GeekWire

AUGUST 8, 2023

based headset maker that serves frontline workers at industrial companies, named Chris Parkinson as CEO. Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016. He also ran a RFID consulting company and was a senior engineer at Alien Technology. Chris Parkinson.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

. “The idea of joining a powerhouse of female technology leaders was a big part of my reason for joining the team,” Behr told GeekWire. based satellite design and manufacturing company, appointed Tim Kienberger as CEO. — Armughan Ahmad is now CEO of Appen , an Australian artificial intelligence company with its U.S.

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MARCH 15, 2022

The company launched in 2020 and has 4,000 adoptive families and more than 400 expectant mothers registered with the site. Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Justin Friberg is an engineering leader who was previously CTO at Record360, which was acquired in 2019. million Series A round in 2019.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

. “Claire’s board appointment will be instrumental in guiding and propelling the company through its evolution to Zillow 2.0,” said Lloyd Frink, Zillow co-founder, executive chairman and president. Founded in 2019, the platform provides an accounting-specific inbox for accounts receivable and accounts payable teams.

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GeekWire

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 device has “continuous intracranial pressure monitoring supporting remote consults and new discoveries” according to the company’s website.

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MAY 8, 2024

From left: Lexion founders Emad Elwany, Gaurav Oberoi and James Baird when the company launched in 2019. ” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. “That social validation felt good. That’s fun.”

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Dartmouth alum and world champion ultimate frisbee player later became the CEO and co-founder of Five Ultimate, an athletic brand for ultimate frisbee players that was acquired in 2019. Graham & Walker invests in women-founded tech companies in North America. Benn Bollay is now CTO at B2B software startup ReachSuite.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — Seattle-area cybersecurity company Cyemptive named Ray McCay as its new chief revenue officer. “Ray’s appointment is an important step for Cyemptive as we scale up the company and build infrastructure,” said the startup’s founder and CEO Rob Pike. federal government agencies. .

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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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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. billion in 2019 and Concur by SAP for $8.3 Nelson will scout new startups and work with portfolio companies, Madrona said. She also serves on several biotech company boards.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2021

Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Contract management startup Icertis added two new board members; Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of PSP Partners, former U.S.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. The company currently has 114 employees, up from 80 two months ago.

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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 billion valuation.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Principal accounting officer Kyle Piskel will serve as interim CFO after Cohen resigns. Cohen will work with Piskel and Adaptive in a consulting capacity during the transition, as Adaptive searches for a permanent CFO. Sirosh is currently CTO of real estate platform company Compass. That’s compared to $98.4

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Phillips was a board member at Seattle-based F5 but the company announced this week that he was stepping down. chief research officer Leslie Wood. Photo) — TV advertising measurement company iSpot.tv appointed Leslie Wood as chief research officer. She held the position for more than a decade.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

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. The value of its contracts with hospitals and health systems grew by 450% in 2021. Many people forgo care because they can’t afford it.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For decades companies have added PFAS to firefighting foams, food packaging, carpets and fabrics, water-repellent clothing and non-stick pans. million in contracts, awards and demonstration projects that include partnerships with seven federal government agencies, and on Wednesday the startup is hosting Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.

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GeekWire

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. Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2020

The first Founders Unfound podcast aired in April 2019, and 14 full episodes are currently available. million, targeting companies from underserved communities. The company provides vetted cleaners for vacation rental hosts and others, and recently participated in the Techstars Seattle accelerator. Techstars Seattle Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

. — Seattle biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics promoted Valerie Odegard to president and Naomi Hunder to chief medical officer. . Odegard joined the company in 2016 as chief scientific officer. The company announced the promotions last week along with a $85 million Series C round. — Scott Porad.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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. Spoiler alert : Before reading any further, take a moment and see if you can name all 10 startup companies valued at $1 billion or more in the Seattle area?

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GeekWire

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. The company’s traditional business is selling its ordering platform to sports teams and restaurants. This is the CHEQ’s first time producing an event.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Leda Health co-founders Madison Campbell, CEO (left), and Liesel Vaidya, chief technology officer. 31 letter to Leda Health that said the company violated the state’s consumer protection act. The CEO said she was surprised by the controversy surrounding her company. She was in Olympia, Wash.,

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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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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

He is currently chairman of Locke Global Strategies, a consulting group, and a senior advisor and consultant for law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, specializing in doing business in China and the U.S. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. ambassador to China and secretary of commerce.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Aran Khanna is CEO of Reserved.ai , a Seattle startup offering software to automate cost management of companies cloud-related expenses. Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. in 2019 with Nikhil Khanna, his younger brother, and Daniel Christianto. Avi Schiffmann.

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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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GeekWire

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

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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. Wood is co-founder and currently a partner at consultancy AirNote. He was US president of internet service company Rakuten.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 4, 2023

And if you’re presenting, it’s best to study older board packages and consult with colleagues about how the directors discuss, debate, and finalize key decisions. They assume their board lacks technical expertise In 2019, MIT reported that only 24% of US boards of companies with over $1 billion in revenue were digitally savvy.

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MARCH 2, 2023

This move to the cloud lays the foundation for further expansion into other cloud-based applications to deliver deeper insights and better digital services, as well as drive cost savings for the company and the consumer. Around 2019, we understood we needed to make a significant investment in our infrastructure,” he says. “We

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The test took place on Sunday afternoon at the company’s DevLoop test track in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. The first two passengers were Virgin Hyperloop’s chief technology officer and co-founder, Josh Giegel, and head of passenger experience, Sara Luchian. The DevLoop test track is 500 meters long and 3.3

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JANUARY 17, 2021

In 2019, the two launched Shuffl , a startup offering a tool that matches and introduces people through platforms such as Slack or Microsoft Teams. Lee, who is the CEO, is based in San Francisco while Watts, the CTO, is in Seattle, where the 2-person company is headquartered. What does your company do?

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