Fintech Landscape of Seattle
206 Fintech 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 Fintech in Seattle
Shows the top fintech firms in Seattle by hiring activity, funding size, and overall visibility, highlighting Remitly, Convera, and Avalara among the 206 tracked companies.
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Remitly11last posted Jul 2026
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Convera7last posted Feb 2026
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Empirical Wealth Management4last posted Jul 2026
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Omnidya4last posted May 2026
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outgo inc3last posted Mar 2026
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Mifos2last posted Jul 2026
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EIG2last posted Apr 2026
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CD Valet2last posted Jun 2026
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Avalara$843MPost IPO · Nov 2025
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- 03Lighter Capital$226.7MVenture Debt · Nov 2025
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Arrived$191.3MPost IPO · Nov 2025
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Tomo$130.7MSeries B · Jan 2025
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Syndio$81.8MSeries C · Sep 2021
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Outgo$68.4MSeries B · Jan 2023
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Copper$42.3MSeries A · Apr 2022
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laird norton wealth management104tracked employees
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Doxo51tracked employees
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Vouched38tracked employees
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Amazon Pay7.7%20 tracked events
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Max5.7%15 tracked events
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POSaBIT4.6%12 tracked events
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Tamarac222articles in the window
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Shield Compliance1articles in the window
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Solstice Innovations1articles in the window
See all 206 Fintech companies in Seattle
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How the Fintech ecosystem in Seattle grew, 2016–2025
Lists the number of Seattle fintech startups founded each year, noting a peak of 21 new companies in 2024 and only 3 in 2025.
The Fintech market map of Seattle: what these companies actually do
Breaks down the product focus of Seattle fintech firms, with the largest groups building consumer digital and enterprise tech solutions, and most relying on subscription or transaction‑commission revenue models.
- Consumer Digital115 companies · $1B raised · 7 hiring
- Enterprise Tech99 companies · $527M raised · 7 hiring
- Enterprise Software41 companies · $264.9M raised · 5 hiring
- Nbfc Lenders23 companies · $438.4M raised · 1 hiring
- Internet First Wealth Management Platforms19 companies · $35.4M raised · 3 hiring
- SaaS19 companies · $125.9M raised · 1 hiring
- Marketplaces16 companies · $21M raised
- Online Financial Planners and Advisors15 companies · $400k raised · 2 hiring
- Business Payments Solutions15 companies · $23.3M raised
- Fintech SaaS13 companies · $32.4M raised · 1 hiring
- Blockchain in Financial Services12 companies · $24.8M raised
- Commerce Enablers9 companies · $11.7M raised
Monetization
How Fintech 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 Fintech in Seattle
Counts 138 corporate events over the past two years, most frequently key‑person announcements, earnings releases, and funding rounds.
- M&ASierra, the customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, announced on Thursday that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment, which helps businesses integrate AI into workflows.2026-04-23
- M&AAvalara, Inc., the agentic tax and compliance leader, announced it has acquired Versori, a next-generation integration platform company specializing in automated connector development powered by agentic AI workflows. Deal terms were not disclosed.2026-03-02
- FundingSince its $2.7 million seed round in July 2024, the company has grown to over 150,000 users and has issued more than 500 million Max Miles annually.2026-01-28
- FundingSeattle fintech startup Arrived — the “stock market for rental homes” — announced a $27 million growth round led by Neo, with participation from Forerunner Ventures, Bezos Expeditions, and Core VC.2025-11-11
- 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
- M&AAcquiring Outgo paves the way for DAT to embed payments and financial services into our DAT One freight platform.2025-05-16
- M&ADAT Freight & Analytics, a Beaverton, Ore.-based freight company, announced the acquisition of Outgo, a Seattle startup that sells banking services to freight carriers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.2025-05-15
- M&AThe Lumonic acquisition closed on March 3, 20252025-03-06
- FundingWith this Series E round, Remitly earned its unicorn status reaching $1 billion in valuation.2025-03-04
- FundingShield Compliance grows with $5M.2025-03-04
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Fintech 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 | 2026-04-24 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2026-03-03 | ||
| BevLogic | undisclosed | Announced | 2025-10-28 | |
| undisclosed | Completed | 2025-07-28 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2025-07-23 | ||
| undisclosed | Completed | 2025-03-03 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Provides details on notable corporate events such as leadership changes and new product launches.
firmlyFirmly Connect (No-code onboarding platform)Mar 2026
Half of these companies grew revenue faster than +25.0%, half slower.
Who is building Fintech in Seattle
Profiles 102 founders and CEOs across 72 companies, noting common alma maters like Stanford and frequent prior employers such as Microsoft.
Arrived, ex-Oyo Usa, ex-Uber, The Wharton School, 2010
Ex-Zillow Group, CNNMoney, Yahoo!, DoubleClick. Hamilton College BA 1994
Founder Ideas Ignited, ex-Co-Founder Smartsheet, Starbucks, Blue Yukon Consulting, Onyx Software, NetReality. Whitworth University BA 1998
Ex-Convoy, Axon, Familiar, Urbanspoon. University of Washington BE 2000
Ex- Co-Founder- Snap Raise, Co-Founder- Snap Advance, Co-Founder- Comeback Sport. University of Puget Sound 2008
Doxo, ex-Amdocs, ex-Qpass
Ex-Plaid, Uber, inShopper · Massachusetts Institute of Technology MBA 2015
Vouched, ex-Wooter, ex-Woolly Labs, Cornell University
Ex-Meta, Indeed.com, Quantcast, Numerical Technologies. National University of Singapore BE 2010 & PhD 2015
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Look up the people behind Fintech companies in Seattle
Search founders, executives and operators by company, role and location.
Who funds Fintech in Seattle
Summarizes 118 funding rounds since 2016 from 198 investors, with an average round size of $3.4 million.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
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| Techstars | 7 | 1 | Nov 2025 |
| Bezos Expeditions | 7 | — | Nov 2025 |
| Pioneer Square Labs | 6 | 3 | Jan 2023 |
| ASCEND | 6 | 1 | Oct 2022 |
| Emerson Collective | 4 | 2 | Sep 2021 |
| Neo | 4 | 2 | Nov 2025 |
| Stripes | 4 | 1 | Jul 2020 |
| Voyager Capital | 4 | 1 | Sep 2021 |
| SVB | 4 | 1 | Feb 2022 |
| DN Capital | 4 | — | Jul 2020 |
The typical round is $3.4M — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest Fintech funding rounds in Seattle
Highlights the biggest disclosed financing, including Remitly’s $135 million Series E round, and lists ten large recent rounds.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
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| Series E | $135M | May 2019 | Generation Investment Management, Prudential, Top Tier Capital Partners +6 more | |
| Series D | $115M | Nov 2017 | DFJ, DN Capital, PayU +1 more | |
| Series D | $100M | Nov 2014 | Warburg Pincus | |
| Series F | $85M | Jul 2020 | PayU, Generation Investment Management, Owl Rock +7 more | |
| Series D | $50M | Sep 2016 | Warburg Pincus, TCV, Sageview Capital +1 more | |
| Series C | $50M | Sep 2021 | Emerson Collective, Bessemer Venture Partners, Voyager Capital +10 more | |
| Series D | $42M | Jan 2015 | Warburg Pincus, TCV | |
| Seed | $40.5M | Aug 2020 | Ribbit Capital, Zigg Capital, NFX | |
| Series B | $40M | Feb 2022 | SVB, Ribbit Capital, NFX +3 more | |
| Series C | $38.6M | Apr 2016 | DN Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Trilogy Equity Partners +5 more |
19 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
Series A$23MFeb 2026
What the news says about Fintech in Seattle
Counts 9,069 news articles in the last year, covering topics like cryptocurrency effects on forex, economic indicators, and geopolitical trade issues.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate Fintech 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 markets256,685▲+41%
- Economic indicators (gdp, cpi, unemployment)85,368→+7%
- Trade wars and geopolitical impacts83,564▲+17%
- Interest rate decisions and impacts72,480▲+17%
- Central bank monetary policy announcements65,419→+10%
- Federal reserve policy meeting summaries64,366▲+17%
- Global recession risks and forecasts63,436▲+13%
- Regulatory compliance in foreign exchange trading50,230▲+85%
- Foreign exchange (forex) rate fluctuations49,040▲+40%
- Quarterly and annual financial results48,582▲+28%
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10 Fintech companies here were named in the news over this period.
Watch Fintech 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 Fintech coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
Fintech jobs in Seattle: who is hiring and what they ask for
Lists 239 job postings from 22 firms in the past year, with median advertised salary of $122 k and top required skills such as Excel and SQL.
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What Fintech 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.
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- salesforce42▲
- sql38▲
- erp32▲
- aws30▲
- tableau27▲
- saas26▲
- python24▲
- outlook22▲
- microsoft office21▲
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What the research says
The Fintech research read is national: 907 United States-affiliated papers, clustered into themes such as Mobile Payments Adoption Barriers, Financial Crime Detection Challenges, Algorithmic Trading Liquidity Risks, Mobile Money Inclusion Pitfalls. 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.
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