— 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
—Chloe Harford has left her position as VP of product at digital marketplace OfferUp. Harford joined OfferUp in June 2017 from real estate tech company Zillow, where she worked for more… Read More
Sprout Social has acquired Simply Measured, a Seattle startup that helps brands get deeper insights into their social media marketing campaigns. Sprout CEO Justyn Howard announced the acquisition in a… Read More
Amazon has hired health technology executive Missy Krasner, the VP and managing director of healthcare and life sciences at cloud content management company Box, according to a report Thursday by… Read More
Startup incubator TechStars announced late last year that it is partnering with Amazon for the Alexa Accelerator, an incubator specifically for startups that want to build products based on Alexa’s… Read More
Simply Measured, the Seattle-based social media analytics company, has named current COO Michael Wasyluka as the new CEO. Sameer Kazi, who has been serving as interim CEO, will maintain a spot… Read More
Simply Measured co-founder and vice president of strategy Adam Schoenfeld is leaving the Seattle-based social media analytics company after nearly seven years to take on a founder role with another early… Read More
The inaugural season of the IT Sports League has wrapped up with a team from Simply Measured taking the softball championship. League organizer Steve Mayeda said it took some effort to… Read More
Update: The man has descended the tree and officials escorted him to the hospital, according to The Seattle Times. Oh the Internet. That vast, ephemeral, absurd network has the power… 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
Emojis ruled this year, not only as the “word” of the year, but also in branding. Seattle-based Simply Measured found that emojis were “all over” brand posts for 2015, with 35… Read More
Simply Measured, the Seattle-based social media analytics startup, is adding some horsepower to the executive offices. The five-year-old company this week named former ExactTarget executives Sameer Kazi and D.Wayne Poole to… Read More
Simply Measured has acquired its second company in less than two months. The Seattle social media analytics startup today announced the acquisition of DataRank, a Fayetteville, Ark.-based company that helps… Read More
Simply Measured, a quickly growing social media analytics startup, announced on Tuesday it has acquired its first company, a fellow Seattle startup called Inside Social. The two companies are working now to… Read More
Competition is fierce out there for top talent, especially if you are a startup competing with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook. That’s why about 30 Seattle-area startups… Read More
Fall has been kind to INRIX. In the past two months the Kirkland-based traffic data company scored $55 million from Porsche, received an additional investment from Intel Capital, and expanded its partnership with Volkswagen… Read More
Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene spent the past several months helping to fix President Obama’s Healthcare.gov Web site, a hot-button issue which drew fire from both sides of the political spectrum.… Read More
Seattle social media analytics startup Simply Measured cut 15 employees, or 10 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring that occurred this week, GeekWire has learned. The cutbacks come… Read More
Nerf gun wars, orange toilet paper, a cafeteria in a former bar, a great indoor putting green, and windows repurposed as whiteboards. Yes, tech company headquarters are some of the geekiest places in… Read More
Kallie Meno woke up extra early on Tuesday morning so she could be with co-workers and help celebrate her company’s $20 million funding milestone. Those plans changed a bit when… Read More
Simply Measured is simply on fire. Less than a year after the company took home GeekWire’s 2013 Startup of the Year award, the Seattle-based social media analytics startup is announcing a… Read More
Most of the world’s top brands have utilized Twitter as a marketing tool, but some are doing better than others in terms of making the most out of their social… Read More
Following Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr earlier this year, CEO Marissa Mayer and her team are trying to make the blogging site more palatable to advertisers and brands. Enter Simply Measured,… Read More
It’s been about two weeks since Instagram unveiled its 15-second video feature and the response has been excellent for the Facebook-owned media-sharing platform. Less than 24 hours after its debut, more… Read More
Doug Aley is jumping back into the online travel business, taking a new job as vice president of product development at hotel search engine Room 77. “Room 77 has established… Read More
We’re nearing the end of the voting for the GeekWire Awards, and today we’ve got a big category on hand: Startup of the Year. To qualify for Startup of the… Read More
Here’s a fun new category in this year’s GeekWire Awards: Geekiest Office Space, where geeky = cool. Cryptograms on the walls, swanky furniture in the lobby, or a hidden room… Read More
We’ve collected hundreds of nominations and listened to the feedback of dozens of expert judges. Now, it’s your time to vote for the best and brightest in the Pacific Northwest… Read More
There are lots of different spins people put on the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament — a.k.a. March Madness — from different sports to subjects. PayScale did their own bracket… Read More
Adam Schoenfeld, Aviel Ginzburg and Damon Cortesi have sure come a long way since they started their company under the moniker Untitled Startup more than three years ago. For one… Read More