Apptio raises $45 million at a hefty valuation, plans to accelerate ‘on all fronts’

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Apptio is not playing small ball. Just 14 months after raising a $50 million venture round, Bellevue-based Apptio is back with a little more cash in its pocket. The company, which offers on-demand software and services for managing corporate IT departments, today is announcing that it has raised another $45 million in series E funding. It marks… Read More…

GeekWire Awards: Vote for the ‘Next Tech Titan’

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Today’s featured category in the GeekWire Awards voting is a big one, literally. The Next Tech Titan — brought to you by Wave Business Solutions — will reward the company that’s moving from the tough trenches of startup land to the big leagues. The Pacific Northwest is loaded with those up-and-comer companies, and our judges… Read More…

F5 CEO John McAdam joins the board of Apptio

John McAdam, right, interviewed by Ed Lazwoska, at the Tech Alliance luncheon in Seattle

John McAdam is a man in high demand. The CEO of F5 Networks, the Seattle networking and software powerhouse, joined the board of Tableau Software two months ago. Now, he’s aligning himself with another of the region’s most promising enterprise software companies: Apptio.  McAdam today was announced as the newest board member of Apptio, a fast-growing… Read More…

The inside scoop on how one of Seattle’s hottest startups picked its cool new logo

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What does a logo really say about a company? Oftentimes, startups don’t have the brainpower or time to mess around with a logo, slapping together something in PhotoShop of little significance or meaning. If it looks good enough, just ship it. But that’s not the case at Apptio, which just celebrated its fifth anniversary and… Read More…

Fast-growing Apptio opens new HQ, plans hiring surge of more than 100 in 2013

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Bellevue-based Apptio has a new logo, a new headquarters and a growing slate of new customers. But one thing remains the same: The company’s mission to transform the way CIOs manage and monitor IT spending. Things are going well for the Sunny Gupta-led company, which showed off its new HQ at an open house Thursday… Read More…

Year in review: Vote for the top Seattle tech story of 2012

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It’s been quite the year in Seattle technology. Amazon.com kept growing. Microsoft kept transforming. And several startups raised huge rounds of cash as they looked to become the next Microsoft or Amazon. In case your head was filled with too many Tweets and Facebook posts to keep up, here’s a handy look back at the biggest… Read More…

Newsmakers 2012: Apptio’s Sunny Gupta swings for the fences

Sunny Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of Apptio

The thing we’ve always liked about Sunny Gupta is that he’s not playing “small ball.” Nope, the entrepreneur is taking a big swing for the fences with Apptio, a Bellevue company that’s developing new ways for corporate IT departments to manage costs. And Gupta, who previously co-founded iConclude, took a big step up to the plate… Read More…

Former F5 and Isilon exec Brett Helsel joins Apptio as VP of engineering

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Apptio continues to gobble up top talent as it heads toward an initial public offering. The Bellevue enterprise software maker has hired Brett Helsel as senior vice president of engineering operations, a notable addition to the team given his experience helping build two of the region’s biggest tech infrastructure companies. Helsel most recently ran the… Read More…

Apptio’s valuation pegged at $600 million: Could IPO come next?

Sunny Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of Apptio

New details are emerging about Apptio’s huge $50 million venture round, which closed six months ago from T. Rowe Price, Madrona Venture Group and others. Fortune’s Dan Primack reports today that Apptio’s valuation at the time was a whopping $700 million, and likely has climbed higher in recent months. We reached out to Apptio, and… Read More…

Zulily, Redfin and Apptio named to list of the top 100 private tech companies

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Who are the emerging giants in technology? Business Insider just released its annual ranking of the top 100 private tech companies, and three names known to Seattleites make the list. Daily deal site Zulily, which raised a $43 million VC round at a valuation of about $750 million last year, ranked 36th on the list…. Read More…