5]
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.[6]
Project Halo
Project Halo[7] 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. Project Halo has led to a number of spinoff technologies, including the wiki software bundle SMW+, the Semantic Inferencing on Large Knowledge (SILK) project[8] and the Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System (AURA).[9]
References
- ^ Who Owns What: Vulcan, Columbia Journalism Review
- ^ Sunnucks, Mike (2010-06-17). "Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. pays $35M for Tempe building".
- ^ Paur, Jason (2011-12-13). "Microsoft Billionaire Paul Allen Launches New Space Venture". Wired. New York. Archived from the original on 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^
Mecham, Michael; Frank Morring, Jr. (2011-12-20). "Allen Places Big Bet On Air Launches". Aviation Week. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
the ... team is still working through details of how to progress toward its 2016 first launch.
- ^ dailywireless.org » Verizon Gets the “C” Block
- ^ Is FlipStart closing up shop?, Joshua Topolsky, Engadget, May 4, 2008
- ^ Project Halo homepage
- ^ SILK homepage
- ^ "Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System". Artificial Intelligence Center. SRI International. Retrieved 2013-06-13.