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After tripling revenue in 2022, Lexion lands $20M to expand AI-powered contract management software

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From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Lexion Photo) Lexion gained a foothold by using artificial intelligence to help legal departments manage contracts. Lexion tripled revenue in 2022 and now investors are throwing more fuel on its fire.

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Tech Moves: Nordstrom names new CTO; ex-Halo director lands at Netflix; Boundless adds exec

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The retail giant hired Jason Morris as its new chief technology and information officer, effective May 1. Digital sales made up 38% of total sales in Nordstrom’s fiscal 2022. Seattle immigration startup Boundless hired Wenhan Zhang as its new head of engineering. Jason Morris.

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Tech Moves: F5 adds CTO and HR chief; Adaptive names CFO; Techstars Seattle leaders depart

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Adaptive previously hired Goldman Sachs to explore “strategic alternatives” for the businesses. Ciocirlan joined Techstars Seattle in 2022 as its managing director. The company’s stock was down more than 9% on Wednesday. “Excited to build the future Redmond,” Copley wrote on LinkedIn.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Meta infrastructure VP joins Microsoft; DoorDash adds Amazon vet to board

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(LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor , the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Previously he was CTO at ink2 and founded a gift certificate company called Lucidity in 1999. Benson splits his time between Bellevue, Wash.,

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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

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— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He is now a VP of engineering at Google.

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Tech Moves: Amazon names new workplace safety leader; Zscaler hires Salesforce EVP; and more

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According to Amazon’s latest safety report , the company said it improved its recordable incident rate by 11% from 2021 to 2022, and reduced its lost time incident rate by 14%. Other key personnel changes in the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Cloud security giant Zscaler hired longtime Seattle tech vet Syam Nair as its new CTO.

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Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

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Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. The longtime Seattle tech executive served as CTO of BuddyTV and Cozi Group, spent more than a decade on the board of the Washington Technology Industry Association, and co-founded Bsquare. — Jay Inslee. Vancouver, B.C. Jen Haller.