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SeekOut lays off 7% of staff in restructuring but plans to grow headcount this year

GeekWire

SeekOut is still hiring and plans to reach 225 employees by year-end. SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta is a former technical assistant to Bill Gates who previously led Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group. He won CEO of the Year honors at the 2022 GeekWire Awards. The startup now has about 200 employees.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. Cold: On-prem infrastructure As they did in 2022, many IT leaders are reducing investments in data centers and on-prem technologies. “We Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6%

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

2022: Highspot raises $248M at $3.5B billion (as of January 2022). Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S. GeekWire story from Jan.

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