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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

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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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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams exec lands at Google; LeoStella names CEO; and more

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based satellite design and manufacturing company, appointed Tim Kienberger as CEO. Kienberger has three decades of aerospace and defense technology experience, and is a director at communications company L3Harris. Kienberger takes over the position from Mike Hettich who served as CEO since 2019 and is retiring from the company.

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Former Bungie directors lead new unit within Seattle-area game studio ProbablyMonsters

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Ryan told GeekWire in 2019 that the role of ProbablyMonsters is to “manage the business side for [its studios] and help them to grow,” while maintaining a path for each studio to go independent. The company went through a round of layoffs in September.

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Deutsche Telekom calls on SAP for Rise all-in-one offer

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SAP has won another convert to its Rise with SAP managed software offering. Deutsche Telekom intends to migrate systems used by its European operating companies to Rise over the next two years. It’s already five years since the company embarked on its ERP modernization journey.

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Techstars Seattle is shutting down as accelerator shifts focus to cities with more VC activity

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. “It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars,” former Techstars Seattle managing director Chris DeVore wrote in a blog post. GeekWire File Photo) The spokesperson noted that less than half of Techstars Seattle companies were based in Washington state.

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Amazon adding more space east of Seattle in Redmond for 800 new AWS jobs, Project Kuiper lab

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The plans, announced Tuesday, come as Amazon has shown an increasing fondness for growing on the other side of Lake Washington, across from the company’s sprawling urban headquarters in Seattle. Amazon previously announced its Project Kuiper plans for Redmond in December 2019.

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Aizen acquires Kurvv, a Seattle startup that helps predict equipment failure

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The companies did not disclose terms of the deal. The only funding that Kurvv raised came in 2019 when it announced a $1 million seed round led by SEMA Translink Investment, a Korean-American venture capital firm. Both Lee and Croft served as interim executives at the company. SEMA also led a $4.2