Feb 24, 2023

Tree Top

Tree top will partner with 2023 Daytona 500 Champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and the Kroger Racing Team for the first time at the Pala Casino 400 on Sunday, February 26. Tree Top will be featured as the primary sponsor of Stenhouse Jr.'s car at the race in Fontana, California. Headquartered in Selah, Tree Top is a farmer-owned producer of fruit-based products, including apple juices and sauces. As part of the brand's partnership with the Kroger Racing team for the 2023 season, Tree Top's apple sauce and apple juice will be displayed on Stenhouse, Jr.'s car. Tree Top operates seven production facilities in Washington, Oregon and California.

Sentio

Seattle-based Sentio has raised $6.4 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Hashkey Capital, Canonical Crypto, Essence VC and GSR Ventures. The Sentio team consists of veteran engineers from Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and TikTok. Sentio provides modern monitoring, alerting and log management for decentralized applications as an integrated and hosted experience. Additional observability features such as user behavior analytics and transaction simulation/debugger are under development. Currently, Sentio supports Ethereum, Aptos, BSC, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche and Moonbeam.

Data I/O

Redmond-base Data I/O, a global provider of advanced security and data deployment solutions for security ICs, microcontrollers and memory devices, announced that Noa Leading Co. will offer SentriX security provisioning services in Japan. Noa Leading is Data I/O's exclusive sales distribution partner in Japan and is an established supplier of programming services to the Japan market. Security provisioning will be available to customers effective immediately. SentriX secures the global electronics supply chain and protects IoT device intellectual property from point of inception to deployment in the field. Since 1972, Data I/O has developed solutions to enable the design and manufacture of electronic products for automotive, Internet-of-Things, medical, wireless, consumer electronics, industrial controls and other electronics devices.

Symetra

Symetra was named to the Forbes 2023 America's Best Midsize Employers list, coming in at No. 58 among the top 500 midsize employers nationwide. The designation is Symetra's sixth workplace award in the last 24 months. Presented by Forbes and market research company Statista Inc., America's Best Midsize Employers 2023 were identified in an independent survey taken by approximately 45,000 American employees working for companies with more than 1,000 workers in the United States. In total, 500 employers were recognized across 25 different industry sectors. The evaluation was based on direct and indirect recommendations from respondents who were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their own employer to friends and family. Their evaluations also included other employers in their respective industries that stood out either positively or negatively. Symetra was previously named to Forbes'America's Best-in-State Employers Washington list in 2021 and 2022 and was recognized by Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work as one of the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women.

Feb 23, 2023

Inside T-Mo HQ

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Tech firms are trying to lure workers back to the office, and T-Mobile has the additional enticement of having completed a $600 million renovation of its Factoria campus last year. Now the telecom provider will let you take a look, courtesy of NAIOP, which is sponsoring the March 28 tour. It'll include representatives from Gensler and Andersen Construction, which led the effort, and from project manager MGAC. And for the proud tenant, Darcey Estes, Carol Reifsnyde, Brennan Veys and Try Fletcher will also be on hand. Details and registration: naiopwa.org.

Kidder Mathews

Gellner

Kidder Mathews announced its recent hiring of David Gellner, who joins the firm as executive VP with a specialty in commercial and retail properties. He makes the move from CPX (formerly Capital Pacific). With a decade in the trade, he's helped close deals worth over $500 million. KM's Monica Wallace said in a statement, “We are ecstatic to have David join us on the retail investment sales team. He is a leader in his market and will be a great fit as we continue to grow all aspects of our retail group.”

Infogain

Schmitt

Product and digital marketing expert Garrick Schmitt is joining Infogain as vice president, digital strategy and experiences, and will lead its experience transformation division, Revel. Schmitt was named to the Adweek Creative 100 and AdAge A-List for Data and Analytics, as well as Campaign US's 40 Over 40, which recognizes leaders making a difference in media, marketing and advertising. Schmitt brings 25 years of experience to Infogain. He served as the North America lead for service innovation for Razorfish. Most recently, Schmitt was executive vice president for EssenceMediacom. Revel is the experience transformation division of Infogain. Infogain is a human-centered digital platform engineering company based out of Silicon Valley, working in the technology, healthcare, insurance, travel, telecom, and retail/CPG industries. Infogain, an Apax Funds portfolio company, has offices in California, Washington, Texas, the UK, and Singapore, with delivery centers in Seattle, Houston, Montevideo, Kraków, Noida, Bengaluru, Pune, Gurgaon, and Mumbai.

ShiftPixy

ShiftPixy, a Miami-based national staffing enterprise which designs, manages, and sells access to a platform that facilitates employment, will expand its national sales team into several major metropolitan markets including Seattle, according to co-founder and CEO Scott Absher. ShiftPixy delivers a next-gen platform for workforce management that helps businesses with shift-based employees navigate regulatory mandates, minimize administrative burdens and better connect with a ready-for-hire workforce. ShiftPixy has expertise rooted in management's more than 25 years of workers' compensation and compliance programs experience.

Smartsheet

Bellevue-based Smartsheet, an enterprise platform for modern work management, has been recognized as a leader in G2's 2023 Best Software Awards, ranking in the top five for Best Products for Enterprise. Smartsheet is the only collaborative work management offering to rank in the top 50 of the enterprise category. The Smartsheet platform offers a set of enterprise-grade capabilities to empower everyone to manage projects, automate workflows and rapidly build solutions at scale.. Smartsheet has a focus on three solution categories: project and portfolio management, marketing and creative management, and strategic transformation. G2 is a global software marketplace, with over 80 million annual software buyers that use its peer reviews to make software decisions.