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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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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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Tech Moves: Madrona adds three new venture partners; DexCare hires exec; and more

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Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. Borg’s hire comes on the heels of DexCare’s $75 million funding round earlier this month. Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO. Kineta said last year that it would enter the public markets through a merger.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

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Don’t Hire A Chief Data Officer Unless You’re Serious About Becoming A Data-Driven Company TechCrunch (Today) - There’s a lot of discussion in the business world right now about chief data officers (CDOs). It’s centered primarily around two questions: When should a business hire a CDO? (sv1ambo / Flickr). This is a 1965.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. tech giant also recently hired Hanno Basse , the former 20th Century Fox Film CTO, as Microsoft Azure CTO for media and entertainment.

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

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Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Ali previously served as EA’s vice president of engineering for player and developer experiences, departing the gaming company in 2019 to focus on Freightweb full-time. Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7

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AI2 spinout BirchAI lands $3.1M for healthcare customer support platform

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The Seattle startup is focusing on medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. BirchAI aims to cover “those expensive calls where you have people spending a lot of time after the call documenting what they just did,” said CEO Kevin Terrell , in an interview with GeekWire. BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu.

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

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A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. He was previously an executive at pharmaceutical and vaccine companies Merck & Co, Inc. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO. and Sanofi Pasteur.