Robert Wise has been named chief innovation officer at MTN Satellite Communications, charged with building up the company’s product and technical team in Seattle. Wise most recently served as an… Read More
Opscode has raised $19.5 million in venture capital financing, the second large funding round in a Seattle area business-to-business software company this month. The deal, which was led by Bellevue-based… Read More
The Isilon Storage Division of EMC Corp. is expanding its footprint in its own backyard, gobbling up Bellevue software storage startup Likewise in a deal of undisclosed size. In a… Read More
Appature is adding some horsepower in the executive offices as it looks to expand its marketing services for healthcare companies. The Seattle company, which plans to move to new offices… Read More
As a father and coach, Steve Goldman experienced first-hand the pains of getting youth sports teams organized. And as a techie, he knew there had to be a better way.… Read More
Spoken Communications, a 7-year-old Bellevue company led by former HyperQuality and PhotoWorks CEO Howard Lee, has raised $11.5 million in funding from Ignition Partners and Ignition Capital. Spoken Communications uses… Read More
It seems that every quarter in the venture capital industry brings a bit of good news and bad news. So, where do you want to start this time? Let’s start… Read More
One of the biggest stories in the Seattle venture capital community over the past 18 months has been the transformation of Ignition Partners into a full-scale national firm. That was… Read More
Ignition Partners is continuing its transformation into a national venture capital firm. The latest example is WhipTail, a Whippany, New Jersey company that today announced a second round of venture… Read More
Fast-growing business intelligence software company Splunk — a San Francisco company that established a branch office in Seattle last year — has filed to raise up to $125 million through… Read More
Flotype, a cloud startup led by former Amazon.com and University of California Berkeley employees and researchers, has raised $1.4 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Yuri Milner, Salesforce.com… Read More
Ignition’s insane investment pace for 2011 is finishing with a bang. The Bellevue venture capital firm has partnered with Atlas Venture to lead a $6.5 million investment in San Francisco-based… Read More
Cloud database startup Xeround has reeled in $9 million in venture capital financing from Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital. Seattle area investors Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership also participated in the… Read More
Ignition Partners continues to pump dollars into cloud computing startups — most of them which happen to be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The latest example is Iron.io,… Read More
Back in August, I interviewed Frank Artale of Ignition Partners about the torrid investment pace that he’d engaged in since joining the Bellevue venture capital firm in March. Well, that… Read More
Two Seattle companies are hoping that they can help streamline the way people buy or sell homes. DocuSign announced today that agents at Redfin — the fast-growing real estate brokerage… Read More
For the third time this week, Ignition Partners has pumped cash into a San Francisco Bay Area startup. This time, the Bellevue venture capital firm is bankrolling MinoMonsters, which is developing… Read More
Another day, another investment by Ignition Partners in the Bay Area. The Bellevue venture capital firm, which earlier this week announced that it was leading a $40 million deal in… Read More
I am always interested in how national publications perceive Seattle’s technology community. After all, as long time journalists covering the daily gyrations of the tech industry here, you sometimes need… Read More
Jason Goldberg was known for making some bold, brash and off-the-wall statements as the founder of Jobster, the online recruiting company that he started in Seattle in 2003. The statements… Read More
Visible Technologies has reeled in an additional $1.5 million, bringing total financing in the maker of social media monitoring technologies to $50.5 million, GeekWire has learned. Advertising giant WPP, an… Read More
Brett Goodwin, a former marketing executive at Isilon Systems and RealNetworks, has joined fast-growing Seattle cloud computing startup Skytap as vice president of marketing and business development. Goodwin was employee… Read More
BlueStacks wants to make it easier to get your Android apps, in full-screen mind you, on Windows PCs. And the Campbell, California company just landed a new strategic investment from… Read More
Splunk, a fast-growing business intelligence company backed by Ignition Partners and others, is considering an initial public offering that could value it for as much as $1 billion, sources tell… Read More
Swype built a powerful technology that allowed mobile phone users to input text with the swipe of a finger rather than a tap, speeding up the way millions of people… Read More
Nuance has agreed to purchase Seattle startup Swype for more than $100 million, according to GeekWire sources. The news was first reported in Uncrunched. We’ve reached out to executives of the… Read More
Bryan Trussel, the founder and CEO of Glympse, the popular mobile location tracking app, is accustomed to watching large tech companies nibble at his heels. In fact, with Google Latitude… Read More
Visible Technologies, the Bellevue company which provides social media monitoring technologies to Boost Mobile, DirecTV, Vail Resorts and others, has scored an additional $4 million in venture capital financing from… Read More
There have been a number of key hires and moves in the Pacific Northwest technology industry in recent days. Here’s a quick look. Sarah Novotny, who previously co-founded Blue Gecko,… Read More
Kal Raman has quietly stepped down as CEO of GlobalScholar, the company he founded in 2006 and sold to Scantron last year, GeekWire has learned. Raman, the former CEO of drugstore.com,… Read More