Thea Chard
Before joining Xconomy, Thea spent a year working as the editor of another startup, the hyperlocal Seattle neighborhood news site QueenAnneView.com. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California, where she double-majored in print journalism and creative writing. While in college, Thea spent a semester studying in London and writing for the London bureau of the Los Angeles Times. Indulging in her passion for feature writing, she has covered a variety of topics ranging from the arts, to media, clean technology and breaking news. Before moving back to Seattle, Thea worked in new media development on two business radio shows, "Marketplace" and "Marketplace Money" by American Public Media. Her clips have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Santa Monica Daily Press, Seattle magazine and her college paper, the Daily Trojan. Thea is a native Seattleite who grew up in Magnolia, and now lives in Queen Anne.
Recent posts
Twice a year the Northwest Energy Angels put on a showcase where the organization’s investors can talk shop, and local cleantech companies have the opportunity to update the group of angels—many... Read more »
Bellevue, WA-based mobile Internet service provider Motricity (Nasdaq: MOTR), passed the profitability mark yesterday, when it posted its 2010 third quarter financial results. The company, which struggled through a disappointingly... Read more »
Anyone who says software startups don’t bring in big investment dollars anymore, clearly hasn’t been paying attention to Urban Airship.
Beyond being one of a new and interesting class of... Read more »
[Correction: 7:40 am 11/1/10] Last night was the big night—we gathered some of the biggest names in Northwest financing for Xconomy’s “VC Crossfire” event, at Amazon’s new... Read more »
Seattle-based social wedding software company Nearlyweds said today it has closed a $500,000 equity financing round from Founder’s Co-op, Jon Kelly, Andy Liu, David Niu, and other investors. The startup also... Read more »
Every month we take some time to look at the deals Washington tech and biotech companies inked in the month prior, and compare them to recent trends. Unlike our weekly investment... Read more »
It’s not often that you meet a CEO who works a maximum of 55 hours a week, participates in push up challenges with coworkers in the office, and wears the company... Read more »
Denver, CO-based Photobucket, which merged with Seattle-based mobile imaging startup Ontela in December 2009, has promoted Tom Munro to the position of chief executive, the company said today. Munro... Read more »
Seattle-based supercomputing company Cray (NASDAQ: CRAY) has inked a contract deal with the University of Stuttgart, to deliver two supercomputers to the University’s High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). The... Read more »
[UpdatedI 12:15 pm Pacific] We’ve been covering the cleantech space here at Xconomy for some time, and the whispers we keep hearing from the folks at the Northwest Energy... Read more »
For months the flow of news about Seattle-area technology company deals has felt like a trickle, and then all of the sudden this week we have deals coming out of our... Read more »
Seattle-based Recruiting.com (formerly called Jobster) has been acquired by Phoenix, AZ-based employment website Jobing, according to a report by TechFlash. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.... Read more »
There’s a new mobile company in town—Dublin, Ireland-based NewBay Software, which is celebrating the opening of its new U.S. headquarters in Seattle today. The firm says it chose Seattle for... Read more »
Tukwila, WA-based digital-to-physical media company RPI has raised an additional $5 million financing round led by Portland, OR-based Riverlake Partners, with participation from its previous investor, San Diego-based Huntington Capital, the... Read more »
It’s been quite a busy week here for Northwest-area technology companies and entrepreneurs. There haven’t been a particularly high number of straight deals, but while flipping through my notebook this... Read more »
Seattle-based search engine optimization (SEO) and social media software startup Optify has raised $6.1 million in a Series B round led by Triangle Peak Partners, the company said today. Seattle-based... Read more »
There’s been a lot of buzz around Seattle about Doxo lately. And yet, the startup has managed to maintain some stealthiness around what it actually does—despite the fact that it has... Read more »
Seattle-based travel startup Off & Away has raised a $2 million financing round, led by Madrona Venture Group, according to a report by TechCrunch. The company, which rolled out in... Read more »
Seattle-based TalentSpring has been acquired by Richmond, B.C.-based recruitment and hiring software company Talent Technology, according to a statement released today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
TalentSpring is a semantic-search software developer that helps job recruiters better match candidates to open positions. To date, the company has raised $2.7 million in financing from Second Avenue Partners and private investors. TalentSpring's system gives employers access to over 120 million resumes, aggregating information from Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, and Dice, alongside niche job boards, social networks, the Web, and the company's internal resume database.
... Read more »The last few weeks have been slow on deals for Seattle-area technology companies, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been some interesting ones to watch. Take a look at the highlights:... Read more »
