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Seattle investors back Battlesnake, makers of a growing game that turns coding into competition

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Battlesnake originated in the Pacific Northwest as a developer recruiting event in 2015, and by 2019 the flagship Battlesnake Tournament in Victoria drew 1,200 developers and another 1,000 spectators intrigued by the e-sports-like drama of watching competitors compete with their coded snakes. Battlesnake co-founder and CEO Brad Van Vugt.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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Sharma was most recently a senior product manager at Amazon Web Services. Day has held marketing roles at Amazon Web Services and sales engagement startup Highspot. Abrams joined DomainTools in 2019 as principal product manager. . based Synopsys. • Jeff Day as chief commercial officer.

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Chess Club is making all the right moves in Seattle, attracting players to lively venues across the city

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Now a program manager at Microsoft, the younger Raftery started Chess Club with a small group of friends while living on Capitol Hill in 2018. A bracket is visible on the laptop of Adithya Solai as he manages a 16-player tournament at King’s Hardware. They bought some boards and would leave them at Summit Public House.

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