GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . The company both competes and partners with cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft. After going public in 2016, Apptio went through a private equity buyout in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

One Gartner study found that willingness to support organizational change dropped from 74% of employees in 2016 to just 43% in 2022. There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Every company has a vision, a mission, a set of values,” she says. Paulo Gardini Miguel, director of technology at The CTO Club, agrees.

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CTOvision

APRIL 20, 2016

The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Ondo 2016: Next Governor Must Come From South-Senatorial District – PDP Youths - Leadership Newspapers. Government only as transparent as its technology, advocates say - FCW.com. Who is the Geek of the Year for 2016?

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

(Amperity Photo) Seattle-based customer intelligence startup Amperity conducted another round of layoffs, its second time trimming headcount in the past six months. A company spokesperson said 10% of its workforce was let go. The company said at the time it had 375 employees and planned to hire.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Zillow’s VP of Partner Success Racquel Russell joined the board of micro-mobility company Bird, known for its scooter sharing platform. Microsoft’s M12 venture fund chief Nagraj Kashyap departed to join SoftBank’s Vision Fund as managing partner. The company has raised $6 million to date. Racquel Russell.

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APRIL 1, 2016

Memo: RealNetworks reorganizes, names new CTO. Next government will face spending 'time bombs' - Irish Times. Meet the 2016 Federal 100 - FCW.com. Startup Spotlight: Minima helps companies manage data, reduce hardware spend. NASA Awards Spacecraft Avionics Development Contract.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

The announcement comes as Convoy tops 1,000 employees, five years after it was founded by Lewis and CTO Grant Goodale. Convoy is one of a handful of privately-held companies in the Seattle region valued at more than $1 billion, raising $400 million at a $2.7 I hadn’t worked in an earlier stage company before.

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2021

Also unique: record breaking investment and M&A activity across the country and in Seattle, as companies take advantage of pandemic-driven trends such as virtual experiences, at-home healthcare, remote education and more. Here’s a look at the latest update to our list of privately-held tech companies based in the Pacific Northwest.

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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. Sweetgreen applies technology to manage its supply chain, restaurant operations, internal operations and its customer-facing app. Ossia Photos). Chris Garvey.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

They started the company by hanging out at truck stops and getting kicked out of warehouses as they did market research when Convoy was just a kernel of an idea. The company has grown to become one of the highest-valued privately held startups in the Seattle region. “It’s practically my third child.” Convoy is No.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A former vice president at REI, Garrard joined the Seattle company last year. Katrine Fritz has been promoted to chief merchant. Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GitHub CTO Jason Warner. “The formation of our Advisory Board marks a new way that we can provide value as a fund: tapping best-in-class industry experts from Microsoft to help inform our investment focus and to advise our portfolio companies,” said M12 General Manager Samir Kumar , in a post announcing the new board.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company, Anderson was most recently a key Microsoft 365 leader, overseeing areas including engineering and deployment of Windows for large businesses, and PC and mobile device security. .” “Companies that are intentionally designing and optimizing the experiences they provide are pulling ahead.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Founded : 2016.

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2023

“And if every employee is wildly successful, the company can’t help but be wildly successful.” He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014, two years before the company went public in 2016. The company’s stock is up more than 25% over the past week.

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APRIL 4, 2023

But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. This category recognizes CEOs of Pacific Northwest technology companies with more than 100 employees. (The He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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MAY 14, 2020

The company originally planned to hold the event in April, but has had to reschedule it until at least late May thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company held a similar event focused on self-driving technology in April 2019. The group has been funded by Tesla since 2016 , according to Reuters. It blows my mind.”

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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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MAY 6, 2022

Many companies encourage employees to set aside blocks of time each day for “deep work,” and some even automate that process using tools such as Microsoft Outlook’s focus time feature, part of Viva Insights. SAP’s Focus Friday program is part of a company-wide campaign to make its meetings more meaningful.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Waldher most recently served as EVP and general manager for experience management technology company Qualtrics. During his time at Microsoft, Waldher held various roles on the Office 365 team. At the time of his departure, he was general manager of Microsoft 365. based job marketplace for hourly workers.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

Seattle-based Hiya, a caller ID startup that spun out of Whitepages in 2016, named Hillery Nye as general counsel and John Novak as SVP of marketing. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. million and acquired IT consulting service company Adaptive Technology Group. Hiya Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

Stahlkopf will replace former Cisco Chief Legal Officer Mark Chandler who retired in May after 25 years with the networking technology company. The announcement came on the heels of new memo outlining how Microsoft is reorganizing its legal team as it prepares to navigate increasing technology regulation across the globe.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

On 18 Feb 2016 the newly formed Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) is hosting a townhall formatted discussion at their Mountain View offices designed to inform tech company CEOs and other tech leaders on some of the nuances to track when seeking to serve DoD mission. Bob Gourley.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. as chief operating officer. and has an engineering office in Bellevue, Wash. Megan Quinn.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI will continue to be a growth area for the company, driving “the next major wave of computing.” The Redmond-based company describes it as “a multiyear, multibillion dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs to ensure these benefits are broadly shared with the world.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

He left to join Tableau as CEO in 2016. AWS has grown into a $45 billion business and a market leader that helps boost Amazon’s profits and allows the company to invest heavily in other areas. Seattle angel investor and cloud technology guru Charles Fitzgerald said the hire makes a lot of sense.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The organization, founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, started expanding its incubator program in 2017 after successfully spinning out two AI companies. Spun out of the University of Washington, Icosavax has applied its vaccine development technology to COVID-19 and other viruses. The company went public in July.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. based digital services company PK (formerly ProKarma) appointed Dinesh Venugopal as its new CEO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Its best cohort ever, YC Winter 2016, has an impressive ten unicorns out of 125 startups, an 8% unicorn-rate. Only two of the ten companies had a woman. We are left with three other companies, all unicorns now: Remitly (originally Beamit Mobile), Outreach (originally GroupTalent), and Zipline (originally Romotive). Hiya Photo).

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

As part of the deal, Navistar is taking a minority stake in TuSimple — though neither company would disclose the size of Navistar’s investment. Now the company has a manufacturing partner to help it realize its dream of robot semi trucks criss-crossing across the nation.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Jeffrey Spector , co-founder of Seattle startup Karat which helps companies conduct technical interviews for software engineers. Before launching Karat in 2014, he was chief of staff for Melinda Gates at the Gates Foundation. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company. Tune Photo).

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MARCH 14, 2017

Lustig and Sabett put it this way: Historically, M&A due diligence focused on “traditional” risk areas such as tax, employment and benefits, intellectual property protection, and contracts (inbound and outbound).

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MAY 28, 2018

CIOs are stating that cloud skills are a top hiring priority in 2018. Organizations must align modern technology and current economic models to business strategy. Transformation requires a new approach that balances cost and technology choices with company direction and client consumption models.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The data was exciting, but the technology was young and later-stage clinical trials were still in the future. The Seattle company raised more than $300 million and went public within a year of its launch, ultimately selling for more than $9 billion in 2018 to Celgene. company GRAIL, prior to its acquisition for $8 billion.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Roofstock is a fintech company that allows individuals to invest in single family rental homes. The company recently acquired property management platform Great Jones and has raised $133 million in total funding to date. Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. Kymeta Photos). — Redmond, Wash.-based

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