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Tech Moves: Expedia taps execs to run new divisions; Bumble hires Microsoft vet as CTO

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Expedia Photos) — Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. Bumble, which recently hired new CEO Lidiane Jones, announced several new exec hires, including a new chief product officer, chief people officer, and chief marketing officer. Libby Johnson McKee.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering. “Preeti is an exceptionally talented engineering leader,” Temporal CTO and co-founder Samar Abbas said in a statement.

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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. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Founded in 2019 by former Google SVP of Ads Sridhar Ramaswamy and former VP of YouTube monetization Vivek Raghunathan , Neeva is an ad-free, private search engine. based Puppet since January 2019.

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Tech Moves: Wyze names first CFO; OutSystems exec relocates to Seattle; Flying Fish adds partner

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He previously served as CMO at Pure Storage, New Relic and Citrix. Last year, OutSystems hired three new executives in the Seattle region — all Microsoft veterans — as part of its U.S. After going public in 2016, Apptio went through a private equity buyout in 2019. Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc.

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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

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And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. GeekWire story from November 2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B billion (as of November 2019). billion (as of July 2019).

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Funding news: AI-fueled drug discovery startup and auto safety company raise cash

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The people: CEO Handol Kim co-founded the company in 2019 with CTO Jason Rolfe and three of the company’s machine learning researchers, Ali Saberali , Mehran Khodabandeh and Zaccary Alperstein. based startup is creating energy storage systems from upcycled vehicle storage batteries. Moment Energy Photo).

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

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2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . Founded : 2019. Industry : Cloud data storage. CEO : Bill Richter , former president of Isilon storage division at EMC. GeekWire 200 rank : No. Founded : 2016. GeekWire story from Nov.

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