GeekWire

AUGUST 8, 2023

based headset maker that serves frontline workers at industrial companies, named Chris Parkinson as CEO. Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016. He also ran a RFID consulting company and was a senior engineer at Alien Technology. Chris Parkinson. RealWear reported $20.5

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 28, 2015

We know you, dear readers, have been tracking the megatrend of artificial intelligence. We expect to see a new wave of AI solutions that deliver value from smaller start-up companies as well. Intelligent personal assistant. Cortana : Microsoft's intelligent personal assistant.

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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 Seattle startup is focusing on medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. BirchAI Photo). BirchAI Photo).

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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). This approach isn’t just about technological novelty.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ozette co-founders Dr. Ali Ansary (left), CEO, and Greg Finak, CTO. New funding: Ozette , a biotech company that last year spun out of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and was incubated at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) , has raised a $6 million seed round. Ozette Photos). ”

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

With innovative strategies and cutting-edge tactics, this healthcare startup soared to impressive heights, capturing the attention of investors and healthcare organizations alike. In December 2020, the company secured an impressive $225 million in funding, achieving a valuation of $1.5

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

Vouched , a Seattle startup that helps companies verify identity, has landed $4.5 ” Vouched uses artificial intelligence to help more than 150 companies across a bevy of industries verify the identity of their customers, clients and contractors. Total funding in the 20-person company is $12 million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Employees fearing job loss should take comfort in the 2024 Stanford AI Index Report , which found that while AI is gaining in capability, it can’t match humans in many complex cognitive functions, notes Daniel Barchi, CIO of CommonSpirit Health, a healthcare provider.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

. “It’s really great for me to be able to finally come and collect your thanks and adulation for Windows Vista,” the T-Mobile CEO and former Windows marketing executive said with a grin, getting a big laugh about one of the company’s legendary duds from hundreds of former Microsoft employees and executives Thursday.

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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. March 2022. March 2022.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2022

Shapiro is marketing veteran, previously working in leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, Zulily, and SAP Concur. Shapiro will manage global marketing operations for LiveRamp, a publicly traded data management company serving large enterprises. She was most recently a vice president at Bellevue, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

— Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. UiPath is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash. based employee well-being company Limeade.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2024

The CAIO role might also have to shoulder the responsibility of being a Chief Analytics Officer, especially in India,” Dr Shailendra Singh, head of data science and analytics at TVS Motor Company said. The TVS Motor Company also has a separate combined CDO and CAIO position, currently filled by Kumar Rajendran.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

We recently connected with Leighton James, CTO of UKCloud, to get his thoughts on data as an asset and learn what he believes is driving the demand for sovereign clouds. We also asked what it means for UKCloud to be one of 10 companies to achieve the VMware Cloud Verified Sovereign Cloud distinction. “We

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GeekWire

JULY 26, 2023

From left: Protect AI CEO Ian Swanson, CTO Badar Ahmed, and president Daryan Dehghanpisheh. Protect AI sells software that allows companies to monitor the various layers and components of machine learning systems, detecting potential violations and logging information on those attacks. McKinsey and Co. McKinsey and Co.

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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

APRIL 19, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) The tweet provided the spark Heitzeberg needed to launch a new project, for meeting and collaborating with more people who were actively building with artificial intelligence. The ideas explore themes including AI-powered gaming, healthcare and education; generative AI for creativity; AI-assisted coding; and more.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Microsoft campus last year, when the companies announced their partnership and a $1 billion investment in OpenAI by Microsoft. The ultimate goal is to use these new systems to solve major challenges in areas such as healthcare, climate and education.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2021

Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . co-founder and former CEO Ray Costantini will remain with the company and on the board. (Playco Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But even in the emerging era of artificial intelligence and robotics, her new venture shows that human helpers still have a critical role to play. The technology is designed to help each personal assistant leverage the experiences and insights from the work of others as they tackle common tasks on behalf different Yohana members.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Yoky Matsuoka has served as head of innovation at Google and as chief technology officer at Nest, and she won a prestigious MacArthur “genius” award in 2007 while a professor at the University of Washington, directing the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and the Neurobotics Laboratory. GeekWire Photos / Dan DeLong).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Today the venture is coming out of stealth mode, opening up the waitlist for early access to their beta product and announcing a $1 million pre-seed funding round from Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Madrona Venture Group.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Yoky Matsuoka has served as head of innovation at Google and as chief technology officer at Nest, and she won a prestigious MacArthur “genius” award in 2007 while a professor at the University of Washington, directing the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and the Neurobotics Laboratory. GeekWire Photos / Dan DeLong).

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Aran Khanna is CEO of Reserved.ai , a Seattle startup offering software to automate cost management of companies cloud-related expenses. Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. for Seattle startup that helps companies save on cloud costs. Aran Khanna. Avi Schiffmann.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Use cases are expected to include enhancements to education, training, safety, security, healthcare, transportation and optimized manufacturing. Books we appreciated for insights into the megatrend of the Internet of Things include: The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

To guide an organization through uncertainty, IT leaders must help ensure everyone in the company is on the same page, Srivastava says. Srivastava believes employees will stay motivated if they can see their work is meaningful and delivers value to the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

While some prominent verticals — including financial services, healthcare, and legal — managed to have moderate adoption of generative AI, these were primarily outside their core business cases,” he says. 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

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 What’s your secret sauce?

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Maria Karaivanova departed Madrona Venture Group, where she was a principal, to join Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence spinout WhyLabs as a co-founder and COO. Seattle biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics promoted Valerie Odegard to president and Naomi Hunder to chief medical officer. . Maria Karaivanova.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But strategically this also means that large teams of investors believe strongly in the powerful capabilities and strong future of this company. Existing investors Summit Partners, Battery Ventures, and MassMutual Ventures also participated in the round, further validating the company’s leadership position and market opportunity.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Pacific Northwest companies are raising venture capital dollars at a rapid clip — so much so that it’s hard to keep up. The gist : The company, which recently emerged from stealth mode, will use the funds to hire 80 people at a new 150,000 square foot facility in Quakertown, Penn., (Pandion Photo). ” Tribute.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Few companies have the luxury of waiting days or weeks to analyze data before reacting. And in some industries — like healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, etc., — not having real-time data to make rapid critical adjustments can lead to catastrophic outcomes.” — Jack Gold ( @jckgld ), President and Principal Analyst at J.

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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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Jeffrey Spector , co-founder of Seattle startup Karat which helps companies conduct technical interviews for software engineers. Before launching Karat in 2014, he was chief of staff for Melinda Gates at the Gates Foundation. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company. Tune Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

With a population of only 1,576 — as was proudly proclaimed on the sign coming into town — healthcare resources there were limited. Reperio initially targeted consumers as its customers, but quickly shifted its focus to companies seeking wellness support for employees. The nearest medical lab was over an hour a way.

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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. It’s got to be a wider distributed healthcare system.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

The Series B round valued the company at close to $500 million. Where we are headed is, people are the most important asset any company has. How we can help companies do the best with internal and external talent — to develop, to hire, to retain, to redeploy. We are the people company.”

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