This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area. , the Seattle metropolitan area is home to ten

Fortune 500 The ''Fortune'' 500 is an annual list compiled and published by ''Fortune'' magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years. The list includes publicly held companies, along ...

companies: Internet retailer Amazon (#2), Costco Wholesale (#12), Microsoft (#15), coffee chain

Starbucks Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is the world's largest coffeehouse chain. As of November 2021, the company had 33,833 stores in 80 c ...

(#125), Paccar (#159), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#289), Weyerhaeuser (#387),

Expeditors International Expeditors (Expeditors International of Washington) is an American worldwide logistics and freight forwarding company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Financial information Expeditors became a publicly traded company in 1984 with the listing ...

(#299), Alaska Airlines (#459) and Expedia (#500).

Biotechnology

* Alder Biopharmaceuticals (Bothell) * Dendreon –

immunotherapeutics Immunotherapy or biological therapy is the treatment of disease by activating or suppressing the immune system. Immunotherapies designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as ''activation immunotherapies,'' while immunotherap ...

(defunct) *

Juno Therapeutics Juno Therapeutics Inc is an American biopharmaceutical company founded in 2013 through a collaboration of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and pediatrics partner Seattle Children's Research Instit ...

Seattle Genetics SeaGen was the world's first large scale commercial tidal stream generator. It was four times more powerful than any other tidal stream generator in the world at the time of installation. It was successfully decommissioned by SIMEC Atlant ...

(Bothell) * ZymoGenetics – therapeutic protein * NanoString Technologies – Life Sciences Tools

Computer hardware

* Cray Inc. –

supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...

s *

EMC Isilon Dell EMC Isilon is a scale out network-attached storage platform offered by Dell EMC for high-volume storage, backup and archiving of unstructured data. It provides a cluster-based storage array based on industry standard hardware, and is scalabl ...

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computer storage Computer data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers. The central processing unit (CPU) of a compute ...

F5 Networks F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), application availability & performance, network security, and access & autho ...

– application delivery controllers

Conglomerates

Vulcan Inc. Vulcan LLC is a privately held company founded by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen in 1986 to establish and oversee the family's diverse business activities and philanthropic endeavors. It includes Vulcan Real Estate ...

– investment vehicle for Paul Allen

Consulting

Alvarez and Marsal Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global professional services firm notable for its work in turnaround management and performance improvement of a number of large, high-profile businesses both in the US and abroad such as Lehman Brothers, HealthSouth, T ...

– management consulting,

turnaround management Turnaround management is a process dedicated to corporate renewal. It uses analysis and planning to save troubled companies and return them to solvency, and to identify the reasons for failing performance in the market, and rectify them. Turnaround ...

and performance improvement * Avanade – business and technology consulting and information technology consulting *

Slalom Consulting Slalom is a business and technology consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company, which is a division of Slalom, Inc, employs more than 13,000 people in 43 markets and 11 Build Centers across North America, Europe, and Asia Pa ...

– management consulting and information technology consulting

Design

* ClearSign Combustion

Financial

Gravity Payments Gravity Payments is a credit card processing and financial services company. It was founded in 2004 by Lucas and Dan Price. The company is headquartered in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington and employs 240 people. Dan Price is the ...

Moss Adams Moss Adams LLP is one of the 15 largest ( Accounting Today Top 100 Firms 2019) public accounting firms in the United States and provides accounting, tax and consulting services to public and private middle-market enterprises in many different in ...

* Russell Investments *

Seattle Credit Union Seattle Credit Union is a United States credit union headquartered in Seattle, Washington, chartered and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). History Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union (DBA Seattle Cr ...

* Washington Federal Savings

Food and beverage

American Seafoods American Seafoods Group, LLC (ASG) is an American seafood company. Based in Seattle, Washington, ASG owns and operates six large catcher-processor vessels that harvest and process on board fish caught in the U.S. waters of Alaska and the Pacifi ...

– management company for

fishing vessels A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish in the sea, or on a lake or river. Many different kinds of vessels are used in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing. The total number of fishing vessels in the world in 2016 was es ...

in the

Bering Sea The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Ameri ...

Beecher's Handmade Cheese Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheesemaker and retail shop with locations in the Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington and New York City's Flatiron District. The company was founded by Kurt Beecher Dammeier in 2003 and opened in the Pike ...

* Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Company – coffee retailer * Crowd Cow – online meat delivery marketplace *

Darigold Northwest Dairy Association (formerly the Northwest Dairymen's Association; Trading as Darigold, Inc.) is an American dairy agricultural marketing cooperative. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is owned by about 350 dairy farm members of ...

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dairy A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting or processing (or both) of animal milk – mostly from cows or buffaloes, but also from goats, sheep, horses, or camels – for human consumption. A dairy is typically located on ...

agricultural marketing cooperative An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperativ ...

* Jones Soda – soft drink maker *

MOD Pizza MOD Pizza is a Seattle, Washington-based fast casual pizza restaurant chain based in the United States. Founded in 2008, MOD has more than 500 locations in the United States and Canada (one location). MOD is a company that is claimed by its own ...

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pizza Pizza (, ) is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as various types of sausage, anchovies, mushrooms, onions ...

restaurant chain *

Pagliacci Pizza Pagliacci Pizza is a Seattle-based restaurant chain. The first Pagliacci Pizza location opened on February 19, 1979, at 4529 University Ave NE in Seattle's University District. Over the years, this location underwent many face-lifts and remodeling ...

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restaurant chain *

Seattle's Best Coffee Seattle's Best Coffee is a brand of wholesale coffee, ground coffee, and K-cup coffee that is owned by Nestlé. While Seattle's Best Coffee used to have coffeehouses in the United States, they appear to have closed down or have been converted to ...

– coffee retailer and

coffeehouse A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee of various types, notably espresso, latte, and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks, such as iced coffee and iced tea, as well as other non-ca ...

chain * Theo Chocolate – organic and

fair trade Fair trade is an arrangement designed to help producers in developing countries achieve sustainable and equitable trade relationships. The fair trade movement combines the payment of higher prices to exporters with improved social and enviro ...

chocolate manufacturer * Trident Seafoods – management company for fishing vessels in the Bering Sea * Tully's Coffee – coffee retailer and wholesaler * Uwajimaya – Asian supermarket

Healthcare

Center for Global Infectious Disease Research Since October 2018, the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research has been part of the Seattle Children's Research Institute. At the time of the merger, CID Research had 166 scientists. Its mission was to eliminate the world's most devastatin ...

* Emeritus Senior Living * Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center * Northwest Kidney Centers * PATH
Remote Medical International
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The Polyclinic The Polyclinic is a group of health care facilities in Seattle, Washington. It has over 14 locations and 200 primary care and specialty physicians in most areas of medicine. On-site services are available at several locations, including laborator ...

Ventec Life Systems Ventec Life Systems is an American medical device company based in Bothell, Washington. History Ventec Life Systems was founded in Bothell, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, by Doug DeVries. According to the ''New York Times'', Ventec is known for ...

* Providence Health and Services

Insurance

PEMCO PEMCO Insurance is a personal-lines mutual insurance company based in Seattle, Washington that serves only Washington and Oregon residents. History In 1936, Seattle school teacher Robert J. Handy took advantage of the newly legalized “credit ...

– auto, home, boat, and life insurance * Safeco – property insurance *

Trupanion Trupanion is a pet insurance provider based in Seattle, Washington, that offers and administers cat and dog insurance, in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Puerto Rico. Founded in 1998, Trupanion offers comprehensive insurance plans that ...

– pet insurance

Intellectual property

Getty Images Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is an American visual media company and is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets. It targets three markets— creative ...

– stock photography * Intellectual Ventures – patent assertion hedge fund

Internet

Allrecipes.com Allrecipes.com, Inc. is a food-focused online social networking service headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company was founded by fellow University of Washington archaeology graduate students Tim Hunt, Carl Lipo, Mark Madsen, Dan Shepherd, ...

– online recipe service and forum * Amazon – retail * Avvo – legal services search * BuddyTV – TV news, second screen technology (''Business closed)'' *

Cheezburger I Can Has Cheezburger? (abbreviated as ICHC) is a blog-format website featuring videos (usually involving animals) and image macros. It was created in 2007 by Eric Nakagawa (Cheezburger), from Hawaii, and his friend Kari Unebasami (Tofuburge ...

– operates many humor web blogs such as I Can Has Cheezburger? and

FAIL Blog Fail Blog (stylized as FAIL Blog) is a comedic blog website created in January 2008. FAIL Blog features disastrous mishaps and general stupidity in photos and video which have captions such as "fail", "epic fail", "X Fail", or "X; You're doin' it ...

* Classmates.com – social networking service *

eNotes.com eNotes was a free student and teacher educational website founded in 1998 by Brad Satoris and Alexander Bloomingdale, that provides material to help students complete homework assignments and study for exams. Based in Seattle, Washington, eNote ...

– educational resource service *

ExtraHop Networks ExtraHop is a cybersecurity company providing AI-based network intelligence that stops advanced threats across cloud, hybrid, and distributed environments. History Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji founded ExtraHop in 2007 in Seattle, Washington ...

– cloud security analytics *

– application delivery controllers * findwell – online real estate brokerage *

Groundspeak Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", at specific l ...

– operators of

Geocaching.com Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", at specific l ...

Leafly Leafly is a website focused on cannabis use and education. The company says it has more than 120 million annual visitors and over 10 million monthly active users. Leafly provides a wide range of information on cannabis, including 1.5 million con ...

– cannabis information * Onvia – government business intelligence portal *

Panopto Panopto is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Panopto provides software primarily for universities and enterprise businesses. Panopto's software is commonly used for lecture recording, screenca ...

– video content management *

PayScale Payscale is an American compensation software and data company which helps employers manage employee compensation and employees understand their worth in the job market. The website was launched on January 1, 2002. It was founded by Joe Giordano a ...

– global employee compensation database * ''

Penny Arcade ''Penny Arcade'' is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website ''loonygames.com''. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have establish ...

'' – webcomic * Porch – home services platform *

RealNetworks RealNetworks, Inc. is a provider of artificial intelligence and computer vision based products. RealNetworks was a pioneer in Internet streaming software and services. They are based in Seattle, Washington, United States. The company also p ...

– software * Redfin – online real estate brokerage *

Smartsheet Smartsheet is a software as a service (SaaS) offering for collaboration and work management, developed and marketed by Smartsheet Inc. It is used to assign tasks, track project progress, manage calendars, share documents, and manage other wor ...

– SaaS work collaboration software *

Soundrangers Soundrangers was the first online sound library of original sound effects and production music designed for specifically for interactive media such as video games, websites and interactive software. Soundrangers was also one of the first sound ...

– online sound effects and music * Sporcle – online trivia *

Tableau Software Tableau Software ( ) is an American interactive data visualization software company focused on business intelligence. It was founded in 2003 in Mountain View, California, and is currently headquartered in Seattle, Washington. In 2019 the compa ...

– data visualization * Thrift Books – retail * Turbo (formerly Spoon) – application virtualization * WhitePages.com – online people search, reverse phone & address lookup, and business search *

Zillow.com Zillow Group, Inc., or simply Zillow, is an American tech real-estate marketplace company that was founded in 2006, and was created by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia; Spencer R ...

– real estate information service

Law

Davis Wright Tremaine Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is an American business and litigation law firm. Founded in 1944, the firm is a limited liability partnership and employs over 500 lawyers. Davis Wright Tremaine is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and has offices ...

Lane Powell Lane Powell PC is an American law firm based in Seattle, Washington, with offices in Anchorage and Portland. The firm was established in 1875, making it one of the Pacific Northwest’s oldest and longest-running law firms. Today it employs nearl ...

* Perkins Coie

Manufacturing

* Cutter & Buck – golf apparel * Filson – outdoor apparel * Pacific Coast Feather Company – bedding *

Tom Bihn Tom Bihn Inc. is an American baggage manufacturer, with products ranging from backpacks to travel accessories. It was founded in Santa Cruz, California in 1982 by Tom Bihn. Bihn had been designing and making bags since 1972. The company's headquar ...

- bags and luggage * Vigor Shipyards – shipbuilding

Pet care

Rover.com Rover.com is an American company which operates an online marketplace for people to buy and sell pet care services including pet sitting, dog boarding, and dog walking. Rover.com was founded in 2011 in Seattle, Washington ...

– dog boarding and dog walking

Property and architecture

* Bassetti Architects –

architectural firm In the United States, an architectural firm or architecture firm is a business that employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture; while in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and other countri ...

Callison Callison was an international architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington. Callison was founded by Tony Callison in 1975 and grew to 900 employees around the world prior to its acquisition by Arcadis NV in 2014. In October 2015, Callison was f ...

– architectural firm * Diamond Parking –

parking lot A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area intended for parking vehicles. The term usually refers to an area dedicated only for parking, with a durable or semi-durable surface ...

s * Howard S. Wright Companies – construction *

John L. Scott John L. Scott Real Estate is headquartered in Bellevue, WA. It currently has over 110 offices with over 3,000 brokers in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Northern California. Current John L. Scott is owned and operated by a third-generation Scott ...

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real estate broker A real estate agent or real estate broker is a person who represents sellers or buyers of real estate or real property. While a broker may work independently, an agent usually works under a licensed broker to represent clients. Brokers and agen ...

age * Johnson Braund Design Group – design and

* Miller Hull Partnership – architecture and planning * Mithun – architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, planning and urban design * NBBJ –

Olson Kundig Architects Olson Kundig, is an American architectural firm based in Seattle, run by architects Jim Olson and Tom Kundig. Founded by Olson in 1966, the firm’s work has grown to encompass museums, commercial and mixed-use design, exhibit design, interior des ...

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* Plum Creek Timber – timber * Sellen Construction *

Weber Thompson Weber Thompson is an architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington, United States. The firm employs over 70 architects and primarily focuses on high-rise buildings, interior design, and landscape architecture, also specializing in commercial of ...

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Windermere Real Estate Windermere Real Estate is a real estate company founded in 1972 and based in Seattle, Washington. It is a privately held company and is the largest regional real estate company in the Western U.S., with over 300 offices and 6,500 agents. History ...

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age

Public relations

Waggener Edstrom WE Communications (previously Waggener Edstrom) and commonly known as WE is a global public relations and integrated marketing communications firm often associated with its largest client, Microsoft. The firm was founded in 1983 by Melissa Wagg ...

– public relations
Revolution Public Relations
- public relations

Publishing

* Bilingual Books, Inc. – foreign language books and computer software *

Fantagraphics Books Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and the erotic Eros Comix imprint. History Founding Fantagraphics was found ...

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comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

and graphic novels * Mountaineers Books – non-fiction books * Sasquatch Books – non-fiction books

Record labels

Barsuk Records Barsuk Records ( ) is an independent record label based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by the members of the band This Busy Monster, Christopher Possanza and Josh Rosenfeld, in 1998 to release their band's material. Its logo is a draw ...

Sub Pop Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. Sub Pop achieved fame in the early 1990s for signing Seattle bands such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney, central players in the grunge movement. They are often ...

* Tooth & Nail Records

Retail

* Amazon *

Babeland Babeland, until 2005 known as Toys in Babeland, is a sex toy boutique offering erotic toys, Erotic literature, books and pornographic films. Babeland has an online store and four retail stores (in Seattle, Brooklyn, and two in Manhattan). Hist ...

(formerly Toys in Babeland) – sex toys *

Bartell Drugs The Bartell Drug Company, commonly known as Bartell Drugs and referred to by locals as simply "Bartell's", is a chain of pharmacies in the Puget Sound area of Washington state. Bartell Drug stores primarily serve the Seattle area. Bartell's was b ...

Blue Nile Inc Blue Nile is an online jewellery retailer founded in 1999. It is based in Seattle, Washington. In February 2017, it became a subsidiary of Bain Capital. In 2022, Blue Nile was acquired by Signet Jewellers. History The company that became Blu ...

– diamonds *

Brooks Sports Brooks Sports, Inc., also known as Brooks Running, is an American sports equipment company that designs and markets high-performance men's and women's sneakers, clothing, and accessories. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Brooks products are ...

– athletic apparel * Car Toys – automobile audio equipment and cell phones *

Cascade Designs Cascade Designs is an American company specializing in outdoor recreation products. It is located in Seattle, Washington and Reno, Nevada, and was founded in 1972 by two former Boeing engineers, who were avid backpackers. Their first product in ...

– outdoor

apparel Clothing (also known as clothes, apparel, and attire) are items worn on the body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natural ...

Cequint City ID is Cequint's first-generation caller mobile identification service. City ID displays the city and state or country associated with the caller's telephone number. In partnership with mobile network operators, the City ID service is availab ...

Indix Indix was a company based in Seattle, Washington, in the United States that was offering a cloud-based product information platform. It also built a broad and deep product catalog to enable mobile and desktop apps and websites to become product- ...

– product intelligence database * Julep – cosmetics and personal care * K2 Sports – sporting goods and

* NetMotion Wireless – Mobile VPN Solution * Nordstrom –

* The Omni Group – develops software for the Mac OS X platform *

Outdoor Research Outdoor Research is a Seattle-based manufacturer of technical apparel and gear for outdoor sports, including alpinism, rock and ice climbing, backpacking, paddling, and backcountry skiing and snowboarding. Company History Ron Gregg was a nucl ...

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PCC Natural Markets PCC Community Markets is a food cooperative based in Seattle, Washington. With over 58,000 members, it is the largest consumer-owned food cooperative in the United States. Both members and non-members may shop at the retail locations, but membe ...

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supermarket A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverages and Household goods, household products, organized into sections. This kind of store is larger and has a wider selection than earli ...

QFC Quality Food Centers, better known as QFC, is a supermarket chain based in Bellevue, Washington, with 62 stores in the Puget Sound region of the state of Washington and in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. QFC is a subsidiary of Kroger. ...

– supermarket chain *

– Internet *

Rhapsody Rhapsody may refer to: * A work of epic poetry, or part of one, that is suitable for recitation at one time ** Rhapsode, a classical Greek professional performer of epic poetry Computer software * Rhapsody (online music service), an online m ...

– online music service *

Sur La Table Sur La Table, Inc. is a privately held retail company based in Seattle, Washington, that sells kitchenware including cookware, cutlery, cooks' tools, small electrics, tabletop and linens, bakeware, glassware and bar, housewares, food, and outdoo ...

– cookware *

Tommy Bahama Tommy Bahama Group Inc. is an American multinational manufacturer of casual men's and women's sportswear and activewear, denim, swimwear, accessories, footwear and a complete home furnishings collection. Its parent company is Oxford Industries. ...

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* Zumiez – action sports * Zulily –

and housewares

Sports, leisure and entertainment

* Professional Bowlers Association – sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling *

Puzzle Break Puzzle Break is an escape room company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, co-founded by Nate Martin and Lindsay Morse. It is the first American-based escape room company. History Puzzle Break's first escape room, Escape from Studio D, opened ...

– first American-based live escape room company

Transportation

* Aero Controls Inc. * Alaska Airlines – major US airline *

Ambassadors International Ambassadors Group, Inc. is a defunct publicly traded educational travel company based in Spokane, Washington. It was originally an operating division of Ambassadors International, Inc., but was divested into a separate corporation in 2002 to form ...

– cruise ships * Convoy – trucking logistics software *

– logistics * Holland America Line – cruise ships * Saltchuk – transportation and logistics * Windstar Cruises – cruise ships

Video games

* Arenanet – ''Guild Wars'' franchise * Big Fish Games – casual games * PopCap – casual games * Sucker Punch Productions – ''Sly Cooper'' and ''Infamous'' franchise * Undead Labs – ''State of Decay'' games

Companies based in the Greater Seattle area

Other large or well-known interstate or international companies popularly associated with Seattle are actually based in other Puget Sound cities: * Alaska Air Group, Alaska Airlines, and Horizon Air – SeaTac * ArenaNet – Bellevue *

Blue Origin Blue Origin, LLC is an American private spaceflight, privately funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Am ...

– Kent * Bungie – Bellevue * Classmates.com – Renton * Clearwire – Bellevue * Concur Technologies – Bellevue * Costco – Issaquah (founded in Seattle) *

drugstore.com drugstore.com was an internet retailer in health and beauty care products. Its web operations were launched on February 24, 1999, and shut down on September 30, 2016 after being acquired by Walgreens in March 2011 for $409 million. In June 19 ...

– Bellevue * Eddie Bauer – Bellevue (founded in Seattle) * eNom – Kirkland * Expedia Group – Seattle (moved HQ from Bellevue to Seattle) *

Fluke Corporation Fluke Corporation is a manufacturer of industrial test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment including electronic test equipment. It was started in 1948 by John Fluke while he was employed at General Electric. History Fluke Corporation was ...

– Everett *

Funko Funko Inc. is an American company that manufactures licensed and limited pop culture collectibles, best known for its licensed vinyl figurines and bobbleheads. In addition, the company produces licensed plush, action figures, apparel, accessories ...

– Everett *

INRIX INRIX is a private company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, US. It provides location-based data and software-as-a-service analytics — such as real-time and historical traffic conditions, road safety, and parking availability — to automak ...

– Kirkland * Intelius – Bellevue *

Kymeta Kymeta Corporation is a satellite communications company based in the United States. It was founded in August 2012 after spinning out from Intellectual Ventures and manufactures software-enabled, meta-materials based electronic beamforming anten ...

– Redmond * Microsoft – Redmond *

msnbc.com MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...

– Redmond *

MulvannyG2 Architecture MG2 (formerly MulvannyG2 Architecture) is an architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington, United States. MG2 is ranked among the 50 largest architectural firms and top two retail designers in the world. The firm designs retail stores and cen ...

– Bellevue * Nintendo of America – Redmond * Oberto Sausage Company – Kent *

Outerwall Coinstar, LLC (formerly Outerwall, Inc.) is an American company operating coin-cashing machines. On September 27, 2016, Apollo Global Management, LLC acquired Outerwall, Inc. for $52.00 per share in cash. After the acquisition, former components ...

(formerly Coinstar) – Bellevue * Paccar – Bellevue * Philips – Bothell *

Premera Blue Cross Premera Blue Cross is a not-for-profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Blue Cross Blue Shield licensed health insurance company based in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, United States. It sells health insurance plans under the Blue Cross lic ...

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Mountlake Terrace Mountlake Terrace is a suburban city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It lies on the southern border of the county, adjacent to Shoreline and Lynnwood, and is north of Seattle. The city had a population of 19,909 people counted ...

Puget Sound Energy Puget Sound Energy (PSE) is an energy utility company based in the U.S. state of Washington that provides electrical power and natural gas to the Puget Sound region. The utility serves electricity to more than 1.1 million customers in Island, Ki ...

– Bellevue * Raleigh USA – Kent *

REI Rei or REI may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Rei, a story arc of the anime ''Higurashi When They Cry'' *Rei, a shapeshifting godlike dragon in the Australian webcomic series ''Vainglorious'' *Rei I, II and III, episodes of ''Neon Genesis Eva ...

– Kent (founded in Seattle) *

Savers Savers, Inc. headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, U.S., is a privately held for-profit thrift store retailer offering second hand merchandise. An international company, Savers has more than 315 locations throughout the United States of Ameri ...

/ Value Village – Bellevue *

SOG Specialty Knives Sog or SOG may refer to: People * Andre Ward, US boxer nicknamed S.O.G. (Son Of God) Places * Sog, Tibet (also Sogba), Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China * Sog County, county in Tibet ** Sogchu River, in Sog County, Tibet * S ...

- Lynnwood * Sucker Punch Productions – Bellevue * T-Mobile US – Bellevue *

Talking Rain Talking Rain is a privately held beverage company based in Preston, Washington that manufactures still and sparkling waters. Sparkling Ice accounts for the majority of their business. History Talking Rain was founded in 1987 by John Stevens ...

– Preston * Valve – Bellevue * Wizards of the Coast - Renton

Companies formerly headquartered in Seattle

* Airborne Express (ground operations acquired by

DHL DHL is an American founded, German logistics company providing courier, package delivery and express mail service, which is a division of the German logistics firm Deutsche Post. The company group delivers over 1.8 billion parcels per year. DHL ...

, Plantation, Florida; air operations spun off as ABX Air, Wilmington, Ohio) *

Associated Grocers Associated Grocers was a retailers' cooperative that distributed full lines of groceries and general merchandise. Founded in 1934, it also provided retail services to independent groceries in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam. Based in S ...

(acquired by Unified Western Grocers of Los Angeles) * Boeing (now in Chicago, Illinois) * The Bon Marché (owned by Macy's, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio; name changed to Bon-Macy's in 2003; rebranded as Macy's in 2005) *

Cinnabon Cinnabon is an American chain of baked goods stores and kiosks, normally found in areas with high pedestrian traffic such as malls, airports and rest stops. The company's signature item is a cinnamon roll. As of December 2017, there are more th ...

(acquired by FOCUS Brands, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia) *

Corixa ''Corixa'' is a genus of aquatic bugs in the family Corixidae. The fossil species ''C. elegans'' is from the Rott Formation The Rott Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Oligocene. See also * ...

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, closed in 2006 * Costco (now in Issaquah, Washington) * Eddie Bauer (now in Bellevue, Washington) *

Ernst Home Centers Ernst Home Centers, Inc. was a chain of home improvement retail stores founded in Seattle, Washington, United States. Ernst was started in 1893 by Seattle brothers Charles and Fred Ernst and in 1960 became a division of Pay 'n Save, one of the la ...

(liquidated following unsuccessful bankruptcy filing in 1996) *

Frederick & Nelson Frederick & Nelson was a department store chain in the northwestern United States, based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1891 as a furniture store, it later expanded to sell other types of merchandise. The company was acquired by Marshall Fiel ...

(went out of business in 1992) * Group Health Cooperative (acquired by Kaiser Permanente in 2017) *

Immunex Amgen Inc. (formerly Applied Molecular Genetics Inc.) is an American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. One of the world's largest independent biotechnology companies, Amgen was established in T ...

(acquired by Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California) * Muzak (now in

Fort Mill, South Carolina Fort Mill, also known as Fort Mill Township, is a town in York County, South Carolina, United States. It is a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. As of 2020 United States census, 2020 census, 24,521 people live inside the town's corporate limits. ...

) * MyLackey.com (defunct) *

Rainier Brewing Company The Rainier Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Seattle, Washington. It brewed Rainier Beer, a popular brand in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Although Rainier was founded in 1884, the Seattle site had been brewing beer s ...

(now owned by Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) *

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., more commonly known as Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews or simply Red Robin, is an American chain of casual dining restaurants founded in September 1969 in Seattle, Washington. In 1979, the first franchised ...

(now in Greenwood Village, Colorado) *

(now in

Kent, Washington Kent is a city in King County, Washington, United States. It is part of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan area and had a population of 136,588 as of the 2020 census, making it the fourth-largest municipality in greater Seattle and t ...

) * Safeco (acquired by Liberty Mutual) * Seafirst Bank (acquired by Bank of America) * Shurgard Storage Centers (acquired by Public Storage) * Speakeasy, Inc. (acquired by

Best Buy Best Buy Co. Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebra ...

in 2007 and merged with

MegaPath MegaPath was a business telecommunications company. In 2018, MegaPath was acquired by cloud service provider Fusion Connect for $71.5 million. Founded in 1996, it provides a voice, unified communications, internet access, Managed Security Servi ...

in 2010) *

Surreal Software Surreal Software was an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, known for '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'', '' The Suffering'' and '' Drakan' ...

(acquired by

Midway Games Midway Games Inc., known previously as Midway Manufacturing and Bally Midway, and commonly known as simply Midway, was an American video game developer and publisher. Midway's franchises included ''Mortal Kombat'', ''Rampage (series), Rampage'' ...

) * United Airlines (now in Chicago) *

UPS UPS or ups may refer to: Companies and organizations * United Parcel Service, an American shipping company ** The UPS Store, UPS subsidiary ** UPS Airlines, UPS subsidiary * Underground Press Syndicate, later ''Alternative Press Syndicate'' or ...

(now in Sandy Springs, Georgia) * Washington Mutual (failed in 2008, acquired by JPMorgan Chase) * World Vision (now in Federal Way, Washington) * Zulily (acquired by

Liberty Interactive Qurate Retail Group (commonly known as Qurate Retail, Inc.) is an American media conglomerate controlled by company chairman John C. Malone, who owns a majority of the voting shares. History 1998 launch by Liberty Media Liberty Interactive w ...

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Map of Seattle companies
{{Seattle area companies * Seattle Companies