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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. Notable mentions: virtual events startup Brandlive (No. 82) , commercial banking platform FISPAN (No. Digital trucking platform Convoy moved up one spot to No. With strong Amazon DNA and $668 million in funding, Convoy had a valuation of $2.75 The biggest movers.

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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs

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Legal contracts. There are a limited number of table sponsorships available to attend the event. Contact our events team at events@geekwire.com for more information. Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. Real estate ownership. Industrial AI. Machine learning monitoring.

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Tech Moves: Accolade’s new board member; Adaptive Biotechnologies names a COO; and more

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She is a consultant and the former president and CEO of Laird Norton Financial Group. Adams joined the Seattle biotech giant last year as CTO. Adams was previously a managing director at SVB Leerink, an investment bank specializing in healthcare and life sciences. Bevier joined the F5 board in 2006. Mark Adams.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

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But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. There are a limited number of table sponsorships available to attend the event. Contact our events team at events@geekwire.com for more information. Impinj went public in 2016.

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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator

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Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, spoke at a Y Combinator event this summer. (Y Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. Watto AI From left: Watto AI founder and CEO Rishabh Panwar, co-founder Ishita Bhandari, and CTO and founder Suryansh Soni. What’s your secret sauce? We’ve got a great team.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

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The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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27 Jan Webinar With SEI’s Cyber Intelligence Research Consortium: Learn how to have intelligence successes instead of security failures

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The consortium''s membership consists of practitioners and decision makers from multiple sectors, including government, energy, banking, defense contracting, and academia. Efforts for this year include how-to guides for navigating key analytical practices and technologies, tradecraft labs, and an in-person crisis simulation event.

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