The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s not clear exactly why Greco, Vlietstra, and Lundmark are leaving the company. But Insider says Greco disagreed with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson — who replaced co-founder Rony Abovitz last year — over a choice to move the software division out of the CTO’s purview.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Postulka is an example of a boomerang IT leader — professionals who leave a company, gain experience elsewhere, and then return in a higher tech leadership position. These boomerang CIOs have every reason to be as successful as a more traditional external new hire, but not more so, according to Martha Hello, CEO of Heller Search Associates.

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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. Karat helps software engineering teams with the first round of technical interviews. The company raised $28 million in 2019. Rachael Granby (Karat Photo). Angela Jones.

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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. Alexandr Wang, Scale AI’s CEO and founder, dropped out of MIT to start the company. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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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

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. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, were not disclosed. citizenship.

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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

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. The company, ranked No. billion valuation. trucking industry.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Littlepage was most recently senior vice president of marketing at cybersecurity company Tenable. Outreach’s former CMO Margaret Arakawa left the company in December. He was previously a financial executive at public software companies Digital River and Lawson Software. based Concur. Kane McCord.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Moonstone Bank , formerly known as Farmington State Bank, said in a statement that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research trading firm has less than a 10% stake in its parent company, with no board seats and no direct involvement in management. The New York Times reported Nov. Moonstone Bank’s reputation as well.”

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. The company notes that out-of-pocket medical expenses in the U.S. tallied $388 billion in 2020, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (Atlas Photo). million.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

Manny Vellon was a software engineer and Seattle startup founder legendary among colleagues and customers for his ability to find straightforward solutions to complex problems. Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. software development kit and the C++ programming language.

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2021

A new health-tech spinout from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies communicate with each other, using artificial intelligence to deal with time-consuming phone calls. The company is hiring for several roles.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

million in seed funding for its software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies. The software summarizes and analyzes the contents of phone conversations between customers and representatives. The Seattle startup is focusing on medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. BirchAI Photo). “It

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

The company also announced $10 million in seed capital. Launched in October 2020, the startup was co-founded by Leo Dirac and Avi Geiger. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The technology taps into a company’s network of cameras to gather real-time data.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Write to us if you have news to share.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company, Anderson was most recently a key Microsoft 365 leader, overseeing areas including engineering and deployment of Windows for large businesses, and PC and mobile device security. .” “Companies that are intentionally designing and optimizing the experiences they provide are pulling ahead.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. The company’s latest valuation was $15 billion. Vinayak Hegde.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The 8-person company is led by former Expedia director David Krieger. Former Expedia director David Krieger is the founder of Onder , a Seattle company that provides a twice-yearly inspection and digital platform to create a checklist for home maintenance and upkeep. Onder CEO and founder David Krieger.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2021

What Valve’s top Steam titles of 2020 say about the state of video games. Valve Software announced the top 100 best-performing games of the year on its digital storefront Steam. Tech Moves: Crowd Cow adds ex-Amazon leaders; former Expedia CTO joins Snap! Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. The company’s latest valuation was $15 billion. Vinayak Hegde.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2023

His mental and physical health were impacted, and he had less time to spend with his wife and two children. Since launching his company in August 2018, Kumar had faced one challenge after another: the pandemic, an economic slowdown, and eventually his own fatigue. GEEKWIRE AWARDS: Meet the five finalists for Startup CEO of the Year.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Companies will be required to publish real numbers about sustainability across the supply chain—and much of the data will come from IT procurement.” Scope 1 is on direct emissions from sources owned or controlled by an organization, including emissions from company-owned power generators.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

National data services managed by CSPs are taking root in global hyperscalers’ clouds as the result of a ruling on European data in July 2020, called. The European Court of Justice ruled that the EU-US Data Protection Shield, which allowed companies to transfer data between the US and the EU in compliance with. Schrems II.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. AWS has grown into a $45 billion business and a market leader that helps boost Amazon’s profits and allows the company to invest heavily in other areas.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2021

Unlike the 2020 class, which had to pivot to a remote format in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 participants and Techstars organizers are applying lessons learned from the past year of remote work. The accelerator has graduated more than 100 companies over the past decade. Read on to learn more about each company.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

. — Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. She previously spent more than a decade leading IT teams at Seattle software company Attachmate. Michael Morgan (left) and Preston Woo. Ossia Photos).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2021

Yesler founder and CEO Matt Meyers, left, and CTO Jeff Lubetkin. Instead of building with wood, however, he is choosing to build software. His company Yesler , a B2B marketplace for lumber and building materials, today raised $3.3 ” The company has 10 employees and is hiring several new positions this quarter.

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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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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 the people company.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Even though many people and companies have returned to in-person gatherings, Snapbar isn’t going back. The startup is a tech company now, embracing software and two core products that bring its photo capabilities to people anywhere in the world. ” The software engineer, Patrick Ellis, is now Snapbar’s CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

“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. Koinig is among the rising ranks of women IT leaders making their mark as the first women to hold their executive positions within their companies.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

What challenges can we expect in 2020? Companies who want to survive and thrive are looking to new technologies like AI and automation to bridge the gap and gain a competitive edge. The most obvious answer is pay a premium for the best talent, or hire consultants with modern skills. Is it artificial intelligence?

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