Former executives at Seattle e-commerce software startup Fabric, including co-founder Ryan Bartley, are leading a new company coming out of stealth mode this week. Seattle-based Canopy revealed a $4 million… Read More
— Faisal Masud, the former CEO of Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric, joined Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard. Masud told GeekWire he’ll serve as senior vice president and president of WW Digital… Read More
— Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric named veteran tech leader Mike Micucci as CEO. Micucci founded GroupSwim, a business networking startup acquired by Salesforce in 2009. He then spent 11 years… Read More
Nevin Shetty, the former CFO of Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric charged with funneling company funds to his crypto business, pled not guilty to all four charges of fraud in his… Read More
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday indicted the former chief financial officer of a Seattle-based e-commerce startup for wire fraud. Ex-Fabric CFO Nevin Shetty funneled around $35 million in company funds to… Read More
Venture capitalists slowed investments this year in response to the cooling economy. But some startups were still able to secure large sums of cash. The top 10 funding rounds across… Read More
— Claudiu Bulai is now chief innovation officer at Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Quantarium. Bulai previously spent five years at Meta, most recently leading engineering for the tech giant’s Reality Labs… Read More
The Seattle startup scene has been sizzling, and there are several up-and-coming companies are headed on a path toward becoming industry giants. Five of those fast-growing superstars are finalists for… Read More
This week brought news of a big fundraising by e-commerce technology startup Fabric, a $140 million Series C round led by Softbank. With the deal, the 300-person company became Seattle’s… Read More
Fabric, a Seattle-based e-commerce technology startup whose leadership team includes several former Amazon executives, announced a $140 million Series C funding round, led by SoftBank, at a valuation of about… Read More
— Former Zillow Chief Economist Svenja Gudell is now chief economist at Indeed, leading the job search engine’s research team. “The labor market is a fundamental building block to the… Read More
Unicorn startups are everywhere these days. CB Insights’ unicorn tracker — keeping tabs on privately-held companies valued at $1 billion or more — is quickly approaching 1,000 companies. And earlier… Read More
— Leafly announced its new six-member board of directors whose appointments will be effective after its pending SPAC merger with New York-based Merida Merger Corp is completed. The new board… 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
— RealSelf CEO James Coyle stepped down and Jeff Kizilbash has been named interim CEO of the cosmetic review platform. Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining… Read More
—Act-On, a Portland, Ore.-based marketing automation platform, added Gregg Ames as chief commercial officer and Syed Ahmed as senior vice president of engineering. Ames previously worked in sales at Marketo,… Read More
Another day, another big funding round for a Seattle startup. E-commerce company Fabric just landed a $100 million investment to help retailers sell their products online. The funding comes just five… 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
— Magic Leap continues to hire from the Seattle region. Anuj Gosalia, a veteran of Microsoft, Facebook and Google, joined the company as its chief software and cloud officer. This… Read More
New funding: E-commerce startup Fabric has raised $43 million to help mid-market brands that are trying to keep up with Amazon but don’t have the technical expertise or capability to… Read More
— Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Toth was previously VP of… Read More
Faisal Masud knows e-commerce. The tech vet spent more than six years at Amazon in the 2000s, helping build inventory tools and launching the AmazonBasics product line. He then had… Read More
Google has bought Fabric, Twitter’s application-development environment, for an undisclosed sum, as the latter company streamlines its business. “We’ve signed an agreement for Fabric to be acquired to Google and for… Read More