SoDo design company Human Inc. announced a $21 million Series B this morning. CMO Mark Kroese said the company will use the cash to complete and launch its first product — smart over-ear wireless headphones — and grow its team.
Freight routing software company Convoy recently announced a $185 million Series C, 2018’s biggest investment raised by a private Seattle tech company thus far. With a ton of cash and a huge vote of confidence from the VC community in its back pocket, we asked Convoy CTO Grand Goodale about what’s next for Seattle’s newest unicorn.
Television ad analytics company iSpot.tv announced it had raised $30 million in Series C funding today, bringing its funding total past $57 million. The round was led by New York firm Insight Venture Partners and Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group.
The job hunt can be a lonely road — especially when you’re shooting applications into the ether and wondering whether you’ll ever hear back, let alone land a job. We spoke with recruiters from four Seattle tech companies — who are all hiring right now — about what they look for in a resume and cover letter.
A startup’s name needs to stand out from piles of other names that already stand out, and somehow convey elements of the company’s technology, mission and culture in just a few syllables. We picked a handful of the more unusually named companies on the Seattle tech scene, and asked them to explain themselves.
Convoy announced today that it had raised a $185 million Series C round of funding lead by CapitalG, the growth equity fund of Alphabet, Google’s parent company.
