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Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform

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From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Its tools work across platforms and technologies including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and others. “Soma” Somasegar.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 31, 2024

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… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. The company hired Jared Nieuwenhuis as marketing director for North America.

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Tech Moves: Tanium hires CFO; Utrip founder launches VC firm; AWS IoT exec joins Siemens

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Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. He later joined the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) as an entrepreneur-in-residence for almost a year before founding Brook Bay Capital.

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

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. “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. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. based Vettd.ai’s board of advisors.

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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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Madrona Venture Labs raises $11M for fifth fund as studio doubles down on AI startups

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(Madrona Venture Labs Photo) Madrona Venture Labs (MVL) announced Wednesday it raised $11 million for its fifth fund, providing fresh fuel for the Seattle startup studio as it continues to double down on developing artificial intelligence startups. Since it was launched, the fund has raised $40 million and backed 32 companies.