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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

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Hint: They are in the real estate, consumer internet, transportation, clean tech and gaming categories). Industry : Real estate. 2021 : Real estate startup Place comes out of nowhere with $100M round, led by Goldman at $1B valuation. Industry : Cloud data storage. Can you name the five other startups?

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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

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Early Amazon employee and angel investor Meredith Han is now vice president of product at Seattle real estate startup FlyHomes. . Gort was previously chief engineer of TASE, a UAV camera system developed by Cloud Cap Technology. Mavroudis joins the franchise from Hellosign where he was a technical program manager.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

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Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. Seattle hybrid cloud storage startup Qumulo appointed Adriana Gil Miner as its chief marketing officer. contract management startup Icertis. . Adriana Gil Miner.(Qumulo Qumulo Photo).

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai. February 2022.

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‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company lead new startups in Seattle

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GeekWire has profiled several Seattle companies started by Convoy alumni: Candidate, Cloud Paper, Common Room, Far Homes, Glue, GoodShip, heyLibby, Magicall, OutGo, Rollzi, Seattle NFT Museum, Solo, and Wolfscale. Vice president of operations Victoria Kiss was a demand program manager at Convoy.

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Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

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He spent more than eight years at real estate giant Zillow, most recently as senior vice president. He was previously a senior manager at Amazon. San Francisco cloud computing company Netlify hired Dana Lawson as senior vice president of engineering and Akram Hassan as vice president of product. Netlify Photos). —

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Tech Moves: Ex-Tableau sales chief Kelly Breslin Wright joins Gong; Slalom expands board; more

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During his time as a partner at Madrona, Chakrabarti focused on investments in enterprise and cloud-based infrastructure companies. In her new role, Lansinger is tied to a completely different vertical: real estate. The Seattle region’s red-hot real estate market keeps making headlines.