GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

Cyemptive, founded in 2014, sells cybersecurity tools including an endpoint protection service and advanced perimeter firewalls. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Portland, Ore.-based

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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. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

million in a seed funding round to continue work on its self-titled feedback management platform for game developers. Audiences are diversifying tremendously,” co-founder and CEO Sean Vesce tells GeekWire, “and more developers are realizing [the value of] building a game in lockstep with an audience from the earliest stages of development.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

6, 2014 – In the future, when an earthquake or tsunami strikes a populated area or a terrorist attack decimates a city, teams of disaster experts partnered with robots — whose skills are being honed in rigorous competitions funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — may be the first responders. By Cheryl Pellerin.

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JUNE 24, 2014

June 24, 2014 , New York City – MongoDB World — Continuing to deliver on thefuture of analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced the general availability of version 5.1 With YARN, Pentaho Data Integration jobs can make elastic use of Hadoop resources, expanding and contracting as data volumes and processing requirements change.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2021

Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Dolly currently has 40 full-time employees and plans to double its headcount and sales in the upcoming year.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Cynthia Tee, CTO for Smartsheet. Tee worked at Microsoft for nearly 20 years, leaving as a partner group program manager with Windows in 2014. Her other roles include leadership positions at Nordstrom and Ada Developers Academy. Her other roles include leadership positions at Nordstrom and Ada Developers Academy.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai Hill most recently led business development and strategy for Microsoft News in North America and Asia.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

So he decided to launch a startup to develop one. The company, Yardstick , is making its debut today with a browser-based app that leads companies and hiring managers through the process of structured job interviews. Yardstick leads hiring managers through the process of structured interviews. Yardstick Image).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. ” Porter joined Amazon in 2007, and in 2014 became a distinguished engineer, an exclusive title given to only a handful of employees. . “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Fusebit , a new Seattle startup aiming to help developers with software integration capabilities, has raised a $3.3 Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. Fusebit Photo).

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

MACH37™ delivers strong development value for early stage companies through access to an extensive network of cyber security professionals, investors and early technology adopters who are committed to improving cyber defense and security through innovation. – CyberLingua uses technologies developed over decades in the U.S.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

Long served as the director of the NGA from 2010 until her retirement in 2014. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round. Founded : 2014.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . Founded : 2014. Co-founder and CEO : Manny Medina , former director of business development at Microsoft. Founded : 2014. Co-founder and CEO : Mike Radenbaugh , former director of product development at GolfBoard.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. At Microsoft, Brown oversaw corporate development, M&A and strategic investments including the company’s acquisitions of LinkedIn and GitHub. Seattle startup ThruWave hired Lance Troutman as vice president of sales. The company raised a $6.4

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

O’Leary most recently led marketing, sales and growth at startup Airlift, one of Create33’s members, and spent more than 12 years at Starbucks in business development. based video game developer Bungie. office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development. .

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

(Madrona Venture Labs Photo) Madrona Venture Labs (MVL) announced Wednesday it raised $11 million for its fifth fund, providing fresh fuel for the Seattle startup studio as it continues to double down on developing artificial intelligence startups. Since it was launched, the fund has raised $40 million and backed 32 companies.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Back in 2014 I published a guest post on the Open Data Institute's web site titled How important is the quality of open data? Don't just recruit and hire data analysts. On the other hand, if you don't engage in meaningful planning while developing initial deliverables, any early disappointments could stop you in your tracks.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Jim founded Mason to address the challenges he observed with hardware development. Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. Flesher joins Reddit from Discord where he was head of business development. The drug development platform is led by founder and CEO Sean McClain. Mason Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions. .

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Facebook also said it’s doesn’t want to be the only one developing the metaverse. It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

James Collin, a professional connection who was at that time Delaware State CIO, asked Lane if he would be interested in stepping into the vacant CTO role. He was nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the US Senate in December 2021; it’s a hiring process unlike anything in the private sector. and Madrona Venture Group.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 9, 2015

Statistics from the Department of Justice reveal that over 7% of US households, representing more than 11,000,000 Americans, suffered some form of identity theft in 2014. The total financial loss from identity theft alone exceeded $24 billion in 2014, nearly double the amount lost in 2010. trillion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2021

Jesse Levinson, co-founder and CTO of Zoox, the self-driving taxi company acquired by Amazon last year. A veteran in the world of autonomous vehicles, Levinson is the co-founder and CTO of Zoox, a Foster City, Calif., company developing its own electric, autonomous vehicle and robotaxi ride-hailing service. Zoox Photo).

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