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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

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MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. Armesmith was leaving one of the world’s best-known manufacturing companies, Rolls-Royce, where she was head of programs for aviation futures.

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UW spinout Overland AI raises $10M for off-road self-driving tech used by U.S. military

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Last month Overland announced that it won a two-year contract worth up to $18.6 Army and Defense Innovation Unit to develop its OverDrive technology platform for the U.S. In 2019 Boots returned to the UW, where he is currently the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at the Paul G. million with the U.S. Byron Boots.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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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. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo). Sajo Jacob. Magnify Photo). Jeremy Ung.

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Seattle startup Atlas Health raises $40M to connect health systems with philanthropic aid for patients

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Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. Many organizations provide financial aid to patients, but hospitals and health systems are not equipped to navigate the programs’ complexities at scale. Davidoff founded Atlas in 2019.

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

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billion in November 2019. 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. based Puppet since January 2019. Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7 Steve Shure.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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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. Founded in 2019, the platform provides an accounting-specific inbox for accounts receivable and accounts payable teams. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5