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Tech Moves: Madrona adds three new venture partners; DexCare hires exec; and more

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He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. The longtime Seattle tech vet was part of the leadership teams during the acquisitions of Tableau by Salesforce for $15.7 Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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AI2 spinout MajorBoost uses artificial intelligence to help medical providers deal with insurance calls

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A new health-tech spinout from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies communicate with each other, using artificial intelligence to deal with time-consuming phone calls. The company is hiring for several roles. MajorBoost co-founder and CEO Lekshmi Venu.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Tech Moves: Former Rover CTO joins moving startup Dolly; Egencia’s CFO to depart; and more

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Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Dolly currently has 40 full-time employees and plans to double its headcount and sales in the upcoming year. .

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Tech Moves: Payscale CEO steps down; a16z adds Seattle-based partner; Madrona hires investor

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“I’ve spent my career supporting game developers, first on the creative side, then with backend services at PlayFab, and most recently at Microsoft,” Gwertzman wrote on LinkedIn. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. Sabrina Wu.

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7012 Regs and Cyber insurance on collision course with small business

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The regulations themselves are a part of, and a driver to, a set of complex problems for industry — presently, with risk being transferred away from DoD to its contractors who will find risk rebounding to them via their “cyber” insurance policies. We’ll start by peeling back the onion layers around the regulations themselves.