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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

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Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. Founded in 2011, Talkdesk sells software built for customer service contact centers. Former Redfin CTO Sasha Aickin is CEO of the company, which aims to help customers improve prompt engineering.

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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

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He led key businesses including Amazon’s third-party sales, Prime Video, Amazon Music and Amazon Advertising. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. He previously worked as VP of platform engineering at Paris-based carpooling platform BlaBlaCar and was an engineer at Chef Software. Portland, Ore.

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The Seattle startup offers clients a community of “Interview Engineers” who use its software to conduct first-round technical interviews. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. The company hired Jared Nieuwenhuis as marketing director for North America.

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Notable tech leaders back Magnify as software startup emerges with $6M in funding

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New funding: Magnify , an enterprise software startup which will have operations in Seattle and Bend, Ore., The company is developing tools to help companies engage with software customers, and has backing from a high-powered array of Pacific Northwest tech executives. Magnify CEO Joshua Crossman. Brooke Fitts Photo).

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Tech Moves: Former Ada Developers Academy CEO joins venture studio; Riveter co-CEO steps down; and more

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“Ada was at a transitional point given the dramatic contraction in the tech talent market, and I am a builder/growth stage leader,” Sato told GeekWire. Britt Stromberg was hired as CMO at Seattle menopause health startup Gennev. Randa Sbeity was hired by Seattle startup Humanly as senior engineering manager.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more

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She will oversee the Seattle startup’s data science department for TV and video measurement products. Kalungi, a Seattle-area marketing agency for business-to-business software companies, appointed Brian Graf as its new CEO. He replaces co-founder Fadi George , who will transition to CTO and remain as president of the board.

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No company, no product, no problem: Video platform raises $2.3M by leveraging earlier success

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Lucas and his co-founder, Chief Technology Officer Paul Burton, had been running their first startup, Triple Tree Software, for four years, specializing in building custom SaaS products for national clients. Building on Triple Tree’s success, the founders had a new idea to pursue: a platform for sharing videos with subscribers.

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