GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2021

The first 10 companies to participate in Amazon Web Services’ accelerator program for space-centric startups are targeting territory ranging from low Earth orbit to the surface of the moon and Mars. (Lunar Outpost via YouTube). Today’s announcement follows up on the unveiling of the AWS Space Accelerator in March.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 14, 2024

. — Jon Jenkins , who previously led Amazon’s cashierless technology efforts, joined mobility giant Lime as its new chief technology officer. Schmitz previously spent more than nine years with Amazon Web Services.

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2024

Momento Images) Seattle startup Momento , which offers infrastructure tools to help companies speed up software development processes, raised a $15 million Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The company, founded in 2021 by former Amazon Web Services engineers, enables faster access to databases and facilitates messaging at scale.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New companies are sprouting up every week, and it can be hard to keep up. Many established startups are ranked among the GeekWire 200 , our list of top privately held tech companies in Seattle and across the Pacific Northwest. Send us an email at tips@geekwire.com to flag other companies or startup news we should know about.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and made it clear that Amazon’s own ambitions increasingly extend well beyond its core cloud capabilities.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) — Baskar Sridharan , a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team. He will remain on the board of the digital remittance company he helped start in 2011.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

(HackerOne Photo) Kara Sprague , chief product officer at F5, was named CEO at San Francisco-based cybersecurity company HackerOne. The company, founded in 2012, raised a $49 million Series E round in 2022. . She is a board director at Trimble, a publicly traded tech company. “As Bellevue, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2024

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sits down for a wide-ranging conversation on the GeekWire Podcast at Amazon in Seattle, focusing on issues including AI and social responsibility. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Early versions of generative AI were “like a dancing bear,” says Werner Vogels , the Amazon chief technology officer.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

. — Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. Kirk Dickinson as chief financial officer.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The company offers a “vision language model” that can answer questions about images. ” Allen previously spent seven years at Amazon Web Services, where he helped build AWS IQ, a marketplace for on-demand AWS talent, as well as internal sales products. .” million in a pre-seed round.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

But for Koch Industries, a $115 billion global conglomerate that has acquired five companies in two years, including Infor for $13 billion in 2020, connecting those acquisitions’ networks to its own sprawling network has been a challenge of another magnitude. Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions, Koch Industries Koch Industries.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Selipsky oversaw the company’s acquisition by Salesforce for $15.7

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute. The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2024

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Millworks Analytics Photo) Former Tableau CFO Damon Fletcher is coming out of retirement to launch a startup that helps tech companies get a hold of their cloud costs amid a surge in spending driven by artificial intelligence. Fletcher recruited former Tableau colleague Michael Arvold to be the company’s co-founder and CTO.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Amazon Web Services vice president Raju Gulabani departed last month, as reported by The Information. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. His appointment expands the Seattle-based company’s board from ten to 11 members. portfolio company.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The Redmond, Wash.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 15, 2022

DTN is more than just a weather forecaster: It also offers decision-support services to companies in agriculture, energy, commodities, and the finance industry. Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) Harshit Shah , a former head of engineering at Amazon Web Services, is now chief technology officer at Boston, Mass-based healthcare software company Kyruus Health. Shah, based in the Seattle region, most recently held the same position at Spring Health, a mental health company.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

(LinkedIn Photos) A pair of Amazon alum is raising cash for a new startup that helps enterprises build and deploy secure artificial intelligence applications, preventing company data from slipping through the cracks. Its tools give companies a way to safely build large language models, including conversational, copilot, and autonomous agents.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2024

Most popular stories on GeekWire Tech Moves: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down — Baskar Sridharan, a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

The CODA Farm Technologies’ founding team, pictured at Wallace Farms, from left to right: Connor Wallace, chief technology officer; Gabe Martin, lead hardware engineer; David Wallace, CEO; and Daniel Oschrin, lead software developer. CODA Farm Technologies Photo). million in venture capital.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines.

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GeekWire

JULY 26, 2023

From left: Protect AI CEO Ian Swanson, CTO Badar Ahmed, and president Daryan Dehghanpisheh. Protect AI sells software that allows companies to monitor the various layers and components of machine learning systems, detecting potential violations and logging information on those attacks. .” McKinsey and Co. McKinsey and Co.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

She will serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee and as the company’s national security director, a role required through the wireless carrier’s merger with Sprint. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. The company raised $95 million in 2021. The company’s CEO Girish Mathrubootham is based in the Seattle region. Emily Freeman.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on a live stream from Redmond, announcing plans to expand their partnership with a new service called Oracle Database@Azure. where Microsoft is based, which speaks in part to fierce nature of the longtime rivalry between the companies.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Stephiney Foley, founder and CEO of Yuzi, with her husband Harper Foley, who is also a Yuzi co-founder and chief technology officer, and their children. Army for more than seven years, serving as a platoon leader in Afghanistan and Hawaii and a supply chain and operations officer in California.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

JULY 22, 2021

Summary: Web services help different applications communicate with each other–regardless of platform or technology. Learn how web services can help your business increase efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, and much more! Is your business capitalizing on the power of web APIs?

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The newly established Cancer AI Alliance brings together the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Fred Hutch, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins, along with Amazon Web Services, Deloitte, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

million in seed funding, the company announced Thursday. The fresh cash will be used to further develop OpenTug’s maritime marketplace and software platform and grow its network of shippers and service providers. The company said its platform helped guide 3 million tons of cargo on waterways in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Such AI partnerships are important for SAP, said Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller, pointing to other cooperations, for example with IBM, the chip manufacturer Nvidia and various universities. The company, also known as Project Kuiper, is planning to launch around 3,500 satellites into low-Earth orbit.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

From left: Expedia CTO Rathi Murthy; Remitly CEO Matt Oppenheimer; D3 Advisors founder Dave Cotter; and Pioneer Square Labs New Ventures Lead Anthony Diamond. “I think about it as the next internet,” said Expedia Group CTO Rathi Murthy. BECU CEO Beverly Anderson moderated the discussion.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Oleria Photo) Oleria , a Seattle startup helping companies manage employee access to applications and data, raised $33.1 The company is now providing more details about the cash and growth plans, including the tripling of its 20-person team over the next year. Salesforce Ventures, the company’s VC arm, is an investor in Oleria.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Informatica provides many other capabilities worth note, including cloud integration and data management capabilities that work with providers like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (including Redshift).

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