Danielle and Kevin Morrill of Mattermark
Danielle and Kevin Morrill of Mattermark

Mattermark, a San Francisco startup led by the husband-and-wife team of Pacific Northwest natives Kevin and Danielle Morrill, is establishing a new engineering office in Seattle.

It becomes the latest San Francisco company to establish a beachhead in Seattle in hopes of mining the region’s engineering talent.

“We explored many U.S. cities and Austin, New York, Columbus, Boulder and also looked at Vancouver B.C. and a couple European cities,” said Morrill in a post on Medium. “Ultimately, we chose Seattle because we have a deep connection (to) the community and look forward to building the company among people we have known (and in our same time zone!).”

Danielle Morrill is a startup vet who previously worked at Pelago and Twilio, and served as editor-in-chief of Seattle 2.0 (a site that GeekWire acquired in 2011). Her husband, CTO Kevin Morrill, is a former Microsoft program manager. They founded Mattermark, which organizes business information about financing deals and employee numbers at private companies, in 2013.

Danielle Morrill said they are looking at locations in Pioneer Square, Capitol Hill, Fremont and South Lake Union, with plans to grow the Seattle location to about 10 folks by the end of the year.

mattermark44Mattermark employs 40 people, and Danielle Morrill said it is tough to hire in the San Francisco Bay Area when you require that people relocate to the city.

“There are a lot of other awesome places where people want to live and we want to be able to work with these folks,” she wrote. “We’re at a size where the executive team is almost complete and the engineering organization now has a bit more structure, a full-time QA engineer and an awesome planning process. We’re ready to take on this new communication challenge.”

Mattermark raised $6.5 million in venture funding late last year, including cash from Boris Wertz of Version One Ventures and Foundry’s Group’s Brad Feld.

Previously on GeekWire: See our list and map of more than 50 engineering outposts in the Seattle area.

 

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