— General John Hyten, a 40-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was named executive director of Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future. Hyten was also appointed as strategic advisor… Read More
Idera is laying off BitTitan employees following its acquisition of the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud service provider. A new WARN filing with the state of Washington indicates that 70 workers will… Read More
BitTitan, a Seattle-area cloud services provider, has been acquired by Idera, an Austin-based company that manages a portfolio of B2B software brands. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded… Read More
— Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. He was previously SVP of global energy at… Read More
— Gender-neutral underwear maker TomboyX promoted COO Leslie Garrard to CEO. Co-founders Fran Dunaway and Naomi Gonzalez will continue to be brand ambassadors and strategic advisors. Dunaway will remain on… Read More
— Former Impact Hub Seattle Managing Director Sarah Studer is joining Techstars Seattle as the director of platform. Studer was most recently assistant director at the University of Washington’s Buerk… Read More
The news: BitTitan, a Seattle-area cloud services provider, announced the pending acquisition of Perspectium, a 75-person company that helps companies manage their data on ServiceNow. Terms of the deal were not… Read More
— Former Amazon Web Services and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. She is currently vice… Read More
— Location data companies Foursquare and Factual are merging. The combined company will be led by Placed founder David Shim under the Foursquare brand. Shim was named CEO of Foursquare… Read More
—Former Microsoft general manager Adrianna Burrows is now chief marketing officer at Seattle-based compensation startup PayScale. Burrows is one of several new executives appointed by new CEO Scott Torrey, who… Read More
BitTitan, a Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud services provider, has raised additional funding. The company reeled in what it describes as “growth capital” from Vancouver, B.C.-based firm Vistara Capital Partners. BitTitan did… Read More
No-code app development startup AppSheet brought on Daisy dePaulis as chief revenue officer and Thierry D’Hers as vice president of engineering. dePaulis previously held senior sales roles at Seattle-based… Read More
E-commerce analytics startup Metricstory added Docusign founder Tom Gonser its board of directors. Gonser is also a partner at Bend, Ore.-based venture capital firm Seven Peaks Ventures. He serves on… Read More
— Molly Presley will head up product marketing at cloud storage startup Qumulo. Presley brings many years of storage marketing experience, most recently serving in similar roles at Quantum in… Read More
Qumulo, a fast-growing file storage technology company, has hired a new VP of people to oversee its growing workforce. Robyn Singh, who has held executive human resources roles at Amazon… Read More
There’s never been a better time to be in the cloud computing business, and while that opportunity is bringing people to Seattle in droves, there are lots of challenges awaiting… Read More
Amazon is a pioneer in cloud computing, and the current market leader, but not the tech titan with the greatest future opportunity, according to a panel of technology CEOs who… Read More
After nine years of building a robust cloud services business with thousands of customers, Geeman Yip was ready to raise venture capital. But when the BitTitan founder began knocking on… Read More
San Francisco-based Thunder is making a big investment in Seattle. The company announced Wednesday that it has hired longtime Seattle tech leader BJ Fox as VP of engineering, and said… Read More
Cloud services provider BitTitan has laid off 15 percent of its workforce as the Bellevue, Wash.-based company reorganizes itself. The startup confirmed the cuts to GeekWire Monday, noting that “less… Read More
F5 Networks announced in July that its longtime chief operations officer Edward Julian Eames is retiring at the end of the fiscal year. Tuesday, we learned about one of the… Read More
At some point in the not-too-distant future, Geeman Yip imagines walking into a bar — sort of like the one we were camped out in before the start of the… Read More
We’re back with another round of voting in the GeekWire Awards, and today’s category is a biggie, literally. We’re opening voting in the Next Tech Titan category, recognizing those heavyweight… Read More
Amplero, a Seattle-based machine learning marketing platform, added marketing veteran Santo Criscuolo as vice president of sales this week. Criscuolo comes to Amplero from a position on the TV media management team… Read More
BitTitan, the fast-growing cloud services provider, has found new digs in Bellevue. The 9-year-old company announced this week that it has secured 62,000 square feet at the One Twelfth @… Read More
— Marcelo Calbucci, a Microsoft and tech startup veteran who started and ran Seattle2.0 before GeekWire acquired it, is moving to London he announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Calbucci, who moved… Read More
We hear a lot about big venture capital rounds and the the mythical unicorn startup companies valued at more than $1 billion. But some of the most powerful entrepreneurial stories… 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
It takes a very special entrepreneur to build a business without angel or venture capital financing. Bootstrapping certainly is not the easiest path, but it can be especially rewarding, and… Read More