2025 Best Tech Startups in Washington
The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Washington. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to:
- Revenue potential
- Leadership team
- Brand/product traction
- Competitive landscape
Additionally, all companies must be independent (unacquired), privately owned, at most 10 years old, and have received at least one round of funding in order to qualify.
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10. Temporal Technologies
Founded: 2019
Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in Washington
“Temporal develops and distributes the world’s leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple.
Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair.
More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry’s most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.”
9. Swiftly
Founded: 2018
Also honored in:
- 2024 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Seattle
“Swiftly partners with retailers and advertisers to make their digital strategies come to life. By offering the same tools and solutions leveraged by retail and e-commerce giants, Swiftly enables retailers of all sizes to enjoy the benefits of a robust retail technology platform. Boasting affordable and hassle-free integration capabilities, best-in-class reporting and seamless consumer-facing product offerings, Swiftly is connecting retailers, brands and shoppers with innovative solutions that deliver.”
8. Chainguard
Founded: 2021
“Founded by the industry’s leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, we provide secure container images with low-to-no CVEs.”
7. fabric
Founded: 2016
Also honored in:
- 2024 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Seattle
“fabric is an AI-powered Order Orchestration platform designed for retail businesses navigating the age of Hyper-Efficient omnichannel commerce. Our platform connects customer demand across digital, social, and physical channels with optimal fulfillment, ensuring the right product is delivered at the right place, time, and margin. With real-time inventory connected to product data from both owned and 3PP sources, fabric empowers retailers to fulfill orders efficiently. Our modern, scalable architecture integrates seamlessly into existing systems, allowing retailers to launch new services quickly while delivering consistent, real-time results.”
6. Rec Room
Founded: 2016
Also honored in:
- 2024 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Seattle
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Washington
“Rec Room Inc. was founded in April 2016 by a small team with a shared passion for VR, AR, social, and multiplayer experiences. Since then, we’ve been growing and hiring top talent!
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all. Rec Room is free, and cross plays on everything from phones to VR headsets. It’s the social app you play like a video game! Rec Room is a fun and welcoming place for people from all walks of life. Let us help you find people you’ll LOVE to hang out with. Join the club!”
5. Viome
Founded: 2016
Also honored in:
- 2024 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Bellevue
- 2021 Best Tech Startups in Bellevue
“We provide the industry’s only direct-to-consumer healthcare test that analyzes microbial and human gene expressions (mRNA), with technology exclusively licensed from Los Alamos National Lab, in order to provide individuals with health insights and the nutrition they need.
By joining Viome, you are joining a revolutionary movement. A movement that – for the first time in human history – will make becoming ill a matter of choice, and not simply bad luck.
Scientists have worked for over a decade to develop this technology that offers unprecedented visibility into your body. With this, we can create a unique profile of the biochemistry and ecosystem inside of you, and make personalized, actionable, and adaptive recommendations for your health.”
4. FlyHomes
Founded: 2015
Also honored in:
- 2024 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Seattle
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Seattle
- 2021 Best Tech Startups in Seattle
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in Seattle
“Our mission is to build the world’s best home buying and selling experience.
Whether you are buying, selling, or both, our team of industry experts and local agents will provide you with the education, guidance and technology you need, all in one place.
Wherever you are in your real estate journey, our approach to homebuying helps buyers search with confidence, decide with certainty, and negotiate with clarity. Combined with our innovative financial products, Flyhomes Cash Offer and Buy Before You Sell program, we make it easy to move in and move on.”
3. Stoke Space
Founded: 2019
“We’re on a mission – starting with 100% reusable rockets. At Stoke, we hire the best in the industry, grant them extreme ownership of their work, then celebrate their boundary-pushing speed of innovation. Working as part of a small team means you’ll have greater impact. At Stoke, we move fast, work hard, and have fun building the future of space mobility.”
2. Truveta
Founded: 2020
“Truveta is a collective of US health systems with a mission of Saving Lives with Data, delivering the most complete, timely, and clean regulatory-grade EHR data for scientifically rigorous research. Truveta and its health system members lead the Truveta Genome Project, creating the world’s largest and most diverse genomics database to discover the science of humanity. Truveta is trusted by leading public health, life science, healthcare, and academic organizations to accelerate discovery and adoption of new therapies, improve clinical trials, and enhance patient care.”
1. Group14 Technologies
Founded: 2015
Also honored in:
- 2024 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Washington
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Washington
“Group14 is the world’s leading commercial manufacturer and supplier of advanced silicon battery technology. Today, Group14 works with customers representing 95% of worldwide battery production.
Headquartered in Woodinville, WA, with a joint venture in South Korea, and new factories on the horizon around the world, our Battery Active Material (BAM) factories can be built anywhere on Earth to help meet global demand for silicon battery materials. We’re enabling a world where everything that can run on rechargeable batteries, does.”