GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. billion valuation in October 2021. Its software is used by tech companies such as Compass, Intuit, Indeed, Ford and others that need help interviewing engineers.

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GeekWire

MAY 2, 2024

From left: Mason CEO Webb Stevens; Mason President Nancy Xiao; Mason founder Jim Gao; and Mason CTO John Timsen. Mason Photo) Mason , a Seattle startup that offers a turney hardware-software platform for companies managing device fleets, hired Webb Stevens as its new CEO and John Thimsen as its new CTO.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

Adaptive previously hired Goldman Sachs to explore “strategic alternatives” for the businesses. Seattle-based cannabis software company Leafly announced that Michael Blue resigned as chair of its board. . Seattle-based cannabis software company Leafly announced that Michael Blue resigned as chair of its board.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO. Athira Photos).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

The tech: SeekOut’s software is used by more than 1,000 companies such as UiPath and Experian to help with recruiting. The software also features built-in diversity filters at a time when companies are looking to accelerate DEI efforts. billion, more than double its valuation in March 2021.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

… Read More Amazon hires Covariant founders, inks licensing deal with AI startup in latest ‘reverse acquihire’ Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems. … Read More . … Read More . … Read More

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company, Yardstick , is making its debut today with a browser-based app that leads companies and hiring managers through the process of structured job interviews. The goal is to make better hiring decisions using consistent questions and processes, while incorporating culture and competencies in a way that can persist as a company grows.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

. “Their advice could be optimistically summarized as ‘hire good people and give them room to do their jobs.’ Rather than hiring new managers and getting out of the way, it might actually be better for founders to micromanage and be directly involved with all company operations, Graham writes. garage in 1994.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

(SeekOut Photo) Seattle-area recruiting software startup SeekOut laid off 16 employees, or about 7% of its workforce. SeekOut is still hiring and plans to reach 225 employees by year-end. Founded in 2017, SeekOut’s software is used by more than 1,000 companies including Salesforce and McKinsey & Co.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Some of the winners at the 2021 GeekWire Awards during their virtual acceptance speeches on Thursday. But Thursday proved to be an inspiring day, as the 2021 GeekWire Awards returned to honor some of the leading innovators and entrepreneurs who make up the Pacific Northwest tech community. GeekWire video screen grabs). Winner: SeekOut.

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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 (as of July 2021).

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2023

(Magnify Photo) — Enterprise software startup Magnify hired Mike Saffitz as its new vice president of engineering. Saffitz replaced former Magnify CTO and co-founder Jacob Sajo , who left for personal reasons and currently works as the vice president of engineering at Flexport. He also served as head of engineering at Stripe.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“I’m excited to take some time to rest (and write!) ” Freeman joined AWS as head of DevOps Product Marketing in 2021. The company raised $95 million in 2021. LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer. Mika Yamamoto.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO. The value of its contracts with hospitals and health systems grew by 450% in 2021. (Atlas Photo). million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative. Oshkosh Corp.,

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Awareness of FinOps practices and the maturity of software that can automate cloud optimization activities have helped enterprises get a better understanding of key cost drivers,” McCarthy says, referring to the practice of blending finance and cloud operations to optimize cloud spend. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

team, from left to right: Ian White, principal software engineer, co-founder Henry Shapiro, and co-founder and CEO Patrick Lightbody. million in a seed funding round to help grow its calendar tool that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help users better manage their time. The original Reclaim.ai based Reclaim.ai

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Founded in 2015 and backed by the likes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Convoy’s software automates transactions between trucking companies and shippers. Goodale transitioned from the CTO role to chief experience officer in 2021. Convoy hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO in 2020.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. December 2021. February 2022. Goel has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2023

Founded in 2011, Bridge has helped more than 1,000 companies hire international talent and implement immigration strategies through its software platform and legal expertise. million to acquire Las Vegas-based rival RapidVisa in 2020, which nearly doubled its headcount at the time. The startup previously raised $7.5 It ranks No.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based The publicly-traded company provides cloud-based software for subscription businesses. She was most recently a VP at VMware.

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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. Founded in 2021, the startup raised $8 million last year to fuel growth through partnerships and events. The company is now the owner and operator of the festival.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

(Amperity Photo) Seattle-based customer intelligence startup Amperity conducted another round of layoffs, its second time trimming headcount in the past six months. The company said at the time it had 375 employees and planned to hire. Derek Slager , who co-founded Amperity with Shahani, remains at the company as CTO.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 Morrow’s appointment comes after turnover in the top legal role at Convoy throughout 2021, as reported by Bloomberg Law. based Bumped hired Babak Farrokh-Siar as chief revenue officer.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. The manufacturer of radio-frequency identification devices and software reported revenue of $76.6

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

But Insider says Greco disagreed with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson — who replaced co-founder Rony Abovitz last year — over a choice to move the software division out of the CTO’s purview. Most of Vlietstra and Lundmark’s responsibilities are reportedly shifting to other executives at Magic Leap.

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2022

One of Android’s co-founders is now working as CTO of Android Tablets. Miner’s LinkedIn page appears to confirm it, listing his current title as “CTO Android Tablets,” and says he’s been in that role since March, 2021. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Lockstep , a Seattle accounting software startup, has emerged from stealth mode. Goldsmith was most recently CTO at identity verification provider Onfido. Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He is joined by other hospitality and property tech vets: CTO Greg Mushen held the position of Director of Product Management at Expedia, and also served as VP of Product Management at Seattle-based sales startup Outreach. He is also the Founder and CEO of ClearClose, a startup that automates real estate contract compliance.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The startup launched in 2021, when co-founder and CEO Sharon Pope was feeling a bit overwhelmed in the midst of the pandemic. After the three co-founders, the startup counts a software designer as its lone employee, along with about 20 contracted Shelpers. Or, both, in a three-way chat.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2023

In 1989, the family relocated to Seattle after Kumar’s father was hired as an engineer at Boeing. ” Microsoft, then startups The Humanly team at Y Combinator, from left, CTO Bryan Leptich, CEO Prem Kumar and COO Andrew Gardner. million in September 2021. where Kumar was born. “I didn’t quite fit in.”

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Lucas and his co-founder, Chief Technology Officer Paul Burton, had been running their first startup, Triple Tree Software, for four years, specializing in building custom SaaS products for national clients. The broader release will be in 2021. The Special Project team was formerly the staff of Triple Tree Software.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2021

Unlike the 2020 class, which had to pivot to a remote format in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 participants and Techstars organizers are applying lessons learned from the past year of remote work. Pradyut Paul (left), CEO, and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO) of Bild. Founders: Nick Chua (CEO) and Kevin Arifin (CTO).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

We are in the spectrum of making many decisions across a huge dataset that are not life-threatening if we get them wrong,” says Matthias Baumhof, CTO at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The first step is to formalize a decision-making process in the organization, and only then can you think about adding software to support that process,” he says.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

The announcement today also revealed, for the first time, that Microsoft made a follow-on investment in OpenAI in 2021. That investment wasn’t announced at the time, and does not appear to have been previously reported. Microsoft said last week it will soon make ChatGPT available as part of its Azure OpenAI Service.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Moonstone had a post-money valuation of approximately $115 million at the time of the Alameda investment, according to Chalopin, who said this is a common valuation for a bank with this “kind of business model.” “It’s a startup because we’re raising capital, we’re hiring a team, and we have big growth plans,” he said.

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