GeekWire
Menu
  • Home
  • News
    • Amazon
    • Civic presented by Microsoft
    • Geek Life presented by Network of Giving
    • Health/Life Sciences
    • Microsoft
    • Podcasts
    • Space
    • Startups
    • Sustainability
    • Tech Moves
    • Bot or Not
    • GeekWire on the Road: Spokane
    • Microsoft at 50 presented by Accenture
    • Tech Vets presented by Northern Trust
  • GeekWork
    • GeekWork Recruiting
    • Job Board
  • Events
    • Community Calendar
    • GeekWire Events
  • Lists
    • Amazon Office Buildings
    • GeekWire 200 presented by JPMorganChase
    • GeekWire Startup List
    • GeekWire Startup Resources
    • GeekWire Startup Spaces
    • Layoff Tracker
    • M&As and IPOs
    • Northwest Women VC & Angel Investor List
    • Recent Fundings
    • Seattle Engineering Outposts
    • Venture Capital Directory
  • Members
    • Health Benefits
    • Memberships
  • Studios
    • GeekWire Studios: Let Us Tell Your Story
    • Nebius at NVIDIA GTC 2025 sponsored by Nebius
    • AWS Marketplace Seller Conference 2024 sponsored by AWS
    • AWS Summit: New York Partner Spotlights sponsored by AWS
    • Does Compute presented by Carnegie Mellon University
    • Guide to re:Invent sponsored by AWS
    • Money Hacks presented by BECU
    • Tech Connect at Dreamforce 2024 sponsored by RSM US LLP
    • Uncommon Thinkers Welcome sponsored by Greater Seattle Partners
    • Zuper at Inbound sponsored by Zuper
  • About
    • About GeekWire
    • Advertise
    • Contact Us
    • Email Newsletters
    • Reprints & Permissions
    • Sponsors
  • Podcast
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletter
  • News Tips

What happens here matters everywhere.

  • Podcast
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletter
  • News Tips
  • Amazon
  • Microsoft
  • Startups
  • AI
  • Science
  • Tech Moves
  • Sustainability
  • Civic
  • Geek Life

Ignition

Tech Moves: Robert Wise joins MTN; RealNetworks taps CFO; REI’s promotions; and more

Robert Wise has been named chief innovation officer at MTN Satellite Communications, charged with building up the company’s product and… Read More

Ignition leads $19.5 million investment in Seattle’s Opscode

Opscode has raised $19.5 million in venture capital financing, the second large funding round in a Seattle area business-to-business software… Read More

EMC’s Isilon division buys storage software company Likewise

The Isilon Storage Division of EMC Corp. is expanding its footprint in its own backyard, gobbling up Bellevue software storage… Read More

Tech Moves: Mark Klebanoff named CFO of Appature; Salad Labs tosses in a new leader; and more

Appature is adding some horsepower in the executive offices as it looks to expand its marketing services for healthcare companies.… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Korrio looks to score with social network for youth sports

As a father and coach, Steve Goldman experienced first-hand the pains of getting youth sports teams organized. And as a… Read More

Spoken Communications dials up $11 million in funding

Spoken Communications, a 7-year-old Bellevue company led by former HyperQuality and PhotoWorks CEO Howard Lee, has raised $11.5 million in… Read More

Ugh, this doesn’t look so good: Venture capital investing in Washington state plummets

It seems that every quarter in the venture capital industry brings a bit of good news and bad news. So,… Read More

Another day, another big investment for Ignition in a cloud startup

One of the biggest stories in the Seattle venture capital community over the past 18 months has been the transformation… Read More

Ignition Partners bankrolls flash storage startup WhipTail

Ignition Partners is continuing its transformation into a national venture capital firm. The latest example is WhipTail, a Whippany, New… Read More

Ignition-backed Splunk files for IPO

Fast-growing business intelligence software company Splunk — a San Francisco company that established a branch office in Seattle last year… Read More

Flotype raises cash from Ignition, Salesforce and others to help coders build applications faster

Flotype, a cloud startup led by former Amazon.com and University of California Berkeley employees and researchers, has raised $1.4 million… Read More

Adam Bosworth’s Keas scoops up $6.5 million to make corporate America healthier

Ignition’s insane investment pace for 2011 is finishing with a bang. The Bellevue venture capital firm has partnered with Atlas… Read More

Ignition, Trilogy bankroll cloud database startup Xeround

Cloud database startup Xeround has reeled in $9 million in venture capital financing from Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital. Seattle area… Read More

Ignition backs San Francisco cloud application service Iron.io

Ignition Partners continues to pump dollars into cloud computing startups — most of them which happen to be based in… Read More

Ignition’s Frank Artale leads $15M round in ServiceMesh

Back in August, I interviewed Frank Artale of Ignition Partners about the torrid investment pace that he’d engaged in since… Read More

Redfin picks DocuSign for electronic signatures

Two Seattle companies are hoping that they can help streamline the way people buy or sell homes. DocuSign announced today… Read More

Ignition scares up another deal in San Fran, backs 19-year-old’s MinoMonsters

For the third time this week, Ignition Partners has pumped cash into a San Francisco Bay Area startup. This time,… Read More

Ignition backs Parse, another hot San Francisco startup

Another day, another investment by Ignition Partners in the Bay Area. The Bellevue venture capital firm, which earlier this week… Read More

Hey, we’re no Silicon Valley, but Seattle is rising as a tech hub

I am always interested in how national publications perceive Seattle’s technology community. After all, as long time journalists covering the… Read More

Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg dares recruiters to poach his staff

Jason Goldberg was known for making some bold, brash and off-the-wall statements as the founder of Jobster, the online recruiting… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible Technologies adds $1.5M

Visible Technologies has reeled in an additional $1.5 million, bringing total financing in the maker of social media monitoring technologies… Read More

Tech Moves: Isilon vet joins Skytap; Sewichi bulks up; and more

Brett Goodwin, a former marketing executive at Isilon Systems and RealNetworks, has joined fast-growing Seattle cloud computing startup Skytap as… Read More

BlueStacks raises cash to run Android apps on Windows PCs

BlueStacks wants to make it easier to get your Android apps, in full-screen mind you, on Windows PCs. And the… Read More

Ignition-backed Splunk eyes IPO

Splunk, a fast-growing business intelligence company backed by Ignition Partners and others, is considering an initial public offering that could… Read More

Swype CEO on acquisition by Nuance: ‘It is a great outcome’

Swype built a powerful technology that allowed mobile phone users to input text with the swipe of a finger rather… Read More

Nuance to acquire Swype for more than $100 million

Nuance has agreed to purchase Seattle startup Swype for more than $100 million, according to GeekWire sources. The news was… Read More

Glympse CEO on Apple’s location sharing app: We’re not worried

Bryan Trussel, the founder and CEO of Glympse, the popular mobile location tracking app, is accustomed to watching large tech… Read More

Social media monitoring firm Visible raises $4 million

Visible Technologies, the Bellevue company which provides social media monitoring technologies to Boost Mobile, DirecTV, Vail Resorts and others, has… Read More

Tech Moves: Sarah Novotny joins Opscode; Steve Banfield jumps to Korrio; Grist’s new editor; etc.

There have been a number of key hires and moves in the Pacific Northwest technology industry in recent days. Here’s… Read More

Tech Moves: Kal Raman resigns as CEO of GlobalScholar and more

Kal Raman has quietly stepped down as CEO of GlobalScholar, the company he founded in 2006 and sold to Scantron last… Read More

  • Older
  • Newer

Latest Stories

    Read All Stories

    GeekWire Newsletters

    Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline

    Send Us a Tip

    Have a scoop that you'd like GeekWire to cover? Let us know.

    Send Us a Tip

    A Word From Our Sponsors

    About

    • About GeekWire
    • Contact Us
    • Partner With Us
    • Become a GeekWire Member
    • Send Us a Tip
    • Join Our Startup List
    • Reprints and Permissions

    Follow

    • Facebook
    • X
    • LinkedIn
    • Instagram
    • RSS Feed
    • Podcast
    • YouTube
    • Bluesky

    GeekWire Newsletters

    Catch every headline in your inbox

    Read GeekWire

    • Apple News
    • Google News

    Legal

    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
    • Sponsored Content Policy
    Return to Top of Page
    © 2011-2025 GeekWire, LLC
    Do Not Sell or Share My Personal information
    Limit the Use Of My Sensitive Personal Information
    Consent Preferences