On Feb. 25, 2020 – a few weeks before COVID- 19 was declared a national emergency and social distancing became the norm – 100+ tech leaders gathered to celebrate Mardi Gras with the Montana High Tech Business Alliance in Bozeman.

2018 was a big year for Figure. Not only did the company raise about $50 million in a Series A round, but it introduced two new products and grew to 103 employees nationwide…

While some university professors draw criticism for staying in their “ivory towers,” Dr. Jay Evans is defying that mold. Depending on which side of the Clark Fork River he is on, Evans might be wearing a different hat. A research professor of immunology…

First Interstate Bank hosted their fourth consecutive fall Missoula Member Reception on the sixth floor of its downtown building on November 29. Members and guests from Bozeman, Columbia Falls, Kalispell, Helena, the Bitterroot Valley, and Rocky Boy, gathered to meet and share hors d'oeuvres.

As a female programmer in Montana, Lindsey Hanna is used to being in the minority. While earning her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Montana State University (class of 2012) and during her six years as a Software Engineer at Workiva, only around 10 percent of her colleagues have been women…

Fast-growing Montana tech firms expect to add more 1,200 new jobs in 2018, but some firms in the state already employ hundreds of people.

The last few months have been a season of growth and change for the Montana High Tech Business Alliance.

On July 9, the Alliance hit a new milestone as we welcomed our 350th member - WhiteBark, LLC, a telecommunications software consulting firm in Missoula headed by Ethan Schroeder…

More than 150 Montana High Tech Business Alliance members and guests gathered in Rocky Mountain Bank's West Main Street location on February 20, 2018 and enjoyed drinks and hors d'oeuvres as the sun set.

Workiva (NYSE:WK) created Wdesk, a cloud-based productivity platform for enterprises to collect, link, report and analyze business data with control and accountability. The platform's proprietary word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications are integrated and built upon a data management engine, offering synchronized data, controlled collaboration, granular permissions and a full audit trail.

When Workiva (WK) had its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2014, Jeff Trom had been there before. The Chief Technology Officer and six members of Workiva’s founding management team took a previous company, Engineering Animation, public in the 1990s.But the second time around, the IPO was easier and less costly thanks to Workiva’s proprietary Wdesk platform, which automated the process of filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).