GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 The Seattle startup offers clients a community of “Interview Engineers” who use its software to conduct first-round technical interviews. Ogisu was most recently EVP and chief people officer for multinational media company Viacom. Hillsboro, Ore.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Legal contracts. E-commerce fulfillment software. Last year’s winner was Common Room, a Seattle-area startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. Real estate ownership.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 The tech: Variational AI’s Enki software generates novel molecular structures using its algorithms trained on a set of compounds screened against drug targets from both experimental and computational sources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software Modernization has become a hot-button topic across the tech and business landscape. In fact, 80% of IT decision-makers say their companies plan to have modernized more than half of their custom applications before the end of 2022.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

ai, Athenahealth, and Blue Yonder, previously known as JDA Software. In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. But with a growing number of customers and the increasing size of AI models, Clark and company recognized the need to shift to a cloud provider that could scale to its needs. “We

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The Redmond, Wash.,

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

Seattle enterprise software startup Ally won last year’s award for a category that has honored companies such as Crowd Cow, Convoy, Arivale, Rover, and others in the past. Ozette co-founders Dr. Ali Ansary, CEO (left), and Greg Finak, CTO. The Series B round valued the company at close to $500 million. Ozette Photos).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. Alexandr Wang, Scale AI’s CEO and founder, dropped out of MIT to start the company. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

City skyscrapers and office parks may remain scarcely occupied in the post-pandemic work era, but commercial real estate player JLL’s business is not slowing down, thanks to the company’s embrace of technology and high-growth opportunities to adapt and prosper. Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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TechEmpower - Information Technology

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. What are some sites or companies in the same space? Are there any specific hard dates or important time-sensitive opportunities?

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

(Groundlight AI Photo) A new Seattle startup wants to make it easier for businesses to monitor their warehouses using artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies. The company also announced $10 million in seed capital. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Christoph Wollersheim, a member of the services and artificial intelligence practices group at global consulting firm Egon Zehnder, pinpoints five critical areas most organizations need to address when implementing AI: accuracy, bias, security, transparency, and societal responsibility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As countless organizations race to investigate or adopt artificial intelligence technologies, many are building out an AI skilled workforce. That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Ozzie Coto, chief AI officer and CTO at The Cult Branding Co.,

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

Vouched , a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, has landed $4.5 It’s a vote of confidence in the 3-year-old company, which spun out of Madrona Venture Labs, the accelerator based at Madrona Venture Group in Seattle. . The idea is to provide fraud detection of a person in real-time. Vouched Photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

A new spinout from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, BirchAI , has landed $3.1 million in seed funding for its software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies. The software summarizes and analyzes the contents of phone conversations between customers and representatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find. Where tech is moving from on premise to software as a service, the licensing, procurement and contractual models have changed and keep evolving, which requires expert procurement professionals who are hard to come by,” he says. “A

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

based startup that combines artificial intelligence and human empathy to help people stay on task and get stuff done, has checked a major item off its to-do list: the company has raised $3 million from Apollo Projects , the venture fund run by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his brothers. Shelpful Photo) Shelpful , a Portland, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel. Megan Quinn. Aaron Kornblum.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI will continue to be a growth area for the company, driving “the next major wave of computing.” The Redmond-based company describes it as “a multiyear, multibillion dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs to ensure these benefits are broadly shared with the world.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

(Y Combinator Photo) Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch are tackling a wide range of problems — with plenty of help from artificial intelligence. The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models. Talc AI Talc.ai

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Never forget the power of people Despite trendy talk about current and future use cases, as with any technology artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the people developing and working with it, says Satish Jayanthi, co-founder and CTO at Coalesce. Hiring in tech has always been a rollercoaster,” Hruby says. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Write to us if you have news to share.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

. — Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. She previously spent more than a decade leading IT teams at Seattle software company Attachmate. Michael Morgan (left) and Preston Woo. Ossia Photos).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

IT leaders made regaining control of their cloud environments a top priority in 2023,” says Martin Hulbert, CTO of Ignite Technology, a software solutions provider based in the UK. And since IT is one of the biggest spenders in most companies, much of that work fell onto the shoulders of CIOs. Cretella agrees.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. At Microsoft, Brown oversaw corporate development, M&A and strategic investments including the company’s acquisitions of LinkedIn and GitHub. based digital services company PK (formerly ProKarma) appointed Dinesh Venugopal as its new CEO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

For organizations looking to move beyond stale reports, decision intelligence holds promise, giving them the ability to process large amounts of data with a sophisticated mix of tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform data dashboards and business analytics into more comprehensive decision support platforms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

CIOs are hardly Luddites, but even some technologists fret about artificial intelligence, the rapid pace of tech evolution, and their ability to keep up. The tech company surveyed 750 IT executives and found that only five respondents did not list tech debt on their risk registers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

More companies in every industry are adopting artificial intelligence to transform business processes. This person is tasked with packing the ML model into a container and deploying to production — usually as a microservice,” says Dattaraj Rao, innovation and R&D architect at technology services company Persistent Systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

It can also expose companies to future legislation. These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text. In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They can code, write poetry, draw in any art style, create PowerPoint slides and website mockups, write marketing copy and emails, and find new vulnerabilities in software and plot holes in unpublished novels. But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. Gen AI took a few months.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Jeffrey Spector , co-founder of Seattle startup Karat which helps companies conduct technical interviews for software engineers. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company. Prior to StrikeGraph, Beals was CTO at Seattle startups NextStep , which he also co-founded, and Koru.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

From advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) to the continued evolution of ransomware and cyberattacks, the coming year is sure to bring significant developments in the world of cybersecurity. Artificial Intelligence will be crucial. I t will be crucial for everyone to stay informed and prepared.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Seattle-area startup SeekOut raised $65 million in March to fuel growth of its recruiting software that is like LinkedIn on steroids. It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. We are the people company.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now they’re taking a company public. Airship AI , an under-the-radar tech startup that didn’t raise a single dime of investment, will soon become a publicly traded company after clearing SEC regulations this week for its SPAC deal. But Huang said the company still expects to outperform its 2022 metrics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Gary Steen joined assistive technology provider Tunstall Healthcare as its group chief technology officer (CTO) in August 2021, having previously been managing director for technology at telecommunications provider TalkTalk. Talent issues remain, however, and he believes that CTOs must consider youth and experience. “We

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We spoke to nearly 50 founders that are participating in the 15th cohort of Techstars Seattle, which counts companies including Remitly, Outreach, Skilljar, Mass Reforestation, and others as alumni. Many of the 24 companies use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to boost productivity. ” Astros Founder Zsika Phillip.

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