Vulcan Inc.

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 as of 2004^[update] made by Vulcan or other entities owned by Allen, based mostly on research conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review.^[1]

Media

• Charter Communications
• DreamWorks Animation SKG--Formerly owned by Vulcan, later spun off as an independent company.
• Oxygen Network
• Rose City Radio Corporation, which owns several radio stations, including:
  • KXL-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.

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
• Flying Heritage Collection
• Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame

Real estate

• 505 Union Station and Union Station (Seattle)
• Sammamish Park Place
• South Lake Union
  • Enso
  • Rollin Street Flats
  • Veer Lofts
  • 2200 Westlake

Wireless spectrum

Vulcan Spectrum 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.^[2]

Other

• Allen Brain Atlas
• Mojave Aerospace Ventures and Tier One
• Cytokinetics
• Microsoft
• Octopus, a large yacht
• PTC Therapeutics
• Perlegen Sciences
• Project Halo
• XCyte Therapies
• Vulcan FlipStart

References

1. ^ CJR : Resources : Who Owns What
2. ^ dailywireless.org » Verizon Gets the “C” Block