GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles. billion valuation. Valuation : $3.96

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

. — Microsoft added to its senior leadership team with the appointment of Christopher Young as executive vice president of business development. Young will be responsible for developing Microsoft’s global business development strategies, including assessing partnerships, alliances, venture investments, and joint ventures.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The gist: A Harvard graduate in computer science and astrophysics, Ana-Maria Constantin was a software engineer at Microsoft for more than five years before starting Cascade Health. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The gist: The Seattle startup is developing all electric powerboats for the retail market.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2023

The software operates much like the AI tool DALL-E, known for generating images through verbal prompts. It starts from scratch and generates an image,” said Langan of the software, called RF Diffusion. But the potential market is vast, Cyrus Biotechnology CEO Lucas Nivon told GeekWire.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. In fact, GeekWire reported this week on a little-known enterprise software company that just joined the unicorn ranks. Co-founder and CEO : Nick Huzar, former product manager at T-Mobile and CTO at Konnects. Sana Biotechnology. Valuation : $1.4 Sana Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Bring the whole organization on the AI journey CIOs also see the need to bring everyone along on that AI journey, something that takes a well-articulated narrative about the benefits AI can bring to those who are and will be impacted by the technology. That’s the case for Yi Zhou, CTO and CIO with Adaptive Biotechnologies.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Julia Anas as chief people officer. Anas was previously VP of employee experience at Adobe. • Edward Chen as head of corporate development and strategy. He led corporate development at Twilio for the past five years. Gina Sheibley as chief communications officer.

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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. How we can help companies do the best with internal and external talent — to develop, to hire, to retain, to redeploy. Other finalists: Accolade; Athira Pharma; Rover; and Sana Biotechnology.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

As builders of software that helps companies track and hit their goals, Seattle startup Ally can check off a big achievement after winning Startup of the Year. In 2007, he co-founded Chronus , a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. See this post for more background on this category.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI; Leslie Alexandre, President and CEO of Life Science Washington; Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma; Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Caroline Lewis, partner at Rogue Venture Partners; and Saad Bashir, CTO for City of Seattle.

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