GeekWire

MAY 19, 2021

The news: DevHub , the Seattle software-as-a-service startup that is used by more than 179 brands and/or their agencies to build websites and landing pages, has acquired New York-based Brickwork, a retail tech company that powers local consumer experiences for leading brands. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2021

Seattle-based on-demand moving startup Dolly has been acquired by Updater , a New York moving services company. It partners with retailers such as Lowe’s and Costco to deliver large items such as furniture. The company is operating in 45 U.S. The company has acquired three startups in the past three years.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. Aivot Photo) A trio of former Dell EMC engineers are building a fleet of rentable robots to help companies crank out monotonous tasks amid a lingering labor shortage.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder.

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. Major Market Demand for Advanced Threat Protection Driving Rapid Platform Adoption and Expansion of Technology Ecosystem; Company Announces Integration With Palo Alto Networks’ Wildfire Platform. contract with the U.S. FAIRFAX, VA—April 7, 2014 —Invincea, Inc.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The news: Five startups jostled for $200,000 in funding in the final round of the Seattle Angel Conference , with new medical device company BrainSpace rising to the top. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2021

Magic Leap continues to hire from the Seattle region. Anuj Gosalia , a veteran of Microsoft, Facebook and Google, joined the company as its chief software and cloud officer. This is the third recent executive hire from the Seattle area by the augmented reality company based in Plantation, Fla. Anuj Gosalia.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Guzmán was previously VP of local for media technology company WhereBy.Us

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2021

Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. I really enjoy this period in a startup company, when they are poised on the brink of tremendous growth,” said Porad. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. The key hires are part of Expedia’s efforts to streamline its operations and boost its revenues. Expedia Group Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2022

At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. The company is awesome and has such phenomenal loyalty from its customer base. This was pretty egregious for a billion-dollar company,” he says.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Legal contracts. Last year’s winner was Common Room, a Seattle-area startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. Real estate ownership. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software.

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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

MARCH 15, 2021

Costa first joined Amazon in 2002 and was an employee for more than 15 years, working as a UX designer on the retail website, Amazon Go, and Alexa Shopping. In a post on LinkedIn, Costa said “I look forward to my next challenge with a company whose climate goals set a high bar for corporate climate responsibility.”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A longtime Nike exec, Lee was most recently head of Global Marketing Finance for the athletic retail giant and previously served as CFO for Nike Japan, among other roles. Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. .

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

The company also announced $10 million in seed capital. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The duo teamed up to figure out how to reduce the time and money required to create machine learning applications. Geiger is a longtime product design and engineering consultant.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Otis is targeting freelance and part-time workers with a digital discount card. The company also acts as a price aggregator, helping people find the lowest cost for medication purchased at pharmacies. They show the card to a pharmacist and get discounts up to 90% off retail price.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CTOvision

APRIL 20, 2016

Technology|FBI Says It Needs Hackers to Keep Up With Tech Companies - New York Times. Startup Spotlight: Validated lets retailers reimburse parking and transportation costs for customers. An engine for Mars: Aerojet wins $67M NASA contract for solar electric propulsion. CTO Greg Godbout to leave EPA - FedScoop.

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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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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

She will serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee and as the company’s national security director, a role required through the wireless carrier’s merger with Sprint. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Tech companies around the country continue to recruit executives from Amazon: Rene Villegas , the former head of marketing for Amazon Subscription Boxes, is now chief marketing officer at Boston-based wireless broadband provider Starry. based workflow automation company late last year. The company went public in September.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

If and when workers return to offices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Seattle startup called Worksphere is looking to make the process safer and more manageable with a software platform that tracks everything from seating arrangements to contract tracing. and other seed funds and angel investors.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

Vouched , a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, has landed $4.5 It’s a vote of confidence in the 3-year-old company, which spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, the accelerator based at Madrona Venture Group in Seattle. . The idea is to provide fraud detection of a person in real-time. Vouched Photo).

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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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. “The technology changes all the time. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2021

At Eclipse Ventures, Vaid will invest in startups across areas such as enterprise computing, retail, healthcare, automotive and manufacturing. The Seattle area biotech company led by CEO Leen Kawas went public last year and won a $15 million grant from National Institute on Aging for trial of its Alzheimer’s drug in December.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

She was most recently COO at retail analytics startup SoundCommerce. The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. At Microsoft, Brown oversaw corporate development, M&A and strategic investments including the company’s acquisitions of LinkedIn and GitHub. The company raised a $6.4

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. The new fund provides investments to companies participating in the accelerator and also makes direct investments. It focuses on pre-seed companies with capital-efficient business models and early signs of commercialization. agtech startup Verdi. Scott Nagel.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Customers hail from sectors including healthcare, retail, hospitality and government. The company originally launched in Detroit, participated in YCombinator in 2016 and relocated to Seattle. Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. based AbSci made its debut as a public company last month.

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2021

The task force, created by The National Science Foundation and the Biden administration, includes ten other technical experts from academic institutions, government agencies and technology companies across the U.S. Boundless co-founder and CTO Serdar Sutay has left the Seattle immigration startup. His last day was Friday.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

The trend is brewing at a time when organizations need to make decisions faster than ever — and at a scale not yet seen. Decision intelligence helps provide an automated way to make decisions, which in turn can help companies stay competitive and meet market demands, Brethenoux says. Start with low-hanging fruit.

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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. Wouleta Ayele. Sweetgreen Photo). Ossia Photos). Chris Garvey.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At his company, anyway. in business administration and wrote his dissertation on digital acuity and intelligence in “incumbent companies.” Hussman, which manufactures and services commercial refrigeration equipment for food retailers globally, is a 117-year-old company. The payoff can be significant. “We

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The view from atop the 2+U building in downtown Seattle where companies such as Qualtrics and Bungie still have offices. “That’s not really something you have to deal with in other cities I’ve visited,” said Turner, the co-founder and CTO of Swiftly, a Seattle retail software provider valued at more than $1 billion.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

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