When a funding round is about more than money: Seattle startup raises $6M

Tinypulse CEO David Niu knows the good times won’t last forever, and since the market was still frothy late last year, he felt the time was right to top off the gas-tank. In December 2015, the company raised $6 million bringing the total funding raised to $9.5 million. Tinypulse makes software companies can use to poll their employees and gauge how happy they are with their workplaces. The company has more than 100 employees and has been hiring aggressively. So why was it the right time to raise…