Vulcan Inc.

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This is not to be confused with the Konami game Vulcan Venture, also known as Gradius II.

Vulcan Inc. was founded in 1986 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, to manage his investments. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

The following is a partial list of investments as of 2004 made by Vulcan or other entities owned by Allen.

Contents 1 Media 2 Sport teams 3 Venues and museums 4 Real estate 5 Other 6 External links

[edit] Media

• Charter Communications
• DreamWorks Animation SKG
• KXL-AM and KXJM-FM, radio stations in Portland, Oregon
• Oxygen Network
• Rose City Radio Corporation
• The Sporting News and Sporting News Radio
• TechTV Formerly owned by Vulcan and later sold to Comcast.

[edit] Sport teams

• Seattle Seahawks
• Portland Trailblazers

[edit] Venues and museums

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

[edit] Real estate

• 505 Union Station and Union Station (Seattle)
• Sammamish Park Place
• South Lake Union

[edit] 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
• Vulcan Data

[edit] External links

• Vulcan Inc.
• Vulcan Data
• Who Owns What: Vulcan, Inc. from the Columbia Journalism Review