GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. The Redmond, Wash.,

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MAY 20, 2024

SeekOut Photo) SeekOut , a Seattle-area startup that sells recruiting software and raised $115 million in 2022, is trimming its workforce for the second time in the past eight months. Founded in 2017, SeekOut’s software is used by more than 1,000 companies to help with recruiting. SeekOut CEO and co-founder Anoop Gupta.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2023

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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GeekWire

APRIL 5, 2023

Payscore co-founders CTO Stephen Arifin (left) and CEO Mark Fiebig. Payscore sells software that links with an applicant’s bank account to examine their deposit history and generate a report that provides a comprehensive overview of their income. Payscore’s software automates applications for more than 700,000 U.S.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

Mobile application developers are working with a massive variety of technologies and platforms, but one trend that stands out is the rapid adoption of NoSQL database engines and the use of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platforms and services to run them. billion at the end of 2012 (and forecasts a nearly 30% CAGR through 2017).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. and opened a Seattle office in 2017. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2

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CTOvision

MARCH 24, 2017

The O’Reilly AI Conference is coming to San Francisco September 17-20, 2017 to explore the most essential and intriguing topics in intelligence engineering and applied AI. Strata Data Conference in New York 2017 . Strata Data Conference returns to New York September 25-28, 2017. The deadline for submissions is April 4, 2017.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital. New Athira execs Mark Worthington, general counsel, and Rachel Lenington, chief technology officer and head of product development strategy. Athira Photos). The Bothell, Wash.-based Lessen Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Founded in 2017, Possible offers loans of up to $500 and is similar to payday lenders, but with some differences. The co-founders of Possible Finance, from left to right: Prasad Mahendra, vice president of engineering; Tyler Conant, chief technology officer; and Tony Huang, CEO. Possible Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

” Here’s more info about the company from a job posting for a CTO: Our mission is to make intelligent technologies accessible to corporate finance professionals, to empower them to become strategic leaders for their companies. Steve Singh at the 2017 GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. billion in 2014.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

He then had stints at eBay, Groupon, and finally at Staples , where he was chief digital officer and later chief technology officer. Part of the company’s pitch is that it offers a “headless” platform, or API-first e-commerce software that decouples the front and back-end of a given system.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) Fullcast , a software startup that helps companies manage and automate their revenue-generating operations, is changing hands and its headquarters location after an acquisition deal. Ryan Westwood. They are still described as “co-owners.” ” Singh and Balabaskaran previously raised $7.5

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2023

Last year’s winner was Highspot, a startup that sells enterprise software to help make salespeople more efficient. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. He was nominated as a Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2017 GeekWire Awards. The company ranks No.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The imprint draws its name from the Intel 8080 processors that were the foundation for Microsoft’s early software. The charter describes the initial focus as “technology and the future; business process and productivity; and societal priorities in law, ethics, and policy.”

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2020

The Reperio Health team, including co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Matt Wallington (third from left) and co-founder and CEO Travis Rush (fifth from left). Rush started Sightbox in 2015 and Johnson & Johnson acquired it in September 2017 for an undisclosed sum. Reperio Photo). A Portland, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2021

Founded in 2008, Unify Square helps companies manage collaboration and communication software such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, and Zoom. Publicly traded IT services company Unisys announced that it will acquire Bellevue, Wash.-based based startup Unify Square for $152.5 million in cash.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

-based startup Eclypsium raised $13 million to help expand its enterprise hardware security technology. Founded in 2017, the company helps detect, analyze, and prevent security threats at the firmware level. He started the company with CTO Alex Bazhaniuk , another former Intel security engineer. “The

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles. billion valuation. Valuation : $3.96

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GeekWire

APRIL 27, 2021

The business: Described as the “ Stripe for international shipping ,” the company’s software helps ease the exchange of goods between customers and retailers doing business across borders. FlavorCloud’s technology analyzes complex customs regulations and product codes. customers via Amazon.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2021

“The investment from BMNT was a huge vote of confidence in the Tignis technology and team, and that together with support from BMNT’s enterprise accelerator enabled us to commercialize more powerful AI capabilities faster for industrial and manufacturing customers,” co-founder and CEO Jon Herlocker said in a statement.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

. — Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. Sweetgreen applies technology to manage its supply chain, restaurant operations, internal operations and its customer-facing app. Chris Garvey.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Six-year Oracle veteran Clay Magouyrk is the new executive vice president in charge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, based in Seattle, reporting to co-founder Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer. “Oracle’s CAPEX has been declining in absolute and relative terms since 2017.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2021

Downstream co-founders Salim Hamed (left, CTO) and Connor Folley (CEO). Downstream is among a group of startups building software that helps vendors, sellers and agencies manage marketing investments on Amazon, which has seen advertising spend on its e-commerce site skyrocket in recent years along with growth of its third-party seller arm.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2021

. — Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Previously, he was a software development engineer at Microsoft. Rosalyn Curato, left, and Preethi Pragash. Lockstep Photos).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The TalkSocket is accessing Alexa via Amazon’s third-party software development kit. TalkSocket got its start after DeLorenzo left his phone in an Uber in 2017 and was unable to find it with the “find my Android” feature because the battery was dead.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 4, 2017

Geopolitical tensions ensure that 2017 will be another big year for state-sponsored cyber attacks. Check Device and Server Software. Malware detection software has greatly improved in recent years so there’s no reason not to implement it. Junaid Islam.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The gist: BattGenie is a University of Washington spinoff that has developed software to goose the performance of lithium batteries that power electrical vehicles, consumer devices and other electronics. The software helps optimizes fast recharging while extending the life of batteries.

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GeekWire

JULY 17, 2024

Founded in 2017, Syndio analyzes workplace pay equity issues and provides strategies for fixing disparities. employers business group at Seattle healthcare software startup Abett. Rob Ó Callaghan joined market research tech startup QuantifyAI as chief technology officer. Rich Krutsch was named president of the U.S.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

ExtraHop co-founders Jesse Rothstein , chief technology officer, and Raja Mukerji , chief customer officer, both remain at the company in their respective roles. He was previously CEO of Alvaria Software, formed through the merger of Noble Systems and Aspect Software, where he had been CEO prior to the merger.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk. E-commerce startup Fabric hired Val Rupp as the Seattle company’s first chief people officer. Fabric Photo). —

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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. Magnify’s tool optimizes onboarding and use of software using AI and machine learning. Sajo Jacob. Jeremy Ung.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

What are the most important lessons that IT leaders and CIOs learned (or should have learned) in 2017? In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. The 2017 Ponemon “ Cost of Data Breach Study ” found that the average cost of a data breach is $3.62 million. “For

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MAY 18, 2023

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

In 2017, the team officially launched Lyssn. The software is able to determine if the therapist is empathetic, detecting changes in vocal pitch and identifying phrases where the therapist shares their understanding of what a patient has said. The UW innovation hub CoMotion helped with the launch.

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GeekWire

MARCH 5, 2024

The Spark runs the same suite of Glowforge software available on all other machines, including Magic Canvas, an AI image generator released last year. The Glowforge Spark features runs the same software and can cut the same materials as the company’s other machines.

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