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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

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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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Amazon adding more space east of Seattle in Redmond for 800 new AWS jobs, Project Kuiper lab

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Amazon is making more real estate moves east of Seattle, adding hundreds of Amazon Web Services roles in Redmond, Wash. The plans, announced Tuesday, come as Amazon has shown an increasing fondness for growing on the other side of Lake Washington, across from the company’s sprawling urban headquarters in Seattle.

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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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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 Industry : Real estate.

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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. . 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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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

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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 former Porch COO remains a board member of the Seattle company.

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She helped lead the fight against Amazon’s return to office — and then had to leave a job she loved

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” After more than eight years at the tech giant, Hayter had come to expect that decisions large and small at the company were always rooted in data. The company was hardly alone in bringing workers back or issuing mandates. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Pamela Hayter just wanted someone at Amazon to answer “the why.”

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

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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).