Jonathan Sposato, the CEO of Picnik, a Seattle-based photo editing company acquired by Google a year ago, said today he made an investment in GeekWire, the online media company founded by technology journalists John Cook and Todd Bishop. GeekWire isn’t disclosing the amount of the investment, or how long of a cash runway it provides, although Sposato is the sole investor, Cook says. Since GeekWire was started earlier this month, it has formed media partnerships with msnbc.com, KING-5, and 97.3 KIRO-FM radio.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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