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Arlington supply chain tech unicorn hires CFO
Arlington-based supply chain management technology company Interos Inc. has hired Aida Sukys as chief financial officer. Sukys was previously CFO at Justworks Inc., a human resources tech company. Sukys also was the group CFO and global head of financial business services for Willis Towers Watson PLC, a global risk management and insurance company. In that […]
Finnish software company establishes North American HQ in Reston
Helsinki-based e-permit software company Cloudpermit has chosen Reston for its North American headquarters, it said Wednesday. Last spring, during Gov. Ralph Northam’s trade visit to Germany, the company decided to locate the office in Fairfax County, with the precise location announced this week. The company currently has fewer than 10 employees working out of its […]
Arlington supply chain tech company joins unicorn club
Following its $100 million Series C financing round, Arlington-based supply chain management technology company Interos Inc. has been valued at $1 billion, reaching coveted unicorn status. Led by CEO Jennifer Bisceglie, Interos is one of 74 female-led unicorns, according to Crunchbase. Worldwide, there are more than 770 unicorn companies. Interos’ cloud platform uses artificial intelligence [...]
Arlington-based Higher Logic acquires Montreal’s Vanilla
Arlington-based tech company Higher Logic has acquired Canadian cloud-based community software company Vanilla. Vanilla was owned by New York-based growth equity investment firm Level Equity. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2007, Higher Logic offers a community engagement software platform aimed at associations and the corporate B2B market. With the acquisition [...]
Teresa Carlson leaves Amazon Web Services
Teresa Carlson, the Herndon-based executive who founded Amazon Web Services’ public sector business, is leaving Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing subsidiary to become president and chief growth officer of Splunk Inc., the San Francisco tech company announced today. Carlson was an influential and visible presence in the Washington, D.C., region for a little more than a […]
Lynchburg software firm names federal biz VP
Lynchburg-based CloudFit Software LLC in February hired Tom Sampson as its vice president for federal and regulated industries. Sampson previously served as the chief information officer of the U.S. Navy’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO). He has 22 years of leadership experience in Navy active and reserve service and 15 years of tech experience. In […]
Tysons analytics firm Qomplx plans to go public
Tysons-based risk analytics firm Qomplx Inc. announced Monday its plan to go public through a merger agreement with Tailwind Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company backed by Philip Krim, co-founder and CEO of online mattress retailer Casper Sleep Inc. The deal values Qomplx, which will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under […]
Salesforce to acquire McLean-based Acumen Solutions
On Dec. 1, the same day it announced that it was acquiring workplace communication service company Slack for $27.7 billion in cash and stock, cloud-services company Salesforce.com Inc. revealed that it’s also acquiring McLean-based professional services firm Acumen Solutions. San Francisco-based Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Acumen Solutions. In a statement [&[...]
Texas company starts building second data center in Ashburn
Plano, Texas-based data center infrastructure company Aligned Energy LLC has started construction on its second data center in Loudoun County’s Ashburn area, the company announced Tuesday. Aligned finished construction on its first 370,000-square-foot, 60-megawatt data in 2019. The new data center will add 513,000 square feet and 120 megawatts to the existing campus. “The first […[...]
Managing during crisis
Virginia Business virtually sat down with Craig Halliday, CEO of Dulles-based software company Unanet, which provides project management software, timesheet software, expense reporting software and other human resources software to federal government contractors, architects and engineers. This is part of an ongoing series of conversations with Virginians about how their work lives and businesses h[...]
Reston-based IndraSoft wins $43M Army contract
Reston-based software company IndraSoft Inc. has been granted a $43 million contract from the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) to enable data sharing and DevSecOps system integration, the company announced Monday. This contract will support the Army’s Maintenance of Enterprise Technologies and Applications (META) program. DevOps is a set of practices that automates [&hell[...]
SAIC set to acquire Unisys Federal for $1.2B
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) will acquire Unisys Federal for $1.2 billion, SAIC announced Thursday. Both companies are Reston-based, publicly traded federal contractors specializing in IT services. The transaction was approved by SAIC’s board of directors and the transaction is expected to close by May 1. Unisys Federal is an operating unit of Blue Bell, […]
