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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

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NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. He’ll be based at the CoMotion, the university’s innovation hub, and will run programs including Hacking for Defense and Starts. NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW.

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Amazon adding more space east of Seattle in Redmond for 800 new AWS jobs, Project Kuiper lab

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Amazon is making more real estate moves east of Seattle, adding hundreds of Amazon Web Services roles in Redmond, Wash. Amazon said in a blog post that more than 800 new AWS jobs — including software developers, UX designers, and technical program managers — will be located at Redmond Town Center. Invesco Photo).

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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

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CEO Caitlin Morse was previously a program manager at Flex and is also a co-founder of a small medical device services startup, MorseCode Medical. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

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Hint: They are in the real estate, consumer internet, transportation, clean tech and gaming categories). Industry : Real estate. 2021 : Real estate startup Place comes out of nowhere with $100M round, led by Goldman at $1B valuation. Enterprise software still rules the roost in the region. Valuation : $4.4

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Three options for seeing the solar eclipse, from expensive to iffy to absolutely free

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Thousands of eclipse-watchers will be flocking to that relatively narrow band of real estate for the big day, driving up the price of travel. Take Dallas, for example: The lowest fare for a SEA-DFW round-trip flight bracketing April 8, with no more than one intermediate stop each way, is more than $1,000. .

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

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Speaking with GeekWire this week, Larson-Green said the time was right for the next phase of her life after helping Qualtrics get to its IPO by working to build key functions and teams including people operations, program management, data science and user experience. “The technology changes all the time. .

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

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Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. The program’s second cohort is focusing on data in digital health care transformation. He also stepped down from the board of Trip Advisor. He will relocate to New York.