DocuSign, Isilon, Swype and More Take Honors at WTIA Industry Achievement Awards

Hundreds of techies braved Seattle’s latest snowpocalypse for one of the community’s biggest shindigs: The Washington Technology Industry Association‘s Industry Achievement Awards.

If there was a theme to Thursday’s speeches, I’d say it was a rousing round of yay-Seattle encouragement for other entrepreneurs to start their companies here—which I guess is kind of the point, but it felt totally genuine.

The whole thing was emceed by Luke Burbank of the Too Beautiful To Live podcast.

Here’s the list of winners:

• Commercial Product or Service of the Year: Judges delivered a tie between DocuSign and Isilon Systems. They beat out third finalist thePlatform.

DocuSign has several e-signature products for business and individual customers, specifically DocuSign for Salesforce, DocuSign Enterprise, and DocuSign Realtor Edition. The company made news in December by raising $27 million in a Series C round.

Data-storage company Isilon (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ISLN]]) was acquired last year for $2.25 billion in cash by Hopkinton, MA-based data storage giant EMC (NYSE: [[ticker:EMC]]). Just last month, Isilon announced it was moving to Pioneer Square.

• Consumer Product or Service of the Year: Swype, a maker of text-input software for touch screens, which has inked plenty of deals with

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Author: Curt Woodward

Curt covered technology and innovation in the Boston area for Xconomy. He previously worked in Xconomy’s Seattle bureau and continued some coverage of Seattle-area tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft. Curt joined Xconomy in February 2011 after nearly nine years with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He worked in three states and covered a wide variety of beats for the AP, including business, law, politics, government, and general mayhem. A native Washingtonian, Curt earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. As a past president of the state's Capitol Correspondents Association, he led efforts to expand statehouse press credentialing to online news outlets for the first time.