Flexe, a Seattle logistics startup that hit a $1 billion valuation last year, has laid off 33% of its staff. The company confirmed the cuts to GeekWire but did not… Read More
— Hootsuite appointed Elina Vilk as chief marketing officer. Vilk previously worked as CMO at Woocommerce, an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress sites. She also held marketing leadership roles at… Read More
A Star Wars theme complemented the rising stars on hand as light sabers glowed and a galaxy of lights twinkled overhead during the GeekWire Awards on Thursday in Seattle. We… Read More
One of the five finalists for Next Tech Titan at the 2023 GeekWire Awards will join an elite class of companies. Past winners of this category have gone on to… Read More
— David Glick left his position as chief technology officer of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe. Glick spent nearly four years at Flexe, which raised $119 million million in July, pushing… Read More
The news: Flexe is the latest to join Seattle’s unicorn club. The 9-year-old company just raised a $119 million Series D round to push its valuation past $1 billion. Demand… Read More
Seattle startup Flexe is raising more cash to bolster its marketplace used by retailers to purchase on-demand warehousing space. A new SEC filing reveals that the company has raised $67.9… Read More
Building and running a company is no easy task in the best of times, let alone amid the ongoing uncertainty of the past year. This year’s finalists for CEO of… Read More
Unicorn startups are everywhere these days. CB Insights’ unicorn tracker — keeping tabs on privately-held companies valued at $1 billion or more — is quickly approaching 1,000 companies. And earlier… Read More
— Seattle startup vet Brian Goldfarb was named chief marketing officer at Tenable, a Columbia, Md.-based cybersecurity company. He was most recently CMO at Seattle marketing startup Amperity. Goldfarb was… Read More
— Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product… Read More
CEOs did not have an easy task running their companies over the past 12 months — navigating a series of tough societal, economic and public health challenges. But even in… Read More
— Former Amazon Web Services and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. She is currently vice… Read More
Seattle startup Flexe raised an additional $10 million as part of its Series C funding round announced in December. Flexe CEO Karl Siebrecht said there was more investor interest than anticipated.… Read More
Flexe is raising more capital ahead of schedule as the pandemic-driven e-commerce boom spurs faster-than-expected growth for its warehousing technology platform. The Seattle startup announced a $70 million Series C… Read More
Online sales are skyrocketing as people stay home amid the pandemic. E-commerce as a share of total U.S. retail sales increased by more than 4% sequentially in the second quarter.… Read More
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post written by David Glick, CTO at Flexe, a Seattle logistics startup. I’ve spent a lot of time in warehouses. I joined Amazon… Read More
Amazon Web Services revolutionized the way that companies run their business online, allowing them to pay for as much compute power as needed without having to own or operate physical… Read More
As more consumers shop online, retailers need capacity to ship products across the country — particularly as they battle e-commerce kingpin Amazon. Flexe, a Seattle logistics startup that operates an… Read More
— Flexe, a Seattle startup that provides flexible, on-demand warehouse space to companies, added two new members to its leadership team. Deirdre Runnette will serve as the company’s chief people… Read More
The Pacific Northwest tech scene is known primarily for giants such as Amazon and Microsoft, but there is a huge crop of fast-growing companies ready to make the leap to… Read More
Napster parent company Rhapsody snagged Angel Gambino as its chief commercial officer. Gambino founded and was CEO of Sensai, which uses AI to help organizations improve social media campaigns. Gambino’s… Read More
Ed Yue‘s first foray into the world of warehouses was not particularly auspicious. “I almost got run over by a forklift,” said Yue, who is co-founder and chief of operations… Read More
Manny Medina was 20 years old when he came to the United States to pursue opportunities in engineering. “For me, the American Dream is that I could be anybody I… Read More
First- and second-generation immigrants make up only 27 percent of the U.S. population, yet more than half of the most valuable U.S. tech companies were founded by immigrants or the… Read More
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is doing some of the most interesting AI and machine learning work in the world, right here in Seattle, and it’s looking to add… Read More
The GeekWire 200 has always been a showcase for the variety of startups that call the Pacific Northwest home. The top of the list boasts everything from space companies, to… Read More
Flexe, a Seattle startup that offers a marketplace for warehouse space, announced Thursday a new next-day delivery service, which the company said would give brands the ability to reach 98 percent… Read More
Building a marketplace for warehouse space isn’t the most sexy job in today’s tech industry, but for one Seattle startup, it is certainly proving to be lucrative. Flexe today announced… Read More
Building a startup from scratch is no easy task, but the Pacific Northwest has no shortage of entrepreneurial wunderkinds. The five finalists in the 2016 GeekWire Awards for Startup of the… Read More
