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AUGUST 3, 2023

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Later, he became a senior advisor at TPG, leading its portfolio company Wind River as CEO and overseeing its $3.5 The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019. Dallas replaces founder Ed Boyajian , who led the company since 2008.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Rivas is the co-founder and former CTO of Limeade, an employee experience software company based in the Seattle area that went public in 2019 via the Australian stock market. He also serves as co-founder and CTO of Keme IX , a “Chakra Healing Hotel & Holistic Center” in Tulum, Mexico.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Fusebit , a new Seattle startup aiming to help developers with software integration capabilities, has raised a $3.3 Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. “We

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company, Yardstick , is making its debut today with a browser-based app that leads companies and hiring managers through the process of structured job interviews. Price describes the company’s focus as intelligent talent selection. Yardstick leads hiring managers through the process of structured interviews.

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JULY 27, 2023

Phillips was a board member at Seattle-based F5 but the company announced this week that he was stepping down. Photo) — TV advertising measurement company iSpot.tv Wood previously worked as chief research officer at NCSolutions, a Nielsen-owned agency that helps consumer packaged goods companies target and measure advertising.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Scott Torrey stepped down as CEO of compensation data company Payscale. A SAP Concur veteran, Torrey took over as CEO from longtime leader Mike Metzger in 2019. The company’s new CEO is Alex Hart. The company recently acquired CURO Compensation Ltd. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO.

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MAY 7, 2021

ai, Athenahealth, and Blue Yonder, previously known as JDA Software. In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company.

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MAY 26, 2021

team, from left to right: Ian White, principal software engineer, co-founder Henry Shapiro, and co-founder and CEO Patrick Lightbody. million in a seed funding round to help grow its calendar tool that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help users better manage their time. The original Reclaim.ai based Reclaim.ai

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The news: Five startups jostled for $200,000 in funding in the final round of the Seattle Angel Conference , with new medical device company BrainSpace rising to the top. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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JUNE 9, 2021

As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. Karat helps software engineering teams with the first round of technical interviews. The company raised $28 million in 2019. Jones became CEO in August 2019.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 The tech: Variational AI’s Enki software generates novel molecular structures using its algorithms trained on a set of compounds screened against drug targets from both experimental and computational sources.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The Redmond, Wash.,

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

(Adaptive Biotech Photo) — Seattle biotech company Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. Adaptive announced Conroy’s appointment to its board in May 2019 as it was gearing up for its initial public offering. The company said his departure was voluntary and not a result of any disagreement with its operations, policies or practices.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The workforce cuts and real estate footprint reduction are tied to a change in the company’s customer service model, as well as “running a more efficient business overall and speeding our path to profitability,” CEO Dan Lewis wrote on LinkedIn Thursday. Convoy opened its Atlanta office in 2019. billion valuation.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 billion in November 2019. The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. based Puppet since January 2019. billion private equity deal.

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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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MAY 5, 2024

Most popular stories on GeekWire Prudential to shut down Assurance, the insurance tech startup it acquired for $2.35B in 2019 Insurance giant Prudential is shutting down Assurance IQ, five years after spending $2.35 Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. The company notes that out-of-pocket medical expenses in the U.S. Davidoff founded Atlas in 2019. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO. (Atlas Photo).

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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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DECEMBER 16, 2020

The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. None of the companies have female co-founders or CEOs. In fact, GeekWire reported this week on a little-known enterprise software company that just joined the unicorn ranks. Six startups have at least one active co-founder with Microsoft ties. Auth0 Photo).

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MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. He joined Publicis Media in 2019.

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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 billion valuation.

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APRIL 28, 2023

NetEase Photo) Chinese technology company NetEase announced this week that it plans to open a new game development studio in Seattle called Anchor Point Studios. Anchor Point is a remote company that’s headquartered in both Seattle and Barcelona. based startup NC2 Media.

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JULY 19, 2023

The event went on a pandemic hiatus and is returning for the first time since 2019 under new ownership. The company is now the owner and operator of the festival. This is the CHEQ’s first time producing an event. The event is free to attend but VIP tickets ($60-$75) are available.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. 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.

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JULY 9, 2020

. — Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. GeekWire is a dot.LA Arvin Patel.

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APRIL 13, 2023

His mental and physical health were impacted, and he had less time to spend with his wife and two children. Since launching his company in August 2018, Kumar had faced one challenge after another: the pandemic, an economic slowdown, and eventually his own fatigue. GEEKWIRE AWARDS: Meet the five finalists for Startup CEO of the Year.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Seattle and Philadelphia-based company also announced that OMERS Ventures Managing Partner Michael Yang and Carrick Capital Partners Managing Director Jim Madden have stepped down from the board. Ames has served on the board since 2004 and is the former president and CEO of telecommunications company MediaOne International.

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MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. He began running Startup Haven full-time in 2019 and recently launched a Startup Haven accelerator. The new fund provides investments to companies participating in the accelerator and also makes direct investments. Its first investment is in Vancouver, B.C.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Lockstep , a Seattle accounting software startup, has emerged from stealth mode. based startup helping companies with their e-commerce systems, also came out of stealth mode.

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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. She previously spent more than a decade leading IT teams at Seattle software company Attachmate. Michael Morgan (left) and Preston Woo. Ossia Photos).

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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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JANUARY 28, 2022

One of Android’s co-founders is now working as CTO of Android Tablets. Miner’s LinkedIn page appears to confirm it, listing his current title as “CTO Android Tablets,” and says he’s been in that role since March, 2021. Miner worked on Android when it was being built by a company called Android, Inc.,

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

IT leaders made regaining control of their cloud environments a top priority in 2023,” says Martin Hulbert, CTO of Ignite Technology, a software solutions provider based in the UK. And since IT is one of the biggest spenders in most companies, much of that work fell onto the shoulders of CIOs. Cretella agrees.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Yesler founder and CEO Matt Meyers, left, and CTO Jeff Lubetkin. Instead of building with wood, however, he is choosing to build software. His company Yesler , a B2B marketplace for lumber and building materials, today raised $3.3 ” The company has 10 employees and is hiring several new positions this quarter.

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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. He was also SVP of sales at IT infrastructure company Nutanix. “I

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MAY 29, 2020

. — Former ReachNow CEO Steve Banfield announced his next venture as CEO and co-founder of Simplata Technologies , a new Madrona Venture Labs spinout that aims to protect sensitive company data in cloud apps. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. Maggie Scholtz. First Mode Photo). Vancouver, B.C.-based

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