AI Landscape of Seattle
220 AI companies in Seattle, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated August 2026.
Who leads AI in Seattle
Shows the top AI firms in Seattle by size, funding, hiring activity and media coverage; includes 220 companies, with 24 currently hiring and 74 having disclosed recent funding.
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Read AI6last posted Jan 2026
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BlackSky4last posted Mar 2026
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Union.ai4last posted May 2026
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Twelve Labs4last posted Apr 2026
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iUNU3last posted Dec 2025
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Pipe173last posted Jan 2026
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ParallelDots3last posted Jul 2026
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getty images2last posted Mar 2026
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Outreach$489.1MSeries G · Jun 2021
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Overland$152.8MVenture Debt · Feb 2026
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Octo$132.6MSeries C · Nov 2021
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Protect AI$129.3MSeries B · Jul 2024
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Phaidra$92.5MSeries B · Oct 2025
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real networks281tracked employees
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OctoML110tracked employees
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Textio105tracked employees
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Koidra44tracked employees
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Humanly41tracked employees
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infinitii ai8.4%24 tracked events
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Vouched8.1%23 tracked events
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Yoodli8.1%23 tracked events
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Presight4.6%13 tracked events
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Defined Crowd12articles in the window
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See all 220 AI companies in Seattle
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How the AI ecosystem in Seattle grew, 2016–2025
Lists the number of AI startups founded each year from 2016 to 2025, highlighting a peak of 36 new companies in 2023 and 19 in 2025.
The AI market map of Seattle: what these companies actually do
Breaks down the product types these firms develop and their revenue models, noting the largest categories such as enterprise tech and SaaS, and that most earn via subscriptions.
- Enterprise Tech174 companies · $2.4B raised · 21 hiring
- Enterprise Software138 companies · $2B raised · 16 hiring
- SaaS114 companies · $1.6B raised · 11 hiring
- Deep Tech99 companies · $1.2B raised · 14 hiring
- Consumer Digital27 companies · $181.2M raised · 2 hiring
- Native AI in Software Development20 companies · $409.3M raised · 4 hiring
- Native AI in Healthcare14 companies · $73.7M raised · 1 hiring
- Native AI in Marketing13 companies · $75.8M raised
- Healthtech13 companies · $73.7M raised · 1 hiring
- Future of Work11 companies · $167.8M raised · 3 hiring
- Native AI in Sales11 companies · $571.3M raised · 1 hiring
- No Code AI Platforms10 companies · $2M raised
Monetization
How AI 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 AI in Seattle
Counts 184 corporate events over the past two years, detailing the mix of funding rounds, earnings releases, mergers, leadership changes and other announcements.
- M&ABellevue, Wash.-based Humanly, a startup that makes AI-powered interviewing tools for employers, announced it has acquired Anthill, a platform that uses AI to help companies connect with and support frontline employees.2026-04-14
- M&ATransUnion (NYSE: TRU) has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of the mobile division of RealNetworks.2026-04-01
- FundingOverland AI has now raised a total of $122.0M in total equity funding and is backed by 8VC, Ascend, Overmatch Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Shasta Ventures, StepStone Group, and Valor Equity Partners.2026-02-09
- FundingYoodli – $40.0M2025-12-08
- M&ACadence Design Systems (Nasdaq: CDNS) has announced an agreement to acquire ChipStack, a Seattle-based twenty-person startup specialising in AI-powered chip verification tools.2025-11-12
- FundingTestSprite has now raised a total of $8.2M in total equity funding and is backed by Baidu Ventures, Edge Case Capital Partners, Hat Trick Ventures, Jinqiu Capital, MiraclePlus, Techstars, and Trilogy Equity Partners.2025-11-02
- M&AThreeD Capital Inc. (“ThreeD”) (CSE:IDK / OTCQX:IDKFF) a Canadian based venture capital firm focused on opportunistic investments in companies in the junior resources and disruptive technologies sectors, announces that through the completion of a convertible debenture offering in October 2025 (the “Acquisition”), ThreeD and Park Place Limited, a corporation wholly owned and controlled by Sheldon Inwentash (the “Joint Actor”), acquired ownership and control of unsecured convertible debentures (the “Subject Debentures”) of infinitii ai inc. (the “Company” or “infinitii”), convertible into 5,000,000 units of the Company (the “Subject Debenture Units”).2025-11-01
- FundingPhaidra, a Seattle-based AI startup, has secured over $50 million in Series B funding, led by Collaborative Fund.2025-10-03
- FundingSynthesize Bio, a biotechnology company pioneering biological foundation models to simulate the results of gene expression experiments, today announced a $10 million seed round led by Madrona, with participation from Sahsen Ventures, Inner Loop Capital, Point Field Partners, and AI2 Incubator.2025-09-18
- FundingVouched, a young American company, announced that it had raised $17 million for its solution, which aims to enable companies to identify and monitor AI agents operating on their platforms.2025-09-10
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a AI 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 | 2026-04-18 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-04-16 | ||
| undisclosed | Completed | 2026-04-01 | ||
| $500M | Announced | 2026-02-18 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-02-09 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2025-11-10 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Provides details on notable events like IPO filings, leadership moves, product launches and contract wins within the Seattle AI sector.
Dropzone AIBrett Candon · Appointment → Vice President, InternationalJan 2026
- UK regulators v shutterstock, getty imagesphase 2 investigation into mergerNov 2025
- Competition and Markets Authority v getty images, shutterstockCompetition concerns in Getty Images–Shutterstock merger · OngoingOct 2025
Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +12.0%, half slower.
Who is building AI in Seattle
Ex-Amazon Web Services, Oracle, DataScience.com, American Express, Userplane.
Co-Founder & GTM-TwelveLabs · Ex-Founder-Blockchain at Yonsei · Yonsei University BBA
Ex- DeepMind, Imtech ICT, Sentenial, Keane. Anna University B.Tech 2005
Ex-Foursquare, Placed · University of Puget Sound BA 1994, UC Santa Barbara PhD 2000
Ex-Founder & CEO OpenWhere, Co-Founder ITspatial, GeoEye. Clarkson University BS 1985, Syracuse University MS
Portuguese Diaspora Council, ex-VoiceBox Technologies, Microsoft. University of Porto BA 2000, University of Minho MA 2005…
Co-Founder Pure Blue Technologies, ex-Montlake Consulting Group, Amazon. University of Washington
Yoodli, ex-Allen Institute For Ai, ex-Apple, GoingVC, 2020
Ex-ExtraHop Networks · University of California, Berkeley BS 2012, University of Washington MS 2015
- flagged as repeat founders4
- no repeat-founder flag178
- women21
- men160
Look up the people behind AI companies in Seattle
Search founders, executives and operators by company, role and location.
Who funds AI in Seattle
Identifies the investors behind 179 funding rounds since 2016, noting 349 distinct investors and a typical round size of $6 million.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
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| Madrona | 33 | 16 | Nov 2025 |
| Techstars | 10 | 4 | Oct 2025 |
| Flying Fish Ventures | 9 | 5 | Jul 2022 |
| Y Combinator | 8 | 5 | May 2025 |
| Index Ventures | 8 | 4 | Oct 2025 |
| ASCEND | 8 | — | Sep 2025 |
| Point72 Ventures | 7 | 4 | Nov 2025 |
| Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 2 | Apr 2023 |
| AI2 Incubator | 7 | 2 | Sep 2025 |
| Founders' Co-op | 7 | — | Mar 2026 |
The typical round is $6M — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest AI funding rounds in Seattle
Lists the biggest disclosed funding deals, with Outreach’s $201 million Series G round leading a set of ten large investments.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
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| Series G | $201M | Jun 2021 | Tiger Global Management, Lone Pine Capital, Sands Capital +6 more | |
| Series E | $114M | Apr 2019 | Lone Pine Capital, Lemonade Capital, Meritech +7 more | |
| Series C | $85M | Nov 2021 | Tiger Global Management, Addition, Madrona +1 more | |
| Series B | $80.8M | Jul 2024 | Evolution Equity Partners, 01 Advisors, StepStone Group +5 more | |
| Series B | $80M | Nov 2025 | 8VC, Point72 Ventures, Ascend Venture Capital +4 more | |
| Series D | $65M | May 2018 | Mayfield, Trinity Ventures, MHS Capital +5 more | |
| Series B | $50.5M | May 2020 | Evolution Equity Partners, Kibo Ventures, Portugal Ventures +8 more | |
| Series F | $50M | Jun 2020 | Operator Collective, Lone Pine Capital, Spark Capital +6 more | |
| Series B | $50M | Oct 2024 | Smash Capital, Goodwater Capital, Madrona | |
| Series B | $50M | Oct 2025 | Collab Fund, Helena, Index Ventures +2 more |
62 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
Seed$4.2MMar 2026
What the news says about AI in Seattle
Counts 9,410 news articles from the last year, showing coverage of product launches, partnerships, and topics such as responsible AI and regulation.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate AI news in United States. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.
- Cryptocurrency impact on forex markets54,305▲+87%
- New product launches and innovations45,975▲+33%
- Technology adoption and digital transformation41,410▲+28%
- Strategic partnerships and collaborations37,461▲+45%
- College athletics news33,026▼-59%
- Artificial intelligence advancements32,181▲+40%
- Executive leadership changes and appointments27,800▲+36%
- Sports history and legacy stories24,526▲+1065%
- International political relations22,380▲+53%
- Security and defense policies21,442▲+44%
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29 AI companies here were named in the news over this period.
Watch AI 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 AI coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
AI jobs in Seattle: who is hiring and what they ask for
Reports 850 job postings from 48 Seattle AI firms in the past year, with common skills like Python and Kubernetes and a median salary of $135 k.
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What AI 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.
- python44▲
- aws22▲
- typescript19▲
- kubernetes18▲
- pytorch16▲
- rust15▲
- gcp14▲
- golang14▲
- terraform13▲
- react12▲
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36 AI-relevant internships in India were advertised over the same 12 months.
What the research says
The AI research read is national: 5,214 United States-affiliated papers, clustered into themes such as Fundamental Learning Limits, Cloud Scalability Issues, Evaluation Method Pitfalls, Cloud Deployment Risks. It is measured at country level, so it is the same signal for every city in United States — the full read, with the theme clusters, growth and blind spots, lives on the national page.
Who files AI patents in Seattle
Records 59 patent filings from 2017 to 2025, with Expedia being the most frequent filer.
- Expedia64
Go deeper on AI research and innovation
Research themes, patent activity and the companies commercialising them, in one place.
Track AI in Seattle beyond this page
Radar finds and filters the companies. Prism watches what is being said about them.
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