Technology
Seattle Tech Startup Shujinko Raises $7.5M a Year After Successful $2.8M Seed Round
Funding will be used to expand hiring and accelerate the companys product-development push
Seattle startup Shujinko, a provider of cloud-compliance software, has hauled in $7.5 million as part of a Series A fundraising round that will be used to develop its SaaS platform, which serves customers seeking to move older databases to the cloud or launch new ones while maintaining compliance standards. The company hit the market last…
Seattle Business Magazine’s Winners of the 2019 Tech Impact Awards
The best of the best: We honor the tech-sector leaders of our booming region
This article appears in print in the October 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Tech Impact Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. It’s no secret that the Puget Sound region’s white-hot technology sector is among the nation’s strongest. Seattle ranks No. 2 in the United States for tech talent,…
Mysterious Seattle Robotics Startup Launched by Serial Entrepreneur Paul Mikesell Raises $8.9M
The company indicates only that it will be designing intelligent robots to handle common chores
A former Uber executive who also co-founded two successful tech startups has just raised a bunch of cash for a mysterious robotics startup located on Western Avenue in downtown Seattle, federal filings show. Maka Autonomous Robotic Systems Inc., founded and headed by serial entrepreneur Paul Mikesell, who most recently worked at Uber as director of…
2019 Tech Impact Awards, Gaming/Entertainment: Rec Room
Plus: Silver Award winner Unikrn
This article appears in print in the October 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Tech Impact Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Rec Room (formerly Against Gravity)Location: Seattle Rec Room cofounder and Chief Executive Officer Nick Fajt likes to tell the story of how one couple met, dated and…
Tech Workers Give Microsoft, Redfin, Zillow Top Marks
Culture, short commutes are key attributes
Microsoft Corp., Redfin Corp. and Zillow Group Inc. are the top employer brands in the Puget Sound region. Job website Hired asked more than 3,600 tech workers in 14 cities to rate their regions top employers. Locally, Amazon Inc. finished No. 4 and Tableau Software Inc. was No. 5. Two companies REI Inc. (No. 9)…
Seattle’s Cray Inc. Is a Fast Act to Catch in the Supercomputing Arena
The legacy tech company remains at the forefront of supercomputing globally
BIG DATA. Explosive growth in data and the demand for tools to process and analyze that information are driving a new era in high-performance computing, says Cray Inc. CEO Peter Ungaro.
Trump Administrations Sanctions on Huawei Result in Layoffs in Washington State
The Chinese telecom giant announced job cuts at its Futurewei R&D unit, including at its location in Bellevue
President Donald Trumps executive order banning U.S. companies from using telecom equipment made by companies his administration deems a national security threat, which targeted Chinese manufacturer Huawei, has led the company to layoff some 600 employees at its Futurewei Technologies U.S. subsidiary, including 41 at a Futurewei office in Bellevue. The layoffs also affect Futurewei…