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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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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. billion as of November 2019. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO.

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Tech Moves: Longtime exec Kurt DelBene to retire from Microsoft; Hiya promotes Kush Parikh to president; and more

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Parikh joined Hiya in 2019. “If my first 18 months are any indicator of our future, our opportunities to transform the voice call are virtually limitless. He was previously CTO at startups High Fidelity and Korrio. Starbucks COO and Amazon board member Roz Brewer will be new new CEO of drugstore giant Walgreens. .

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

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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. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. The startup won GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch competition in 2019 and has raised more than $83 million to date.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

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Some even implemented their own virtual personal assistants (VPAs), which included at least natural language processing—and sometimes more intelligence than that. Suddenly, for the first time, the power of AI was accessible to non-technologists. This immediately opened the potential to tap more value from legacy systems.”

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

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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. Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric added Umer Sadiq as CTO and Nevin Shetty as CFO. WTIA Blockchain Council Chair Arry Yu is a venture partner.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks tech leader departs; former T-Mobile exec joins Ossia board; and more

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Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. He is currently on an extended leave from Starbucks which began in 2019, according to the Seattle Times. (Sweetgreen Photo). office locations. Babylist Photos).

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Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of secrecy

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Microsoft disclosed its initial $1 billion investment in OpenAI in 2019. The announcement today also revealed, for the first time, that Microsoft made a follow-on investment in OpenAI in 2021. That investment wasn’t announced at the time, and does not appear to have been previously reported.

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