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THE SEATTLE EDITION 2026

Seattle’s
retail industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping retail in Seattle. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

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Snapshot: Funding in USD
Illustrated cover for Retail Industry Landscape of Seattle
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Retail illustration
Companies tracked 459Retail ecosystem in Seattle Disclosed funding $2.09B108 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 32With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 811 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Seattle’s retail leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Retail company highlights in Seattle, snapshot 2 September 2026
Company
Amazonamazon.com$308M—1,525,000Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Swiftlyswiftly.com$215.6M—151—
Stacklinestackline.com$180M3 roles223—
Zulilyzulily.com$134.6M—2,866—
Porchporch.com$120.13M—342—
Cap Hill Brandscaphillbrands.com$100M—200—
Julepjulep.com$74.36M—4—
Tango Cardtangocard.com$67.01M—267—
Blue Nilebluenile.com—10 roles——
Costcocostco.com—9 roles316,000$86.94KFYFY2019 filing
Nordstromnordstrom.com—9 roles60,000Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
card kingdomcardkingdom.com—5 roles250—
ParallelDotsparalleldots.com—4 roles25—
Pipe17pipe17.com—3 roles17—
Ravensburgerravensburger.us—3 roles——
Amazon Businessamazonbusiness.com——7,254Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Augmodoaugmodo.com——4—
Ballard FCgoballardfc.com——284—
EDGE Pipelineedgepipeline.com——109—
Lunar Tideslunartideshair.com————
POSaBITposabit.com——34—
Shipiumshipium.com——20—
Taagertaager.com——589—
TomboyXtomboyx.com——30—
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

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Recorded evidence only

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Retail industry KPIs in Seattle

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

2 September 2026
Hiring participation7.0%

32 of 459 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation24.4%

112 of 459 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share33.7%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$1.8M

Midpoint of 177 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 33.7% of disclosed capital, while 75.6% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Seattle retail has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Seattle retail
$0$107.22M$214.44M$321.65M$428.87M2016: $59.73M20162017: $69.42M20172018: $75.76M20182019: $146.63M20192020: $111.43M20202021: $283.87M20212022: $376.2M20222023: $13.95M20232024: $42.57M20242025: $83.52M2025
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Annual retail funding and company formation in Seattle
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$59.73M3019
2017$69.42M2017
2018$75.76M2515
2019$146.63M2422
2020$111.43M2813
2021$283.87M2218
2022$376.2M2216
2023$13.95M2012
2024$42.57M912
2025$83.52M37
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Amazon14.7%
  • Swiftly10.3%
  • Stackline8.6%
  • Other companies66.3%

Funding by stage

201 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel101 50.2%
Series A–B71 35.3%
Series C+ / PE6 3.0%
Grants, debt & other23 11.4%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
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Series B01/2015
Porchporch.com$65.95M

Backed by Valor Equity Partners and Capricorn and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.

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USD · millions · consolidated

Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.

FY2019 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 1 reporting entities from 3 eligible matches.

Revenue in covered accounts—

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Seattle market sales.

Net profit / loss—

Combined result for the same cohort.

Aggregate net margin—

Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.

Median company revenue—

The middle covered reporting entity.

Profitable entities—

None of 1 covered entities.

Top-five concentration—

Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.

Annual account trend

Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.

Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.

Profitability has two perspectives

FY2019 · 1 reporting entities

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SEATTLE · INDUSTRY COHORTS

How does retail compare?

Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.

IndustryCovered / eligibleRevenue totalMedian revenueNet profit / lossAggregate marginProfitable shareOverlap

Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.

Coverage, calculations & financial sources

Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.

The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.

Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the Seattle companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

15 of the 459 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (3.3%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 362,277 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Costcocostco.com86,565,6769254%
Nordstromnordstrom.com42,491,2178470%
Zulilyzulily.com1,830,5784385.5%
Bonanzabonanza.com812,5394273.9%
EDGE Pipelineedgepipeline.com669,5073834.4%
Sniffspotsniffspot.com618,5555087.4%
TomboyXtomboyx.com442,6304578.8%
Ultimeaultimea.com362,2773880.8%
Ravensburgerravensburger.us202,2845151.2%
Porchporch.com168,4853728.4%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

34 of these companies (7.4%) publish at least one Android app — 40 apps in all, carrying 38.4M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
Costco WholesaleCostco23.7M4.7Shopping
ZulilyZulily9M3.3Shopping
NordstromNordstrom2.3M4.8Shopping
Observa: Earn Money From GigsObserva783.9K4.2Business
TaagerTaager755.5K4.1Shopping
Nebula ConnectNebula667.8K3.7Tools
Sniffspot - Private Dog ParksSniffspot322.6K4.5Lifestyle
Novel Effect: Read Aloud BooksNovel Effect293.3K4.1Education
ULTIMEAUltimea187.3K4.4Tools
MyCostco Employee PortalCostco72.7K2Productivity

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q2–2025Q4).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Retail Chains326.1MCostco Wholesale 23.7M
Horizontal E-Commerce29.1MZulily 9M
Consumer Electronics E-Commerce5896.7KNebula Connect 667.8K
In Store Retail Tech6893.1KObserva: Earn Money From Gigs 783.9K
E-Commerce Enablers3826.2KDumpling Grocery 32.3K
Pet Tech6331.2KSniffspot - Private Dog Parks 322.6K
Image Recognition259.5KShelfWatch 50.1K
Local Services654.9KPorch 43.2K

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2022Q4: 22022Q4: 02022Q42023Q2: 12023Q2: 02023Q22023Q3: 22023Q3: 02023Q32023Q4: 32023Q4: 02023Q42024Q2: 42024Q2: 22024Q22025Q1: 22025Q1: 22025Q12025Q4: 12025Q4: 42025Q42026Q1: 12026Q1: 62026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 40 of 40 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Seattle retail market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital204
B2c e-commerce185
Enterprise tech118
Internet first brands83
Commerce enablers83
Enterprise software75
Saas51
Marketplaces44
B2c fashion e-commerce43
Retail saas43
E-commerce saas34
Internet first fashion brands31

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

204companies
5.9%have hiring activity

12 companies hiring · $899.84M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

E-commerce - product246
Subscription151
E-commerce - service113
Commission on transaction83
Advertising70
Physical commerce61
Fee-for-service27
Sponsorship4
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 2 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionsamazon.com ↗

The acquisition allows Amazon to enhance its portfolio of AI and customer experience solutions.

Mergers & acquisitionsnordstrom.com ↗

The Nordstrom family and Mexican department-store chain El Puerto de Liverpool SAB closed a deal to acquire the company in May in an all-cash transaction valued at about $6.25 billion.

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 3,516 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Company announcements
1,426
New products
371
Job creation
347
Earnings
308
Leadership moves
239
Lawsuit
216
Contracts
190
Regulatory
110
Layoffs
108
Mergers & acquisitions
100
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Leadership moves

5 tracked people moves

TomboyX ↗
Fran Dunaway

Appointment President

Nordstrom ↗
Catherine Bloom

Appointment Personal Stylist

Nordstrom ↗
Yumi Shin

Appointment Executive Vice President of Global Brand Partnerships

Nordstrom ↗
Dakota Rae Lowe

Appointment Head of Social and Influencer Marketing

Product launches

Products, platforms and features in the recorded window

Costco ↗
Automated Pay Stations

Checkout Technology

Costco ↗
Kirkland Signature energy drinks

Energy Drink

firmly ↗
Firmly Connect

No-code onboarding platform

Contract wins

6 recorded customer wins

Costco ↗

Customer: teamstersRetail

Costco ↗

Customer: Teamsters unionRetail

Nordstrom ↗

Customer: Nordstrom family and El Puerto de Liverpool SAB de CVRetail

Workforce actions

1 companies with reported reductions

Nordstrom ↗

Scale not stated rolesrestructuring

Regulatory events

2 recorded events

Costco ↗

Autonomous Government

Costco ↗

permit grantedLiberty Hill

Litigation

20 tracked suits

Company
Matthew Stockov v costco

double recovery of tariff refundsClass Action · Filed

Company
costco v Trump administration

tariff refund disputeCivil · Ongoing

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

5companies
197period observations
8.0%median reported growth

Median across 168 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Amazon→mgm studiosPending2026-05-25$8.5B
el puerto de liverpool→Nordstrom ↗Announced2026-05-23Not stated in snapshot
Amazon→kiva systemsCompleted2026-05-05$775.0M
Amazon→globalstarPending2026-05-04$11.6B
Amazon→Fauna RoboticsCompleted2026-05-02Not stated in snapshot
Amazon→nlxAnnounced2026-05-01Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

14,334 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 21,587-posting snapshot covers 39 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Delivery Driver1,975
Work From Home1,855
Software Development Engineer1,250
Warehouse1,203
Forklift Operator1,028
Customer Service Representative1,014
2 internship postings

17 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

3,280 postings specify a level.

unspecified
18,307
manager
1,798
senior
1,136
lead
263
intern
77
entry
6

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 21,587 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Data Entry
172
Computer
154
Typing
154
Keyboarding
154
Aws
84
Excel
59
Sql
54
Python
48
Robotics
28
Ai
27
ADVERTISED PAY$45.9K/ year

Median across 527 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

manager$80.0K/ year77 postings
senior$176.6K/ year35 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

225 founders and chief executives across 162 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

27 profiles with education records.

Stanford University
4
Harvard Business School
3
Harvard University
3
Carnegie Mellon University
3
IIT Kharagpur
2
Stanford Business School
2
Yale University
2
University of Cambridge
2

Prior employers

21 profiles with prior-work records.

Amazon
9
Microsoft
7
Apple
2
Morgan Stanley
1
Boston Consulting Group
1
Google
1
eBay
1
Paypal
1

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

25,174 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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25,174articles in the measured year
3,082articles in 2026Q2
62.9%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Retail coverage tagged Seattle · articles per complete quarter

03,4206,84010,26013,6802021Q2: 4,4102021Q22021Q3: 4,7872021Q4: 4,1062022Q1: 4,7672022Q2: 4,5492022Q22022Q3: 4,4682022Q4: 4,5852023Q1: 4,5142023Q2: 4,7132023Q22023Q3: 4,9302023Q4: 5,3392024Q1: 5,5782024Q2: 4,7182024Q22024Q3: 5,4462024Q4: 4,8892025Q1: 8,1692025Q2: 5,3022025Q22025Q3: 11,8962025Q4: 4,9902026Q1: 5,2062026Q2: 3,0822026Q2
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QuarterArticles
2021Q24,410
2021Q34,787
2021Q44,106
2022Q14,767
2022Q24,549
2022Q34,468
2022Q44,585
2023Q14,514
2023Q24,713
2023Q34,930
2023Q45,339
2024Q15,578
2024Q24,718
2024Q35,446
2024Q44,889
2025Q18,169
2025Q25,302
2025Q311,896
2025Q44,990
2026Q15,206
2026Q23,082

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
8,520 positive · 370 neutral · 5,264 negative
2022
11,495 positive · 326 neutral · 6,510 negative
2023
12,002 positive · 429 neutral · 7,029 negative
2024
12,730 positive · 362 neutral · 7,509 negative
2025
19,080 positive · 519 neutral · 10,733 negative

Leading coverage topics

Retail coverage tagged Seattle · ranked by full-period article count.

Administrative And Political Subdivisions4,359,391 articles in the full recorded period
929,769 recent · 795,451 prior
Geopolitical Disputes And Contested Areas320,881 articles in the full recorded period
106,784 recent · 82,216 prior
International And Transnational Geographic Entities320,718 articles in the full recorded period
106,734 recent · 82,150 prior
International Political Relations202,879 articles in the full recorded period
52,825 recent · 50,958 prior
Security And Defense Policies143,013 articles in the full recorded period
41,741 recent · 35,009 prior
International Relations And Diplomacy91,526 articles in the full recorded period
21,657 recent · 23,614 prior
Geographic Naming Conventions And Etymology82,179 articles in the full recorded period
44,272 recent · 9,156 prior
Trade Policies And Agreements77,571 articles in the full recorded period
25,098 recent · 34,625 prior
Human Rights Advocacy Reports69,871 articles in the full recorded period
16,517 recent · 22,551 prior
Cryptocurrency Impact On Forex Markets61,042 articles in the full recorded period
17,322 recent · 15,037 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

United States comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
countries3,9251,959100%
stablecoin fx impact2,9231,63679%
oil price volatility2,7351,132142%
etf trading2,7151,176131%
etfs2,280974134%
sector etfs2,163930133%
symphonic rock pieces2,1281021180%
etf products2,078849145%
etf structures1,983832138%
ncaa updates1,8711,23452%
tariff negotiations13,16422,162-41%
free trade deals5,5449,018-39%
stock price2,7174,098-34%
trade enforcement2,1653,485-38%
economic slowdown1,8513,369-45%

Event and signal lenses

United States comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

1,990,330 classified articles

territories, disputed islands, tariff negotiations

38.6% critical · 23.8% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

363,372 classified articles

inflation reports fx, trade deficits fx, gdp growth forex

39.2% critical · 43.3% positive
Rising

Growth

561,523 classified articles

gdp growth forex, earnings report, inflation reports fx

32.0% critical · 44.3% positive

Retail coverage tagged Seattle. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Retail in Seattle: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

KEEP EXPLORING

Put Seattle in context

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