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Apptio co-founders reunite to launch enterprise AI startup Thira with $21M in funding led by Madrona

Apptio co-founders Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer launched Thira, a Bellevue-based enterprise AI startup, with $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona. Thira is building AI agents to autonomously handle IT support tickets and other back-office work at large companies. Read More

StitcherAI emerges from stealth with $3M and a different take on the AI spending problem

StitcherAI, founded by a pair of Seattle enterprise tech veterans, launched Tuesday with $3 million in pre-seed funding and a platform that pushes cost data into the tools where spending decisions are made, rather than relying on traditional dashboards. Read More

Raj Singh named Smartsheet CEO, returning to his enterprise tech roots in the Seattle area

The co-founder of Concur and former Accolade CEO takes over Smartsheet amid industry shifts, private-equity ownership, and new opportunities to reshape enterprise software with AI. Read More

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader retiring; Apptio co-founder Sunny Gupta will take over enterprise giant

After leading Smartsheet for nearly two decades, Mark Mader is leaving the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software giant. The company announced… Read More

Sunny Gupta on Apptio’s lightbulb moment, and the key questions behind the tech company’s success

For Sunny Gupta, the inspiration behind Apptio started with a simple question: What are you struggling with? After selling two… Read More

Tech Moves: Google leaders join Seattle startup MotherDuck; Humanly adds a VP; and more

Seattle data analytics startup MotherDuck is expanding its nest with two new leadership hires. Frances Perry has taken the role… Read More

IBM completes $4.6B acquisition of Apptio

IBM said Thursday that it officially completed its all-cash $4.6 billion acquisition of Apptio, the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud and IT… Read More

From idea to IPO to IBM: How Apptio defied the skeptics on its 16-year journey to a $4.6B deal

Feb. 9, 2017, will go down as one of the toughest days in Apptio’s history. It had been less than… Read More

IBM’s $4.6B Apptio deal marks another new era for Seattle-area cloud and IT management company

IBM announced a deal Monday to buy Apptio for $4.6 billion from Vista Equity Partners, less than five years after… Read More

Apptio acquires cloud spend optimization startup Cloudwiry

Apptio, a Bellevue, Wash.-based IT spend management company, acquired Cloudwiry, an Austin, Texas-based startup founded in 2016 that helps companies… Read More

Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

— Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade… Read More

Tech Moves: Twitch names CTO; Highspot adds board member; Apptio promotes sales leader

— Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO. Weber was most recently chief information officer… Read More

Tech Moves: Riveter CEO relocates; ex-REI CEO joins UW business school; Edifecs adds execs; more

— Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has been appointed the Edward V. Fritzky endowed chair in leadership… Read More

Tech Moves: Wyze names first CFO; OutSystems exec relocates to Seattle; Flying Fish adds partner

— Smart home startup Wyze Labs named Francis Lee as its first chief financial officer. A longtime Nike exec, Lee… Read More

Apptio makes another acquisition, buying enterprise agile planning startup Targetprocess

Cloud-based IT management company Apptio has acquired enterprise agile planning startup Targetprocess in a bid to bring together financial governance… Read More

Tech Moves: Airbnb HR leader joins Convoy; OutSystems hires Microsoft vets; Highspot’s new chief scientist; and more

—Digital freight startup Convoy announced Sunita Solao, previously an HR leader at Airbnb, as vice president of people and a… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

— Smartsheet CFO Jennifer Ceran joined the board of Bellevue, Wash.-based identity management provider Auth0. Last month, Smartsheet announced Ceran will… Read More

Accolade’s Britt Provost on HR as anthropology and the role of culture in a company’s success

Britt Provost was interested in studying anthropology when she went to university, but wound up pursuing an undergraduate degree in… Read More

Tech Moves: Boeing exec lands at Blue Origin; UW names innovation lead; InkHouse opens Seattle hub

— Former Boeing exec Linda Mills is Blue Origin’s first vice president of communications. Mills held the same title at… Read More

Tech Moves: Accolade names chief medical officer; Apptio hires marketing lead; Rigado has a new CEO

— Health technology company Accolade landed Dr. Shantanu Nundy as chief medical officer. Nundy formerly worked on digital health initiatives… Read More

How Jarod Greene went from teaching math to running product marketing at Apptio

A gig in a call center might not strike one as a likely launch pad for a successful tech career,… Read More

Tech Moves: Skytap CEO Thor Culverhouse hands reins to CTO; Apptio CMO Chris Pick retires

Thor Culverhouse is no longer the CEO of enterprise cloud services company Skytap, and former chief technology officer Bradley Schick… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft taps former Samsung exec as chief medical officer; Apptio names India leader amid blistering expansion

— Microsoft hired David Rhew as the chief medical officer and vice president of healthcare for its worldwide commercial business.… Read More

Tech Moves: Google snags Georgia Tech AI professor; Apptio hires exec from AWS; The Riveter names Portland leader; and more

— Natural language processing expert Jacob Eisenstein is taking a gig as a research scientist with Google AI in Seattle.… Read More

Apptio buys Portland’s Cloudability, adding more cloud financial analysis tools to its belt

Apptio has made its first acquisition since its $1.9 billion private equity deal closed in January, snapping up Portland’s Cloudability,… Read More

GeekWire Awards 2019: Top acquisitions and IPOs highlight Deal of the Year category

Like a Reese’s Cup, this GeekWire Awards category offers an appetizing combination — not chocolate and peanut butter, but the… Read More

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta gets $196 million payday as private equity buyout closes

It’s a good day to be Sunny Gupta. The Apptio co-founder and CEO stood to make $196 million as the… Read More

Here are the winners and (mostly) losers of Seattle tech stocks in 2018

Whew! Stocks were all over the place in 2018. Things were going well in late summer, but by fall the… Read More

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta: Going private doesn’t change our growth mentality

Apptio will have more freedom to grow its IT spending management business as a private company, according to co-founder and… Read More

Vista Equity Partners to pay $1.9 billion in private-equity deal for Apptio

Apptio’s run as a public company is coming to an end after just over two years. Private equity firm Vista… Read More

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