GeekWire

MAY 2, 2024

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. Seattle’s CDL program focuses on two sectors: manufacturing and computational health. CDL launched its Seattle hub in 2021.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai with the same thrill and excitement to be part of something bigger than myself as I experienced when I joined Microsoft in 1992,” Torossian wrote on LinkedIn. . Vahé Torossian.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith. Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. Altogether, the campaign aims to to train as many as 250,000 new cybersecurity workers in the country by 2025, most of whom will work for businesses other than Microsoft. GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong). government agencies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Mariya Burrows, software engineer, RealSelf. The program boasts a 97% graduation rate, 94% job placement rate with a 160% salary increase.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

. — 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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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The software is called Codex and is designed to speed up the work of professional programmers, as well as help amateurs get started coding. Users type English commands into the software, like “create a webpage with a menu on the side and title at the top,” and Codex translates this into code.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

To alleviate India’s severe oxygen shortage, Microsoft worked with the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum to provide oxygen concentration devices to healthcare facilities in India. FedEx Photo via Microsoft). Taking action: In a blog post Wednesday, Kate Behncken, head of Microsoft Philanthropies, laid out what the Redmond, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2024

He was previously CEO of Synaptics, a hardware and software giant also based in Silicon Valley. Kymeta, which was founded in 2012 with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , makes use of an innovative type of technology called metamaterials to build antennas that can be steered by software, without moving parts.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

The program will start in November at the UW. (UW The news: Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs nine startup accelerators across the world, is coming to Seattle. It does not take equity as the program is funded by founding members such as Microsoft and the UW.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2023

The nonprofit has multiple programs including: Designated “anchor communities” in which they form coalitions of organizations that interact with homeless youth to coordinate their outreach efforts. . of all software engineers in the U.S. are Black, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

The organization, which started with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and about four or five employees, has since grown into a global nonprofit with more than 1,500 change leaders, universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations on board.

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Dataconomy

JULY 27, 2023

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, four of the biggest AI firms, have founded a new industry association to ensure the “safe and responsible development” of so-called “frontier AI” models.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2021

Blues Wireless , an IoT startup founded by former Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie , has raised $22 million from investors including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. He later launched and sold two startups to Microsoft: Groove Networks in 2005 , and Talko in 2015. LinkedIn Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BAs engage with business leaders and users to understand how data-driven changes to process, products, services, software, and hardware can improve efficiencies and add value. Depending on the role, a business analyst might work with data sets to improve products, hardware, tools, software, services, or process.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. Many organizations provide financial aid to patients, but hospitals and health systems are not equipped to navigate the programs’ complexities at scale. Many people forgo care because they can’t afford it.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

He also previously spent 12 years at Microsoft in roles including principal software engineering manager and senior director. Sinha said lessons in leadership, agility and scale he picked up at Google and Microsoft “will help us continue to deliver transformative products to immigrants.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Ismail was chief product officer at Marchex, and is also a veteran of Microsoft, where he was director of product management for Internet Explorer. — Rob Wilk , previously global head of advertising at Microsoft, joined Snapchat parent company Snap. She was previously vice president of policy and programs at the Washington, D.C.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 8, 2021

Due to both internal and external pressure for directing maximum funding to their program work, non-profit associations generally tend to underinvest in technology. The few non-profit associations who have appropriate software do not have a proper budget for training staff on how to make the most of the software. Collaboration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. It’s going to get ugly,” she said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Black Code Collective The Black Code Collective (BCC) was started in 2016 to create a safe space and community for Black software engineers. It was started in 2017 after its founder, Kelauni Jasmyn, noticed that, after graduating a coding bootcamp, she didn’t see many other software developers who “looked like her in the local tech scene.”

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Dyce, a software engineer at Jargon , was looking for a cause she believed in and where her particular skill set would be useful. CEO Taylor Hoang oversees the five Vietnamese eateries in her restaurants group, including spots near the headquarters for Microsoft and Starbucks. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

-based $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund , launched by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, appointed Paul Bodnar to help lead programs on climate finance, industry and diplomacy. Bodnar was previously chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he founded its Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. Yakima, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It includes retail sales and professional services, as well as nonprofit organizations and a blog about women’s economic issues, creating more of a sense of community than a platform focused strictly on shopping. Nonprofits are included on the site for free. Isler was CEO of Daysaver, a calendar software startup, for three years.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

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. Miner was most recently SVP of brand marketing and communications at Tableau Software. Arvin Patel. Intellectual Ventures Photo). Brian Smith.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Ekin Yasin is the new director of the Communication Leadership graduate program at the University of Washington. Hosein, a journalism and communications industry veteran, led the program for 13 years, overseeing growth in the number of students, faculty and degrees offered through the program. Chicago, Ill. Chicago, Ill.-based

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Meta President Nick Clegg, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google’s President of Global Affairs Kent Walker, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith at the White House. Will they share the wealth? (How

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. Morgan Stanley’s IT department, for example, is helping nonprofits as part of its Technology Change Makers program.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Samir Khobragade , a former Amazon engineer and current senior director of software engineering for cloud platforms at NetApp, has worked in tech for 26 years. Soma” Somasegar has been around the tech industry for 34 years, including nearly three decades at Microsoft, where he was head of the tech giant’s Developer Division.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Portland-based nonprofit VertueLab launched its $5 million Climate Impact Fund on Wednesday to support early stage, clean tech entrepreneurs focused on addressing climate change causes and moving to a carbon-free economy. It can be more expensive to build and test the technology, compared to software-based enterprises.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. Devlet was previously VP of client services at legal marketplace Avvo and spent more than 12 years at Microsoft. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The goal of this program is to recognize organizations running CDH for the applications you’ve built using Hadoop, and for the impact your project is having on the organization, business, and/or society at large. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. He is also Gartner’s Vendor Lead for Microsoft. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

-based company described it as “a vehicle, when the time comes, to help explore potential other initiatives that don’t fit naturally or neatly within the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s] program areas.”. The company has made seven investments in six different companies or nonprofits since March 2019.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2023

Selipsky is taking part in “Seattle Dances,” an annual event put on by Plymouth Housing, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing permanent supportive housing for adults experiencing chronic homelessness in Washington state. File Photo) Amazon, alongside Microsoft, is a presenting sponsor of the event.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The goal of this program is to recognize organizations running CDH for the applications you’ve built using Hadoop, and for the impact your project is having on the organization, business, and/or society at large. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. He is also Gartner’s Vendor Lead for Microsoft. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2021

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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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

The group runs a variety of events and programs for the tech, business, and startup community, including mentorship and networking. Megan Hulsey of Craft3, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. There are downsides to the influx, as well. ” Tobias is one. average, according to the Spokane Workforce Council.

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