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Ciara and Russell Wilson’s fashion house will raise up to $50M as revenue grows

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The brands sell across multiple channels, including direct-to-consumer, wholesale, and potentially later in retail stores. She also sits on the board of Seattle marketing startup Amperity, leading corporate social responsibility efforts. Last year the couple signed a deal with Amazon to develop and produce scripted series and films.

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Tech Moves: SoundCommerce vet launches startup; Microsoft Federal leader departs; and more

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Mann spent more than two years at SoundCommerce, which aims to help online retailers improve operational efficiency. She also worked at iLink Digital for nearly two years and helped run a software development services company. Stevenson previously was a manager at social impact startup ScaleWith and founded PeaceAtlas.

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Seattle mayor expands tech tool built with Google to streamline benefit program application process

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The CiviForm tool was developed by the City of Seattle’s Innovation and Performance team and Seattle Information Technology Department and first piloted in June 2021. Gold Card: Residents ages 60 and older can save on retail, services, art, entertainment, and tourism, including free passes to the Seattle Aquarium.

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Facebook buys REI’s new HQ for $367M, expanding Seattle-area footprint beyond 3M square feet

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The social media giant paid $367.6 million to purchase a brand new 6-acre, 400,000 square-foot complex from REI at the new Spring District development in Bellevue, Wash., Previously: REI looks to sell brand new Seattle-area HQ as pandemic forces retailer to rethink remote work. just east of Seattle.

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Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires new CFO; Tune CEO lands at Roku

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Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining in June as vice president of corporate development. based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. The startup provides retailers the back-end infrastructure to sell products online. Tiziana Figliolia. Hootsuite Photo).

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Tech Moves: Lyft hires CFO from Amazon; Tomo adds CMO; Gopuff taps more Seattle talent

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Social media management tool Hootsuite appointed four new board members: Angel investor and HubSpot board member Julie Herendeen , who will serve as board chair. Its customers include healthcare providers, educators, retailers and restaurants that manage fleets of company-owned Android devices. He also co-founded Clidentity.

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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

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Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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