This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Seattle metropolitan area.
Biotechnology
- Alder Biopharmaceuticals (Bothell)
- Dendreon – immunotherapeutics (defunct)
- Juno Therapeutics
- Seattle Genetics (Bothell)
- ZymoGenetics – therapeutic protein
- NanoString Technologies – Life Sciences Tools
Computer hardware
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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
Washington Federal Savings
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
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
Center for Global Infectious Disease Research
Emeritus Senior Living
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Northwest Kidney Centers
PATH
Remote Medical International
The Polyclinic
Ventec Life Systems
Providence Health and Services
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
BuddyTV – TV news, second screen technology (Business closed)
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
Leafly – cannabis information
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
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
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
Waggener Edstrom – public relations
Revolution Public Relations – 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
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
Alaska Airlines headquarters in SeaTac
Microsoft headquarters in Redmond
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
Philips – Bothell
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 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 (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)
United Airlines (now in Chicago)
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)