For Sunny Gupta, the inspiration behind Apptio started with a simple question: What are you struggling with? After selling two companies, Gupta wasn’t really looking to launch another startup. But… Read More
Seattle data analytics startup MotherDuck is expanding its nest with two new leadership hires. Frances Perry has taken the role of engineering manager. She was previously at Google for 16… Read More
IBM said Thursday that it officially completed its all-cash $4.6 billion acquisition of Apptio, the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud and IT management company. Previously: From idea to IPO to IBM: How… Read More
Feb. 9, 2017, will go down as one of the toughest days in Apptio’s history. It had been less than five months since the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise technology company pulled… Read More
IBM announced a deal Monday to buy Apptio for $4.6 billion from Vista Equity Partners, less than five years after the private equity firm acquired the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud and… Read More
Apptio, a Bellevue, Wash.-based IT spend management company, acquired Cloudwiry, an Austin, Texas-based startup founded in 2016 that helps companies manage their cloud costs. Apptio, which has acquired five companies… Read More
— Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product… Read More
— Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO. Weber was most recently chief information officer and interim chief technology officer at communications company Liberty Latin… Read More
— Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has been appointed the Edward V. Fritzky endowed chair in leadership at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business for… Read More
— Smart home startup Wyze Labs named Francis Lee as its first chief financial officer. A longtime Nike exec, Lee was most recently head of Global Marketing Finance for the… Read More
Cloud-based IT management company Apptio has acquired enterprise agile planning startup Targetprocess in a bid to bring together financial governance with agile portfolio management. Bellevue, Wash.-based Apptio believes that with… Read More
—Digital freight startup Convoy announced Sunita Solao, previously an HR leader at Airbnb, as vice president of people and a new member of the company’s executive team. “Finding the right… Read More
— Smartsheet CFO Jennifer Ceran joined the board of Bellevue, Wash.-based identity management provider Auth0. Last month, Smartsheet announced Ceran will retire after transitioning to a successor. She was previously an… Read More
Britt Provost was interested in studying anthropology when she went to university, but wound up pursuing an undergraduate degree in art history from the University of Washington and an MBA… Read More
— Former Boeing exec Linda Mills is Blue Origin’s first vice president of communications. Mills held the same title at Boeing for two years before departing late last year, one… Read More
— Health technology company Accolade landed Dr. Shantanu Nundy as chief medical officer. Nundy formerly worked on digital health initiatives for the World Bank and was director of the nonprofit… Read More
A gig in a call center might not strike one as a likely launch pad for a successful tech career, but Jarod Greene saw potential. After graduating college with a… Read More
Thor Culverhouse is no longer the CEO of enterprise cloud services company Skytap, and former chief technology officer Bradley Schick will lead the company going forward, GeekWire has learned. “I… Read More
— Microsoft hired David Rhew as the chief medical officer and vice president of healthcare for its worldwide commercial business. Rhew was formerly the chief medical officer for Samsung’s enterprise… Read More
— Natural language processing expert Jacob Eisenstein is taking a gig as a research scientist with Google AI in Seattle. Eisenstein is an associate professor at Georgia Tech and has… Read More
Apptio has made its first acquisition since its $1.9 billion private equity deal closed in January, snapping up Portland’s Cloudability, which also helps companies track their spending on cloud services,… Read More
Like a Reese’s Cup, this GeekWire Awards category offers an appetizing combination — not chocolate and peanut butter, but the nominees for Deal of the Year saw sizable exits by… Read More
It’s a good day to be Sunny Gupta. The Apptio co-founder and CEO stood to make $196 million as the deal to take the company private was completed on Thursday. Two… Read More
Whew! Stocks were all over the place in 2018. Things were going well in late summer, but by fall the wheels were coming off. In December, the market saw more… Read More
Apptio will have more freedom to grow its IT spending management business as a private company, according to co-founder and CEO Sunny Gupta, but he doesn’t regret taking the Bellevue… Read More
Apptio’s run as a public company is coming to an end after just over two years. Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners announced a $1.9 billion for the Bellevue-based IT… Read More
Companies that move their IT operations to the cloud often find themselves confused by the pricing options they can encounter, and Apptio is cashing in on their need for help.… Read More
Apptio completed its third acquisition Wednesday, announcing that it has bought FittedCloud, a fellow provider of tools for monitoring cloud spending, for an undisclosed amount. FittedCloud’s three Boston-based employees will… Read More
Seattle biotech startup Nohla Therapeutics has an ambitious goal: Make umbilical stem cell transplants, currently a rare procedure, the new frontline treatment for leukemia. The company will have a new… Read More
Bellevue’s Apptio capped off 2017 by exceeding financial analyst expectations for revenue and earnings per share, as more companies adopt its financial-management software to keep track of spending. During the… Read More