Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group just named its newest entrepreneur in residence: former PayByPhone CEO Kush Parikh. Parikh has been a tech executive and “intrapreneur” for years, starting with his… Read More
Wonder Workshop, which makes robots that teach children computer science concepts, said it has raised $41 million in a Series C round. The funding round includes global tech giants like… Read More
Apptio has a new engineering leader. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company, which makes software to help CIOs better understand spending in IT departments, today announced Theo Beack as its new executive vice president… Read More
Amazon’s splashy announcement that it plans to build a second North American headquarters has stirred debate across the nation, and that includes the upper echelon of Seattle’s tech scene. During a… Read More
The founders of Heptio knew they were onto something big when they developed Kubernetes, the open-source container-orchestration product based on Google’s internal infrastructure. The venture capital community is starting to… Read More
Olivia Carpenter turned 15 on Friday, and to celebrate she happily got off the tandem bike that she rode across the country this summer, from Seattle to Boston, with her… Read More
One common thread among emerging enterprise technologies is that early adopters can quickly find themselves flying blind, stuck with monitoring tools that weren’t built with that tech in mind. Serverless… Read More
When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google. How do they stack up against each… Read More
A Seattle girl with a love and concern for endangered orca whales hopped on a tandem bicycle with her tech-savvy father Saturday morning to start a cross-country ride to raise… Read More
Highspot thinks its artificial intelligence models are making sales organizations much more efficient, and it has raised $15 million in new funding to go out and prove it at scale.… Read More
Pluto VR, the Seattle-based virtual reality startup co-founded by PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey, has raised $13.9 million in a Series A funding round. The company, which is developing applications for… Read More
Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region, has closed a $100 million funding round led by ICONIQ… Read More
Amplero, a marketing platform fueled by artificial intelligence, announced the addition of Microsoft and Amazon vet Andrew Toner as the company’s CTO this week. Toner comes to the position after working as a… Read More
Cloud technology companies have increasingly become acquisition targets rather than IPO candidates, according to a new research report. But investors and analysts say that could start to change in the… Read More
Washington state’s lack of income tax is either one of its greatest assets or one of the main issues holding it back economically, depending on who you ask. State income… Read More
Madrona Venture Group today announced three internal promotions and the hiring of a new venture partner. Hope Cochran, a long-time Seattleite and former CFO of Clearwire, is joining the firm… Read More
Madrona Labs, the “startup studio” housed inside of Madrona Venture Group, wants to focus on deeper, more technical startups — and now it’s getting some help from Jay Bartot to… Read More
Cole Brodman is taking on another leadership role in the telecom industry. The former T-Mobile executive, who spent 17 years at the wireless carrier and held positions as CMO and CTO,… Read More
Seattle tech vet and talent expert Kerry Van Voris has left her position as director of talent at Madrona Venture Group, GeekWire has learned. Van Voris came to the position in… Read More
The tumultuous election has put a cloud of uncertainty over the tech industry. But Matt McIlwain is optimistic, especially when it comes to the Seattle region’s prospects as a technology leader. Speaking at… Read More
Madrona Venture Labs has spun out its third company: A startup called Essential that helps businesses communicate with customers via text messaging, Facebook Messenger and other platforms, using intelligent messaging technologies… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we come to you on location from Madrona Venture Group, speaking to Madrona co-founder Tom Alberg and investment associate Daniel Li. They are… Read More
Wrench, the on-site car repair startup, serviced more than 1,000 vehicles during a test run this summer in Seattle and that success has the company ready to hit the road… Read More
The congested and time-consuming Interstate-5 route between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., provided the inspiration for an ambitious new report from Madrona Venture Group that aims to take on the region’s transportation headache… Read More
LumaTax, which aims to automate sales tax reporting for small businesses, has raised $2 million from Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners and angel investors. The company will use the money to build… Read More
Amazon isn’t known for being a laid-back employer. In fact, the tech giant is famous, and in some cases infamous, for its hard-driving work culture. But in an effort to compete for talent and… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Uber announced a beta test of a new flat rate program this week, designed to court “super users” in Seattle and other cities around… Read More
Seattle-based online pet-sitting marketplace Rover has introduced new features for its app that allow puppy parents to see exactly what their pooch is up to when they are away. Now pet sitters… Read More
Accolade, a healthcare company led by Concur co-founders Raj Singh and Mike Hilton that helps people and companies navigate the healthcare system, announced Wednesday it raised more than $70 million in… Read More
Wonder Workshop is raising more cash for its robots that teach children computer science concepts. The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup, founded in 2012, announced a $20 million Series B round co-led… Read More