GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

That’s up by 69% over 2020 levels, meaning 517 new unicorns joined the club last year, CB Insights reported. When we compiled the Seattle area unicorn list in December 2020, there were 10 startups. GeekWire story from March 2020 : OfferUp raises $120M, will acquire rival Letgo; OLX Group to own 40% of combined entity.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Interlune was founded in 2020, but details about the venture were shrouded in secrecy until last October — when one of the venture’s other co-founders, Blue Origin engineer Gary Lai, discussed the company’s vision during an awards banquet at Seattle’s Museum of Flight.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The sample was blasted away from a 1,600-foot-wide asteroid called Bennu back in 2020, four years after the spacecraft’s launch from Florida. ” Bill Cahill, Aerojet’s OSIRIS-REx program manager, said the spacecraft’s thruster system was critical to the mission’s success.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

Megan worked as a program manager at CLEAResult, developing strategies for clients in energy efficiency industries. Combining their backgrounds in footwear and sustainability, the husband-wife team founded Woolybubs in January 2020. Time lapse of Woolybubs shoe dissolving in boiling water (Woolybubs Video).

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

As Build moved on from Nadella’s opening remarks to Scott Hanselman, a partner program manager at Microsoft, the Easter eggs ramped up. Kinda in love with how @shanselman 's room lights match his wallpaper <3 #MSBuild pic.twitter.com/oARZAbXaQy — Jen Gentleman (@JenMsft) May 19, 2020.

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APRIL 9, 2024

All three are former developers on Bungie’s MMO shooter Destiny 2 who first landed at ProbablyMonsters in 2020. Hidden Grove’s debut project is an “original multiplayer competitive adventure game” in Unreal Engine 5.

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GeekWire

JUNE 6, 2024

(NASA via YouTube) Boeing’s Starliner capsule and its two-person NASA crew arrived at the International Space Station today after mission managers coped with some post-launch glitches involving the spacecraft’s propulsion system. billion in cost overruns due to technical setbacks in the Starliner program.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Hushh Technologies is separate from hushh.ai, a Seattle-area startup Sainani launched in April 2023 that uses AI to help customers “organize, manage and extract meaningful value from their own data, including AI monetization options to turn their data into a financial asset,” according to its website. based Treasury4.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

“There’s a lot of different areas we can get into, but I think holistically what we really want to do is build program management software,” Morgan said. “A lot of what coaches and group leaders are tasked to do is build high school programs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

1] Gartner, 4 Major Sourcing Trends for a ‘New Normal’ World: Change, Outcomes, Risk and Agility | Published 23 November 2020 – ID G00733227| By Claudio Da Rold, Fabio Di Capua, Katie Gove, Andy Rowsell-Jones. [2] Find more about it here. [1]

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Common Room launched in 2020 and raised $52 million last year. He spent the past 11 years as a principal program manager lead for Microsoft Azure. . — Common Room, a Seattle startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers, hired Matt Duchesne as vice president of sales.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

” Weapon of PFAS destruction Aquagga launched in 2019, won an EPA-sponsored PFAS destruction contest in 2020, and built its first prototype unit two years later. Seeing it onsite is pretty amazing, said Elise Thomas, environmental program manager at Fairbanks International Airport. “It’s been quite impressive.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

.” When the pandemic derailed in-person events in 2020, Battlesnake went completely online and gave programmers stuck at home the ability to connect with each other and compete for prizes. The community has grown to some 10,000 developers around the world.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

million Series B round in Aizen in 2020. Lee left his post as a data science program manager at Microsoft in 2019 to start Kurvv, drawing upon more than 15 years of experience in product management. SEMA also led a $4.2

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GeekWire

MAY 1, 2021

Meyerson’s experience in the space industry goes even further back than Blue Origin, taking in a six-year stint as senior program manager for Kistler Aerospace’s K-1 reusable launch vehicle (which never got off the ground) and 12 years as an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. ISPCS via YouTube).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Founded in 2006, RealSelf saw its business impacted early in the pandemic but bounced back later in 2020. based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. In an email to GeekWire, Seery confirmed Kizilbash is a candidate for the full-time position. Tiziana Figliolia. Hootsuite Photo).

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The company, backed by the likes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, grew rapidly in its first five years, hitting the 1,000-employee mark in 2020. Vice president of operations Victoria Kiss was a demand program manager at Convoy. Read more : Uber, Convoy vets raise $3.4M

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2021

Panopto last month landed an investment from K1 Investment Management and acquired Ensemble Video. The company’s annual recurring revenue increased more than 40% in 2020, and is now at $50 million. He was previously VP of sales at Wrike, a collaborative work management platform that was recently acquired by Citrix.

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JULY 7, 2015

Census hopes mobile approach works in 2020 - FCW.com (blog) FCW (Today) Census hopes mobile approach works in 2020FCW.com (blog)WHAT: The U.S. How one company is embracing agile Washington Technology (Today) - CivicActions harnesses open agile software development in its bid for the GSA's 18F agile blanket purchase agreement.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Meanwhile, the improvements in the Xbox Accessibility Guidelines (XAGs) make them “a comprehensive set of best practices to support the game industry in driving accessibility efforts forward,” wrote Brannon Zahand, senior gaming accessibility program manager at Microsoft, in a post on Xbox Wire on Tuesday morning.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

million) which was set up in 2018, as part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 initiative. 5G-VINNI is a consortium composed of 23 members, with a project plan worth €20 million ($23.55

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The global energy equipment and solutions provider’s Online Talent Management (OTM) platform, launched in early 2020, gives employees more agency around identifying mentorship opportunities, upskilling, and growing their networks within the organization.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Pagels-Minor, a Black trans program manager, was fired while organizing a walkout related to Netflix’s support of Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer , which has been widely condemned as transphobic. Terra Field, a trans software engineer, was suspended after posting a viral tweet thread about the issue.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

. “Our students are largely not coming from a tech background or a massive university with corporate partners, ready to hand them a free interview,” said Steve Balo, North Seattle College’s technical employment program manager. But the effort lives on as a Microsoft Philanthropies program. and British Columbia.

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Vox

JULY 31, 2024

“We don’t understand the issues enough to fix them permanently, and the only way that we can do that is take the time in this unique environment and get more data, run more tests,” Mark Nappi , vice president and program manager of Boeing’s commercial crew program, said in a June press conference.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Instead of a holistic view, plant operators had to access data silos — outside of the EAM system — from disparate software solutions developed to manage inspection, maintenance, risk, pressure relief, safety instrumented systems, and other critical functions, like hazard and operability (HAZOP).

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2020

” A program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum, Brown calls the job a dream come true. I’m a program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum. Most important technology of 2020: It’s a tie between contact-tracing technology and remote communication technology/infrastructure (Teams, Zoom, etc.).

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Cambia Grove announced its 2020 Innovator Fellows. The program’s second cohort is focusing on data in digital health care transformation. Boeing’s John Mulholland has taken on the role of vice president and program manager for the International Space Station following Mark Mulqueen’s retirement.

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2024

The two have strong tech chops that date back to stints at Microsoft, where Sitner was a senior product manager for five years and Schwartz spent more than 10 years as a program manager. The startup built mobile apps for conferences, pivoted early in the pandemic to focus on virtual events, and was acquired in 2020.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

We want to understand all at once how these species might be changing on the landscape,” said Kim Sager-Fradkin, wildlife program manager for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. Then in 2020 EarthRanger reached out to the project, already two years underway, and offered its platform. ” Why the cougar focus in particular?

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Bruner noted that one of his co-founders, Jess Sponable, was a program manager for the DC-X — and that David Gregory, New Frontier’s third co-founder, helped create Blue Origin’s BE-3 engine as well as Ursa Major’s Hadley engine. “And on the chance that that happens, I trademarked it.”

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A former executive assistant and program manager who has only ever worked for Amazon since moving to Washington state from Virginia, Hayter became a leading critic in the push back against return-to-office mandates. And I think that really got to me.” She said she enjoyed working with smart and capable people.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

As such, organizations must evolve their digital strategies with market changes, such as the shift to remote work in 2020, the evolution to hyperautomation in 2022, and how generative AI will now require CIOs to overhaul their roadmaps.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Need a little inspiration to make it out of 2020 and into 2021? But our 2020 Geeks of the Week are inspired by the people they work with, the kids they care for, the stuff they read, the places they’ve seen and much more. ” Megan Brown, program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Business drivers for the first wave of digital transformation through 2020 targeted growth, data capabilities, cloud migration, and delivering competitive technology capabilities. These leaders often come from IT backgrounds, such as product management, program management, application development, data science, and IT operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And as life happened between 2020 and now, here we are in 2024, kicking it off. Sarah has 18 years of experience in global transformation initiatives, strategic business planning, merger and acquisition, and change management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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