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Former Google VP raises $10M for new startup building AI agents for retail businesses

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The Polana AI co-founders, from left: CEO Maria Zhang, Chief Scientist Steve Liu, and CTO Tim Howes. and is interviewing for a couple more potential hires. She was a VP of engineering at Yahoo, Google, LinkedIn, and Instagram, and was CTO at Tinder. Palona AI officially launched Thursday with $10 million in seed funding.

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Integrate (26-30 Sep 2015 in Santa Clara) is the largest conference 100% focused on integrating technologies

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Thanks to the organizers of the Integrate + API World 2015 Conference ( Sept. Integrate + API World 2015 is the nation’s largest integration + API conference featuring participants such as Google, IBM, Facebook, Linkedin, HP, Slack, HipChat, Zendesk, and 200+ more companies. Who attends Integrate + API World 2015: Developers.

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Tech Moves: Zulily hires Nike exec as new CTO; Google vet Phil Bogle joins Kalshi; Auth0 adds CISO

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After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. Kissler will now oversee operations for another retail giant in Zulily, which was acquired by QVC parent Qurate in 2015. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo). Nish Lathia.

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Tech Moves: Zillow promotes execs; ZoomInfo CTO resigning; ESS CEO steps down

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LinkedIn Photos) — Swiftly , a grocery retail tech startup based in Seattle, welcomed two new hires to its C-suite. The company launched in Seattle in 2015 and was led by Jim Rottsolk , who is now board chairman. He more recently held leadership roles at ConnectWise, Sage and Splunk. Alston is based in Redwood City, Calif.,

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Amazon vet Dorothy Li joins trucking startup Convoy as CTO, says company is at ‘inflection point’

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Last August the company hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO. Other leaders came from companies such as Hulu, Airbnb, and Amazon, where Convoy co-founders Dan Lewis and Grant Goodale worked before launching Convoy in 2015. ” Convoy employs around 1,000 people and plans to hire throughout the year.

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Cognitio’s Prime on DIA E-SITE Berico Technologies Exhibiting At DoDIIS Worldwide 23-26 Aug 2015

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E-SITE is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite -quantity (IDIQ) multiple-award contract awarded to 25 large and 25 small businesses to support IT requirements across the defense intelligence enterprise and greater intelligence community. Berico is Cognitio's exclusive prime on E-SITE.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022.