List of companies based in Seattle

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 companies: Internet retailer Amazon (#2), Costco Wholesale (#12), Microsoft (#15), coffee chain Starbucks (#125), Paccar (#159), clothing merchant Nordstrom (#289), Weyerhaeuser (#387), Expeditors International (#299), Alaska Airlines (#459), and Expedia (#500).

Biotechnology

 * Alder Biopharmaceuticals (Bothell)
 * Dendreon – immunotherapeutics (defunct)
 * Juno Therapeutics
 * NanoString Technologies – life sciences tools
 * Seagen (Bothell)
 * ZymoGenetics – therapeutic protein

Computer hardware

 * Cray Inc. – supercomputers
 * EMC Isilon – computer storage
 * F5 Networks – application delivery controllers

Conglomerates

 * Vulcan Inc. – investment vehicle for Paul Allen

Consulting

 * Alvarez and Marsal – management consulting, turnaround management and performance improvement
 * Avanade – business and technology consulting and information technology consulting
 * Slalom Consulting – management consulting and information technology consulting

Design

 * ClearSign Combustion

Financial

 * Gravity Payments
 * Moss Adams
 * Russell Investments
 * Seattle Credit Union
 * WaFd Bank

Food and beverage

 * American Seafoods – management company for fishing vessels in the Bering Sea
 * Beecher's Handmade Cheese
 * Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Company – coffee retailer
 * Crowd Cow – online meat delivery marketplace
 * Darigold – dairy agricultural marketing cooperative
 * Jones Soda – soft drink maker
 * MOD Pizza – pizza restaurant chain
 * Pagliacci Pizza – pizza restaurant chain
 * Piroshky Piroshky – pastry restaurant chain
 * Seattle's Best Coffee
 * Starbucks – coffee retailer and coffeehouse chain
 * Theo Chocolate – organic and fair trade chocolate manufacturer
 * Trident Seafoods – management company for fishing vessels in the Bering Sea
 * Tully's Coffee – coffee retailer and wholesaler
 * Uwajimaya – Asian supermarket

Healthcare

 * CellNetix
 * Center for Global Infectious Disease Research
 * Emeritus Senior Living
 * Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
 * Northwest Kidney Centers
 * PATH
 * The Polyclinic
 * Providence Health and Services
 * Remote Medical International
 * Ventec Life Systems

Insurance

 * PEMCO – auto, home, boat, and life insurance
 * Safeco – property insurance
 * Trupanion – pet insurance

Intellectual property

 * Getty Images – stock photography
 * Intellectual Ventures – patent assertion hedge fund

Internet

 * Allrecipes.com – online recipe service and forum
 * Amazon – retail
 * Avvo – legal services search
 * Cheezburger – operates many humor web blogs such as I Can Has Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog
 * Classmates.com – social networking service
 * eNotes.com – educational resource service
 * ExtraHop Networks – cloud security analytics
 * F5 Networks – application delivery controllers
 * findwell – online real estate brokerage
 * Groundspeak – operators of Geocaching.com
 * JetPunk – online trivia
 * Leafly – cannabis information
 * LetYouKnow.com – marketplace that empowers consumers to price bid on new cars
 * Onvia – government business intelligence portal
 * Panopto – video content management
 * PayScale – global employee compensation database
 * Penny Arcade – webcomic
 * Porch – home services platform
 * RealNetworks – software
 * Redfin – online real estate brokerage
 * Smartsheet – SaaS work collaboration software
 * Soundrangers – online sound effects and music
 * Sporcle – online trivia
 * Tableau Software – data visualization
 * Thrift Books – retail
 * Turbo (formerly Spoon) – application virtualization
 * WhitePages.com – online people search, reverse phone & address lookup, and business search
 * Zillow.com – real estate information service

Law

 * Davis Wright Tremaine
 * Lane Powell
 * Perkins Coie

Manufacturing

 * Allied Marble & Granite – manufactured stone product installations
 * Cutter & Buck – golf apparel
 * Filson – outdoor apparel
 * Pacific Coast Feather Company – bedding
 * Tom Bihn – bags and luggage
 * Vigor Shipyards – shipbuilding

Pet care

 * Rover.com – dog boarding and dog walking

Property and architecture

 * Bassetti Architects – architectural firm
 * Callison – architectural firm
 * Diamond Parking – parking lots
 * Howard S. Wright Companies – construction
 * John L. Scott – real estate brokerage
 * Johnson Braund Design Group – design and architectural firm
 * MG2 – architectural firm
 * Miller Hull Partnership – architecture and planning
 * Mithun – architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, planning and urban design
 * NBBJ – architectural firm
 * Olson Kundig Architects – architectural firm
 * Plum Creek Timber – timber
 * Sellen Construction
 * Weber Thompson – architectural firm
 * Windermere Real Estate – real estate brokerage

Public relations

 * Revolution Public Relations – public relations
 * Waggener Edstrom – public relations

Publishing

 * Bilingual Books, Inc. – foreign language books and computer software
 * Fantagraphics Books – comics and graphic novels
 * Mountaineers Books – non-fiction books
 * Sasquatch Books – non-fiction books

Record labels

 * Barsuk Records
 * Sub Pop
 * Tooth & Nail Records

Retail

 * Amazon
 * Babeland (formerly Toys in Babeland) – sex toys
 * Bartell Drugs
 * Blue Nile Inc – diamonds
 * Brooks Sports – athletic apparel
 * Car Toys – automobile audio equipment and cell phones
 * Cascade Designs – outdoor apparel
 * Cequint
 * Indix – product intelligence database
 * Julep – cosmetics and personal care
 * K2 Sports – sporting goods and apparel
 * NetMotion Wireless – Mobile VPN Solution
 * Nordstrom – apparel
 * The Omni Group – develops software for the Mac OS X platform
 * Outdoor Research – apparel
 * PCC Natural Markets – supermarket
 * QFC – supermarket chain
 * RealNetworks – Internet
 * Rhapsody – online music service
 * Sur La Table – cookware
 * Tommy Bahama – apparel
 * Zumiez – action sports
 * Zulily – apparel and housewares

Sports, leisure and entertainment

 * Evo – outdoor retailer
 * Professional Bowlers Association – sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling
 * Puzzle Break – first American-based live escape room company

Transportation

 * Aero Controls Inc.
 * Alaska Airlines – major US airline
 * Ambassadors International – cruise ships
 * Convoy – trucking logistics software
 * Expeditors International – 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 – Kent
 * Bungie – Bellevue
 * Classmates.com – Renton
 * Clearwire – Bellevue
 * Concur Technologies – Bellevue
 * Costco – Issaquah (founded in Seattle)
 * drugstore.com – Bellevue
 * Eddie Bauer – Bellevue (founded in Seattle)
 * eNom – Kirkland
 * Expedia Group – Seattle (moved HQ from Bellevue to Seattle)
 * Fluke Corporation – Everett
 * Funko – Everett
 * INRIX – Kirkland
 * Intelius – Bellevue
 * Kymeta – Redmond
 * Microsoft – Redmond
 * msnbc.com – Redmond
 * MulvannyG2 Architecture – Bellevue
 * Nintendo of America – Redmond
 * Oberto Sausage Company – Kent
 * Outerwall (formerly Coinstar) – Bellevue
 * Paccar – Bellevue
 * Premera Blue Cross – Mountlake Terrace
 * Puget Sound Energy – Bellevue
 * Raleigh USA – Kent
 * REI – Kent (founded in Seattle)
 * Savers/Value Village – Bellevue
 * SOG Specialty Knives – Lynnwood
 * Sucker Punch Productions – Bellevue
 * T-Mobile US – Bellevue
 * Talking Rain – Preston
 * Valve – Bellevue
 * Wizards of the Coast – Renton

Companies formerly headquartered in Seattle

 * Airborne Express (ground operations acquired by DHL, Plantation, Florida; air operations spun off as ABX Air, Wilmington, Ohio)
 * Associated Grocers (acquired by Unified Western Grocers of Los Angeles)
 * Boeing (now in Crystal City, Virginia)
 * 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 (acquired by FOCUS Brands, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia)
 * Corixa – immunotherapeutics, closed in 2006
 * Costco (now in Issaquah, Washington)
 * Eddie Bauer (now in Bellevue, Washington)
 * Ernst Home Centers (liquidated following unsuccessful bankruptcy filing in 1996)
 * Frederick & Nelson (went out of business in 1992)
 * Group Health Cooperative (acquired by Kaiser Permanente in 2017)
 * Immunex (acquired by Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California)
 * Muzak (now in Fort Mill, South Carolina)
 * MyLackey.com (defunct)
 * Rainier Brewing Company (now owned by Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
 * Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (now in Greenwood Village, Colorado)
 * REI (now in Kent, Washington)
 * 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 in 2007 and merged with MegaPath in 2010)
 * Surreal Software (acquired by Midway Games)
 * UPS (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)