AdTech Landscape of Seattle
310 AdTech companies in Seattle, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, what the news is about and which skills employers want. Updated August 2026.
Who leads AdTech in Seattle
Shows the 310 Seattle AdTech firms and highlights the top hiring, best-funded, and most-covered companies, with 15 currently hiring and 89 having disclosed a funding round.
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Amazon Mobile Analytics11last posted Jun 2026
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Compose.ly6last posted Apr 2026
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Stackline4last posted Jun 2026
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iSpot.tv3last posted May 2026
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shaw/scott2last posted Jun 2026
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Amperity2last posted Nov 2025
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Assembly Media2last posted Oct 2025
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Gradial2last posted Feb 2026
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Swiftly$215.6MSeries C · Sep 2022
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Marchex$68.6MPost IPO · Mar 2014
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Common Room$52.9MSeries B · Mar 2021
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Fullcast$45MConventional Debt · Jan 2024
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getty images1,700tracked employees
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real networks281tracked employees
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Banzai0.6%5 tracked events
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Moz422articles in the window
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aQuantive25articles in the window
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QuestionPro21articles in the window
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Ampd17articles in the window
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Data Skrive10articles in the window
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How the AdTech ecosystem in Seattle grew, 2016–2025
Displays the number of companies founded each year from 2016 to 2025, peaking at 21 in 2024 and dropping to 5 in 2025.
The AdTech market map of Seattle: what these companies actually do
Breaks down product sub‑categories and revenue models, noting the largest groups such as enterprise tech (234) and the most common model being subscription (242).
The biggest kinds of AdTech company, by how many we track.
- Enterprise Tech234 companies · $1.9B raised · 8 hiring
- Enterprise Software185 companies · $1.8B raised · 7 hiring
- SaaS161 companies · $1.5B raised · 4 hiring
- Consumer Digital24 companies · $43M raised
- Commerce Enablers20 companies · $547.6M raised · 1 hiring
- Gtm Software18 companies · $189.2M raised
- Lead Management18 companies · $114.2M raised · 1 hiring
- Lead Generation18 companies · $33.8M raised · 1 hiring
- Conversion Rate Optimization17 companies · $29.2M raised
- Market Research Tools17 companies · $38.9M raised · 1 hiring
- Techstars Portfolio13 companies · $58M raised · 1 hiring
- Native AI in Marketing12 companies · $75.8M raised
Monetization
How AdTech companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
Funding, M&A and the deals moving AdTech in Seattle
Counts 562 corporate events over the past two years, including 165 new product announcements and 108 contract signings.
- M&ATransUnion (NYSE: TRU) has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of the mobile division of RealNetworks.2026-04-01
- M&AElevate, a global agency network focused on experience design, has acquired Downstream and GA in a strategic double acquisition aimed at redefining how brands and properties engage audiences across sports, corporate, and luxury hospitality sectors.2025-12-19
- FundingGradial – $35.0M2025-12-08
- M&AMarchex Inc (NASDAQ:MCHX) has entered into an agreement to acquire Arcadia, which could enhance its AI-driven customer acquisition and outcome optimization platform.2025-11-14
- M&ABanzai acquired the assets of Superblocks, a web development and hosting software company, to strengthen its full-stack development and cloud deployment capabilities.2025-11-13
- M&AOpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion deal to buy cloud services from Amazon.com, in its first big push to power its AI ambitions after a restructuring last week that gave the ChatGPT maker greater operational and financial freedom.2025-11-03
- M&AFullcast, a leader in Go-to-Market (GTM) and revenue operations automation, today announced the acquisition of Copy.ai.2025-10-15
- M&ADbt Labs had signed an agreement to acquire startup Transform earlier that year.2025-10-13
- M&ABank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 352,388 shares of the company’s stock valued at $761,000 after acquiring an additional 146,576 shares during the period.2025-06-05
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a AdTech company in Seattle was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
| Acquirer | Target | Deal value | Status | Date |
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| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-04-16 | ||
| undisclosed | Completed | 2026-04-01 | ||
| Amazon Mobile Analytics | undisclosed | Announced | 2026-03-20 | |
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-02-09 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2025-12-19 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2025-11-13 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Details specific event types like leadership moves, product launches, and customer contract wins.
BoltiveEllen Kamor · Appointment → Chief Revenue OfficerMar 2026
Amazonwon wavemakerAug 2025
- microsoft v openai, amazon web servicesbreach of contract over API routing between Microsoft and OpenAIMar 2026
- UK regulators v shutterstock, getty imagesphase 2 investigation into mergerNov 2025
Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +17.8%, half slower.
Who is building AdTech in Seattle
Profiles 168 founders and CEOs across 117 firms, with Stanford and MIT among the most frequent alma maters and Amazon and Microsoft as common prior employers.
Ex-Microsoft, Oliver Wyman, Centerview Partners, Polaris Partners. Dartmouth College BA
Common Room, ex-Convoy, ex-Dropbox, The University of Texas at Austin
Ex- salesforce.com, Microsoft, Delteq Systems. Bangalore University, NYU Stern School of Business MBA
EX- Linteau Consulting, Datamensional, BUYSTAND, EvoApp. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BA .
DataHub · Ex-dbt Labs, Transform, Airbnb, Facebook · University of California, Berkeley
Levanta, ex-Acceleration Partners, ex-Grovia By Acceleration Partners, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
Ex-McKinsey & Company, Amazon. IIT Guwahati BTech, INSEAD MBA
comScore, PushSpring, ex- CEO Informate Mobile Intelligence. Williams College BA 1982
Prompt Io, ex-Jawfish Games, ex-Professional Poker Player, Georgia Tech., 1991
- flagged as repeat founders3
- no repeat-founder flag141
- women11
- men145
Look up the people behind AdTech companies in Seattle
Search founders, executives and operators by company, role and location.
Who funds AdTech in Seattle
Lists 124 funding rounds since 2016 from 204 investors, with an average round size of $3.5 million.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
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| Madrona | 17 | 7 | Apr 2026 |
| Techstars | 8 | 5 | Oct 2023 |
| Index Ventures | 5 | 4 | Jun 2021 |
| Pioneer Square Labs | 5 | 2 | Apr 2025 |
| Vulcan Capital | 4 | 2 | Mar 2017 |
| ASCEND | 4 | — | Sep 2025 |
| Divergent Ventures | 3 | 2 | Mar 2017 |
| Founders' Co-op | 3 | 2 | May 2019 |
| Wildcat Venture Partners | 3 | 2 | Aug 2019 |
| Tiger Global Management | 3 | 2 | Jul 2021 |
The typical round is $3.5M — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest AdTech funding rounds in Seattle
Highlights the largest disclosed round—iSpot.tv’s $335 million Series D—and includes ten other large rounds.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
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| Series Dmega-round | $335M | Apr 2022 | Goldman Sachs Asset Management | |
| Series B | $130M | Jun 2021 | TA | |
| Series C | $100M | Sep 2022 | BRV Capital Management | |
| Series B | $100M | Mar 2022 | Liquid 2 Ventures, Bramalea Partners, Gaingels +6 more | |
| Series D | $100M | Jul 2021 | Highsage, Tiger Global Management, Declaration Partners +2 more | |
| Series C | $50M | Jul 2019 | Tiger Global Management, Goldman Sachs, Declaration Partners +3 more | |
| Series A | $50M | Nov 2020 | Goldman Sachs | |
| Series D | $44.9M | Nov 2022 | — | |
| Series B | $35M | Dec 2025 | VMG Partners, Madrona, PruVen Capital | |
| Series A | $32.9M | Oct 2023 | EPIC Ventures, Companyon Ventures, FirsthandVC +2 more |
27 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
Seed$7MApr 2026
Series A$11.5MMar 2026
What the news says about AdTech in Seattle
Records 13,373 news articles in the last year, covering topics such as administrative subdivisions and geopolitical disputes.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate AdTech news in United States. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.
- Administrative and political subdivisions4,358,400▲+20%
- Geopolitical disputes and contested areas320,844▲+34%
- International and transnational geographic entities320,678▲+34%
- International political relations208,151▲+34%
- Security and defense policies145,113▲+60%
- International relations and diplomacy95,946▲+22%
- Geographic naming conventions and etymology82,164▲+453%
- Trade policies and agreements73,541→+8%
- Human rights advocacy reports69,954→+3%
- Political asylum and refugee policies56,591→+3%
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20 AdTech companies here were named in the news over this period.
Watch AdTech coverage in United States as it happens
Prism follows these subjects story by story — which companies are named, what is said about them and how the tone moves.
Momentum
The words getting louder — and quieter
Which terms are showing up in more stories than a year ago, and which are fading. The percentage is the change in how many articles mention them.
The pressures the press keeps returning to
Three recurring angles in United States AdTech coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
AdTech jobs in Seattle: who is hiring and what they ask for
Aggregates 13,940 job postings from 34 employers, noting top skills like AWS and Python and a median advertised salary of $53 k per year.
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What AdTech employers in Seattle put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
- aws110▲
- python64▲
- sql44▲
- snowflake37▲
- redshift36▲
- airflow30▲
- ai27▲
- java23▲
- robotics23▲
- data analysis23▲
- Manager$154k/yr (n=33)
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140 AdTech-relevant internships in India were advertised over the same 12 months.
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