GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. Nelson will scout new startups and work with portfolio companies, Madrona said. Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2023

acquired San Francisco-based immigration consulting company Bridge. Founded in 2011, Bridge has helped more than 1,000 companies hire international talent and implement immigration strategies through its software platform and legal expertise. He’s joined by CTO and co-founder Forrest Blount , a former Google engineer.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2021

. — Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Contract management startup Icertis added two new board members; Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of PSP Partners, former U.S.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2017, Zunum Aero was flying high. The company, which had received millions of dollars from the venture arms of Boeing and JetBlue, said it would be ready to fly by 2022. Boeing stole Zunum’s technology and intentionally hobbled the upstart entrant”. The company is seeking compensatory and punitive damages.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. This category recognizes CEOs of Pacific Northwest technology companies with more than 100 employees. (The He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2022

million sub-contract awarded to the biotech company by the U.S. Younger founded the company in 2017 with CTO Randolph Lopez using technology they helped to develop while graduate researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. The partnership is powered by a $1.1

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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

JULY 9, 2020

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. contract management startup Icertis.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The company’s revenue for the full year ended Jan. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. 31 was down 5% to $2.23 Elizabeth Solomon.

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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 The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people.

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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 billion valuation.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

Atkins is the CEO and co-founder of a company that’s hoping to help. In 2017, the team officially launched Lyssn. Atkins said it’s the only company he knows of that is transcribing and using AI to analyze therapy sessions. An example of a Lyssn-generated report analyzing a patient-therapist session. Lyssn Image).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The test took place on Sunday afternoon at the company’s DevLoop test track in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. The first two passengers were Virgin Hyperloop’s chief technology officer and co-founder, Josh Giegel, and head of passenger experience, Sara Luchian. The DevLoop test track is 500 meters long and 3.3

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. as chief operating officer. and has an engineering office in Bellevue, Wash. Megan Quinn.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I I was able to see that the breadth of technologies I could use in education was small compared to the tech that could help global private-sector companies,” she says.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

Reperio initially targeted consumers as its customers, but quickly shifted its focus to companies seeking wellness support for employees. The company is also in conversations with systems supporting Medicaid clients. Rush launched the company in 2020 with his co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Matt Wallington.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

AUGUST 6, 2015

The Board also struggled with “get it started urgently” versus “consult with public safety” to design the network. FirstNet made mistakes in hiring professional staff – Bill D’Agostino as Executive Director and Ali Afrashteh as Chief Technology Officer. State Plans finished and sent to Governors – late 2017 and 2018.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The top 10 funding rounds across the Pacific Northwest in 2022, listed below, highlight companies that were able to attract venture capital dollars despite rising interest rates and tumbling public tech stock valuations. Nuclear energy company TerraPower fuels up with $750M. Group14 Technologies , the Woodinville, Wash.-based

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

What are the most important lessons that IT leaders and CIOs learned (or should have learned) in 2017? In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. The 2017 Ponemon “ Cost of Data Breach Study ” found that the average cost of a data breach is $3.62

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Tech companies around the country continue to recruit executives from Amazon: Rene Villegas , the former head of marketing for Amazon Subscription Boxes, is now chief marketing officer at Boston-based wireless broadband provider Starry. based workflow automation company late last year. Merida Merger Corp. Dustin Grosse.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In 2017, for example, Radian struck a deal with the Port of Bremerton to lease a half-acre of land at Bremerton National Airport for a rocket engine test facility. Despite Radian’s stealthiness, there’s ample evidence that the venture’s plan is more than a pack of PowerPoint slides.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mobile marketplace OfferUp announced Melinda Starbird as the company’s first chief people and diversity officer. Prouty joined Convoy in 2017 and previously led Uber’s Seattle engineering center. and plans to add an office in Seattle. Melinda Starbird. OfferUp Photo). Cheq Photos). Bellevue, Wash.-based

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The infamous Israel-based NSO Group, known for its hacking spyware Pegasus, was placed on the United States Government's Entity List for engaging in malicious cyber activities, along with three other foreign companies, Candiru, Computer Security Initiative Consultancy PTE (COSEINC), and Positive Technologies.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

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 have since realized how grossly underrepresented black CEOs, CTOs or other C-Suite executives and founders of VC-backed startups are in this space.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rebellion has also won several million dollars of military contracts from the Pentagon, the start of what some observers think will be a gusher of government dollars. In 2022, the company raised $150 million in funding and was valued at a staggering $1.15 The company needed connected people to make that happen. Spokesperson S.Y.

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