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Tech Moves: AI2 Incubator hires new managing director; Goldman Sachs director joins Dropbox; Marchex adds CFO

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The Seattle startup offered discounts to renters and prospective homebuyers in exchange for renting out a room in a house, among other real estate programs. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture. based fusion energy company.

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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

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Armesmith was leaving one of the world’s best-known manufacturing companies, Rolls-Royce, where she was head of programs for aviation futures. million, five-year contract from NASA to demonstrate electric propulsion technologies for aircraft, and has branched out to build hydrogen fuel cells as well as electric motors.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

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NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. He’ll be based at the CoMotion, the university’s innovation hub, and will run programs including Hacking for Defense and Starts. NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. The company raised a $6.4

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

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Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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Funding news: AI-fueled drug discovery startup and auto safety company raise cash

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The people: CEO Handol Kim co-founded the company in 2019 with CTO Jason Rolfe and three of the company’s machine learning researchers, Ali Saberali , Mehran Khodabandeh and Zaccary Alperstein. More deals: Moment Energy CEO Sumreen Rattan. Moment Energy Photo). Clean energy startup Moment Energy raised $3.5

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More Good News In Federal IT from GSA (you will never see this on the front page of the Washington Post)

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General Services Administration (GSA) today announced that it has closed 37 data centers this fiscal year as part of the national Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI), allowing the agency to avoid real estate costs and reduce energy consumption. Data Center Consolidation. CIO Consolidation. -All SUPPORTING QUOTE.