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Tech Moves: Salesforce-backed Oleria hires CTO; Microsoft vet joins Lyra Health; and more

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Oleria’s new CTO Siva Garudayagari. Oleria Photo) — Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. Garudayagari has more than 20 years of enterprise software experience. Oleria, which landed $8 million in March, sells access management software.

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Integrate raises $3.4M and wins Space Force contract for management software

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million contract from the U.S. Space Force to boost its program management software platform into a higher orbit. The newly announced seed funding round was led by Hyperplane, with participation from Riot Ventures, Ravelin Capital and John Capodilupo, former chief technology officer and co-founder of Whoop.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

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Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. The Redmond, Wash.,

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Irrigation tech startup led by farming experts blossoms with revenue growth and new cash

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The startup, based north of Seattle, has raised a $750,000 seed round and is now FarmHQ , which is also the name of its irrigation hardware and software platform. David was previously a senior data scientist with Amazon Web Services, while Connor, FarmHQ’s chief technology officer, worked in science and technology roles.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story. Tim Collins (left) and Sharad Sundaresan. Gopuff Photos).

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

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The cloud arm of Google, which competes with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, boosted its operating profits to $395 million, a improvement of close to $1 billion from its loss of $590 million in the same quarter a year ago. Prior to NCSolutions, Wood owned and operated LWR, an industry research consulting firm.