Cybersecurity company ExtraHop announced $100 million in new funding from existing investors, as well as the hiring of two C-suite executives. The company also said that it ended the year… Read More
— Seattle-area tech executive Denise Walter was appointed chief revenue officer at cybersecurity firm Darktrace. Walter will join the company from cloud services giant VMware, where she was most recently… Read More
Cybersecurity continues to be top of mind for IT professionals between Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and record-breaking breaches. Investors are pouring billions of venture capital dollars into cybersecurity startups helping… Read More
Private equity firms Bain Capital and Crosspoint Capital will acquire cybersecurity startup ExtraHop for $900 million. It’s one of the largest acquisitions of a Seattle-area tech startup to date, and… Read More
— Ad Lightning co-founder Scott Moore is stepping down from his CEO role for personal reasons but will remain on the board of directors and support the company’s business strategy.… Read More
Ah, the week before the holidays. A great moment to take a breather after a difficult year, cut out early, do some online shopping, spend time with the family. Not… Read More
ExtraHop laid off an undisclosed number of employees on Wednesday, GeekWire has learned, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff amid the ongoing economic crisis. “On Wednesday, April 22,… Read More
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There’s a growing cohort of education tech companies across the Pacific Northwest. A flurry of up-and-coming startups are sprouting up in British Columbia. And while Seattle is an enterprise software… Read More
Cyber attacks against companies are becoming increasingly common and more expensive. Those troubling stats help explain the rapid growth of companies such as Seattle’s ExtraHop that focus on protecting enterprises… Read More
— Network security startup ExtraHop added two new executives ahead of a potential IPO in 2020. Sri Sundaralingam joined as vice president of product and solutions marketing. He previously held… Read More
— Sandy Anuras is leaving Blokable, a Seattle startup with a mission to develop low-cost housing at scale, to join Expedia as vice president of global marketing technology. This is… Read More
As cloud computing matures, more and more companies are looking to diversify their IT spending across different vendors, and that’s excellent news for companies worried about getting flattened by big… Read More
The world’s biggest technology companies are pouring billions of dollars into developing sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities, but its usefulness in all but the most complex scenarios may be a bit… Read More
Marijuana review and discovery platform Leafly has a new CEO in Tim Leslie, who was previously VP of Amazon Prime Video International. Leslie’s appointment follows the departure of former Leafly… Read More
After plunging into the network security market nearly two years ago, Extrahop’s bookings have topped the $100 million mark, and now CEO Arif Kareem thinks the company is primed for… Read More
Pioneer Square Labs hires CFO ExtraHop CFO Palvi Mehta has joined Pioneer Square Labs as CFO. Mehta spent more than seven years at ExtraHop, a Seattle IT analytics startup that launched in 2007,… Read More
Tech startups tend to break through in their early days with a game-changing product or an irresistible service, but companies that last are the ones that invest in their people,… Read More
Seattle-based real estate company Redfin made waves a few weeks ago when it filed for an initial public offering, possibly making it the first company in the Pacific Northwest to… Read More
Networking giant Cisco plans to draw on technology developed by Seattle’s ExtraHop in a new partnership aimed at improving network security with real-time data. ExtraHop’s flagship product, a network monitoring… Read More
Trucking may not be top of mind when it comes to technology innovation, but Kirkland-based Kenworth Truck Company is bucking that trend with an eye towards developing fuel-saving technology solutions for… Read More
Smartsheet has some serious momentum. Fresh off a $52 million funding round, the Bellevue-based collaborative work management technology company brought in Gene Farrell to be its senior vice president of… Read More
“Wellness” can be a bit of a fuzzy concept, but it’s an important one to think about when it comes to staying healthy. Seattle-based Limeade aims to take some of the… Read More
Something about working for a company called ExtraHop just begs the question: Do you like beer? The Seattle-based IT analytics company may not have anything to do with brewing, but… Read More
Seattle has become known as one of the top tech hubs in the country, but it was a company from the more traditional field of insurance that took down a… Read More
Last October, when a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks knocked out major websites like Amazon and Twitter, one financial firm was prepared. The company was an early tester… Read More
Ajai Sehgal, an early and longtime Expedia employee, is embarking on a slightly different trip than the ones he is familiar with. The longtime tech executive is leaving his role as… Read More
ExtraHop Networks, a Seattle-based company that monitors complex computer networks in real-time, has appointed former Fluke Networks President Arif Kareem as its CEO and president, seeking to enable a new wave of… Read More
— PitchBook, the Seattle startup that collects data on venture capital and private equity financings, has hired Rod Diefendorf as the company’s chief operating officer, it was announced this morning. Diefendorf will… Read More
—ExtraHop, the Seattle-based IT operations analytics company, has appointed Mark Anderson to its board of directors. Anderson is the executive VP of worldwide field operations for Palo Alto Networks, an online security company. His focus… Read More