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.
Kirkland communications tech company Pivotal Commware has raised $14.7 million in an ongoing Series B round. The company is ultimately chasing a cool $20 million.
Seattle is getting another coding school, with the Flatiron School announcing that it will opening its first west coast bootcamp in Seattle early next year. The organization will start running its 15-week courses out of a downtown WeWork in January 2019.
