Spring Wireless bounces into Seattle
A Brazilian mobile-software company with an eye on worldwide expansion announced this week that it'll set up its US headquarters in downtown Seattle. The advent of Spring Wireless could mean 35 new jobs for Rain City.
TechFlash reports that the company, which focuses on the enterprise space and counts Coca-Cola, McDonald's, ExxonMobil, Visa and Motorola among its customers, will add mainly marketing and sales jobs to the region. It has already picked up several former Microsoft folk to get things rolling.
The company is currently in venture-cap mode and last August received $66 million in funds from Goldman Sachs and NEA to aid expansion plans.
The new tech-sector jobs come at a touchy time for not just the industry, but for the relatively small subneighborhood of Seattle's downtown where Spring Internet expects to locate. Earlier in the week, Seattle corporate presence Real Networks announced that it'll cut around 20 jobs from its Rhapsody USA division, some of them in the Belltown-neighborhood corporate HQ.