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. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo). Sajo Jacob. Magnify Photo). Read the story.

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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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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. Census hopes mobile approach works in 2020 - FCW.com (blog) FCW (Today) Census hopes mobile approach works in 2020FCW.com (blog)WHAT: The U.S.

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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 16, 2020

The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. 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. Six startups have at least one active co-founder with Microsoft ties. Auth0 Photo).

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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.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software. Public software, open source software.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Seattle biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics promoted Valerie Odegard to president and Naomi Hunder to chief medical officer. . Odegard joined the company in 2016 as chief scientific officer. The company announced the promotions last week along with a $85 million Series C round. — Scott Porad.

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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. Convoy CEO Dan Lewis.

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CTOvision

JUNE 15, 2015

ARMONK, NY - 15 Jun 2015: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a major commitment to Apache®Spark™, potentially the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data. BM Joins Spark Community, Plans to Educate More Than 1 Million Data Scientists.

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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. He was most recently VP and CTO at Genesis Engineering Solutions and previously spent 13 years at NASA.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop and maintain in house, unless your company happens to be a technology provider. A third reason companies are disappointed is because of a lack of control over their information systems. million in 2017).

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

She had nearly two decades of experience leading diversity and inclusion efforts inside important institutions, like Washington state’s governor’s office, but she’d never worked at an influential global business leader like Amazon. And some stuck it out at the company by transferring roles, and even taking demotions, to escape toxic bosses.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

She had nearly two decades of experience leading diversity and inclusion efforts inside important institutions, like Washington state’s governor’s office, but she’d never worked at an influential global business leader like Amazon. And some stuck it out at the company by transferring roles, and even taking demotions, to escape toxic bosses.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

In 2015, shortly after the Jeep hack, the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) released a study suggesting that someone could take wireless signals within an airplane and perhaps cause mischief. Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible.

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CTOvision

JULY 14, 2015

CSC takes another step toward split Washington Technology (Today) - With a new set of SEC filings, Computer Sciences Corp. moves another step closer to separating into two companies. will provide engineering services for software development of commercial products and engineering under an $8.7 million Navy contract.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mobile marketplace OfferUp announced Melinda Starbird as the company’s first chief people and diversity officer. Tim Prouty speaking at the 2015 GeekWire Summit. and plans to add an office in Seattle. The four-year old company provides software to connect patients, therapists and insurance companies.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

I co-founded optimize.health with Jeff LeBrun, initially as Pillsy in 2015, and later pivoted to focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM). As a black entrepreneur and CTO in this fast growing healthcare technology space, I have often found myself in spaces where I am usually the lone black person at the table. I wasn’t wrong.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

In the 1980s, Craig McCaw recognized the potential of cellular phone networks and, starting with a single small cable company in Centralia, Washington, built an $11 billion nationwide wireless network, earning the name “ the wizard of wireless ”. This company doesn’t need to invent anything new.

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