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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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Widner, a board member at Lighter, most recently served as managing partner at the venture capital arm of the National Australia Bank. Lighter Capital was co-founded by Andy Sack, Randall Lucas and Erik Benson in 2009. ” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. The Redmond, Wash.,

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Seattle-area longevity company emerges from three startups, plans to go public via SPAC

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Longevity’s management team pulls its chief technology officer, Francesco Curra , from Cerevast and its chief operating officer, Anthony Lee, from NovoKera. Longevity hired Brenda Sparks , previously the corporate controller at Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals, as chief financial officer.

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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

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And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round. Founded : 2009.

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Announcing Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum: Sydney, 19 February 2008 - Trends in the Living Networks

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He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Enterprise 2.0 Permalink | View blog reactions Categories : Enterprise 2.0

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Web 2.0 in Australia: The birth of Silicon Harbour? - Trends in the Living Networks

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David Backley, Chief Technology Officer of Australian banking giant Westpac, said that risk aversion in corporations means both that they are less likely to try new technologies, and to by them from smaller vendors rather than the software giants. Another key theme was the application of Web 2.0 in the enterprise.

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