— Seattle enterprise capital agency Flying Fish Companions employed Heather Gorham as principal.
Gorham beforehand spent 4 years at JP Morgan, the place she supported the launch of its early-stage tech banking crew in Seattle and was a part of a broader crew centered on AI, machine studying, house tech and robotic firms.
Flying Fish focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in synthetic intelligence and machine studying.
“The present pleasure and curiosity round AI is nice within the sense that it’s shifting shopper adoption a lot quicker — extra individuals are curious concerning the development in AI and its skill so as to add worth to their lives,” Gorham instructed Startup. That shopper curiosity offers additional momentum to a area with a rising expertise base and can yield new functions that will likely be met with broader market acceptance, she mentioned.
And whereas the highlight is presently on generative AI functions in language and artwork, she notes that the tech has been utilized to scientific issues over the past 5 years. “Now we have seen some actually nice issues come out throughout branches of biotech and science utilizing predictive and generative AI algorithms from drug discovery to supplies creation.”
Gorham additionally beforehand labored at sensing expertise firm Onsemi as a market analyst and at Tesla as a product specialist. She was additionally a enterprise and operations lead at AZLoop, Arizona’s SpaceX Hyperloop Competitors Crew.
— Cybersecurity large Tanium appointed Dan Streetman as CEO.
Streetman most just lately served as CEO of Allvue Programs, an funding administration software program improvement firm. He was beforehand CEO of Tibco Software program, a enterprise unit of Cloud Software program Group and was an govt at BMC Software program, Salesforce, C3.ai and Allworth Monetary. He additionally served in Iraq as a U.S. Military strategist and was awarded the Bronze Star, given to members of the army for meritorious service or fight actions.
Orion Hindawi, co-founder and present CEO of the Kirkland, Wash.-based firm, will turn into govt chairman. His father, co-founder David Hindawi, will turn into chairman emeritus.
Tanium moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Seattle on the finish of 2020, when it had 1,500 staff. The corporate raised $150 million in early 2021. “What began as an thought to assist safe firms within the face of rising digital dependence and cyberattacks has blossomed into an endpoint administration trade chief,” mentioned Orion Hindawi in an announcement asserting the transition.
— Vancouver, Wash.-based ZoomInfo, which affords knowledge on companies to gross sales, advertising and recruiting professionals, appointed two new executives.
- Ali Dasdan, beforehand head of engineering for work administration at Atlassian, is now chief technical officer. He beforehand held engineering management roles at Poynt, Tesco PLC, Vida Well being and Flip, and was director of engineering at eBay.
- Dave Justice was appointed chief income officer. Justice is shifting from PagerDuty, the place he has served as chief income officer. Justice additionally held senior gross sales positions at Salesforce and Cisco.
— Simon Yu, co-founder of crypto startup StormX, stepped down as CEO. Vivek Ganesan, beforehand the startup’s govt vp of engineering, changed him. Yu will stay with the corporate as chief technique officer and can stay chairman.
— Healthcare analytics software program firm Advata employed Brian Taylor as chief income officer. Taylor was beforehand senior vp at medical decision-making help firm EvidenceCare and senior vp of gross sales at First Databank, a supplier of drug and medical system data.
— Scott Ross is now vp of engineering at healthcare knowledge automation firm Opala, shifting from Teladoc Well being, the place he was director of product, platform. He was additionally beforehand director of engineering at InTouch Well being, which was acquired by Teladoc in 2020.
— CoreStack, a multi-cloud governance resolution firm, named Raj Raghavan as chief human assets officer. Raghavan was beforehand senior vp and human assets head at passenger airline IndiGo and spent near seven years at Amazon, together with as director and nation human assets chief for India and head of human assets for Asia-Pacific and the Center East.
— Paige Hendrix Buckner is now CEO of All Increase, which helps girls startup founders and funders. Portland-based Bucker was beforehand chief of employees on the Bay Space nonprofit and was additionally chief working officer of Founder Fitness center, a web-based program coaching under-represented founders to construct startups.
— Klue, a Vancouver, B.C.-based startup that makes use of AI to combination and analyze firm knowledge, appointed Clara Smyth as director of aggressive enablement providers. Smyth was beforehand senior advertising supervisor for aggressive intelligence at Slack.
— LXT, an Ontario-based startup that helps coaching units for AI firms, employed Carolyn Harvey as vp of operations. Harvey, who beforehand was vp of worldwide service supply at Appen, relies within the Seattle space.