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Top IPO companies in Seattle

Public companies and recent post-IPO follow-on raises. Filtered to companies headquartered in Seattle.

Built from a search like: “Top IPO companies in Seattle”

Ranked by current headcount across IPO companies headquartered in Seattle. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    Amazon· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 786.5k employees
    • Founded 1994
  2. 2
    Starbucks· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 186.8k employees
    • Founded 1971
  3. 3
    Nordstrom· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 47.7k employees
    • Founded 1901
  4. 4
    Expedia Group· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 21.9k employees
    • Founded 1996
  5. 5
    Rover.com· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 11.4k employees
    • Founded 2011
  6. 6
    Zillow· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 9.9k employees
    • Founded 2006
  7. 7
    Coupang· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 9k employees
    • Founded 2010
  8. 8
    Weyerhaeuser· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 7.3k employees
  9. 9
    F5· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 6.1k employees
    • Founded 1996
  10. 10
    Getty Images· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 6.1k employees
    • Founded 1995
  11. 11
    Redfin· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 5.6k employees
    • Founded 2004
  12. 12
    Remitly· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 3.4k employees
    • Founded 2011
  13. 13
    Accolade, Inc.· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 1.5k employees
    • Founded 2020
  14. 14
    Trupanion· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 1k employees
    • Founded 2000
  15. 15
    Porch Group· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 987 employees
    • Founded 2013
  16. 16
    Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp.· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 649 employees
    • Founded 2009
  17. 17
    RealNetworks· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 573 employees
    • Founded 1994
  18. 18
    Impinj· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 445 employees
    • Founded 2000
  19. 19
    Sana Biotechnology, Inc.· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 254 employees
    • Founded 2018
  20. 20
    NanoString Technologies, Inc.· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 247 employees
    • Founded 2003
  21. 21
    Omeros Corporation· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 222 employees
    • Founded 1994
  22. 22
    ZymoGenetics· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 181 employees
    • Founded 1981
  23. 23
    CTI BioPharma· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 114 employees
    • Founded 1992
  24. 24
    Banzai· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 110 employees
    • Founded 2015
  25. 25
    Jones Soda Co.· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 102 employees
    • Founded 1996

Find engineers at IPO companies in Seattle

IPO companies in Seattle are some of the fastest-moving employers in the market. The list above ranks the largest IPO-stage companies headquartered in Seattle by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 31 matching companies in our index, the density of senior engineers, designers, and founders is unusually high.

At IPO, teams tend to be small, ambitious, and on the hunt for senior talent. The companies on this list are good signals for where the Seattletalent market is heating up — and for which engineers and founders are about to become tomorrow’s operators.

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How this list is built

Refolk pulled IPO companies headquartered in Seattle from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 5 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

Last refreshed: Sat, 09 May 2026 09:43:54 GMT

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