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
— Seattle-based Lighter Capital announced Patricia Elliott as chief sales officer and Kevin Fink as chief technology officer. The “alternative VC” company landed a $100 million deal in January to… Read More
Outreach, the billion-dollar Seattle sales engagement startup, is making a big bet on Europe. The company opened an office in London as part of an expansion in Europe, where it… Read More
There’s a growing cohort of education tech companies across the Pacific Northwest. A flurry of up-and-coming startups are sprouting up in British Columbia. And while Seattle is an enterprise software… 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
WeWork’s dramatic fall from grace, which saw its valuation fall from $47 billion to a reported $8 billion amid an IPO fiasco, was just one example of a larger reckoning… Read More
Manny Medina may be the head of a billion-dollar startup, but when asked what mythical creature represents the company, it’s not a unicorn — it’s the mythical flying horse Pegasus.… Read More
LinkedIn’s 2019 list of the 50 Top Startups in the U.S. once again includes three companies from Seattle, with two unicorns and one fast-growing customer data platform making the cut.… Read More
— What do you do with a billion-dollar valuation? Seattle’s newest Unicorn, sales automation startup Outreach, is celebrating by staffing up its executive ranks with former Microsoft employees: Margaret Arakawa… Read More
— The former head of Juno Therapeutics, Hans Bishop, signed on as CEO of Grail, a Bay Area biotech focused on the early detection of cancer. Bishop replaces former Grail… Read More
Some of Seattle’s hottest startups are taking big checks from a major investment firm that rarely bets on private companies. But if you haven’t heard the name Lone Pine Capital,… Read More
The pressure is on at Outreach. The Seattle startup took a break on Wednesday, hosting an open house party to christen its new headquarters overlooking Elliott Bay and celebrate a… Read More
Seattle has a new unicorn, Outreach, the sales and marketing automation company that raised a $114 million funding round, pushing its valuation to $1.1 billion. The news sends GeekWire co-founder… Read More
Seattle has a new unicorn. Sales automation startup Outreach has reeled in a huge $114 million investment round that pushes its valuation to $1.1 billion, joining an elite club of… Read More
The Pacific Northwest tech scene is known primarily for giants such as Amazon and Microsoft, but there is a huge crop of fast-growing companies ready to make the leap to… Read More
Can algorithms predict the next billion-dollar companies better than human venture capitalists? It seems possible, at least based on a formula created by CB Insights and The New York Times. Back… Read More
Ex-Microsoft exec Tony Scripa has signed on as chief financial officer at Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes. Scripa spent 18 years at Microsoft in its global OEM division and was most… Read More
Update Nov. 5: Outreach will no longer host the Democracy Day event due to low RSVP numbers. Employees will still have the day off to vote and volunteer. Every election year,… Read More
Outreach is on a roll. The enterprise software startup raised $65 million this spring, announced it was moving into a new headquarters space this summer and on Thursday was the… Read More
Tech giants like Amazon and Google have scooped up scads of office space in recent years, but the top companies on the GeekWire 200 — our ranking of privately-held Pacific… Read More
Outreach, just a couple months removed from a massive $65 million funding round, has made the first acquisition in its history. The Seattle-based sales automation company has acquired Sales Hacker,… Read More
Outreach is moving to a new headquarters as the enterprise software startup has already outgrown its current digs in Seattle, GeekWire has learned. Permit documents filed with the City of… Read More
Manny Medina was 20 years old when he came to the United States to pursue opportunities in engineering. “For me, the American Dream is that I could be anybody I… Read More
First- and second-generation immigrants make up only 27 percent of the U.S. population, yet more than half of the most valuable U.S. tech companies were founded by immigrants or the… Read More
Seattle-area entrepreneur Mina Yoo has been in the United States since 1991, receiving a dual Ph.D. in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan, working as a University… Read More
Seattle-based sales automation startup Outreach announced a new $65 million funding round Monday — but its CEO, Manny Medina, also had another issue on his mind when GeekWire caught up with… Read More
Outreach is adding more fuel to the fire with a $65 million funding round led by Spark Capital. It’s a big venture round for a enterprise software company which almost… Read More
One of five companies is about to join an exclusive club. Past winners of GeekWire’s Next Tech Titan award have completed successful IPOs, landed huge funding rounds and emerged as… Read More
John Scrofano, a longtime Seattle entrepreneur and executive who most recently served as CEO of Seattle startup Garmentory, joined startup Remitly as director of new initiatives. Scrofano co-founded and served… Read More
With chants of “build the wall” and the pursuit of policies to stem the flow of new immigrants and refugees, the United States seems to be rolling up the welcome… Read More