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Meet the startups that just graduated from Creative Destruction Lab’s accelerator in Seattle

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CDL Photo) Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs 13 startup accelerators across the world, just graduated another swath of early stage companies from its Seattle program. Back row, from left: Macey McGovern (Seattle), Dhwani Patel (Seattle), Emer Dooley (Seattle), Ramzy Huneidi (Seattle), Carter McDonald (Vancouver).

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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. — Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles. She also spent four years at Microsoft as a senior marketing manager for Xbox.

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

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-based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk. Rupp previously held senior HR roles at Microsoft and Amazon, where she worked with Fabric CEO Faisal Masud.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

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-based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Keiser was most recently COO of CRM software company Zendesk. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Arvin Patel.

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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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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

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Seattle-area startup SeekOut raised $65 million in March to fuel growth of its recruiting software that is like LinkedIn on steroids. Auth0, the billion-dollar Seattle-area startup that is a leader in identity authentication software, is being acquired by Okta , another leader in the space, the companies announced earlier this year.

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As tech is rocked by layoffs, climate jobs and tools for landing them are on the rise

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Climate career opportunities include everything from installing solar panels and electric vehicle charging devices to innovating cutting-edge climate tech hardware and software. In the meantime, a slate of new nonprofits and startups have cropped up to share jobs listings, compile resources, hold workshops and connect people.

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