Week-Ending Seattle News Tidbits

—Frank Artale of Ignition Partners led a $15 million investment in ServiceMesh, a provider of cloud-computing platforms for businesses. As VentureBeat reports, Santa Monica, CA-based Service Mesh had been self-funded up until the Ignition-led investment.

It’s one of many cloud-computing investments we’ve seen this year from Artale, who has long experience in the sector as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor. Check out this profile I did in July, just previously the flurry of announcements about Artale’s investments started hitting the news.

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