GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The news: Five startups jostled for $200,000 in funding in the final round of the Seattle Angel Conference , with new medical device company BrainSpace rising to the top. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2024

… 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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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Guzmán was previously VP of local for media technology company WhereBy.Us

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The workforce cuts and real estate footprint reduction are tied to a change in the company’s customer service model, as well as “running a more efficient business overall and speeding our path to profitability,” CEO Dan Lewis wrote on LinkedIn Thursday. The company, ranked No. billion valuation.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The 8-person company is led by former Expedia director David Krieger. Onder Photo) A group of travel and real estate tech vets recently launched a startup to help new homeowners stay up-to-date on maintenance issues by providing regular inspections. Onder CEO and founder David Krieger.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Real estate ownership. Legal contracts. Last year’s winner was Common Room, a Seattle-area startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. Industrial AI.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Zillow’s VP of Partner Success Racquel Russell joined the board of micro-mobility company Bird, known for its scooter sharing platform. Other recent appointments to Tanium’s board include former Ford Motor Company CEO Mark Fields and Accenture Executive Chairman David Rowland. The company has raised $6 million to date.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some companies are looking to reduce their physical office footprint with the shift to remote work. The company just inked a new sublease for 123,000 square feet of space across three floors at the Russell Investments Center skyscraper in downtown Seattle. The third floor is being subleased from hiring company Indeed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

For Andreea Bodnari and Chris Jones, both of whom left Silicon Valley tech companies to work at healthcare organization Optum, the lure was not concern over mass layoffs in big tech, but the prospect of solving real-world problems and the opportunity to work on technologies that make a difference in people’s lives.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. The new fund provides investments to companies participating in the accelerator and also makes direct investments. It focuses on pre-seed companies with capital-efficient business models and early signs of commercialization. agtech startup Verdi. Scott Nagel.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Early Amazon employee and angel investor Meredith Han is now vice president of product at Seattle real estate startup FlyHomes. . The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. based digital services company PK (formerly ProKarma) appointed Dinesh Venugopal as its new CEO.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

His experience and skills are an invaluable addition to our company and the senior leadership team,” Nadella said in a statement. based cloud automation company Puppet named two new board appointments as it preps for an IPO next year. based real estate startup Juno. He will report directly to CEO Satya Nadella.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. “The technology changes all the time. .

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Write to us if you have news to share.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. Amazon Photo). million seed round.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Waldher most recently served as EVP and general manager for experience management technology company Qualtrics. During his time at Microsoft, Waldher held various roles on the Office 365 team. At the time of his departure, he was general manager of Microsoft 365. He was also SVP of sales at IT infrastructure company Nutanix. “I

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Doorstead , a San Francisco-based real estate property management startup founded by former Uber employees, is starting to expand nationally and just launched in the Seattle region. Doorstead helps small real estate investors who own single-family units and need help renting out their space.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The view from atop the 2+U building in downtown Seattle where companies such as Qualtrics and Bungie still have offices. “That’s not really something you have to deal with in other cities I’ve visited,” said Turner, the co-founder and CTO of Swiftly, a Seattle retail software provider valued at more than $1 billion.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Former employees at trucking company Convoy have gone on to launch their own startups in Seattle. A vast alumni network from the trucking marketplace company is fueling entrepreneurial activity in Seattle, where at least 25 startups are now led by former employees of Convoy. Several others are still operating in stealth mode.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Seattle company raised more than $300 million and went public within a year of its launch, ultimately selling for more than $9 billion in 2018 to Celgene. All these companies are based in the Seattle region or have operations there. company GRAIL, prior to its acquisition for $8 billion. Spawning new companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

Interlace Health is one such entity, having named Maggie Peña as the electronic forms company’s first-ever chief experience officer. Peña has been with the company for nearly 13 years in customer-facing roles, most recently, building a customer success management team. billion square feet of real estate in 19 countries.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2023

The two 15-story towers of Dexter Yard, with 528,000 square feet of office and lab space, are starting to fill up with biotech companies and an outpost of the Allen Institute. acre chunk of real estate slated for transformation into a life sciences campus by Alexandria Real Estate Equities.

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2023

The retail giant hired Jason Morris as its new chief technology and information officer, effective May 1. compared to the same period in 2021 due to the elimination of store fulfillment for Nordstrom Rack digital orders and the sunsetting of Trunk Club, the company said in an earnings release. Jason Morris.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

She also currently serves on the board of Seattle real estate startup JetClosing. Roofstock is a fintech company that allows individuals to invest in single family rental homes. The company recently acquired property management platform Great Jones and has raised $133 million in total funding to date. Todd Haedrich.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Tech companies around the country continue to recruit executives from Amazon: Rene Villegas , the former head of marketing for Amazon Subscription Boxes, is now chief marketing officer at Boston-based wireless broadband provider Starry. based workflow automation company late last year. The company went public in September.

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Vox

JANUARY 11, 2023

At the opening of Meta’s last company-wide Q&A of 2022, Mark Zuckerberg sounded disappointed but determined. “We I’m quite optimistic about all of this,” he said at the recent company-wide Q&A meeting. At the same time, they said colleagues are more competitive than ever. Amanda Northrop/Vox.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

As CIO, I’m constantly looking at ways to become more agile and using IT as a strategic differentiator,” says Scott duFour, global CIO at digital payment solutions company Fleetcor. The work that is not repetitive is changing at a remarkable pace,” says Jon Walden, Blue Prism’s CTO for the Americas. Much of IT work is repetitive.

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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2017

Major cloud infrastructure services like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services have fueled new hiring strategies, with 81% of enterprises adopting DevOps strategies and engineers. Furthermore, Software as a Service (SaaS) models allow companies to distribute their teams, focus on results, and simplify licensing and software upgrade issues.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The company also promoted Chris McGuire to chief technology officer, taking over from Thinkific co-founder Matt Payne who will now be SVP of innovation. He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. He spent more than eight years at real estate giant Zillow, most recently as senior vice president.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Once a pandemic darling, the connected fitness company has seen its stock price plunge in recent months. TV shows have turned its bike into a deadly punchline , and there’s been no shortage of rumors speculating which company should buy Peloton to save it from impending doom. percent for Q2. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2021

The task force, created by The National Science Foundation and the Biden administration, includes ten other technical experts from academic institutions, government agencies and technology companies across the U.S. Boundless co-founder and CTO Serdar Sutay has left the Seattle immigration startup. His last day was Friday.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Arrived team, from left, CEO and co-founder Ryan Frazier, CTO and co-founder Kenny Cason, CFO Joel Mezistrano, and COO and co-founder Alejandro Chouza. Another tech-fueled real estate startup has arrived on the scene in Seattle. Real estate vet Joel Mezistrano is also part of the team as CFO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 3, 2023

When global technology company Lenovo started utilizing data analytics, they helped identify a new market niche for its gaming laptops, and powered remote diagnostics so their customers got the most from their servers and other devices. Each of the acquired companies had multiple data sets with different primary keys, says Hepworth. “We

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