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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Lara Rogers.

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Robots for hire: Dell EMC vets lead Seattle startup aiming to automate monotonous tasks

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From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. He’s joined by Chief Technology Officer Sriram Sankaran , a former group engineering manager at Amazon and senior director of engineering at Dell EMC, and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev , a former software developer at Dell EMC.

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Serial entrepreneur Gaurav Oberoi strikes again: Lexion’s sale to Docusign shows methodical approach to building startups

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” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. In 2017, Oberoi joined Pioneer Square Labs. Oberoi made hundreds of calls to lawyers, paralegals, contract managers, consultants, and various other stakeholders. Who is it for?

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Silicon Valley mainstay NEA leads $37.5M investment in Seattle cloud startup Pulumi

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million investment led by NEA , representing a vote of confidence by the longtime venture capital firm in the Seattle startup’s software development tools for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud. Other recent hires include Lee-Ming Zen as VP of engineering, building out a technology team led by CTO Luke Hoban.

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

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A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. Peterson joined Tagboard in 2017 as VP of marketing. Sandler, the former CEO of Novas Software, joined OVF in 2010 as an investor. Fred Hutch promoted Hilary Hehman to VP of business development.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

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Demoz most recently was a senior manager of software engineering at Google Cloud and previously a software development manager at Amazon Web Services. office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development. The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees.

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Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

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Larry Ellison, Oracle executive chairman, CTO and co-founder, described the initiative as “a first in the cloud industry.” “This has been the eventual plan for a long time,” Johnson wrote in the memo. “Oracle’s CAPEX has been declining in absolute and relative terms since 2017.

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