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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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ancestry CTO Scott Sorensen says [link] 's business is all about data and telling stories from that data #DataAnalytics. — Trajectory Magazine (@TrajectoryMag) July 30, 2014. "Making "Making your data widely available is a great way to recruitand hire data scientists" Via Sorensen, @ancestry CTO #dataanalytics.

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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

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Cyemptive, founded in 2014, sells cybersecurity tools including an endpoint protection service and advanced perimeter firewalls. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Portland, Ore.-based

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Prophia, which extracts info from commercial real estate contracts, raises $10.2M

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Prophia , a startup building a platform that scours and extracts key terms from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 Prophia’s users can upload PDF contracts that are analyzed by its software. Lexion , Advocat , and Clearbrief help legal teams sift through different types of contracts. Cameron Steele.

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Seattle startup Yardstick launches app for structured job interviews, better hiring decisions

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So he decided to launch a startup to develop one. The company, Yardstick , is making its debut today with a browser-based app that leads companies and hiring managers through the process of structured job interviews. Yardstick leads hiring managers through the process of structured interviews. Yardstick Image).

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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

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Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

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in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. FAIRFAX, VA—April 7, 2014 —Invincea, Inc., This builds on the growth that the company posted in the quarter previous to this period , and in a time when the company launched its first small business offering. contract with the U.S.

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Tech Moves: Former Rover CTO joins moving startup Dolly; Egencia’s CFO to depart; and more

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Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Dolly currently has 40 full-time employees and plans to double its headcount and sales in the upcoming year.

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