Apptio CFO Sean Boyle is stepping down after 16 months on the job, leaving for an undisclosed finance executive position at a large Fortune 50 technology company in the Northwest.… Read More
—Sebastian Thrun, the co-founder of Google X, has left his roles as a Vice President and Fellow at the Mountain View tech giantas of last month. Thrun, who also works as… Read More
Is Apptio prepping for an IPO? No, the company says. However, a memo sent to ex-employees by Apptio general counsel Todd Smith is getting lots of attention among current and… Read More
Fast-growing Apptio is deepening its bench of management talent, attracting some heavyweights from Microsoft and Amazon.com. The Bellevue company, which raised $50 million in venture funding last year and another… Read More
Money is flowing, and it sure seems like it’s a good time to be a startup entrepreneur. Just how good? Well, PitchBook just released new data this week showing that… Read More
Apptio is not playing small ball. Just 14 months after raising a $50 million venture round, Bellevue-based Apptio is back with a little more cash in its pocket. The company, which… Read More
Today’s featured category in the GeekWire Awards voting is a big one, literally. The Next Tech Titan — brought to you by Wave Business Solutions — will reward the company… Read More
John McAdam is a man in high demand. The CEO of F5 Networks, the Seattle networking and software powerhouse, joined the board of Tableau Software two months ago. Now, he’s… Read More
What does a logo really say about a company? Oftentimes, startups don’t have the brainpower or time to mess around with a logo, slapping together something in PhotoShop of little… Read More
Bellevue-based Apptio has a new logo, a new headquarters and a growing slate of new customers. But one thing remains the same: The company’s mission to transform the way CIOs… Read More
It’s been quite the year in Seattle technology. Amazon.com kept growing. Microsoft kept transforming. And several startups raised huge rounds of cash as they looked to become the next Microsoft or… Read More
The thing we’ve always liked about Sunny Gupta is that he’s not playing “small ball.” Nope, the entrepreneur is taking a big swing for the fences with Apptio, a Bellevue company… Read More
Apptio continues to gobble up top talent as it heads toward an initial public offering. The Bellevue enterprise software maker has hired Brett Helsel as senior vice president of engineering… Read More
New details are emerging about Apptio’s huge $50 million venture round, which closed six months ago from T. Rowe Price, Madrona Venture Group and others. Fortune’s Dan Primack reports today… Read More
Who are the emerging giants in technology? Business Insider just released its annual ranking of the top 100 private tech companies, and three names known to Seattleites make the list.… Read More
Ratify, a Bellevue startup that’s developing technologies to allow corporations to view network data in one place, has landed $2 million in venture funding from Ignition Partners and Jafco Ventures,… Read More
We’re continuing our build-up to GeekWire Startup Day — taking place Sept. 22 at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue— with videos from some of the notable presenters from past years. Today, we’re… Read More
Gas prices may be skyrocketing, but there’s nothing our family likes better than a good road trip. But where to go when the sun shines in Seattle, Santa Cruz or… Read More
Apptio, fresh off a $50 million funding round, has hired former Real Networks CEO Bob Kimball as its new executive vice president of operations and corporate development, GeekWire has learned. It’s… Read More
Bruce Henry has worked for years in the technology industry, currently at Seattle’s Apptio, where he describes himself as a “process and organizational change ninja.” But he didn’t start out… Read More
Washington state is once again climbing into the top echelon when it comes to venture capital investing, ranking fifth in the dollars invested and sixth in deals, according to a… Read More
Apptio, moving further down the path toward a possible IPO, today announced a $50 million funding round led by T. Rowe Price — a significant injection of capital for the… Read More
The world may be waiting on a Facebook IPO. And while there’s some chatter about whether the $5 billion public offering from the social networking giant will open the floodgates… Read More
Bellevue-based Apptio is growing fast, so fast in fact that it can’t find enough software engineers in the Seattle area. So, the company — which helps CIOs better manage and… Read More
Inrix CEO Bryan Mistele knows just how hard it is to raise venture capital. Before the company grew to more than 275 employees, the entrepreneur said that he pitched the… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows Phone appears to be getting a new logo — shifting from a round icon to a square one that more closely matches the mobile operating system’s tile interface. The new… Read More
We’ve been talking a lot about the lack of investment dollars flowing to entrepreneurial ventures in the Seattle area. But let’s not forget all of the good stuff going on.… Read More
Seattle’s startup community partied Thursday night at the annual Seattle 2.0 Awards, a celebration of the region’s top tinkerers, geeks, designers and investors. Team GeekWire was there in full force,… Read More
There’s a lot of troubling stuff happening in the world right now, and people are looking for new ways to add some levity to their lives. Which helps explain what… Read More
