GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

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. . Tony Bacos. Frontdoor Photo). based X4Impact.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2021

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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. Microsoft Photo).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. ” Porter joined Amazon in 2007, and in 2014 became a distinguished engineer, an exclusive title given to only a handful of employees. . “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

Long served as the director of the NGA from 2010 until her retirement in 2014. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles. Founded : 2014.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. In fact, GeekWire reported this week on a little-known enterprise software company that just joined the unicorn ranks. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round. Founded : 2014.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Another heavily-funded Seattle-based startup, sales engagement software provider Outreach, announced plans to open a New York City office led by David Rubinstein. O’Leary most recently led marketing, sales and growth at startup Airlift, one of Create33’s members, and spent more than 12 years at Starbucks in business development.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

6, 2014 – In the future, when an earthquake or tsunami strikes a populated area or a terrorist attack decimates a city, teams of disaster experts partnered with robots — whose skills are being honed in rigorous competitions funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — may be the first responders. By Cheryl Pellerin.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. At Microsoft, Brown oversaw corporate development, M&A and strategic investments including the company’s acquisitions of LinkedIn and GitHub. He previously lead engineering and R&D at Houston, Texas-based BMC Software. Eugene, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Seattle-area startup SeekOut raised $65 million in March to fuel growth of its recruiting software that is like LinkedIn on steroids. It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. “We are in talent acquisition. Winner: Auth0.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Jim founded Mason to address the challenges he observed with hardware development. Mason’s solution provides clients with custom-built hardware and software for single-purpose Android devices. Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. Kuck joined Pushpay in 2014. Mason Photo).

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JUNE 24, 2014

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Facebook also said it’s doesn’t want to be the only one developing the metaverse. It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

Statistics from the Department of Justice reveal that over 7% of US households, representing more than 11,000,000 Americans, suffered some form of identity theft in 2014. The total financial loss from identity theft alone exceeded $24 billion in 2014, nearly double the amount lost in 2010. trillion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

Jesse Levinson, co-founder and CTO of Zoox, the self-driving taxi company acquired by Amazon last year. A veteran in the world of autonomous vehicles, Levinson is the co-founder and CTO of Zoox, a Foster City, Calif., company developing its own electric, autonomous vehicle and robotaxi ride-hailing service. Zoox Photo).

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