Meet the company that won the Microsoft-donated World Cup suite with a $100k bid for a great cause

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Meet the company that won the Microsoft-donated World Cup suite with a 0k bid for a great cause

By John Cook
Publication Date: 2026-05-21 15:30:00

by John Cook on May 21, 2026 at 8:30 amMay 21, 2026 at 8:27 am

L-R: Michael Atalla, chief marking officer at UiPath and Katie Fath, director of community giving at Seattle Children’s Hospital with John Cook, GeekWire co-founder and publisher. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)

Seattle’s business and tech community just delivered a World Cup-sized assist for a great cause.

A premium 2026 World Cup suite experience, donated by Microsoft, raised $100,000 for Seattle Children’s Hospital after an auction organized by GeekWire.

UiPath, the business orchestration and AI automation giant which is expanding its Bellevue, Wash. operations, submitted the winning bid last week.

The auction kicked off at the GeekWire Awards earlier this month. Sounders FC captain and U.S. Men’s National Team midfielder Cristian Roldan and Microsoft deputy general counsel Brian DeFoe promoted…