RealWear, a Vancouver, Wash.-based headset maker that serves frontline workers at industrial companies, named Chris Parkinson as CEO. Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016.… Read More
Michael Butler is a Seattle guy. He was born there, graduated from the University of Washington, and grew his investment bank Cascadia Capital in the city over the past two… Read More
— Vancouver, B.C.-based social media management platform Hootsuite hired Antonis Papatsaras as its new chief technology officer. Papatsaras was previously chief technology officer of the contract lifecycle management product suite… Read More
Cascadia Capital, a Seattle-based middle-market investment bank, is boosting its cash balance through a unique deal with a private equity firm. Cascadia landed more than $50 million from Atlas Merchant… Read More
It’s going to be a long time before robots replace sports mascots, but it might be better for one of our GeekWire colleagues when they do. That’s one of the… Read More
PITTSBURGH — SPACs are suffering. But Cascadia Capital still feels confident about finding a deal. The Seattle investment bank raised $150 million last year for a new special purpose acquisition… Read More
For the past 22 years, Cascadia Capital has helped dozens of healthcare, retail, technology and other companies find buyers. Now, the Seattle-based investment banking firm is on the prowl to… Read More
— Brad Anderson, a longtime Microsoft corporate vice president, has joined Qualtrics as president of products and services. A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company, Anderson was most recently a key… Read More
— Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The notoriously secretive Silicon Valley… 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 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
— Roei Ganzarski, the CEO of Redmond, Wash.-based electric propulsion startup MagniX, is the new chairman of the board at Israeli electric plane company Eviation. MagniX and Eviation are partnering… Read More
—The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence hired Ruben Ortega as chief technology officer for the two-year-old AI research foundation. Ortega, who previously served as CTO at Amazon’s A9 ad tech firm and ran… Read More
