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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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AUGUST 28, 2024

(Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. Parakhin spent the past five years at Microsoft leading artificial intelligence efforts and teams working on Bing, Edge browsers, advertising, web services, and more. Matt Hulett. Washington D.C.-based

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. The company has raised more than $83 million. ” — Chris Vonderhaar , a former Amazon Web Services executive who joined Google Cloud last year , has left the Silicon Valley company. . Nimrod Vered. Kurt Petersen. Anna Olson.

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MAY 3, 2023

Oleria’s new CTO Siva Garudayagari. Oleria Photo) — Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. He previously worked as the planning and controls lead at publicly traded autonomous trucking company Embark Trucks.

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. million investment round.

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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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JUNE 6, 2024

The Responsible AI Institute has launched an AI policy template designed to help enterprises develop their own company-wide responsible AI policies. It could also be the CTO, or even the chief AI officer (CAIO), again it depends on the fit.” There are plenty that organizations can cut and paste from.

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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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Selvan Senthivel, chief technology officer for Symbl. Selvan Senthivel is the new chief technology officer for the 6-year-old Seattle startup. Senthivel was most recently CTO for GE HealthCare and was previously part of AI engineering leadership at Amazon Web Services, among other roles.

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MAY 2, 2022

Carrier CIO Gundeep Singh will describe how the company overhauled its data strategy, and Vanguard ’s chief data analytics officer, Ryan Swann, will discuss how the growing sophistication of advanced analytics connects to greater investor outcomes. It’s just one way the company uses data from its online dictionary.

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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 9, 2024

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle Photo) Oracle announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services on Monday afternoon that will further integrate its database offerings and cloud infrastructure with the Seattle tech giant’s cloud platform. Cloud services revenues rose 21% to $5.6

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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

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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MAY 16, 2024

Bridge integrates management, observability, and automation tools while using AI and machine learning to analyze the aggregated data and provide IT operations teams with the intelligence they need to keep systems running at peak performance, according to Kyndryl CTO Antoine Shagoury.

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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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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

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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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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JANUARY 15, 2025

Outreach Chief Marketing Officer Holly Simmons (left), and Chief Revenue Officer Nadia Rashid. Outreach Photos) Seattle sales automation company Outreach added two leaders to its C-suite: Chief Revenue Officer Nadia Rashid and Chief Marketing Officer Holly Simmons.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2023

“We’re seeing how fast this technology is maturing, so it’ll have a very different hype cycle.” AI is not the future of financial services — it’s the present. Genpact, a major business and technology services company that assists banks such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, is already utilizing AI.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. It’s actually being delivered by a web service that’s run by IT. We put IT offered services right into the product.”

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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

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

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

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

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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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Structure Conference is bringing together the world’s leading cloud technology companies, hot startups, and business leaders for two days of high-level thought leadership. This year’s conference will also build on Bryan Cantrill’s presentation (Joylent CTO) on the history, state, and use of containers. Arlette Hart, CISO, FBI.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Brad Peterson, the company’s CIO and CTO, has been implementing AI for more than a decade and is all in on the promised innovation afforded by generative AI. “We The company, which reported net revenues of $3.6 No doubt, Nasdaq is bullish on generative AI.

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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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JANUARY 10, 2024

Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says.

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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

JUNE 23, 2021

. “As the first hyperscale cloud service provider to join this member organization, we will share our unique global threat insights to protect critical infrastructure and strengthen cybersecurity expertise in the space community,” Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure Global, said today in a blog posting.

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