Seattle WA. Paul Allen's umbrella science philanthropy organization. Manages three major institutes: Allen Institute for Brain Science (2003), Allen Institute for AI / Ai2 (2014), Allen Institute for Cell Science (2014). $1B+ total committed by Paul Allen before his death (Oct 2018). Now managed by Paul G. Allen Trust and Allen Family Philanthropies. Chair: Jody Allen (Paul's sister). One of large

Seattle WA. Non-profit AI research institute founded by Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder, 2014). Largest 501c3 nonprofit AI research org in world. 200+ researchers. $100M+ annual funding from Paul Allen estate. CEO: Peter Clark (interim May 2026, after Ali Farhadi departed to Microsoft). Key: OLMo (fully open 32B LLM outperforms GPT-4o mini), Tulu (instruction tuning), PRIOR (computer vision), Sem

Digital freight network. Seattle WA. Gates Ventures + Greylock. $3.8B valuation 2022. Ceased operations 2023 — notable shutdown.

Sales enablement platform. Seattle WA. ICONIQ Growth + Tiger Global. $3.5B valuation 2021.

Icertis is an AI-native contract intelligence company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, that provides enterprise contract lifecycle management software. Its platform turns enterprise strategy into faster execution at scale by digitizing and automating contract processes. The company is headquartered at 14711 NE 29th Place, Suite 100, Bellevue, WA.

Karat is a Seattle, Washington-based company that provides technical interview and screening services, helping engineering organizations evaluate talent, benchmark capability, and deliver workforce intelligence. The company serves as a talent elevation partner for technical leaders navigating workforce transformation in the human and AI era.

Seattle WA (Japanese company, US presence). Fusion energy engineering and plant design — components, test facilities, demonstration plants. IQT Summer 2024 investment. Not building a fusion reactor — building the supply chain and engineering systems around fusion reactors. Unique B2B fusion infrastructure play.

Opanga Networks is a Seattle, Washington-based company and global leader in the development and deployment of machine learning-powered software solutions for the telecommunications industry. The company provides AI and machine learning software innovation to telecom operators worldwide.

Sales execution platform. Seattle WA. Spark Capital + Salesforce Ventures. $4.4B valuation 2021.

Pulumi is a Seattle-based open source infrastructure as code platform that enables developers and operators to build and manage cloud infrastructure using real programming languages including Node.js, Python, Go, .NET, Java, and YAML. The company is headquartered in Seattle with teams around the world serving thousands of cloud engineering teams.

Qumulo is a Seattle, Washington-based software company that provides a unified data platform for storing, managing, and simplifying unstructured data at exabyte scale across edge, core, and cloud environments. The company serves customers in data-intensive industries and supports hybrid and multi-cloud workflows. It employs between 201 and 500 people.

Temporal Technologies is a Seattle-based software company that develops and distributes an open source durable execution system designed to make code fault tolerant, durable, and simple. The platform was built on over 20 years of development experience from the engineers behind AWS SQS, AWS SWF, Azure Durable Functions, and the Cadence project that powers Uber.

Zenoti is a Bellevue, Washington-based company providing an all-in-one cloud software platform for the beauty, wellness, and fitness industry, including salons, spas, and med spas. Its platform automates bookings, lead nurturing, and revenue management for over 30,000 businesses. Zenoti is headquartered at 15395 SE 30th Pl, Bellevue, WA.