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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

GeekWire

. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. ” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. .” ” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer.

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Amazon and Microsoft vets raise $10M for computer vision startup used in warehouses

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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. Dirac worked as a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services for more than six years, where he led the AutoML program.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

GeekWire

Demoz most recently was a senior manager of software engineering at Google Cloud and previously a software development manager at Amazon Web Services. office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development. The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees.

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South Africa’s King Price Insurance moves to cloud as business grows

CIO Business Intelligence

King Price, a South Africa-based, privately held short-term insurance provider, were able to radically transform their business strategy, increasing system resilience, customer expansion and market adaptability in the process of adopting cloud technology. These acquisitions rocketed our cloud adoption and expertise.

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We asked 24 startups in the new Techstars Seattle class about how AI is impacting their business

GeekWire

Founder: Bolbi Liu was previously a product manager at Amazon Web Services. AI’s impact on robotics development: “To help reduce the need to hire more senior developers,” Okoye said. “You can [hire] a modular developer and have the AI co-pilot be a guiding hand.”

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Tech Moves: Seattle AI experts join national task force; Boundless co-founder departs; and more

GeekWire

DefinedCrowd founder and CEO Daniela Braga and Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etzioni are part of the newly formed National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force. Boundless co-founder and CTO Serdar Sutay has left the Seattle immigration startup. Daniela Braga (left) and Oren Etzioni. Remitly Photos).