GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2023

Former Microsoft and Amazon Alexa engineering leader Sonny Patel was named CTO and CPO of insurance tech startup Socotra. Socotra Photo) — Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance tech startup Socotra as CTO and CPO. Founded in 2015, Socotra sells cloud-based tools for insurance tech companies.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

She will serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee and as the company’s national security director, a role required through the wireless carrier’s merger with Sprint. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. The company currently has 114 employees, up from 80 two months ago.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. The software works behind-the-scenes to ensure that the code powering a company’s business processes across various microservices remains safe and preserved. “Temporal is one of the most promising software companies,” Muglia said in a statement.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2023

The Seattle-based e-bike company confirmed the latest round of cuts on Wednesday. The company now has around 400 employees, according to LinkedIn. The company now has around 400 employees, according to LinkedIn. Rad launched in 2007 and began selling e-bikes directly to consumers through online sales in 2015.

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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. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). It just brought on Faisal Masud as CEO.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. The key hires are part of Expedia’s efforts to streamline its operations and boost its revenues. s highest paid CEO in 2015.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Special Project founders CEO Sam Lucas (left) and Chief Technology Officer Paul Burton. The company didn’t exist. Lucas and his co-founder, Chief Technology Officer Paul Burton, had been running their first startup, Triple Tree Software, for four years, specializing in building custom SaaS products for national clients.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

Vouched , a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, has landed $4.5 It’s a vote of confidence in the 3-year-old company, which spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, the accelerator based at Madrona Venture Group in Seattle. billion in 2015. The idea is to provide fraud detection of a person in real-time.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 29, 2015

Thanks to the organizers of the Integrate + API World 2015 Conference ( Sept. Integrate + API World 2015 is the nation’s largest integration + API conference featuring participants such as Google, IBM, Facebook, Linkedin, HP, Slack, HipChat, Zendesk, and 200+ more companies. Who attends Integrate + API World 2015: Developers.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

. — Zillow’s VP of Partner Success Racquel Russell joined the board of micro-mobility company Bird, known for its scooter sharing platform. Russell joined Zillow in 2015, originally as VP of government relations and public affairs. Seattle-area cybersecurity startup Polyverse hired Curtis Brown as chief product officer.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. The company raised $28 million in 2019. GameStop added two former Amazon executives as CEO and CFO, the company announced Wednesday. . Rachael Granby (Karat Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The workforce cuts and real estate footprint reduction are tied to a change in the company’s customer service model, as well as “running a more efficient business overall and speeding our path to profitability,” CEO Dan Lewis wrote on LinkedIn Thursday. Convoy opened its Atlanta office in 2019. billion valuation.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

How one company is embracing agile Washington Technology (Today) - CivicActions harnesses open agile software development in its bid for the GSA's 18F agile blanket purchase agreement. It’s centered primarily around two questions: When should a business hire a CDO? sv1ambo / Flickr). This is a 1965.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2021

The former Microsoft Office president, whose recent role has included leading the company’s pandemic response, will retire at the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year in June, the company confirmed this week. He was previously CTO at startups High Fidelity and Korrio. Parikh joined Hiya in 2019. 1, were not shared.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7 The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. billion private equity deal. Steve Shure.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

E-SITE is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite -quantity (IDIQ) multiple-award contract awarded to 25 large and 25 small businesses to support IT requirements across the defense intelligence enterprise and greater intelligence community. experience supporting the DIA, driving today's emerging technologies and supporting collaboration.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

” Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 with fellow Amazon vet Dan Lewis. They started the company by hanging out at truck stops and getting kicked out of warehouses as they did market research when Convoy was just a kernel of an idea. “It’s practically my third child.” It raised $260 million at a $3.8

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

His experience and skills are an invaluable addition to our company and the senior leadership team,” Nadella said in a statement. Cohen was CFO at Zillow Group for more than nine years before joining Seattle-based Adaptive in 2015. based cloud automation company Puppet named two new board appointments as it preps for an IPO next year.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Founded : 2015.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. The new fund provides investments to companies participating in the accelerator and also makes direct investments. It focuses on pre-seed companies with capital-efficient business models and early signs of commercialization. agtech startup Verdi. Scott Nagel.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

After selling a startup and traveling around the world with his family, Aaron Bird set out to build the next great Seattle tech company. And thus the creation of Seattle-based Pienza , the latest entry in a growing cadre of startup studios that aim to make the company-building process more efficient. But it was hard picking just one.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

None of the companies have female co-founders or CEOs. In fact, GeekWire reported this week on a little-known enterprise software company that just joined the unicorn ranks. Spoiler alert : Before reading any further, take a moment and see if you can name all 10 startup companies valued at $1 billion or more in the Seattle area?

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Cambridge, Ontario, February 3, 2015 – eSentire , Inc., Cambridge, Ontario, February 3, 2015 – eSentire , Inc., In 2015, eSentire opened its European headquarters and a second Security Operations Center in Cork Ireland and committed to hiring 100 new employees in Europe over the next five years. Katie Kennedy.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

On 26 August 2015 the DoD promulgated new rules that apply to any contractor or subcontractor that does business with the DoD. We are looking for inputs from members of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), which is any company providing anything to the DoD. These rules are in immediate effect.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Former employees at trucking company Convoy have gone on to launch their own startups in Seattle. A vast alumni network from the trucking marketplace company is fueling entrepreneurial activity in Seattle, where at least 25 startups are now led by former employees of Convoy. Several others are still operating in stealth mode.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

As part of the deal, Navistar is taking a minority stake in TuSimple — though neither company would disclose the size of Navistar’s investment. Now the company has a manufacturing partner to help it realize its dream of robot semi trucks criss-crossing across the nation.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Jeffrey Spector , co-founder of Seattle startup Karat which helps companies conduct technical interviews for software engineers. Before launching Karat in 2014, he was chief of staff for Melinda Gates at the Gates Foundation. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company. Tune Photo).

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Linux Academy

MAY 30, 2019

Recently, we had the pleasure of speaking with Emmett Stewart, Head of Service Operations (includes NOC and the corporate IT service desk) at a SaaS company. Keep reading to learn about not only Emmett’s journey through the cloud but also his company’s! I said to him, “Dude, you have to. We have to support it all.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Roofstock is a fintech company that allows individuals to invest in single family rental homes. The company recently acquired property management platform Great Jones and has raised $133 million in total funding to date. Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. Kymeta Photos). — Redmond, Wash.-based

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

Businesses, enticed away from traditional data center models by lower upfront capital costs and simpler solutions to scaling and reliability issues, have been adopting cloud technology in droves. Companies offering public and hybrid cloud solutions addressed these problems by fundamentally changing the pricing structure of computing power.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

The concept of a paperless office is some way off, but I can’t think of any company out there that wouldn’t like to reduce its paper consumption, whilst communicating faster and more efficiently with its customers. Only 17% of respondents said they work in what can be described as a paper-free office. Mobile Capture Arrives.

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2021

The task force, created by The National Science Foundation and the Biden administration, includes ten other technical experts from academic institutions, government agencies and technology companies across the U.S. Boundless co-founder and CTO Serdar Sutay has left the Seattle immigration startup. His last day was Friday.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI; Leslie Alexandre, President and CEO of Life Science Washington; Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma; Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Caroline Lewis, partner at Rogue Venture Partners; and Saad Bashir, CTO for City of Seattle.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2015

It isn’t always the right approach – sometimes open collaboration beyond company borders has superior value to a quiet insular team. At Microsoft and some other companies, the terminology is “Tented” – you have no clue about the work if you’re outside the tent, enforced as rigorously as in a SCIF.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Why the Economic Payoff From Technology Is So Elusive - New York Times. CALIBRE Systems Wins OPM/GSA Human Capital and Training Solutions Contract. With Two-Year Anniversary as SC3 CEO, David Page Sees New Opportunity in Best-Value Contracts.

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