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Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform

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From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines.

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E-commerce startup Fabric, led by Amazon vets, raises $140M at $1.5B valuation to pursue ‘absurd’ market opportunity

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Fabric thinks of itself as the “AWS for commerce,” Masud said, referring to the Amazon Web Services cloud division that provides the underlying technology infrastructure for companies around the world. Karen Brewer , chief marketing officer, was a longtime executive at Autodesk and other technology companies.

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Generative AI hackathon in Seattle encourages entrepreneurs to tinker with ‘magic wand’

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” Generative AI is taking the tech world by storm and has already developed to the point that a full stack ecosystem exists, allowing for the rapid prototyping and development of a new generation of applications and innovations. Training platforms allow developers to train their own language models. to 8:00 p.m.

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

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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. Former Amazon Air VP Gur Kimchi was appointed to the board of Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a developer of autonomous flight systems.

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Madrona leads $27M round in Twitter vets’ Fauna database startup; Bob Muglia named chairman

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Eric Berg, a former Okta and Apptio executive, is taking the helm of Fauna as CEO, succeeding co-founder Evan Weaver, who is becoming CTO. Evan Weaver, Fauna co-founder and CTO. The two worked together for many years at Microsoft, where Somasegar was a longtime executive, most recently leading the company’s developer division.