Why the PNW startup market is 🔥🔥🔥
To kick off 2020, I wanted to recap some of the best articles on what’s going on in the Seattle and Pacific Northwest tech and startup ecosystems:
- Big tech and big checks: Seattle startups claim VC funding record (Pitchbook)
- A big year for Pacific Northwest startups: Unicorn births, key exits, and others waiting in the wings (Geekwire)
- One in five new tech jobs is based in Seattle (The DL)
- Amazon has become America’s CEO factory (WSJ)
- In the shadow of Amazon and Microsoft, Seattle startups are having a moment (Techcrunch)
- Analysis: Seattle startup ecosystem poised for unprecedented acceleration of company creation (AI2/Geekwire)
Key themes across these articles:
- 💰 Record levels of capital invested into the PNW ecosystem
- 🌱 Deep pipeline of companies at all stages
- 👩💻 Lots of very well-trained talent
- 🥰 More and more groups to support founders