Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman and Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price just were named “Entrepreneur of the Year” — Ehrlichman receiving the honor from USA Today and Price picking up the… Read More
It’s been quite a month for Porch. The Seattle-based home-improvement data startup just last week released its mobile app, and two days later CEO Matt Ehrlichman was named USA Today’s… Read More
USA Today named its 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year today, and the winner is … Matt Ehrlichman, the CEO of Porch, the Seattle-based home improvement data startup. It’s a big recognition… Read More
Home improvement data startup Porch is launching its first app today, promising homeowners across the country the ability to connect quickly with Porch representatives and independent home improvement professionals to get guidance on projects and… Read More
Porch, the Seattle-based home improvement data startup, has given professional users a new set of tools to understand how they’re being seen on the service. The Pro Dashboard brings a… Read More
—There’s been a serious pipeline of talent flowing into Seattle startup Porch over the past year, with the company topping more than 200 staffers. But now we’ve received word that… Read More
Pro.com, the Seattle startup that’s looking to make it easier to find home improvement specialists, from plumbers and electricians to roofers and landscapers, has attracted $14 million in fresh funding… Read More
—Porch has picked up two new high-profile employees: Justin Vanning has left his role as Director of Growth Marketing at Tune (formerly HasOffers) to become the Senior Manager of Marketing… Read More
Porch, the Seattle-based home-improvement data startup, is marking its first year of operation today with a slate of new online features for homeowners, and disclosing its total funding for the… Read More
Porch is expanding its footprint. The fast-growing Internet company has acquired Seattle startup ValueAppeal, GeekWire has learned. Terms of the deal were not known, and it is unclear whether Porch… Read More
Less than a year after launching nationally, home improvement data startup Porch has grown 10-fold to more than 200 people —including a new CTO, hired from Amazon — and is expanding… Read More
—Big Fish just hooked a new finance chief. The Seattle casual games company today announced that Bob Chamberlain recently joined as CFO. The hire is significant, in part because Chamberlain… Read More
Ian Morris, the former CEO of real estate technology company Market Leader, has joined the board of directors of Porch, the fast-growing home improvement data startup headquartered in Seattle. Morris… Read More
—Porch continues to pack in the entrepreneurial talent. The latest to join the fast-growing Seattle online home improvement startup is Joanna Lord, who most recently served as chief marketing officer… Read More
Seattle startup Pro.com announced today that it has has teamed with online home improvement retailer Build.com to make it easy for people to find and price materials they need to… Read More
Parag Garg, the former Amazon architect who worked briefly as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s top tech adviser, has landed at Porch, the fast-growing home-improvement data startup. Garg has joined the Seattle-based company as Director… Read More
Home owners should have little trouble these days finding plumbers, house painters and other service providers to work on their home projects. That’s because there is no shortage of new… Read More
—Seattle home improvement startup Porch has hired Daryn Nakhuda to be its director of growth engineering. Nakhuda will be charged with running an engineering team that’s focused on driving customer acquisition,… Read More
After a successful test in pilot markets, Seattle-based home-improvement data startup Porch has expanded its partnership with Lowe’s to all of the retailer’s locations across the United States, reaching more than 1,700 stores.… Read More
Nerf gun wars, orange toilet paper, a cafeteria in a former bar, a great indoor putting green, and windows repurposed as whiteboards. Yes, tech company headquarters are some of the geekiest places in… Read More
Home-improvement data startup Porch this morning launched a new “Porch Premium” service that aims to give home remodelers, contractors and other service providers new tools for generating business — including… Read More
Home-improvement data startup Porch is partnering with Realtor.com to launch a new product, the “Porch Home & Neighborhood Report,” that promises to give prospective homebuyers new insight into the history… Read More
Matt Ehrlichman wants to create the next major tech company in the Seattle region, and his company, Porch, is on its way — going from 25 employees to 125 employees in… Read More
Seattle-based startup Porch, which last month landed a big partnership with home-improvement giant Lowe’s, has tripled in size to more than 100 employees in less than five months and is consolidating… Read More
Porch, a Seattle-based startup attempting to upend the home-improvement industry, has entered into a strategic partnership with Lowe’s that will put the Porch online service into the retailer’s stores to… Read More
—Keela Robinson, a mobile industry veteran who previously worked at Amazon, WhitePages, RealNetworks and T-Mobile, has been named senior vice president and general manager of Urbanspoon. She most recently served… Read More
—It seems as though just about everyone has heard of Amazon’s audacious plan to deploy flying delivery drones. Some are calling it a PR stunt, but Amazon actually has a… Read More
Seattle is ripe with innovation. From aerospace to biotechnology to software to retail, startup companies in this moss-covered part of the globe are breaking traditional boundaries, creating groundbreaking ideas that… Read More
Last week on the GeekWire podcast, Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman explained how he wants to build a very big company to transform how people use data to make better home… Read More
Should you upgrade to the iPhone 5S? And is Apple’s iOS 7 worth the hassle of installing? We start this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast with a report from… Read More