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Amazon vet Dorothy Li joins trucking startup Convoy as CTO, says company is at ‘inflection point’

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The Seattle startup today named Li its new chief technology officer. Other leaders came from companies such as Hulu, Airbnb, and Amazon, where Convoy co-founders Dan Lewis and Grant Goodale worked before launching Convoy in 2015. billion valuation in November 2019. He is based in Seattle.

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Seattle investors back Battlesnake, makers of a growing game that turns coding into competition

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Liquid 2, Ascend, 200 OK, and angel investors including Jason Warner (former CTO of GitHub) and Chris Aniszczyk (CTO of Linux Foundation) also participated. Co-founder and CEO Brad Van Vugt told GeekWire that “Battlesnake” sits at a “weird intersection between gaming and programming.”

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Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

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The 13-year-old company also sees an opportunity to deepen its relationship with Amazon Web Services, its cloud provider that supports its DNA sequencing and other work, said Miller. The Seattle office will be based in the city’s South Lake Union neighborhood. It reported $19.3 billion in revenue for 2022, up from $18.5

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Seattle startup Downstream, which helps brands with their Amazon ads, acquired by Jungle Scout

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Downstream co-founders Salim Hamed (left, CTO) and Connor Folley (CEO). Connor Folley , an ex-Amazon marketing manager, and Salim Hamed , who worked in business intelligence engineering for Amazon Web Services, launched the company in late 2017. Founded in 2015, Jungle Scout has more than 500,000 customers.

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

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Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7 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. Convoy’s Director of Legal Peter Hisken served as the interim head.

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

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NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. David Zager is now a partner and chief design officer for PSL Studio. He joined PSL in 2015 as chief design officer. They will both report to Chief Strategy Officer Tom Fountain. com CEO Jay Westerdal is a senior venture partner.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web Services. Cyber threat intelligence company DomainTools named four new executives to its leadership team : • James Reynolds as chief technology officer. based Synopsys. • Jeff Day as chief commercial officer. Carmen Rojas.