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Bizible founder Aaron Bird raises $5.1M for new Seattle B2B startup studio Pienza

GeekWire

The studio plans to launch a small portfolio of B2B software companies. Other members of the Pienza team include Vivek Venugopalan , CTO-in-residence who previously co-founded Fantain and was an exec at Wipro Limited, and Mark Sugarman , founding partner at MHS Capital who sits on the Pienza board.

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Oracle to boost cloud investments after a strong quarter

CIO Business Intelligence

The demand for cloud infrastructure combined with the rise in sales of SaaS services boosted Oracle’s fourth quarter revenue for fiscal year 2022, but the acquisition of healthcare tech company Cerner has chalked up a debt of $15.8 Total cloud revenue ( IaaS plus SaaS) for the company stood at $2.9

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How NaaS deployment is shaping up

TM Forum

Telstra’s Mark Sanders, Principal Network Cloud, noted that his company has “a strong NaaS program and are well along, continuing to enhance our composition capabilities and [employ] Open APIs. Orange aims for cloud connectivity. In a recent TM Forum Benchmark report, What is connectivity-as-a-service?,

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

GeekWire

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.” Satish Chitupolu served as cloud solutions architect at Fortinet. “We work remote,” he said.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft distinguished engineer joins Eclipse Ventures; Outreach adds evangelist

GeekWire

. — Seattle sales technology startup Outreach hired Mary Shea as its first ever evangelist. As an analyst, Shea looked at the future of B2B sales and emerging sales technologies. In her new role she will continue her research focusing on the dynamics between B2B buyers and sellers, as well as how to build more diverse sales team. .