.— Allan Golston joined the board of directors at Bellevue, Wash.-based contract lifecycle management company Icertis. He has served as the president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for… Read More
Update, Oct. 31: Icertis issued a press release noting $150 million in new capital, including a revolving credit facility and convertible financing that was revealed in the SEC filing noted… Read More
Happiness at the job isn’t just kombucha on tap and trendy lounges. For the past two years, companies have balanced concerns with COVID-19 and integrating workers back into offices. The… Read More
Icertis, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup that sells contract management software, landed an undisclosed investment from SAP as part of an expanded partnership with the German multinational. The companies first partnered… Read More
Editor’s note: This post has been updated to add startups that were not initially included in the list. Icertis’ valuation was also updated. Another day, another unicorn spotting. These once… Read More
Forbes has released its sixth annual Cloud 100 ranking of the world’s top private cloud companies, and four high-value startups from the Seattle area landed in the top 50. Tanium,… Read More
— Icertis hired longtime SAP executive Gretchen Eischen as its new chief marketing officer. She was most recently global vice president and head of marketing for SAP’s procurement solutions and… 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
— Sea.citi, an organization that works to connect tech sector employees with civic life, announced three new board members: Zillow Government Relations and Public Affairs Manager Anna Boone. Janice Dearlove,… Read More
— Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco, a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. Based… Read More
Icertis has raised a new $80 million investment round, pushing its valuation to $2.8 billion, up from $1.1 billion in 2019. The Seattle-area startup sells contract management software across 90… Read More
— Health benefits platform Accolade named Cindy Kent to its board of directors. Kent is currently EVP and president of senior living at Brookdale Senior Living. She previously served on… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: Seattle’s tech community just reached a new milestone: 10 unicorns, privately held companies valued at more than $1 billion.… Read More
The unicorn — that supposed elusive creature of the startup world — is becoming a bit more commonplace in these parts. There are now 10 unicorn startups valued at $1… 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
Amazon veteran Greg Hart, a former technical advisor to Jeff Bezos, is joining Compass as its new chief product officer. Hart spent 23 years at Amazon, most recently running the… Read More
Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. Watch live below. How do you handicap a unicorn race? When it comes to the race for the GeekWire… Read More
At first glance, the GeekWire 200 might not seem that different today than it did a year ago. But a closer look shows some of the region’s most valuable companies… Read More
Icertis, welcome to the unicorn club. The Bellevue, Wash. contract management startup today announced a whopping $115 million investment, the second-largest funding round for a Seattle-area startup so far this… Read More
As cloud computing matures, more and more companies are looking to diversify their IT spending across different vendors, and that’s excellent news for companies worried about getting flattened by big… Read More
The world’s biggest technology companies are pouring billions of dollars into developing sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities, but its usefulness in all but the most complex scenarios may be a bit… Read More
It might be spring break in Seattle, but plans for the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit, presented by F5, are in full swing. We are excited to announce four new speakers… Read More
Crowd Cow, a Seattle-based marketplace for craft meat straight from farm to consumer, has added its first chief financial officer and head of marketing. Michelle Newbery joins as CFO, coming… Read More
Seattle biotech startup Nohla Therapeutics has an ambitious goal: Make umbilical stem cell transplants, currently a rare procedure, the new frontline treatment for leukemia. The company will have a new… Read More
Icertis, maker of cloud-based contract tracking and management software, has hired two new top executives. The first is Neal Singh, a longtime Microsoft executive and former CEO of healthcare venture… Read More
Samir Bodas, co-founder and CEO of Bellevue-based Icertis, thinks the contract-lifecycle management industry his company serves could become as large as the customer-relationship management industry that propelled Marc Benioff into… Read More
John Keister, a well-known Seattle area entrepreneur and investor, is now taking the reins at San Diego-based network analytics platform PacketSled. In tandem with Keister’s addition, PacketSled announced $3.5 million in… 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
Icertis, which helps large organizations such as 3M, Becton Dickinson, Cognizant, Daimler and Microsoft manage contracts, has landed a $25 million venture funding round, one of the largest in a Seattle… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association‘s Board of Directors has a new chairman: John Suk, a Harvard and University of Chicago graduate with a 20-year career in tech leadership in the Seattle… Read More