GeekWire

MAY 20, 2024

A 12-ton military-style vehicle powered by self-driving technology from Seattle startup Overland AI. Overland Photo) A hot Seattle startup developing autonomous driving technology for off-road vehicles announced a $10 million seed round to fuel its growth. The company’s CTO, Jonathan Fink , worked as a researcher for the U.S.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. He previously worked as CTO and information officer at customer loyalty company cxLoyalty. Sybil Tasker was hired as the chief medical officer at Inventprise, a Seattle-area startup developing a pneumonia shot.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016. He has a doctorate degree in computations chemistry and molecular visualization from the University of Manchester, and his intellectual property led to the development of RealWear’s flagship line of headsets. RealWear reported $20.5

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Dartmouth alum and world champion ultimate frisbee player later became the CEO and co-founder of Five Ultimate, an athletic brand for ultimate frisbee players that was acquired in 2019. Benn Bollay is now CTO at B2B software startup ReachSuite. based cannabis financial technology company POSaBIT promoted Chris Baker to COO.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The crown: BrainSpace will use the new cash to support development of its automated external ventricular drain, a type of device that relieves pressure in the brain from trauma, stroke or other conditions. based startup, founded in 2019. The Bothell, Wash. The startup declined to provide further details when contacted by GeekWire.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

From left: Lexion founders Emad Elwany, Gaurav Oberoi and James Baird when the company launched in 2019. ” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. He learned that companies were struggling to track contracts.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. Founded in 2019, the platform provides an accounting-specific inbox for accounts receivable and accounts payable teams. Goldsmith was most recently CTO at identity verification provider Onfido.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. billion in 2019 and Concur by SAP for $8.3 Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . After going public in 2016, Apptio went through a private equity buyout in 2019. Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc. Kris Beason.

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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. (Playco Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

billion in November 2019. The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. based Puppet since January 2019. as VP of business development for its marketplace.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The move was announced by Oculus’ consulting CTO John Carmack , who stepped down from his full-time role as CTO in 2019 to focus on his work as an independent AI researcher. The developer has long been a fan of opening his work on titles like Doom and Quake for hobbyist tinkering.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. Pearce co-founded Fresh Chalk , a service to find local professionals through friend recommendations, in 2019. Sajo Jacob.

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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 November 2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B billion (as of November 2019). billion (as of July 2019).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer. At Blue Nile, a Seattle-based online jewelry retailer, Gower was VP of technology. She was previously senior director of technology and product at T-Mobile and a consultant at Slalom Consulting. Doorstead raised $12.5

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Principal accounting officer Kyle Piskel will serve as interim CFO after Cohen resigns. Cohen will work with Piskel and Adaptive in a consulting capacity during the transition, as Adaptive searches for a permanent CFO. Sirosh is currently CTO of real estate platform company Compass. That’s compared to $98.4 Vancouver, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering.

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GeekWire

JULY 19, 2023

The event went on a pandemic hiatus and is returning for the first time since 2019 under new ownership. CHEQ saw an opportunity to boost the event with its technology to improve efficiency and facilitate shorter lines, Lapham said. Lapham is the former CEO and board advisor of Asia Clean Capital, a solar panel developer in China.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Hunder joined Silverback Therapeutics at the beginning of 2019 and was most recently senior vice president of clinical research and development. She previously led clinical development at Acerta Pharma B.V. Founded in 2016, Syndio creates HR technology that helps companies maintain equal pay and eliminate disparities.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) with founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash. Industry : Sales contract management software. Co-founder and CEO : Manny Medina , former director of business development at Microsoft.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. contract management startup Icertis. Arvin Patel.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. He began running Startup Haven full-time in 2019 and recently launched a Startup Haven accelerator. Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric added Umer Sadiq as CTO and Nevin Shetty as CFO. WTIA Blockchain Council Chair Arry Yu is a venture partner.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Hutcheson has served as Kymeta’s executive chairman since 2019 and will continue in that role along with his new responsibilities. Satellite startup Xplore added former astronaut Paul Richards as co-CTO and chief engineer, based out of the company’s 22,000-square-foot facility in Redmond, Wash. Rendered.AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. While that is true, your development teams may not be ready to implement yet.

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2021

billion as of November 2019. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. 63) — The contract management software startup originally launched in India but recently added several executives based in the Seattle region and relocated its headquarters to Bellevue, Wash. Moz , previously ranked at No. Syndio (No.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Wood is co-founder and currently a partner at consultancy AirNote. He was a longtime member and former chairman of the Washington Technology Industry Association’s board of directors. He was also VP of business development at SinglePoint which was founded as Wireless Services Corporation by Steve Wood. Mason Hollis.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. in 2019 with Nikhil Khanna, his younger brother, and Daniel Christianto. Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs. He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Leda Health co-founders Madison Campbell, CEO (left), and Liesel Vaidya, chief technology officer. Leda previously contracted with a sorority affiliated with the UW, and sells its kits along with a lockbox to groups as a subscription service. Leda was founded in 2019 as the MeToo Kits Company and raised $9.4

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

The company’s recent trading update confirmed it would accelerate growth opportunities, such as its online offerings, and develop serverless computing with AWS so the retailer is able to rapidly scale when needed, like over Christmas or Black Friday.

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TM Forum

JULY 23, 2021

for example, shows that CSPs’ share of the market for communications services fell from 73% to 49% between 2011 and 2019, while that of digital disrupters rose to 49%. Research undertaken by Omdia. ,

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. where scores of employees design, develop and manufacture electric powertrains. Read the other profiles here.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2021

In 2019, the two launched Shuffl , a startup offering a tool that matches and introduces people through platforms such as Slack or Microsoft Teams. Lee, who is the CEO, is based in San Francisco while Watts, the CTO, is in Seattle, where the 2-person company is headquartered. At the time, we deferred bringing in design consultants.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Koinig studied user experience and user interface design at the Vienna University of Technology, earning a doctorate. Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I I wanted my work to be meaningful.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino (left) and CEO Rick Luebbe inside of the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville. Group14 Technologies , the Woodinville, Wash. billion in November 2019. Gates co-led the latest round with South Korea-based SK Inc.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

. “[It is] becoming clear that with more smart people joining this industry, more regulation drafted which accommodates digital assets, and more creative use cases popping up every single day, there is a LOT of frontier to develop here,” he wrote. From left: Jake Stone and Jim Castillo. Cheq Photos). Bellevue, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

He is currently chairman of Locke Global Strategies, a consulting group, and a senior advisor and consultant for law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, specializing in doing business in China and the U.S. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. ambassador to China and secretary of commerce.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The money would fund further development of the orbital launch system, with an eye toward beginning flights to orbit as soon as 2025, Business Insider said. Like Radian, Stratolaunch has been seeking to develop space vehicles for years. Dive into the details : Check out the patent application for Radian’s space plane. ”

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