Amperity has laid off about 20 employees, or 5% of its workforce, in a new round of cuts for the Seattle-based customer intelligence startup. Layoff tracker: GeekWire’s regularly updated list of… Read More
A new Seattle-based startup called Avante confirmed that it raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by Fuse Venture Partners, saying it’s building a company with ambitions to… Read More
Seattle-based customer intelligence startup Amperity conducted another round of layoffs, its second time trimming headcount in the past six months. A company spokesperson said 10% of its workforce was let… Read More
Amperity is bolstering its C-suite. The Seattle startup recently hired Seema Kumar as chief people officer and Megan McDonagh as chief marketing officer. Kumar was previously vice president of human… Read More
Kabir Shahani, who left his position as CEO of Seattle-based marketing tech startup Amperity without public explanation last week, is also no longer on the company’s board, according to people… Read More
Amperity CEO Kabir Shahani has relinquished the CEO title at the fast-growing Seattle startup, a move that comes seven months after the enterprise software company achieved so-called unicorn status with… Read More
Editor’s note: This post has been updated to add startups that were not initially included in the list. Icertis’ valuation was also updated. Another day, another unicorn spotting. These once… Read More
Updated on Monday Aug. 9 with additional details. Not that long ago, Rover was on a very short leash. In March 2020, as the realities of the pandemic became clear,… Read More
Amperity is the latest company to join the Seattle region’s elusive club of unicorns, or privately held tech startups valued at more than $1 billion. The marketing startup just reeled… Read More
The plywood is coming down, restaurants that survived are adding hours and vehicle traffic in Seattle is growing from the ghost-town levels of one year ago. But as downtown, Belltown,… Read More
Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics. Her announcement follows… Read More
Amperity is adding some more star power to its board of directors. The Seattle-based customer data platform announced Thursday that Grammy-winning singer Ciara will head up corporate social responsibility efforts,… Read More
— Margaret Arakawa has left her role as chief marketing officer at sales automation startup Outreach. Arakawa spent nearly 20 years at Microsoft before joining Outreach in July 2019. In… Read More
— Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for… Read More
Starbucks President and CEO Kevin Johnson, a longtime tech industry leader who previously led Juniper Networks and spent 16 years at Microsoft, is joining the board of Seattle startup Amperity.… Read More
— Seattle-based Vera Whole Health appointed Karen Cooke as chief operating officer. Cooke was most recently vice president of strategic execution and transformation at Sound Physicians. She previously held health-focused… Read More
— Smartsheet CFO Jenny Ceran will retire after transitioning to a successor. The collaboration work management company, which went public in 2018, will begin its search for a new CFO… Read More
Seattle-area companies grabbed 13 spots on a list from Forbes on Tuesday that calls out “America’s Best Startup Employers.” The inaugural ranking from the magazine, in partnership with market research… Read More
After 25 years in the tech trenches, Amy Pelly knows a thing or two about startups. Pelly’s career includes early stage startups that ended in acquisitions, another that grew from… Read More
Amperity is making its first acquisition to strengthen the company’s customer data platform as competition from Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe, and other giants looms large. The Seattle startup today announced the… Read More
— Former PayScale CFO Mark Klebanoff signed on with Amperity as chief operating officer. Klebanoff, who joined PayScale in 2013, previously worked with Amperity co-founders Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager at… Read More
— Identity management startup Auth0 hired Barry Plaga as chief financial officer and Shiven Ramji as chief product officer. Plaga was previously the CFO and COO of Guidance Software. Ramji… Read More
LinkedIn’s 2019 list of the 50 Top Startups in the U.S. once again includes three companies from Seattle, with two unicorns and one fast-growing customer data platform making the cut.… Read More
With tech giants such as Adobe, Salesforce, and Oracle entering the ring, Seattle startup Amperity is raising more investment dollars as it tries to grab market share in the nascent… Read More
— Seattle-based customer data platform Amperity hired Lynn Girotto to be the company’s first chief marketing officer. Girotto was most recently senior vice president of marketing at Tableau Software and… Read More
A quick gander at the GeekWire 200, our index of Pacific Northwest startups, shows the density of up-and-coming tech companies based in this region. That’s what makes the five nominees… Read More
Seattle-based startup advocate Rebecca Lovell was named chair of the board at the Center for American Entrepreneurship, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that advocates for public policies that are friendly to new businesses.… Read More
Amperity, the Seattle-based customer data platform, has hired a sports star for its sales team. NFL tight end Cooper Helfet has joined the company to lead its efforts in sports and… Read More
Former Google director Darcy Nothnagle has started a new role at Facebook, GeekWire has learned. Facebook confirmed Nothnagle’s new role and GeekWire has reached out to the company and to… Read More
SEEVA, a Seattle startup creating new technologies for autonomous vehicles, tapped Intellectual Ventures veteran Geoff Deane to serve as its first chief technology officer. Deane is most well known as the… Read More