For Sunny Gupta, the inspiration behind Apptio started with a simple question: What are you struggling with? After selling two companies, Gupta wasn’t really looking to launch another startup. But… Read More
Sunny Gupta, who launched Apptio more than 17 years ago and helped build the Seattle-area company into an enterprise software giant, is stepping down as CEO. Gupta will transition to… Read More
Feb. 9, 2017, will go down as one of the toughest days in Apptio’s history. It had been less than five months since the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise technology company pulled… Read More
IBM announced a deal Monday to buy Apptio for $4.6 billion from Vista Equity Partners, less than five years after the private equity firm acquired the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud and… Read More
It’s a good day to be Sunny Gupta. The Apptio co-founder and CEO stood to make $196 million as the deal to take the company private was completed on Thursday. Two… Read More
Apptio will have more freedom to grow its IT spending management business as a private company, according to co-founder and CEO Sunny Gupta, but he doesn’t regret taking the Bellevue… Read More
Apptio is settling in after completing its first quarter as a public company. Though the company is still not profitable, losses are slowing, and Apptio reported better quarterly results than Wall Street… Read More
View image | gettyimages.com Once upon a time, there was an exclusive club that only allowed technology companies worth $1 billion to join. While that sounds like an opening line to a… Read More
Is Apptio prepping for an IPO? No, the company says. However, a memo sent to ex-employees by Apptio general counsel Todd Smith is getting lots of attention among current and… Read More
Apptio is not playing small ball. Just 14 months after raising a $50 million venture round, Bellevue-based Apptio is back with a little more cash in its pocket. The company, which… Read More
Bellevue-based Apptio has a new logo, a new headquarters and a growing slate of new customers. But one thing remains the same: The company’s mission to transform the way CIOs… Read More
The thing we’ve always liked about Sunny Gupta is that he’s not playing “small ball.” Nope, the entrepreneur is taking a big swing for the fences with Apptio, a Bellevue company… Read More
New details are emerging about Apptio’s huge $50 million venture round, which closed six months ago from T. Rowe Price, Madrona Venture Group and others. Fortune’s Dan Primack reports today… Read More
We’re continuing our build-up to GeekWire Startup Day — taking place Sept. 22 at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue— with videos from some of the notable presenters from past years. Today, we’re… Read More
The world may be waiting on a Facebook IPO. And while there’s some chatter about whether the $5 billion public offering from the social networking giant will open the floodgates… Read More
Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta has been talking for some time now about building the next big enterprise software company in the Northwest. On Tuesday, we got some details on just how… Read More
Inrix CEO Bryan Mistele knows just how hard it is to raise venture capital. Before the company grew to more than 275 employees, the entrepreneur said that he pitched the… Read More