GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

And GeekWire is here to recognize and celebrate a select few of these groups through our Geeks Give Back Award. Ada Developers Academy is a Seattle-based, tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities. And to our silver sponsors BCRA and Kingston Marketing Group.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

(Apple Photo) First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset. Related story: Apple Vision Pro: Why one longtime software shop is jumping head-first into spatial computing Then, we dive into AI, politics, and a new attempt to defuse deepfakes.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

— William Canestaro , former managing director at the Washington Research Foundation , left his role after eight years with the organization, which helps universities and nonprofit institutions commercialize their technologies. software analytics company. She is also president and co-founder of Kingston Marketing Group.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2022

Fortunately, a group of technology enthusiasts at Philadelphia – including Manager of Data Delivery and Analytics Jasper Drenth – had already begun to explore the concept of Business Intelligence (BI) as the potential answer. One of our mission statements is to give clients as normal a life as possible,” Drenth says.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

(GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Washington state leaders on Monday shared a new website that corrals the federal and state grants, tax incentives and rebates that are available to help businesses, individuals, tribal groups, nonprofits and government agencies seeking support in implementing and developing climate friendly technologies.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 28, 2021

YouTube has rolled back a permanent suspension of Right Wing Watch (RWW), a nonprofit that tracks extremist individuals and groups, apparently backtracking from its stance that documenting those extremists’ actions is the same as promoting them. Read more.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Former Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern stepped down as vice chairman and is leaving the company’s board, the travel giant said Wednesday in a new regulatory filing. PATH Photo) — Bilal Matten joined Seattle-based global health nonprofit PATH as chief AI officer, a newly created role. Peter Kern.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Ada Photo) Seattle’s Ada Developers Academy for years has been a success story for training under-represented people in tech and helping them embark on careers in software development. So the nonprofit brought them back to the classroom. Tina-Marie Gulley, CEO of Ada Developers Academy.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2022

” Andrew is Andrew Lytvynov , a Seattle-based software engineer at the data warehousing company Snowflake. Lee, seeing Fedo for the first time during a video chat with Lytvynov and GeekWire, said she’s inspired that a group of people who have mostly never met each other came together to get stuff done.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Josh Holland of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways on Rainier Avenue South in Seattle with one of the signs the nonprofit made calling attention to car-related fatalities. At right is a map showing all of the memorial sites around the city. Accident locations in Seattle are visible on this interactive map.

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2024

Loti is among a crop of up-and-coming tech companies and nonprofits developing software to help identify deepfakes and protect their likeness. Hutchins previously worked in product management at The Disney Company and Expedia Group.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2023

Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday. Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

. “Her passion for empowering underrepresented groups in tech and her vision for Ada’s future aligns perfectly with the organization’s mission. Seattle-based Ada is a tuition-free, software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sharma was previously a vice president of product at Meta and COO at Seattle-based home services company Porch Group. Seattle-area satellite startup LeoStella named Paula Tomlinson as director of software engineering. Binaytara Foundation , a Seattle-area health equity nonprofit, named Justin Marquart as chief development officer.

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2024

Bee, who is based in Seattle, was previously a senior director at Zillow Group and a senior engineering manager at Uber. LinkedIn Photo) — Tammy Perkins , a longtime HR executive based in Seattle, joined HR software provider ProService as chief people officer. Downs previously held exec roles at BARK, Zulily, and ZIllow Group.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2024

Round quickly hit $1 million in annual recurring revenue after launching in 2021 with its software that connected senior leaders working at technology companies. “There were times that I wish we were a nonprofit,” he said. Some members are aiming to continue their connections and maintain a Slack group. ”

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2024

His Blue Origin trip was sponsored by a nonprofit group called Space for Humanity , with an assist from the Seattle-based Jaison and Jamie Robinson Foundation. Dwight’s crewmates on today’s flight were venture capitalist Mason Angel, French brewery founder Sylvain Chiron, software engineer Kenneth L.

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GeekWire

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations have pledged a total of $480,795 to match City dollars with at least 50 percent in cash or in-kind contributions of labor, professional services and donated hardware and software.

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GeekWire

MARCH 6, 2024

AoA Photos) Seattle-based investment group Alliance of Angels is gearing up to raise a new fund that will help support a new batch of startups across the Pacific Northwest. Initially started under the umbrella of the Technology Alliance, AoA spun out of the nonprofit in 2012. Eric Larsen, vice chairperson at AoA. It raised $1.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Ada Developers Academy is a nonprofit, cost-free coding school for women and gender expansive adults that also prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and low-income people. The training program offers a collaborative learning environment as well as individualized support through mentors, tutors, mental health support, and affinity groups.

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) More than 100 companies, tribal groups, union organizations, environmental nonprofits and political groups are backing a campaign to defeat a November ballot initiative that would scuttle Washington state’s most impactful climate policy.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Dyce, a software engineer at Jargon , was looking for a cause she believed in and where her particular skill set would be useful. CEO Taylor Hoang oversees the five Vietnamese eateries in her restaurants group, including spots near the headquarters for Microsoft and Starbucks. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2022

A hacking group by the name of Gonjeshke Darande (Farsi for Predatory Sparrow) hit the networks of three of Iran's largest steel companies: Khouzestan Steel, Hormozgan Steel, and Mobarakeh Steel. A cyberattack this week has put Iranian steel manufacturing in the crosshairs. In January 2020, the U.S

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Facebook blocked dozens of charity groups, nonprofit organizations, and even random big box retailers in Australia late Wednesday (early Thursday, local time), a move that appears to be collateral damage from Facebook’s ban on news in the country. Facebook even briefly blocked its own page in Australia, according to … Read more.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2024

Petersen previously was a vice president at UiPath, and also worked for Sapient Consulting, Kofax, and Kapow Software. Ravel , a Seattle-based no-code orchestration software startup previously known as StratusCore, hired three new execs: Philippa Carroll as chief product officer.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

— Barry Christ joined the board of Perth, Australia-based software company Buildkite. Buildkite’s products support the building, testing and deployment of software, and enable customers to run pipelines on their own infrastructure. Barry Crist. It has more than 1,000 customers, including Chef and other Seattle startups.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 23, 2021

Screenshots of two rambling social media posts—one from Facebook, one from Instagram—form the sum total of the evidence police used last summer to justify an aerial surveillance operation in North California, records obtained by the nonprofit transparency group Property of the People and reporting by the Guardian… Read more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Along with his brother, he published a step-by-step guide encouraging other software engineers to seek out climate endeavors that needed their skills. Eidelson’s focus isn’t on creating a social networking group, but he was glad for the chance to meet in person with like-minded people. The Climate Papa logo.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

The quartet for the company’s first crewed flight in 2021 included Wally Funk, a member of the “Mercury 13” group of women fliers who missed out on joining NASA’s early astronaut corps. Hess , a software engineer and entrepreneur who developed the Family Tree Maker product line in the 1990s.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It includes retail sales and professional services, as well as nonprofit organizations and a blog about women’s economic issues, creating more of a sense of community than a platform focused strictly on shopping. Nonprofits are included on the site for free. Isler was CEO of Daysaver, a calendar software startup, for three years.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Accenture-like organization will initially focus on healthcare consulting and technology services; revenue cycle management solutions; and software technology and platforms. Providence is the third-largest nonprofit healthcare system in the U.S., Software Technology and Platforms. Revenue Cycle Management Solutions.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2021

Blues is the latest venture from Ozzie, who invented the Lotus Notes group messaging platform in the 1980s. He joined Microsoft after the Groove deal, ultimately succeeding Gates as the company’s chief software architect, and helping to lead the launch of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

Statsig raised $43 million in 2022 from Sequoia Capital, with participation from Madrona Venture Group. Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good. The company’s total funding to date is $53 million. billion.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) named Yolanda Chase as chief diversity officer and the newest member of the trade group’s senior leadership team. . He previously served as a strategic advisor for the real estate startup, which competes with Seattle-based companies Zillow Group and Redfin. Yolanda Chase.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. He previously worked as VP of platform engineering at Paris-based carpooling platform BlaBlaCar and was an engineer at Chef Software. Cyemptive, founded in 2014, sells cybersecurity tools including an endpoint protection service and advanced perimeter firewalls.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai Most recently Torossian was a CVP in the Business Applications group at Microsoft. Vahé Torossian. as president and chief partner officer. London-based Builder.ai “Today I join Builder.ai

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