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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. “This is a pivotal moment for Talkdesk as the market for conversational AI and virtual agents is expected to grow rapidly.”

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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 startup develops virtual assistants for sales, marketing and customer service teams. The Seattle startup offers clients a community of “Interview Engineers” who use its software to conduct first-round technical interviews. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 Fukiko Ogisu.

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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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Also unique: record breaking investment and M&A activity across the country and in Seattle, as companies take advantage of pandemic-driven trends such as virtual experiences, at-home healthcare, remote education and more. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. billion as of November 2019.

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Walmart to hire nearly 200 in Seattle as part of expansion of its Global Tech team

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The new positions in Seattle will primarily be data scientists and software engineers according to a career page list of current openings. Walmart currently has about 160 tech associates in the area and relies on a hybrid work model that is primarily virtual. Its total headcount is 2.3

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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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In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. 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.

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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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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

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in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. contract with the U.S.

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