The summer can be a slow time in the business world, but that doesn’t appear to be the case in the Pacific Northwest startup community.
Numerous startups in Seattle and Portland are putting to work investment dollars they have landed over the last few months, shooting them up the GeekWire 200 list of privately held Pacific Northwest startups, presented by EY. This means plenty of new products, as well as even more tech jobs in a region already teeming with tech activity.
Real estate company Redfin, which took over the top spot on the GeekWire 200 from DocuSign for the first time last month, hung on to number one in June. Rounding out the top five are Avalara, Blue Origin and Puppet. Other movers at the top include Vacasa, up a single spot to number eight, and K2, the enterprise technology company, which jumped back into the top 10 this month.
Click for the full June update to the GeekWire 200 and continue reading for highlights and an explanation of the GeekWire 200 methodology.
It may not be long before Rover.com graduates from the GeekWire 200 via an IPO, but for now it continues to climb up the list, cracking the top 20 after moving six spots to number 19. In March, Rover acquired DogVacay, its biggest competitor in the online dog-sitting marketplace. Since then it has been moving up our charts.
Rover started as a fun project born at a Startup Weekend event but has turned into a potential billion-dollar company. Last year it raised a $40 million in a Series E round, bringing the company to total funding to date for Rover to $91.5 million. Today its employee count, according to LinkedIn, sits at 230, up from 170 at…