Sunny Gupta on Apptio’s lightbulb moment, and the key questions behind the tech company’s success For Sunny Gupta, the inspiration behind Apptio started with a simple question: What are you struggling with? After selling two… Read More
Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta stepping down, 17 years after founding enterprise software giant Sunny Gupta, who launched Apptio more than 17 years ago and helped build the Seattle-area company into an enterprise software… Read More
From idea to IPO to IBM: How Apptio defied the skeptics on its 16-year journey to a $4.6B deal Feb. 9, 2017, will go down as one of the toughest days in Apptio’s history. It had been less than… Read More
IBM’s $4.6B Apptio deal marks another new era for Seattle-area cloud and IT management company IBM announced a deal Monday to buy Apptio for $4.6 billion from Vista Equity Partners, less than five years after… Read More
Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta gets $196 million payday as private equity buyout closes It’s a good day to be Sunny Gupta. The Apptio co-founder and CEO stood to make $196 million as the… Read More
Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta: Going private doesn’t change our growth mentality Apptio will have more freedom to grow its IT spending management business as a private company, according to co-founder and… Read More
Q&A: Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta talks life as a public company, breaking even, and besting the competition Apptio is settling in after completing its first quarter as a public company. Though the company is still not profitable, losses… Read More
Unicorn envy: Where is Seattle’s next billion-dollar idea? View image | gettyimages.com Once upon a time, there was an exclusive club that only allowed technology companies worth $1 billion… Read More
Memo: Apptio bylaw change causes stir, but company denies IPO connection Is Apptio prepping for an IPO? No, the company says. However, a memo sent to ex-employees by Apptio general counsel… Read More
Apptio raises $45 million at a hefty valuation, plans to accelerate ‘on all fronts’ Apptio is not playing small ball. Just 14 months after raising a $50 million venture round, Bellevue-based Apptio is back… Read More
Fast-growing Apptio opens new HQ, plans hiring surge of more than 100 in 2013 Bellevue-based Apptio has a new logo, a new headquarters and a growing slate of new customers. But one thing remains… Read More
Newsmakers 2012: Apptio’s Sunny Gupta swings for the fences The thing we’ve always liked about Sunny Gupta is that he’s not playing “small ball.” Nope, the entrepreneur is taking a… Read More
Apptio’s valuation pegged at $600 million: Could IPO come next? New details are emerging about Apptio’s huge $50 million venture round, which closed six months ago from T. Rowe Price,… Read More
Best of Startup Day: Sunny Gupta’s lessons on raising venture capital We’re continuing our build-up to GeekWire Startup Day — taking place Sept. 22 at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue— with videos from… Read More
Here are 5 tech companies from Seattle that could take the IPO plunge in 2012 The world may be waiting on a Facebook IPO. And while there’s some chatter about whether the $5 billion public… Read More
Holy cow! Apptio on pace to top $50 million in bookings this year Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta has been talking for some time now about building the next big enterprise software company in the… Read More
Inrix CEO: Seattle tech scene gets solid A (with one exception) Inrix CEO Bryan Mistele knows just how hard it is to raise venture capital. Before the company grew to more… Read More
