Ignite Talks with Kris Bliesner

518 West Riverside Avenue,Spokane WA 99201

17 May, 2023

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Attend Ignite Talks and learn from the experiences of Kris Bliesner, one of Spokane’s most prolific serial entrepreneurs. Kris has co-founded and led two hyper-growth businesses in the Cloud Infrastructure market; 2nd Watch and Vega Cloud. 2nd Watch raised over $60 million from leading venture firms including Madrona, Columbia Capital and Top Tier Capital prior to a lucrative acquisition by Singapore-based ST Media. Kris is currently co-founder and CEO of Vega Cloud which is focused on Cloud Optimization and is a state of the art platform in the FinOps category. To date, Vega Cloud has raised nearly $9 million from angel and venture investors including, Album Venture Capital, Tapas Capital and Tacoma Venture Fund. Kris has over 25 years of technology experience primarily in Software and IT. Kris and his teams have successfully helped some of the largest brands in the world navigate digital transformation into and on top of AWS, Azure and GCP. The program will be held on May 17th at the Indaba Coffee at 518 W. Riverside from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Appetizers and beverages included. Ignite Talks is sponsored by Lee & Hayes. Ignite funds, mentors and accelerates explosively growing companies in the Spokane, Coeur d’ Alene and Sandpoint region. www.ignitenorthwest.com